Augie

I’ll finally be able to sleep tonight…

Well, that is their loss. What time should we be there?

My wife teases me because she says I’m a rule follower, which is generally true. I’m not one who goes looking for free streams, but I have no problem with anyone who goes that route. The NFL deserves it for their greed. I’m sure the NFL doesn’t like that, but they like the alternative even less - I can stop caring. I’m much more of a Bills fan than an NFL fan these days. .

We have to wait a few years for the fast stuff until our little 68 home neighborhood has to tear up and replace the road. It comes up every HOA meeting, especially after everyone worked from home with Covid. It’s all around us, but not available to us.

The Washington game I saw live and had it set to record at home. When we got home I immediately deleted it. Now my TV knows to automatically records Bills games, but I never watch them. I already saw it. .

That’s up to you to decide, to a large degree. I try to be happy about things that are within my control. Anything else is gravy. .

RIP That’s some of the earliest stuff I remember.

I can’t even count the number of times a girl has not said that about me.

I don’t mean to sound like I’m telling others how to feel or act, because that’s not the case. It’s very personal and individual. But for me I’ve learned that I have no control over what happens to the Bills, but I can have some control over my emotions. I get upset like everybody else, and nobody wants a Bills Super Bowl more than I do. But we have learned some difficult life lessons, and I find it is healthier for me if I keep some perspective. It’s a game. My wife leaves to see her brother tomorrow who is caring for his wife with stage 4 breast cancer and starting a new round of chemo. He needs surgery and is having a hard time getting around, so my wife is going to help. She’s unexpectedly available to go because her job was eliminated last month. (That’s actually a blessing, because they will pay her well NOT to work and she could have a job next week if she wants, or maybe just retire.) We all have “stuff” in our lives that is more important than the Bills, I hope. It’s not productive or healthy for me to hold my angst over 13 seconds or Music City Miracle or Wide Right. It happened, some changes were made, lessons were hopefully learned, and we move on. I didn’t used to be quite like this, but you learn some survival techniques when life kicks you around a little bit. It’s the old what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger deal, I suppose.

I don’t think flowers in his hair is what they really wanted him wearing, but I guess it’s a start. 🤷‍♂️

He made a few cents under $40 Mil, a very nice start in life. Hope he’s got his health and enjoys retirement.

I’d be very curious to see it, but it will never happen because we are already so heavily invested at the TE position.

OK, I mentioned the UnGala Gala above, so I’ll try to add something interesting. It’s a huge black tie event at the Ringling Art Museum, a grand setting for a big ass party. I went to the bathroom, then to the bar on the terrace level. I got separated from my wife but I pull up to the railing to look down on the band and the dance floor. I thought I’d found my wife when a soft hand comes from behind me as I lean on the railing. I was enjoying it for a millisecond until I looked down and saw my wife on the dance floor. I was so startled I jumped up, and by the time I turned around I couldn’t figure out which gown behind me to thank. I’m not sure if it was a nice hello, or “DAMN! Wrong guy with dark hair in a tux! They all look the same from behind!”

The hype was super high, and he looked like a freak to me coming out. I live right here in Atlanta, so since he doesn’t play for UGA I don’t hear much about him. I’m like a bird watcher when I have a rare Falcons gear sighting.

You sound like Fr Timlin during my sister’s wedding. He asked “why do we even bother? Everybody ends up divorced!” He said this right on the altar during the wedding….more than 50 years ago, and they are still happily married. I really don’t think it’s just to spite him, but he’d deserve it. .

When we lived in Sarasota, Fl there was a huge event every year called the UnGala Gala at the Ringling Museum, designed for the younger people rather than the Opera House crowd. We went a few years, and I learned it was actually an upscale meat market for the 30-somethings, but I digress (with some humorous memories). Hundreds of people there, and it was 100% GAYla. Now, the Gala apples I’m not so sure of. .

The whole team and an open bar? There goes his signing bonus! 🤣

Happy Birthday! I’ve been to countless weddings starting in the 80’s, and I don’t remember any that did NOT have an open bar. I went to one last year that was catered by Chipotle, and even they had a full open bar. Our DIL used to be a wedding planner, and she always says spend your money on the band and the bar because nobody is going to remember the food.

Because he, and all of us, are just one lightning bolt or heart attack away from not being here any more. Not having a solid plan for succession would be stupid. Period.

I bet he’s adopted the TB12 routine. It worked for Brady. 🤷‍♂️ The more he dragged his feet to identify a successor, the harder I would be pushing to get rid of him. But maybe that’s just me. It is your JOB to have a plan.

I was at a meeting where the speaker was from the Economic Development Council. He said it was hard to attract some companies because they couldn’t find the right people to hire. Someone commented about all the very fine higher education we have in this area and his response was “No, we need welders and people like that.”

I can ask AI for an answer??? We can all be done thinking, and then see if we notice a difference.

The owners would be foolish not to have a solid succession plan in place. Having said that, I hope this gets Cleveland Browns style ugly. This couldn’t happen to a better guy.

….and I suppose they have robots to make the robots, so you can’t be a robot-maker, either.

The world is changing rapidly, and it just keeps accelerating. I won’t say my wife is “obsessed” with AI, but it’s been a big topic for a while now so my eyes and ears have been open to this. This makes me think of my college hoops board where there is a thread on dwindling enrollment and sky high tuition and expenses. You HOPE that your education and degree will land you one of those entry level jobs……that are going to go away. Do you want to come out of college with a shiny new diploma and hundreds of thousand$ in student debt looking for a job that no longer exists? Spending four years on that Marketing or English Lit degree is sounding like an expensive vacation that might not pay off at all. I’m all questions with no answers, but I wonder if more people will pursue work in the trades, make a very good living and not pile up the student loans? Some things still need to be done by people, at least for now.