Soap opera's, jazz, and Risk

I'm having third thoughts.

My Thai sawmill guy I watch at work is back on Tiktok. He even said "hi" to me the other night when I joined the feed.

Sorry. I'm kind of giddy. I'm such a fanboy.

I can tell he's still not back on his "A" game though. Like last night. I'm no expert but he missed a couple of easy 2x4's in one of the logs and scrapped a perfect 4x8. A couple of rookie mistakes.

Reality TV junkies. I have two words for you. Soap. Opera.

Every reality show can be divided into three categories:

Number one, game show, i.e. "Chopped".

Two, traditional soap opera, i.e. shows like "The Batchelor."

Three, traditional soap opera with cross fit party games, i.e. "The Challenge", or "Survivor."

I think a lot of people like jazz because it sounds like its religious music.

I attend the Saint John Will I Am Coltrane African Orthodox

Church.

Look it up. It's an actual thing.

We say groovy instead of amen and the liturgy is completely improvisational. Hymns usually last for three hours and since we sing in skat they are never the same twice.

Nobody understands our religion but they are afraid to say they don't like it because they don't want to seem uncool.

Has anybody ever finished a game of Risk?

I know that a game of Monopoly is complete after the ceremonial throwing of the board across the room.

You know what I hate? Watching guys take a warped blade out of the quench and try to bend it straight.

I have to leave the room. I can't bear to watch it.

That's more stress than I want in my life.

Bill Belichick looks like that guy that hangs around outside the grocery store asking if you want to see his chewed gum collection.

I think we need to stop calling it "stealing" or "theft" or the worst, "illegal entry".

A much better term would be "Difficult Acquisition Specialist".

It makes me sad that nobody cares when the bad guy dies.

Yes I am a time traveler and to prove it beyond a doubt here are some major world events that will happen in 1980:

The US will defeat the Soviet Union in hockey in a game many will call "The Miracle on Ice".

A television channel devoted entirely to news 24 hours a day will begin broadcasting. It will be known as CNN.

A mountain in Washington state called Mount St. Helens will erupt in a volcanic explosion.

Iran and Iraq will find themselves in a war.

The graduating class at Plymouth High School will produce a man who will become known as the strangest man on earth. After a series of failed ventures he will become the author of a column called "Stray Thoughts" that will lead many to the question why he was ever allowed near a typewriter.

I think people are beginning to like me. Now when they look at me and say, "What the *^%$# is WRONG with you?" they tilt their head slightly to the right before giving me a dirty look.

I interpret that as a friendly gesture.