Deadlines tomorrow, hours and hours and hours of head down, shoulder to the grindstone, nose to the wheel, not even sure what day of the week or time it is.
Thank god my watch beeps at me occasionally, so I can go, “Oh, shazzbatt!”
Fortunately, I have a steady supply of photos of me being goofy or wearing something bizarre or silly, be it an odd hat, sweatshirt, or a giant CHIEFS! onesie.
Having no sense of shame or embarrassment is the gift that keeps on giving!
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If you pay any attention to American professional football, you probably know that we’re down to the last four teams in the playoffs and next week there will be two games to determine who will meet in the Super Bowl in Las Vegas in three weeks. If you have been here any length of time, you know that we’re huge fans of the Kansas City Chiefs.
Somewhat unexpectedly, even to die hards like me, we find ourselves in next week’s AFC Championship game against the Ravens. I’m not sure that many folks gave us much of a chance a few weeks ago. While we started something like 6-1 (it’s really late, I had the Gala Friday and I’ve been working all weekend on the budget that’s due this week, I’m really tired, so I’m not going to look it up, you can Google it yourself) we went something like 4-6 in the last part of the season, including a loss to the hated Raiders. While we won our conference, for the first time in several years we did not have a bye the first week of the playoffs, and tonight we had a playoff game on the road for the first time in several years. (Other than for the Super Bowl, obviously, which is at a neutral site.)
Buffalo had several opportunities to win the game, but they’re the ones who had the dropped and missed passes and missed field goals tonight, so the Chiefs won and will have a shot next week at going to their fourth Super Bowl in five years. Not bad.
It’s nerve racking, and there are plenty of other things out there shredding my nerves to begin with, but winning is nice!
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Yet another “proof of life” post…
In honor of the victory at Arrowhead by my beloved Chiefs in sub-zero temperatures…
It wasn’t from this weekend and it wasn’t sub-zero, but it was most certainly colder than I’ve been in many, many years.
This is from the December 30, 2018 game we saw at Arrowhead, a week after seeing the Chiefs play the Seahawks in Seattle. That was a great trip!
And we beat the hated Raiders to boot!
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I ran over to our office today and on the way home I noticed that this huge block of land, about a half-mile square, has been fenced off. It’s a huge vacant area with one big office building (12 stories? 15?) that used to be an insurance company office headquarters. (Anthem?)
Anyway, bordered by Canoga, Oxnard, Owensmouth, and Erwin, in the Warner Center area, that’s really valuable land and a LOT of it.
The fencing is a bit different – normally they’ll have these screens but they’ll be black or green or something non-descript. But this was a bright blue. A particular shade of bright blue, is my guess.
There was zero grafitti on any of these fences. That’s how I know that it’s only been up a day or two at most.
As for that shade of blue? Well, the new owner of that huge plot of land, and what they plan on doing there, is well known.
Traffic near the office is going to start to suck (even worse), real soon now.
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First, the cars are now dressed properly for the season.
Secondly, I found out how to get six to ten emails a day from NFLshop.com. Once you indicate your interest, their marketing is “aggressive.”
Finally, when driving with these decorations, be prepared to return the cry of “CHIEEEEEEFS!!” from random, passing members of Chiefs Kingdom.
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It snuck up on me. It wasn’t until this afternoon that I realized that today is the 10th anniversary of my starting this website.
I guess this is sort of a big one.
10 years.
3,653 days.
3,745 posts.
8,921 images. (90%+ are taken by me. The rest are images from the news, from cell phone screen captures, and so on.) To be perfectly honest, some of my favorite images of those 8,921 were posted yesterday. Still just a bit gobsmacked by that.
72 videos.
10 audio clips.
2,978 total comments.
75,498 total views.
49,522 total visitors to the site.
11,438 total likes.
1,827 followers (730 from WordPress, 703 from Twitter, 280 from FaceBook, 10 from Tumblr, 58 from post.news, and 46 from Spoutible)
God alone knows how many words.
The last time I either was too busy or, more likely, simply forgot to post anything was April 10, 2020. Since they I’ve posted 1,115 days in a row.
In total there have only been fourteen days of those 3,653 days when I didn’t post anything at all.
I’m not only here (which is probably the most reliable source since I have the most control over the site’s existance) but also on:
I hope that at least a few of the 1,827 folks who get notified every day that I’ve posted something take a minute to look and/or read and get a moment of zen or pleasure from it. I enjoy creating it.
As always, I hope that in the next year there are many more occasions to share a pretty picture, a goofy story, or something clever.
As always, I hope that in the next year there will be many fewer occasions to descend into a venting rant about something stupid, annoying, or depressing.
As do we all, I’m sure.
As a lovely parting gift, couple of favorite pictures from the last year:
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Following the party on Sunday, there were leftovers. Salads for the next week, soft drinks, BBQ, beer, desserts…
…and enough red & yellow M&Ms (plain AND peanut) to feed a battalion.
To get the monocolor M&Ms you have to buy them in one pound or two bound bags. Most folks at the party were snacking on the other appetizers and the Crumbl cookies and the M&Ms were pretty and admired but not eaten.
So much for my diet!
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With the NFL season over and my beloved Chiefs having won their second Super Bowl in four years and their parade through downtown Kansas City held today…
With the NHL season about 2/3 done and my beloved Kings hanging onto 2nd place in their division and in a good position to make the playoffs and make a run at what would be their third Stanley Cup…
…it’s getting time to think about Angels baseball! Pitchers and catchers reported to spring training yesterday, position players report on Monday, and we’re about ten days out from the first spring training game, about forty days out from the first regular season game.
This photo I found from ten years ago, March of 2013, when my son and I were in Arizona for a couple of spring training games. The rest of February, and March, and already into April is looking busy, busy, busy, but it’s not THAT far to drive for a long weekend, right?
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It was a GREAT game, very evenly matched, very tight, comebacks by both theams, could easily have gone either way. In the end, my beloved Chiefs prevailed for their second Super Bowl win in the three Super Bowl appearances in the last four years, and the franchise’s third Super Bowl win overall.
(From The Kansas City Chiefs)
The party here was a ton of fun, a good time was had by all! Tons of snacks, both ours and those brought by friends and guests.
There was much to eat and drink, desserts, all highlighted by BBQ up the ying-yang from world-famous Joe’s BBQ in Kansas City.
In the end, I was grateful to once again pop the champagne.
And now? Sleep. Much needed sleep…
It was a great day!
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If you’ve read this site for very long, you know that I’m a passionate fan of the Kansas City Chiefs football team. (Kansas City is one of the places I grew up, the grade school years.) If you’e American and haven’t been under a rock for the past two weeks, you know that the Chiefs are in the Super Bowl tomorrow against the Philadelphia Eagles. It’s their third trip to the Super Bowl in four years, having won three years ago and lost two years ago.
Tomorrow we’ll be throwing our “traditional” Super Bowl party for family, friends, and coworkers. We’re ready to rock & roll!
We’ve played Tetris with the fridge to get everything in.
The “spare” fridge out on the back porch is responsible for holding all of the cold beer, water, and soft drinks.
The champagne is ready for cooling, the margaritas for mixing, and the red wine for those who swing that way. (We don’t have a ton of the “proper” glassware, but we’re not going to lose a single second of sleep over that. If push comes to shove, we have an industrial sized package of “Chiefs’ Red” Solo cups.
We ordered in an emergency package from Joe’s Kansas City BBQ, a legendary hallmark BBQ site from a city legendary for its BBQ.
Of course we have desserts – I’ve heard a lot about this new cookie place taking the world by storm and they opened one nearby… Why not?!
While I’m obviously hoping for and expecting a Chiefs win, I’m also expecting a legendary Super Bowl between two great teams that are very evenly matched.
We should have invited a cardiologist!
Enjoy the game, y’all!
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We Love The Stars Too Fondly 