Voltaire

Heard the wind howling outside again just now but not rain. Went out there hoping there would be a little mist/drizzle in the air to accompany it and get me a little damp, just the slightest wet kiss from Helene, but no. Pensacola is experiencing a really a gorgeous evening while people not very far to the east are really getting hammered.

You must have misread something I typed. I have zero clues what you are referring to. The 2003 Tigers may well have finished 5-5, is that it? We were sweating bullets that year because they were on course to break the Mets record, but did not.

I'd as soon see Minny sweep Baltimore as it is the only way Detroit can earn home field in the first round. The Tigers should get at least two, or hopefully all three, from CWS to close out the season. If Minny loses a single game though, fock 'em, they can no longer help. Right now, they sure look like the team that's going to be left without a seat in the musical chairs game.

Dak played well. Everybody gives him grief but he looks decent every time I see him. You can win games with this guy.

Meh, if you're going to get an INT placed on your permanent record, that's the situation to get it placed there. Jones played well with his two favorite receiving options. NYG gave Dallas a solid game but their inability to run the ball and finish drives looks like it may be an ongoing issue.

Can Daniel Jones accomplish in the final 30 seconds what he hasn't been able to do in the first 59 1/2 minutes?

Daboll is really missing that guy who moved an hour away down the New Jersey turnpike.

I just know that they're going to win 18-17 and I'm going to have to eat crow on this. The Giants don't look like the 32nd best team in the league today, I'll stand by that part. They've beaten Cleveland already and plus: Tennessee exists.

Thankfully, the 2003 Tigers got hot a bit at the end of the year (or more correctly "just lukewarm enough") to both finish respectable and prevent them from catching/breaking the Mets record. Now, with the 2024 White Sox breaking their AL record, we can all quietly forget about that year and instead talk about those 63 Mets and this Chicago team the next time things get this dismal again for some sorry franchise. There's no forgetting Matt Millen's 0-16 Lions. The math surrounding the number zero makes it impossible, but at least with a 17 game season, someone will eventually come along to bail them out of last place. They didn't deserve 0-16. They kept the final score within a TD more than half the time and as I remember it, had actually outplayed Chicago that year but lost anyway.

I went outside to check just now because the winds are howling enough to make noise. Pretty strong wind and the clouds in our partly cloudy sky are moving rather rapidly to the south, maybe SSE. But still no rain. The winds, while strong, would not seem out of the ordinary were I not looking at weather reports of that hurricane. We're getting the bare-ass minimum of this as possible. This small blip is still more than what we got of Beryl and Francine. My luck won't last forever but it's lasted a third time.

Wordle 1,195 2/6 🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Got a deuce. That yellow may as well have been a third green, and then it was easy.

Giants looking decent on national TV. Gonna need more than FGs to win the game though.

Getting a young team hot in the end of the year after starting so poorly, the Tigers 2024 season is feeling a lot like the Lions 2022 season.

Yes, she gets straight As in all AP classes and is receiving recruitment letters from top schools including the University of Chicago and West Point. Also, she's 17 and needed parental consent.

No sh*t. A big reason I was drawn to maintenance support was it seemed to me the least likely place to get blown up. (Which it was.) There was a chaplain's assistant position open that I was hinting would be preferential.

MOS is 74D Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Specialist Sounds to me like an invitation to giving yourself cancer or what the Chinese ding-dong who got bit by a bat and spread the joys of COVID to the world was doing. Also, all that beauty shouldn't be buried under a hazmat suit, but she was drawn to it.

We do have clouds and the wind is a modest bit above average. It's been a really pleasant day, hopefully that continues. Also my eldest daughter isn't at home. She's in Birmingham, Alabama staying overnight at the MEPS station because she's joining the Florida National Guard.

Pensacola, Florida. Perfectly situated to miss Beryl to the east, Francine to the west, and -thus far- Helene has not delivered a single rain drop either.

That is great thanks. As this is my first year in hurricane alley, it makes hurricane tracking news more important.

I've had amazingly great hurricane luck thus far. When Beryl and Francine came through, Pensacola experienced nothing but clear skies and calm winds. Not a drop of rain. Thus far, 5:37 PM Central time, that's my Helene story too. School was cancelled today anyway.

Its nice the Tigers get to finish out the season with three against Chicago as it would seemingly make clinching a playoff spot easier.

Wordle 1,194 3/6 🟩🟨 🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Went quick with a green first letter helping.

Wordle 1,193 3/6 🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Got lucky, This could have went sideways and wound up a 5 or worse.

Me too, although after a pitstop at the new FBG forum first,

Wordle 1,192 3/6 🟩🟨 🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Love getting the first letter green