CRAZY HORSE

It must be the weekend!...time to relax and take in the daily dose of teevee golf and baseball ... guess I am talking to most of my fellow Horse men...sorry, gals, I know you want to get out and do something fun ...but, shoot, we have been working all week and need a break...WHAT?...we are retired...oops, I call golf work...and writing this blog, work... There is this hypothesis, that we all age gracefully...like over time ...you know the drill... everything starts to sag a bit, the hair turns weird colors...and probably falls off, too...the growth of some hairs, occur where they never did before...the nails go bonkers...your eyesight starts to dimmer...crap sakes alive, it is hell getting old...you don't walk as fast, if at all...the bones start to creak...you no longer hit 250 yard drives...it's now, 205...you have a high ball at 4, instead of 5, cuz you are asleep at 8:30...ah, daily...you get pedicures for your feet, cuz you can't reach nor see them ...this list goes on...

Morning, children...it is Thursday,  August 15...and we are 1 week away from our PNW trip ...is there any way we can hasten the departure?...as we indeed did find some effects of the water explosion...in our condo...and thus, we have a multitude of fans screaming in our home... we would like to vacate the premises...ASAP...this is simply awful... That being said, the Friars are another thing ...winning again, in a laugher...swept the Buccos...and now head on out to Denver...the DBacks won, too...and we are tied... BUT, the Bums got beat, and we are now...duh duh, duh duh, 2 1/2 games back ...the hits just keep right on a truckin'... Speaking of hits, my absolute favorite time for the music...the years of '62 and '63 ...just absolutely love so many of those tunes...and their melodies...none better than 'Sukiyaki' ...have no idea what he was singing, but the song was riveting...and is riveted in my brain...LOVE IT!... sung by Kyu Sakamoto...whose real name was Hisashi...

The essence of literature...the ability to write a book ...like really, donald...not have some ghost writer do it for you, and you pay him for it...and call it your own...I digress...this art of using words to capture the reader's imagination...I am kind of laughing, as I recall a song by the Beatles 'Paperback Writer'...but here, in my retirement years...I have turned to reading books...some are factual, called Non-fiction....which may grab you...the ones that tickle me, are the fiction books...the Novels... Some of you out there prefer the e-books ...in fact I bought 2 of them...very handy and dandy...BUT, I prefer the hard copy...not sure why...it's not the pictures, as there are rarely any...ha ha...for some reason, it just draws me back...faster...my preference, is the who-done-it ones...especially, the taxing to figure out beauties... For the highly intellectual, deep reading passionate reader...there are cats that I wouldn't even fathom wasting my precious an...

Not that the Jones are Bums...but, this slang thang...'Keeping Up With The Joneses'...I'm using for the race in the west...in MLB...as the Dodgers, DBacks, and the Padres...are excelling above all other teams...in a super tight race to the playoffs...it is fun, and nerve-racking for all of us... An outstanding pitching night for both starters...Pitt's and ours...ends up with us preserving a 2-0 lead...in the 9th...and our best kid, 21 yr old Jackson Merrill...did it again, with a laying out miracle catch to end the game...simply amazing!... Here at the home...we are still struggling thru the aftermath of the water explosion...3 of 4 elevators down....the one is going so slow, that it takes a lot of patience to get on it...with 35 floors of residences...we have been using the stairs...mind you, there are floor dryers everywhere...tearing out of drywall...you can imagine...it will be good to get outta here next week... Musk and trump...that's a pair...the combo of the...

Well, the curtain has closed for the French Olympics ...by what I see, the USA had a fantastic appearance there...winning the most medals, and a tie with China for the most Gold...kudos to the athletes... and on the Torch goes to LA ...the culmination of it all, was the gals hoops...winning, er, surviving, the champ game... I was not happy with the coaching of them...extremely outdone by the French ...the selection of the team started it all....lacking the direction of the true elite of the game...as it is right now...the absurd misuse of G Sabrina Ionescu, was just an example...the lack of movement another...and yes, two of the spots on that team SHOULD have been Caitlin and Angel...but, the stubbornness of the head coach, was quite evident...get it fixed, Olympic people...for sure, there is better coaching in the college ranks...figure it out... A bizarre finish to the Friar's game ...as SS Kim hit a ball that hit the top of the fence, and the OF, in his attempt to catch it, knoc...

Can still recall the waitress of a Chinese Restaurant, asking Boss "you want more Oly Gold, Marsha?" ...which made me think, when on earth did she ever go in there, without me?...she has never ever ordered that when I was accompanying her...hmmm...shoot, she doesn't even drink beer...at least, that's what I thought... Well, actually I am referring to the Gold that the guy's hoops earned ...against the home country of the Olympics...France...who are extremely near the top...I missed the 1st half, dueling the masses in Costco...must tell you, I have never seen the amount of people there, ever...and there were things that were about out...like the Big Chicken, that was...just had to be a banner day for the store... Back to the hoops...I kept screaming at the pixels, "Get the rock out of LeBron's hands!" ...he is a legend, but also, not a legendary closer...and if the ball is in his hands, everything stops...no motion...and it was prime time...so, who s...