It's been seven and a half weeks since I last posted to this blog. It's not I don't have anything to say, it's just that as I continue to get my life back, I have less time to write than while I was recovering from the kidney transplant. As an update, my doctors have lifted all of my dietary and fluid restrictions and I am able to eat and drink pretty much whatever I like. I don't see any of my transplant team until mid December and my lab work is down to every other Monday morning. So, life is good and I am keeping busy working a part time job and looking after my 97 year old mother.
I have spent the last four weekends in my old stomping grounds, Columbia, Mo. watching my beloved Missouri Tigers play football. Mizzou is 4-0 and really hasn't played anyone tough. They were rated as high as number six, but then beat 24 ranked Boston College and slipped to 8. A win last week over Vanderbilt dropped the Tigers to #11. My guess is the voters in the A-P poll don't think the Tigers schedule is as tough as the rest of the SEC teams ahead of them. That is a logical assumption but keep in mind Missouri has beaten ranked Power 4 opponent and the conference schedule was set by the SEC conference. You know what's strange? Today Mizzou climbed back into the ninth spot in the Associated Press poll despite having a bye yesterday. They've also moved up to number 9 in the coaches poll. I guess the writers and coaches think not playing anyone is better than winning. Go figure.
As far as the NFL I haven't watched a game all season and have a lot of other things I can do on fall Sunday afternoons. I might watch a game once it gets cold in December, but I have better things to do than waste my time on a league that has twice crapped on St. Louis football fans.
The 2024 MLB regular season came to a conclusion today with my beloved St. Louis Cardinals finishing eleven games back of the Brewers in the NL Central and missing the playoffs, again. I haven't watched the team in over a month because they had mediocre starting pitching, a crappy bullpen outside of their closer and an offense that never came close to it's potential. Still the birds ended up four games over .500 in a lame Central division. If I owned the organization (the DeWitt Family does) I would give someone else beside John Mozielak a chance to be the general manager. And, while he appears to be a nice guy, I would fire manager Ollie Marmol too. He hasn't won in two years. It's not entirely his fault because Mozielak hasn't given him much of a team to work with. But, as the saying goes, you can't fire the whole team.
Have people in the United States gone insane? I can't believe millions and millions of voters say they will vote for Donald Trump. The man is a pathological lawyer, somewhat senile and apparently thinks the voters are dumber than he is. Kamala Harris is more liberal than I care for but I will vote for her to save our democracy in the United States of America. Now, having written that, I don't think anyone has ever said "I think I'll go look at a random blog to decide whom to vote for as president."
Does anyone know why Google no longer has a workable system for posting images on a Blogger? I've tried reading the instructions and even that doesn't work.
Have a great rest of September!
