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J-E-T-S Jets! Jets! Jets!

Yesterday I did something I haven’t done in years; I went to a football game, Jets vs Jaguars. The Jets are awful. The Jags are awful. I’m not a big football fan. Why did I go? To hang out with Alan and give myself street cred as an American male. It took four trains to […]

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Amanda for All Seasons

Yesterday I was a real American, I watched the Super Bowl. I timed things well. I sat down to eat dinner as Amanda Gorman was about to read her poem. She has become a celebrity poet. Have we had one before? Maybe Robert Frost but I was too young to remember that well. The Super […]

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Music and Football

I’m practicing what I preach this afternoon. With the new strains of COVID-19 we need to be even more careful. I found KN95 masks 10 for $10 and bought a pack. They don’t arrive until Tuesday. My plan was to go to Aldi today. The bus stops much closer to me on Sundays and I’m […]

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Adventures in Red Hook

I’m still behind on my blogging. I’m going to try to write about two days in one entry. There is a common thread between them. Sunday was Super Bowl Sunday, so I went to a concert. It’s not cause and effect but it happens often. The concert was in the afternoon so people can do […]

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Crohn's disease Health

Jet Crash

I’m all over my Crohn’s attack but it messed with my sleep cycle. After sleeping all weekend last night, I couldn’t get to sleep, so I ended up sleeping until noon. On the bright side I did get to watch the middle part of one of my favorite Classic Doctor Who serials, The Hand of […]