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<\/p>\nA few other notes from last week\/the weekend plus life in general.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve had a couple longer spells of irregular heart beats lately, so the week before we went to Denver I wore an event monitor again. Just like the first two times I wore one, I had zero issues, so it wasn\u2019t really helpful. Plus it made it hard for me to sleep since I\u2019m a stomach sleeper. And you\u2019re not supposed to get it wet so I couldn\u2019t work out very hard or take full showers. And it itches.<\/p>\n
There are way worse heart issues than what I\u2019ve got, but I think this is all pretty dumb since it is so random and never fires off when the docs are keeping an eye on me.<\/p>\n
A mostly good weekend for my teams, although I wasn\u2019t able to follow any of the games very closely.<\/p>\n
Friday #5 Cathedral dropped their regular season finale to #6 Warren Central by 8. Sounds like it was a good game, with CHS jumping out 14\u20130 then the teams trading the lead in the second half. A 5\u20133 regular season for the Irish. Class 6A gets a bye week before starting sectionals next week. CHS will play across the street vs 0\u20139 North Central, then most likely play the new #1 team, 9\u20130 Lawrence North.<\/p>\n
KU finally got their shit back together, although Houston being really bad helped. Every time I checked the score while we were walking around Boulder KU was either scoring or Houston was turning the ball over. Seems like the Jayhawks played well, most importantly Jalon Daniels, who had his best statistical game in two years.<\/p>\n
Just in time, as KU has K-State, Iowa State, and BYU the next three weeks, the top three teams in the Big 12. What better moment to flip the script on this season?<\/p>\n
The Colts won an ugly game against a banged up Dolphins team. We were home for part of this, although I wasn\u2019t paying much attention as we got settled and unpacked. This team just isn\u2019t that fun to watch at the moment.<\/p>\n
I barely watched the WNBA playoffs after the Fever were eliminated, only checking in on games for a few moments here-and-there. Which is partially on me, partially on the league for agreeing to a TV schedule that often had its games going up against the NFL. Not super smart.<\/p>\n
I did turn on the fourth quarter of game five of the Finals Sunday night. What a shit show! I was somewhat amazed at how bad the officiating was while watching the Fever this year. Each game had objectivey terrible calls, and replay reviews that sometimes had indefensible conclusions.<\/p>\n
It was no surprise to me that the championship may have come down to an absolutely atrocious call in which the refs bailed out Breanna Stewart and then somehow upheld the defensive foul after Minnesota challenged it. Stewart hit two free throws, Minnesota missed a wide open 3 to win, and then New York won in overtime. The refs also failed to call a clear foul against New York that cost Minnesota a basket and should have put the Lynx on the line late in regulation.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not saying the game was rigged because that\u2019s dumb. But I understand all the anger flowing from Minnesota after the game. Anyone who has watched the WNBA all season was not surprised that the biggest game of the year featured calls this bad. The quality of officiating is going to be a major growing pain for a league that has more eyes on it than ever.<\/p>\n
Oh goody, Yankees-Dodgers. There\u2019s a lot of star power in the series, for sure. But I haven\u2019t watched much of the playoffs since the Royals went out. I doubt I\u2019ll spend a lot of time with this series. It is kind of crazy it\u2019s been 33 years since these franchises last matched up in the fall classic.<\/p>\n
Monday morning as I walked to the gym I noticed what seemed to be a couple big piles of garbage in our yard near the busy street we sit on. This isn\u2019t unusual. Fools are always throwing garbage from their cars. We get tons of fast food bags, beer cans and bottles, plus other random stuff. I made a mental note to grab it after my workout.<\/p>\n
An hour later I was walking towards said piles when I realized I should have investigated closer to get out of the morning sun glare. One pile was part of the front corner of a car, including the headlight. Ten feet away was a dead deer.<\/p>\n
Yikes.<\/p>\n
How the fuck do I get rid of a deer?<\/p>\n
Fortunately the city of Indianapolis has an app where you can make service requests. I wear it out in the winter reporting potholes. For the most part it seems to work, although it can take them a while to work through my list in the worst of the winter.<\/p>\n
After enough digging I found a section where you can report dead animals. Deer was even included in the dropdown box where you identify the carcass. Midwest, baby!<\/p>\n
I put in a request and hoped they would get to it sooner than they do potholes.<\/p>\n
I left the house to run some errands this morning and when I returned our dead deer was gone. My tax dollars at work! I guess it could have been some hillbilly who saw a way to fill his freezer for the winter, but I\u2019ll give the city credit.<\/p>\n
C said she had heard an impact around 1:00 AM Monday morning and by the time she looked out her window the car had left and it was too dark to see the poor deer. Hopefully it went quick.<\/p>\n
I might have missed the full northern lights a couple weeks ago, but I did not miss the chance to see Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, the brightest comet we\u2019ve had since 1997.<\/p>\n
Tuesday I drove about 10 minutes north to a park where there are no lights and a clear view to the southwest. I was able to see the comet as a bright spot and smudge with the naked eye. A three-second exposure with my iPhone got a much better view.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Still not nearly as bright as Hale-Bopp was – one of the coolest things I\u2019ve ever seen with it\u2019s bright tail streaking across a good chunk of the sky that summer – but I\u2019m still glad I got to see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A few other notes from last week\/the weekend plus life in general. Health I\u2019ve had a couple longer spells of irregular heart beats lately, so the week before we went to Denver I wore an event monitor again. Just like the first two times I wore one, I had zero issues, so it wasn\u2019t really helpful. Plus it made it hard for me to sleep since I\u2019m a stomach sleeper. And you\u2019re not supposed to get it wet so I couldn\u2019t work out very hard or take full showers. And it itches. There are way worse heart issues than what I\u2019ve got, but I think this is all pretty dumb since it is so random and never fires off when the docs are keeping an eye on me. Football A mostly good weekend for my teams, although I wasn\u2019t able to follow any of the games very closely. Friday #5 Cathedral dropped their regular season finale to #6 Warren Central by 8. Sounds like it was a good game, with CHS jumping out 14\u20130 then the teams trading the lead in the second half. A 5\u20133 regular season for the Irish. Class 6A gets a bye week before starting sectionals next week. CHS will play across the street vs 0\u20139 North Central, then most likely play the new #1 team, 9\u20130 Lawrence North. KU finally got their shit back together, although Houston being really bad helped. Every time I checked the score while we were walking around Boulder KU was either scoring or Houston was turning the ball over. Seems like the Jayhawks played well, most importantly Jalon Daniels, who had his best statistical game in two years. Just in time, as KU has K-State, Iowa State, and BYU the next three weeks, the top three teams in the Big 12. What better moment to flip the script on this season? The Colts won an ugly game against a banged up Dolphins team. We were home for part of this, although I wasn\u2019t paying much attention as we got settled and unpacked. This team just isn\u2019t that fun to watch at the moment. WNBA Finals I barely watched the WNBA playoffs after the Fever were eliminated, only checking in on games for a few moments here-and-there. Which is partially on me, partially on the league for agreeing to a TV schedule that often had its games going up against the NFL. Not super smart. I did turn on the fourth quarter of game five of the Finals Sunday night. What a shit show! I was somewhat amazed at how bad the officiating was while watching the Fever this year. Each game had objectivey terrible calls, and replay reviews that sometimes had indefensible conclusions. It was no surprise to me that the championship may have come down to an absolutely atrocious call in which the refs bailed out Breanna Stewart and then somehow upheld the defensive foul after Minnesota challenged it. Stewart hit two free throws, Minnesota missed a wide open 3 to win, and then New York won in overtime. The refs also failed to call a clear foul against New York that cost Minnesota a basket and should have put the Lynx on the line late in regulation. I\u2019m not saying the game was rigged because that\u2019s dumb. But I understand all the anger flowing from Minnesota after the game. Anyone who has watched the WNBA all season was not surprised that the biggest game of the year featured calls this bad. The quality of officiating is going to be a major growing pain for a league that has more eyes on it than ever. World Series Oh goody, Yankees-Dodgers. There\u2019s a lot of star power in the series, for sure. But I haven\u2019t watched much of the playoffs since the Royals went out. I doubt I\u2019ll spend a lot of time with this series. It is kind of crazy it\u2019s been 33 years since these franchises last matched up in the fall classic. Wildlife Fun Monday morning as I walked to the gym I noticed what seemed to be a couple big piles of garbage in our yard near the busy street we sit on. This isn\u2019t unusual. Fools are always throwing garbage from their cars. We get tons of fast food bags, beer cans and bottles, plus other random stuff. I made a mental note to grab it after my workout. An hour later I was walking towards said piles when I realized I should have investigated closer to get out of the morning sun glare. One pile was part of the front corner of a car, including the headlight. Ten feet away was a dead deer. Yikes. How the fuck do I get rid of a deer? Fortunately the city of Indianapolis has an app where you can make service requests. I wear it out in the winter reporting potholes. For the most part it seems to work, although it can take them a while to work through my list in the worst of the winter. After enough digging I found a section where you can report dead animals. Deer was even included in the dropdown box where you identify the carcass. Midwest, baby! I put in a request and hoped they would get to it sooner than they do potholes. I left the house to run some errands this morning and when I returned our dead deer was gone. My tax dollars at work! I guess it could have been some hillbilly who saw a way to fill his freezer for the winter, but I\u2019ll give the city credit. C said she had heard an impact around 1:00 AM Monday morning and by the time she looked out her window the car had left and it was too dark to see the poor deer. Hopefully it went quick. Comet I might have missed the full northern lights a couple weeks ago, but I did not miss the chance to see Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, the brightest comet we\u2019ve had since 1997. Tuesday I drove about 10 minutes north to a park where there are no lights and a clear view to the southwest. I was able to see the comet as a bright spot and smudge with the naked eye. A three-second exposure with my iPhone got a much better view. Still not nearly as bright as Hale-Bopp was – one of the coolest things I\u2019ve ever seen with it\u2019s bright tail streaking across a good chunk of the sky that summer – but I\u2019m still glad I got to see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,31,67,83,161],"class_list":["post-15816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baseball","tag-basketball","tag-football","tag-personal","tag-space"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15816"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15824,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15816\/revisions\/15824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}