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Awesome, thanks. Ordered. Badass shirt

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Great to see. I stopped tracking daily as it was making me all ragey. I guess people are seeing the benefit of being vaxxed in reentering normal life?

Got the invite for Saturday's game. Super excited. What's the play pre-game? There are all of those breweries around the stadium, but looking through their sites I didn't see any special events planned. Just show up to one and see if I can get in? I'm sure they'll all be zoos.

My wife and I watched "Hacks" over the weekend and really enjoyed it. Jean Smart is a legend.

Fantastic. Really great and good to see Owen back at his best. It's been a while.

Ah yes, Takeaway. A classic. I think that's my wife's favorite. The show can make you laugh, but has some real poignant moments for the parents too. The parents are both aspirational in how they interact with the kids, but also very relatable in how they screw up and in general, are just normal parents with their own lives and interests. We love it.

For those with little kids, Bluey Season 2 is up as of a couple weeks. Pretty sure my kids have been through it at least twice. It’s still terrific.

I mean, Say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.

I’m on a plane and got locked into this Portugal/Italy game. What a game. Wide open game from minute 1 and we’re in the second half of extra time. 4-3 and 10-man Italy just missed a chance to tie it by inches.

The photos of Azpi holding the cup makes me so happy. What a legend at the club and an absolute rock for many years. For 7 million pounds, you could do a lot worse.

Well, looks like Black Pumas are still on for this week. Does anyone have a couple for Wednesday? I have 2 for Saturday, but I am going out of town, so looking for a straight trade on the dates.

That's awesome that you brought this up. Shea was an intern at my company a few years back. He was actually just getting into vinyl at the time and we bonded over that a bit. About a year after he left, I heard that he started this company. I can't speak to the quality of the product, but he is a good dude and trustworthy. Happy that it seems like he is doing well with this endeavor. I went and checked out Love Wheel today. Pretty cool little shop. I typically go to Waterloo when I know what I want and may pick around a bit. This is much more of a neighborhood type place where you go in having no idea what you'll find. It's small, so you can probably get through the stacks in 30 minutes and find some gems. I'm actually currently listening to the copy of "Let It Bleed" that I picked up today for $10. It sounds great.

Brutal match. Chance after chance went begging. Hopefully we're saving them for next weekend. Not ideal way to do it, but Top 4 is always nice. pretty wild up and down EPL season.

Wife was out of town, so I was flipping around the streaming services looking for something to watch. Amazon had "Layer Cake" on the front page, which is a movie I really liked when it came out and during it's post theater cable run, but hadn't seen in years. Thought I would check in and see if it was as good as I remember. Let me tell you, that movie still fucking rules. Just entertaining as hell from start to finish. If you hadn't seen it in a while (or never have seen it), I highly recommend checking it out.

Fuck yes. Huge. Thankfully that was Ayoze and not an actually good player on the end of that pass.

Seriously, why the fuck is Timo an auto-start every game?

My wife just flew to Denver to help put her mom in a nursing home. Her mom is only 65, so it's way too early for this and has been really hard on her whole family. She started showing signs a couple years ago, but the last few months she has developed Capgras Syndrome, which is basically Imposter Syndrome. A couple times a day, she thinks my father in law is an intruder and she screams and curses at him and runs away. He can't get her back into the house because she thinks he is trying to hurt her. She then calls whoever is easily accessible on her phone frantic about it and they have to try to talk her back into the house. Hard on my wife when she is in the middle of a 12 hour work day and has to talk her mom back into her own home. My mother in law actually called the cops once and they came out to the house, which was an interesting experience for my extremely straight laced father in law. She also constantly wants to go to a party, and when they get people together to make her happy she asks "where is everybody?" The "party" is never good enough. She wasn't a super social person to begin with, so definitely a weird way her dementia has changed her. My sister in law lives in Denver with her family and she is exhausted because she has to host her mentally deteriorating mom constantly to give her a "party" and she has two little kids and a job. My father in law is definitely not one to give in or complain, so if he thinks he can't take care of her and she needs to go into a home, I can't imagine how hard it is on him.

Horizontal rain just came through downtown. Looks to have calmed a bit.

Bluey is the best kids show and it's not close. Both my 1 year old and 4 year old will sit and watch it for as long as we'll let them. It's also legitimately a good show and the parent's experiences are pretty relatable, so I'll watch it with them too.

Sure those guys too. I’m more thinking about guys who were on that 16-17 Conte-led title winning team. That is probably my favorite team in the decade that I have been following Chelsea. I guess Zouma was on that team too (though not a key member), so should have included him.

What a second half. Back and forth, those guys had to be on fumes. Got lucky on the penalty no call, but that happens. We have to be in their heads at this point, which is great with the CL final coming up. I know he doesn’t play much anymore and is probably leaving in the summer, but I love Alonso. He’s had so many huge goals over the years. I really hope we can win the CL for guys like him, Azpi and Kante who have been around for a while.

Veep is too low. Although the last season sucked, there are very few shows that delivered laughs week to week like that one.

I was skeptical for much of the season, but it was just 8 episodes, so thought I would stay with it. Man, glad I did. Those last 2 episodes were top notch. Just really good shit. And now for Season 2, they have about 10 different ways they can go with it. I'm excited for season 2 now.