It’s Fat Tuesday, a Mardi Gras milestone day. The end of Carnival and another excuse for a big party in NOLA. Here in Socal it’s just the calm after and before the storm. Lotsa rain yesterday, and now a cold clear morning before the next round tonight.
It’s also game day for UK v Georgia, yet another must-win game for the Cats. It’s a 9pm EST game, so I’m happy to be on the Left Coast to see it at a decent hour. GO BIG BLUE!
Since returning from Cabo I’ve been *busy*. With K still under the weather, I’ve been shopping, cleaning, doing laundry, being a travel agent, stocking up on firewood, working in the olive grove, and so on. I did manage to get a round of golf in before the storms. I’m surprised at how much I enjoy golf these days – it’s about the only athletic-ish thing I do anymore, so it feels great when I get out and play. I’m real close to playing the best golf of my life – there are a few things I’m changing in the swing and I think they’re gonna work. It would be weird but OK to be a better golfer at 70 than I was at 30 or 40.
I could write pages about this week’s new outrages from Donny Convict’s Crime Family, but it’s depressing and I prefer not to today. The horrors of ICE, the Trump-Epstein files, the financial graft and corruption of everyone in Trump’s orbit, the destruction of the US’s health care system, the constant stream of lies told by the federal government…it’s a lot to take in. The (s)hits just keep on coming.
I get back to KY in a week, and I’m anxious to see family and friends there. It will have been 5 weeks since seeing the grandsons, and that’s a bit too long. Looks like the nasty winter is mostly over there, so that’s another plus.
As if I didn’t have enough to do, I just ordered a dashcam to install in my Socal vehicle. After a run-in with a reckless driver in Louisville, I decided a dashcam is necessary for self-preservation given today’s rude and dangerous drivers. And given ICE, come to think of it. I’ll install one here in CA as a test case, then do the same on the KY vehicle.