Good Friday
Bakery
Out of my normal morning commute pattern lately. Stopped into a bakery on the way to work and took this photo.
There was a lady in the reflection with me, but the cleanup tool in Photos did a good job of excising her. Neat tech.
Big Week for LFC
Liverpool is closing in on a league championship, and they’ve finally re-signed a couple of players who have been foundational to this hysterically successful run.
Mo and big Virg are class as hell (even if the announcement videos are a little hokey).
This is the perfect spot to continue the long-standing tradition here of sharing my phone wallpaper:
This sick painting of prime Bobby Firmino is by Cally, who has a ton of Liverpool portraits he’s done in his straight-line style.
Springing
The tulips have been coming for about a week, but I’ve been waiting for a sunny day to get a photo.
I think these bulbs are at least 10 years old? The come back like clockwork and have somehow survived all of the wildlife.
Drones at the Home Opener
The last couple of years of SNY telecasts of Mets games have had some of the better local-broadcast production in baseball.
This year they added a drone camera and you get this kind of long-distance shot that looks like it’s being taken surreptitiously.
I don’t know that I’d want to watch a ball in play from this angle but it’s a nice mix-up to the usual shots.
A Working Man – 1⭐️
I’m new in a small group of guys from the office that catch movies a couple of times a year. Apparently it’s all action movies, which is cool, since it’s not my normal lane (especially for going to the theater).
Unfortunately, A Working Man was not a good movie. Story didn’t make much sense, fight scenes were chopped up and hard to follow, and the daughter character was all over the place.
I know better than to expect deep characterization in a big gunz movie, but this was particularly bad.
Pink Jimmy Season!
As often discussed on the podcast (R.I.P.), the Pink Jimmy is just a vodka/cranberry, but the ratio is such that it juuust gets to pink.
It’s a refreshing drink for warm weather and it’s great for your urinary tract.
Early session
Been hitting the early morning Thursday game the last few weeks. It was cold and I’d had a crummy night’s sleep so I didn’t really push it today.
We had a tryout tournament last weekend (that I’ll talk about soon) so I’ve been angling to play a hunch to stay sharp.
To spoil my story, we got the wins we needed last weekend, but it was at a cost. I’m still kind of beat, mentally, and it feels like I tweaked my left knee. It’s balky for the first half-hour or so and then it gets progressively sore after I’m done playing.
Rest is the likely answer. Someday.
Rainy one yesterday.
(Also an excuse to turn a Live Photo into a gif and see if it’ll post)
Lazy Blogger’s Carpal Tunnels
With the podcast wrapping up, this was, of course, the perfect time for my blog credentials get compromised. The site was down for about a day. Luckily the good folks at Dreamhost (my hosting provider for forever) run a tight ship with good support and responsibly managed backups.
It took some to discover that the trouble was the result of compromise, but I was back a couple of hours after I reported the trouble.
It was enough of a scare to push me to batten down the blog hatches. Online Mike is kind of lazy, so some of the update maintenance falls behind. I spent some time last night cleaning up and found 8,000+ blog posts, all on January 3rd, for poker and casino spam. It was a good feeling.
WordPress does a fine job at many things, but bulk post deletion is not one of them. Not at that volume, anyway. It took about an hour to delete those spam posts, 20 at a time.
My carpal tunnels are disappointed in me this morning.