tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931628801002487932024-03-14T01:22:48.757-07:00Boston's BlogJim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.comBlogger200125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693162880100248793.post-85100330840517575942023-07-31T20:09:00.005-07:002023-07-31T20:09:58.787-07:00Take a good, good look...That's right...take a good, good look at these photos...photos of some of Big Media's biggest powers at the top.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLyiL0um2aQx9Fq5UGKEVfEjbNuoroZsvQc8LvRQUawBSrAw1hTWDu4aLXcFDRBYqWEgLTs7C9oijG1Dw54X9bBRKmpFbMY3MvKXmPNPPO-liobgW2-vsLYhr7gK3WKY63ddqZcEgBqIPlGn58naxrmCCa_EEds4VI6j3L-LB1zWlB89OET3tVNNFa2-E/s1500/netflix+headquarters+los+angeles.jpeg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="844" data-original-width="1500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLyiL0um2aQx9Fq5UGKEVfEjbNuoroZsvQc8LvRQUawBSrAw1hTWDu4aLXcFDRBYqWEgLTs7C9oijG1Dw54X9bBRKmpFbMY3MvKXmPNPPO-liobgW2-vsLYhr7gK3WKY63ddqZcEgBqIPlGn58naxrmCCa_EEds4VI6j3L-LB1zWlB89OET3tVNNFa2-E/s320/netflix+headquarters+los+angeles.jpeg"/></a></div>
Netflix founder Reed Hastings...<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCAl2MqTenzrjJ3XpO8NPYzKOEnQecO4L9tq-m2427OQvfZPlF_bMeckJNbZGZnxJY3Gb65rl_gJX8qIQEBHY_FaOD2XG6L4fI8OVhr6_YzIQjQ5a5KYTF2ijuTvnl5laVUQs4FA1oTJ7ZUPwJM8hhvMieqJZ29Tcy7US4MzScFY2mFOR1Peyo-GjmG-8/s1200/1200x0%20%5BReed%20Hastings%20%28Netflix%20founder%29%5D.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="846" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCAl2MqTenzrjJ3XpO8NPYzKOEnQecO4L9tq-m2427OQvfZPlF_bMeckJNbZGZnxJY3Gb65rl_gJX8qIQEBHY_FaOD2XG6L4fI8OVhr6_YzIQjQ5a5KYTF2ijuTvnl5laVUQs4FA1oTJ7ZUPwJM8hhvMieqJZ29Tcy7US4MzScFY2mFOR1Peyo-GjmG-8/s320/1200x0%20%5BReed%20Hastings%20%28Netflix%20founder%29%5D.jpg"/></a></div>
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav...<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoWAmj-SqET_qDL5-6EgiCbKRvZfrqVvzQhpZNut0saG4YQ6StiMI1kfschr65lWyE_ABb2lG_JjFEzfxrrADybaJROL5N-cDey7tfCbe20ICS6xXSx2uEl5Wdwxjw8dP9rzhf4cK5H4t2TD_zkA3sj5KWIQF9xrrSoMlKTPeObK9dxXyBU7xctilUbng/s1200/david%20zaslav-headshot-cropped-938x1200%20%28wbd%20ceo%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="320" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="938" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoWAmj-SqET_qDL5-6EgiCbKRvZfrqVvzQhpZNut0saG4YQ6StiMI1kfschr65lWyE_ABb2lG_JjFEzfxrrADybaJROL5N-cDey7tfCbe20ICS6xXSx2uEl5Wdwxjw8dP9rzhf4cK5H4t2TD_zkA3sj5KWIQF9xrrSoMlKTPeObK9dxXyBU7xctilUbng/s320/david%20zaslav-headshot-cropped-938x1200%20%28wbd%20ceo%29.jpg"/></a></div>
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts...<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9UQgVCNRICvqLzR4up7NOA7uC9kQCic0wHTNTC-KhCn5aTe3tPFKNzyiWDkkddt0d5lKLG94aKNSSD2KH9cQIPRcFBTFf7j1jT1OJMCZIvm6Hcviv9N8FmDMFxpcjreM14CjtuPpFvddLkfua1JNjciHYhTwi_7RtX9NVCt82kP5JZlnNyFaMzGZbHrI/s1583/Brian%20L.%20Roberts%20%28Comcast%20CEO%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="1583" data-original-width="1583" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9UQgVCNRICvqLzR4up7NOA7uC9kQCic0wHTNTC-KhCn5aTe3tPFKNzyiWDkkddt0d5lKLG94aKNSSD2KH9cQIPRcFBTFf7j1jT1OJMCZIvm6Hcviv9N8FmDMFxpcjreM14CjtuPpFvddLkfua1JNjciHYhTwi_7RtX9NVCt82kP5JZlnNyFaMzGZbHrI/s320/Brian%20L.%20Roberts%20%28Comcast%20CEO%29.jpg"/></a></div>
Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish...<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho-iBRCPQ-BrOg0_xMoXJorGbYRA8Vr1SvVKLvvtaRYxYr4rsj7Wc9kaNG1asSMHaZqFs-5Y_7lKqJvNzVo9toOGAre51Jb8GQV8C5Mn6yyvZmim7d_7E03s_SXnfYOP2ktwnPWUlp8NjZEsQ6Zo8ovm6RAT7MVnN4xMpf1Mt0EIKQuRVKQj6FELvwBxI/s4000/-1x-1%20%28Paramount%20Global%20CEO%20Bob%20Bakish,%202019%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="2667" data-original-width="4000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho-iBRCPQ-BrOg0_xMoXJorGbYRA8Vr1SvVKLvvtaRYxYr4rsj7Wc9kaNG1asSMHaZqFs-5Y_7lKqJvNzVo9toOGAre51Jb8GQV8C5Mn6yyvZmim7d_7E03s_SXnfYOP2ktwnPWUlp8NjZEsQ6Zo8ovm6RAT7MVnN4xMpf1Mt0EIKQuRVKQj6FELvwBxI/s320/-1x-1%20%28Paramount%20Global%20CEO%20Bob%20Bakish,%202019%29.jpg"/></a></div>
Disney CEO Bob Iger...<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiCk8bsDLnCLbDW83jOPaJC9u2zn5YtjMNl5o_3OVxFwgfh2c6OWnKeCaYvwCxMwT5YB_qa2-fBtEvzKRB1lS1GChLg1WLlq8Jcy2r1UxJSJ6aCTfnYNNOGqFJmxAxfmlkoZOW6E2Gwb75Ns_tnUE6oiZOsSxU13NSxh_LwD5m-rymzM0x0FDjQMp1oYI/s1100/ap21341739999408_custom-507a0fdb48e5d5bf91e3fc7065f7cddcfdcda287-s1100-c50%20%28Disney%20CEO%20Bob%20Iger,%202021%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="1100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiCk8bsDLnCLbDW83jOPaJC9u2zn5YtjMNl5o_3OVxFwgfh2c6OWnKeCaYvwCxMwT5YB_qa2-fBtEvzKRB1lS1GChLg1WLlq8Jcy2r1UxJSJ6aCTfnYNNOGqFJmxAxfmlkoZOW6E2Gwb75Ns_tnUE6oiZOsSxU13NSxh_LwD5m-rymzM0x0FDjQMp1oYI/s320/ap21341739999408_custom-507a0fdb48e5d5bf91e3fc7065f7cddcfdcda287-s1100-c50%20%28Disney%20CEO%20Bob%20Iger,%202021%29.jpg"/></a></div>
Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch...<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBpiFOv30GrfdQFYdevXeHOKb64gSXp33cKOOsbqwl1AyLCvZbaimjoHNx8bIhYKQqHmO-WRUGB0ihLUmiA7IN3ihZeXEHvgeip0nKTh66b1BjippC9Z0K1CaGO2f1aauC-m6UhvPCzab1sxagID3q-5ODY2XoWl_j6AV6hPocG1qkV1IiFwMW11x9mfA/s2375/Lachlan%20Murdoch%20%28Fox%20Corporation%20CEO%29.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="2375" data-original-width="2375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBpiFOv30GrfdQFYdevXeHOKb64gSXp33cKOOsbqwl1AyLCvZbaimjoHNx8bIhYKQqHmO-WRUGB0ihLUmiA7IN3ihZeXEHvgeip0nKTh66b1BjippC9Z0K1CaGO2f1aauC-m6UhvPCzab1sxagID3q-5ODY2XoWl_j6AV6hPocG1qkV1IiFwMW11x9mfA/s320/Lachlan%20Murdoch%20%28Fox%20Corporation%20CEO%29.png"/></a></div>
Yes, I'm going to ruffle a bunch of feathers for saying this...but I'm going to say it:<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnltxa_Zn5JAXfgZJ0tMihqHDaCiJSdq2lwq-ARNz8JMr_wxF-UGDjpTckt61SZmSOfnBqMONfI1IZ4pSgxqfn6Vy5hIcjOvpWpZ5MU4y0rUYZzb5-k3bt6Gp_P6WDfIXYMaT07rTnNr05Kzi0I-vgfrJs6Ysid6rn7BQ2AoqqVVUUAhv1C1bf_ulMbbI/s760/1689296721685_nn_dgr_hollywood_actors_expected_to_strike_230713_1920x1080-zrgruy.webp" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="760" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnltxa_Zn5JAXfgZJ0tMihqHDaCiJSdq2lwq-ARNz8JMr_wxF-UGDjpTckt61SZmSOfnBqMONfI1IZ4pSgxqfn6Vy5hIcjOvpWpZ5MU4y0rUYZzb5-k3bt6Gp_P6WDfIXYMaT07rTnNr05Kzi0I-vgfrJs6Ysid6rn7BQ2AoqqVVUUAhv1C1bf_ulMbbI/s320/1689296721685_nn_dgr_hollywood_actors_expected_to_strike_230713_1920x1080-zrgruy.webp"/></a></div>
If it weren't for (let's face it) corporate greed and for complacency at the top (in other words, the studios' tremendous reliance on movie franchises, movie remakes, and TV reboots), the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists wouldn't be out on strike. It's the first time since 1960 that both unions shut down.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxj1nhO5EGwH7b5YcfwyDmuv6PnDqCsd2jVIGyoP7VrYpLtRhhdxQIOVsWKem4udBbqGYVQz1mkh041QwEcQAT1eKyVnkPj9_2zBs39MGX5knznFVP0Z1xyd4VuWeu9K2qTeYvFnT5-jzwzdPYtARw6l5AgIdAcjIayvlR7l34f5cz7h2mRBkAkdNIlHM/s602/main-qimg-e7e4875a246937e3fc634f301554c0b6%20%28actor%27s%20residual%20checks%29.webp" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="396" data-original-width="602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxj1nhO5EGwH7b5YcfwyDmuv6PnDqCsd2jVIGyoP7VrYpLtRhhdxQIOVsWKem4udBbqGYVQz1mkh041QwEcQAT1eKyVnkPj9_2zBs39MGX5knznFVP0Z1xyd4VuWeu9K2qTeYvFnT5-jzwzdPYtARw6l5AgIdAcjIayvlR7l34f5cz7h2mRBkAkdNIlHM/s320/main-qimg-e7e4875a246937e3fc634f301554c0b6%20%28actor%27s%20residual%20checks%29.webp"/></a></div>
Not all actors are wealthy. Matter of fact, the average California actor earned $27.73 per hour in 2022, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. And movie-TV performers aren't paid full-time year-'round.
And, per a 7-17-2023 post on cnn.com on why the writers and performers are picketing, 12.7% of all SAG-AFTRA members make an annual salary of $26,470...the minimum amount that qualifies an entertainer for health insurance.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDYjnBHz3mi-05BRsfgmxP9oAP_FPO_8DYSRA0ErmllRszPY0oIbi1vA6YeeOg0XE3pevTdAWiw4qqkRBieFG2WMFo5aqQPO_8bQHlmrhWKGVrjOcnciGs31YLp4ylV3Ks5tp1qV21uLQUSSVV9IjA2wTPx82VudTYIu01uQB9DUZqyh78zl-LlsKyV4U/s1200/1502012827.0%20%282023%20actors%20strike%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDYjnBHz3mi-05BRsfgmxP9oAP_FPO_8DYSRA0ErmllRszPY0oIbi1vA6YeeOg0XE3pevTdAWiw4qqkRBieFG2WMFo5aqQPO_8bQHlmrhWKGVrjOcnciGs31YLp4ylV3Ks5tp1qV21uLQUSSVV9IjA2wTPx82VudTYIu01uQB9DUZqyh78zl-LlsKyV4U/s320/1502012827.0%20%282023%20actors%20strike%29.jpg"/></a></div>
160,000 SAG-AFTRA members...11,000 people in the WGA.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiac_sRHQq_NcJpHhKs_B7uJGyc2KTbDkaIh1COlxY5054f7CGU1kQp7aosgkPf4-N34J3CrFlJOF8ewkyjbEGz-N3IaJPFBlBXKdfM7W98IPCBbpOHbhKN-e9QR6SJ6576BPRoZcd8JWiUEYRL7Gz4HurBDKe3uIutTB17zyIIKWKj-xAR71wktg3li10/s1280/maxresdefault%20%28Hollywood%20strike,%206-18-2023%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiac_sRHQq_NcJpHhKs_B7uJGyc2KTbDkaIh1COlxY5054f7CGU1kQp7aosgkPf4-N34J3CrFlJOF8ewkyjbEGz-N3IaJPFBlBXKdfM7W98IPCBbpOHbhKN-e9QR6SJ6576BPRoZcd8JWiUEYRL7Gz4HurBDKe3uIutTB17zyIIKWKj-xAR71wktg3li10/s320/maxresdefault%20%28Hollywood%20strike,%206-18-2023%29.jpg"/></a></div>
I still think that there's more than enough money out there to satisfy all sides in the matter.
How about you?Jim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693162880100248793.post-52335186074819859462023-05-31T22:37:00.001-07:002023-05-31T22:37:28.016-07:00The strike must continueThe Writers Guild of America began its current strike on Tuesday, 5-2-2023...after a three-year contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers ended. Weeks of negotiations fell through because the AMPTP failed to come up with a pact that would satisfy the 11,500 WGA members.
WGA leaders sought to gain increased compensation for TV-and-movie writers, guaranteed duration of employment for writers who get gigs in the industry, better residuals, and (of course!) the assurance that human writers wouldn't get replaced by artificial intelligence.
Streaming has become a major factor since the previous WGA strike. Because of streaming, residuals for writers have become less frequent...and smaller, too. We've now got minirooms (with only a few writers instead of the usual seven or more), shorter seasons for TV series, and no rerun residuals for countless series.
The money's there to give WGA writers what they want.
Writers would've gained an extra $429 million per year had AMPTP leaders come through for the folks who cook up scripts. Instead, AMPTP bigwigs offered an annual increase of $86 million.
Some people have questioned the WGA's decision to shut it down. One of them's even on the creatives' platform I joined in January 2019.
If you've questioned the first writers' shutdown since 2007-08, think about this:
Shows like "This Is Us" and "Abbott Elementary" wouldn't have come on the air if somebody hadn't thought them up...and movies such as "Avatar" and "Tar" came about because someone wrote a script.
And why shouldn't writers be compensated decently for what they come up with? They've got bills to pay, too.
Jim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693162880100248793.post-30240323946771467752023-04-30T18:23:00.001-07:002023-04-30T18:23:23.597-07:00It's been such a long, long time...57.5 years, to be exact.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixiLFl8Ii5Y6Zhl7YecPIOb3wp_TGOFkbt45IEmS-UMZPIR525VofztHXMn-7pJSO3le1T5Yo5Wu1RHPhAp9KM3FJ5zSUFURYTi9VxuqqpFZuQjdebMRhQEqBvO_njjIUmBR5J9ZQZj1mCcumDLztb0g8qL9yDm7QvHnI35RxKu_mKHf6RD4606qCy/s400/0_0_4836_7648%20%5BCedar%20Rapids%20%28IA%29%20Gazette,%207-6-1965%5D.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="320" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixiLFl8Ii5Y6Zhl7YecPIOb3wp_TGOFkbt45IEmS-UMZPIR525VofztHXMn-7pJSO3le1T5Yo5Wu1RHPhAp9KM3FJ5zSUFURYTi9VxuqqpFZuQjdebMRhQEqBvO_njjIUmBR5J9ZQZj1mCcumDLztb0g8qL9yDm7QvHnI35RxKu_mKHf6RD4606qCy/s320/0_0_4836_7648%20%5BCedar%20Rapids%20%28IA%29%20Gazette,%207-6-1965%5D.jpg"/></a></div>
It's been that long since I began wearing glasses. (Back then, the fall of 1965, when my constant squinting led to the decision to get me into my first pair of glasses.)<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEuFqPOUsYsbrpF4LSvbY8e-TthdoPNduF7dvj47w8yDB9YxKFawwuQSyELoxDIYAjVN0h2MSMHShtkKJNQBk1A6YrztzWx16i0y591DqVChIIY1LFZTwqcl3I7qUDITouxkVd1ZOAQCRBStU93DnkFWjT9E-vpb5uKwLoiM6l59V7CX2ch4aqS8hZ/s900/header-image%20%28cat-eye%20glasses%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEuFqPOUsYsbrpF4LSvbY8e-TthdoPNduF7dvj47w8yDB9YxKFawwuQSyELoxDIYAjVN0h2MSMHShtkKJNQBk1A6YrztzWx16i0y591DqVChIIY1LFZTwqcl3I7qUDITouxkVd1ZOAQCRBStU93DnkFWjT9E-vpb5uKwLoiM6l59V7CX2ch4aqS8hZ/s320/header-image%20%28cat-eye%20glasses%29.jpg"/></a></div>
Well...thanks to two cataract surgeries (3-6-2023 and 3-27-2023), subsequent followups, and two bottles of Pred-Brom, I now see 20/20 for distance. Don't need glasses for driving anymore.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhukcOoSUPaLPc_rCN3GUNyQrv3ZedprNrE1Gg859VL5X9w38mcx2U1jumxf4HqIZCAgVo-Xx-8lakCFeMd6xGUmQwv-ExZYFUVy98Fw2WTleXroGgW8s5b5lW3AnXXtT7FUSlrhfhwipPKnLYfu8Lcql3XHOTMFM87w6WYKt6pqfAD9tswW1yQzRFT/s720/Pred-Nepaf.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="320" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhukcOoSUPaLPc_rCN3GUNyQrv3ZedprNrE1Gg859VL5X9w38mcx2U1jumxf4HqIZCAgVo-Xx-8lakCFeMd6xGUmQwv-ExZYFUVy98Fw2WTleXroGgW8s5b5lW3AnXXtT7FUSlrhfhwipPKnLYfu8Lcql3XHOTMFM87w6WYKt6pqfAD9tswW1yQzRFT/s320/Pred-Nepaf.png"/></a></div>
Okay...I still need reading glasses when I'm looking at books, newspapers, magazines, and computer screens.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfAe-d6CIhalyNnQ4odf4eVApmo3QSKxkbQa-hXkQfug2r-ysgKYGkyUOKZpw-XLPD3_q94cON6uT_RmbnfOcnIm0asxEnaeDklwaOxNnL5IjXv6khiwDJCD1RBmuGvH7hNksrl2yrvQ4JpjoIJbJ2D8XFdgVt-YGaWovgc3a-oeHuWqkp8p7WNyV-/s550/721964%20%28Brumm%20Eye%20Center%20Immanuel,%206751%20N.%2072nd%20St.,%20Omaha,%20NE%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfAe-d6CIhalyNnQ4odf4eVApmo3QSKxkbQa-hXkQfug2r-ysgKYGkyUOKZpw-XLPD3_q94cON6uT_RmbnfOcnIm0asxEnaeDklwaOxNnL5IjXv6khiwDJCD1RBmuGvH7hNksrl2yrvQ4JpjoIJbJ2D8XFdgVt-YGaWovgc3a-oeHuWqkp8p7WNyV-/s320/721964%20%28Brumm%20Eye%20Center%20Immanuel,%206751%20N.%2072nd%20St.,%20Omaha,%20NE%29.jpg"/></a></div>
Still, that's good enough for me.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBPA4UxmMB6DdFdcTcJTmQ8OZ0gC3uKmZlc4vdFbWmOEc5ktoRedZoPvrbjVLn7xOZAxhnsM5thePcuYXeW6jJCa4deguREfwxvHwCjgEtVLsiNTaPNpA-4SeGbF88QY-CFANIjXUL6x3Ja-9iFt81PlRCf8HN6NgXl-komtZM_eZK3B4ibSGZ1h7m/s300/MHSC-15-300x225.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBPA4UxmMB6DdFdcTcJTmQ8OZ0gC3uKmZlc4vdFbWmOEc5ktoRedZoPvrbjVLn7xOZAxhnsM5thePcuYXeW6jJCa4deguREfwxvHwCjgEtVLsiNTaPNpA-4SeGbF88QY-CFANIjXUL6x3Ja-9iFt81PlRCf8HN6NgXl-komtZM_eZK3B4ibSGZ1h7m/s320/MHSC-15-300x225.jpg"/></a></div>
Brumm Eye Center and Miracle Hills Surgery Center, thank you so very much!<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibqe-6hspIjL1_ZgQzBVGEqXy70KpUszkmQ1ayR8BfKPXEUHp6XowY9i_N9rDjiCKro8xZKGWrFJxo6Dn5pETUlCFsK_EpB3E-PHuB7QDv9Ofqt_pPu72dMxnBbUXbGyFSdJJZb3mz1i8ysc4uP4P05qyP6XjqnNiGmpDjR6T7UHHbMJ38Pp8nfQ7c/s300/Miracle-Hills-Surgery-Center-front-of-building-300x183.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibqe-6hspIjL1_ZgQzBVGEqXy70KpUszkmQ1ayR8BfKPXEUHp6XowY9i_N9rDjiCKro8xZKGWrFJxo6Dn5pETUlCFsK_EpB3E-PHuB7QDv9Ofqt_pPu72dMxnBbUXbGyFSdJJZb3mz1i8ysc4uP4P05qyP6XjqnNiGmpDjR6T7UHHbMJ38Pp8nfQ7c/s320/Miracle-Hills-Surgery-Center-front-of-building-300x183.jpg"/></a></div>Jim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693162880100248793.post-76133724287062454372023-03-31T16:37:00.000-07:002023-03-31T16:37:11.480-07:00Vive la difference!Great to see some different teams than the usual ones win regionals in this season's NCAA Division 1 men's and women's basketball tournaments.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1rdLi6TnL-jV78sTZEPgDNo_QOgjRQReHP4cozksb-yWty3jkRyAAzXGuh9tHFFaVV5WcoWJt8JAzuDcFdi-clG4MRALj4dHJ04lSl5NN_g8YhHXszzAWxmdw1piMoH2l8ik44Ohj5SC5-L9NoxhW1Hlp1N5Tw7T9cuDPmpQTQEEQRTXTiOty5StY/s3200/19928619%20%282022-23%20South%20Carolina%20women%27s%20BB%29.webp" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="2058" data-original-width="3200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1rdLi6TnL-jV78sTZEPgDNo_QOgjRQReHP4cozksb-yWty3jkRyAAzXGuh9tHFFaVV5WcoWJt8JAzuDcFdi-clG4MRALj4dHJ04lSl5NN_g8YhHXszzAWxmdw1piMoH2l8ik44Ohj5SC5-L9NoxhW1Hlp1N5Tw7T9cuDPmpQTQEEQRTXTiOty5StY/s320/19928619%20%282022-23%20South%20Carolina%20women%27s%20BB%29.webp"/></a></div>
No Number One seeds left at the moment in the NCAA D-1 men's tourney (Alabama, Purdue, Houston, and defending champion Kansas all went down before the regional finals)...and two remaining in the NCAA D-1 women's tourney (Virginia Tech and last season's champ, still-unbeaten South Carolina).<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB8qIF6ab2jjwIJhMhpur0awbAkS5WBiE6gu5N2xBzTZz8qS6U3N2uVMe6lLcIb8G12_3HBnUEofkW2lQwHi8vk5ZdwtQvPsjwqCqYdQfUvGGbX_yBxmYvsFJnHQczGCRmVnyEwn87AuI3dpQkkb_PVHUCV0O5UR2FllRjyXtWQ77cONssYbS0Gkdn/s720/01gsqprw6c26fktw6syf%20%282022-23%20Kansas%20men%27s%20BB%29.webp" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB8qIF6ab2jjwIJhMhpur0awbAkS5WBiE6gu5N2xBzTZz8qS6U3N2uVMe6lLcIb8G12_3HBnUEofkW2lQwHi8vk5ZdwtQvPsjwqCqYdQfUvGGbX_yBxmYvsFJnHQczGCRmVnyEwn87AuI3dpQkkb_PVHUCV0O5UR2FllRjyXtWQ77cONssYbS0Gkdn/s320/01gsqprw6c26fktw6syf%20%282022-23%20Kansas%20men%27s%20BB%29.webp"/></a></div>
The Hokies and Gamecocks spearhead a women's D-1 Final Four that includes a Louisiana State team that hadn't won a regional final since 2008...and an Iowa squad making just its second trip to the women's D-1 Final Four. (The first happened in 1993.)<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoBDIPkl_rb6xDHOJXXQn-Wht28KFteahTogy7tWOISl-Oqw3IGFUCzo8Cd89_cA-wpB5Ie1iZYqnJXlNrfkps_tzrNFfB5k1fFLFV0ewMu6SR1ghOLHsvmauiwWt-lD_c3DThHMEHXg5gPOL7ClBDKviW8szZleOPuGX6Yg367Y8obM685n7Az5Vk/s1280/641e7d49cb1438.96456075-e1680281122278%20%28Caitlin%20Clark%29.webp" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoBDIPkl_rb6xDHOJXXQn-Wht28KFteahTogy7tWOISl-Oqw3IGFUCzo8Cd89_cA-wpB5Ie1iZYqnJXlNrfkps_tzrNFfB5k1fFLFV0ewMu6SR1ghOLHsvmauiwWt-lD_c3DThHMEHXg5gPOL7ClBDKviW8szZleOPuGX6Yg367Y8obM685n7Az5Vk/s320/641e7d49cb1438.96456075-e1680281122278%20%28Caitlin%20Clark%29.webp"/></a></div>
Now...how about the D-1 men's side?
Three teams in the men's D-1 Final Four for the first time ever!<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlXhH9LRlgEZk0k-H47ir_qB9JRK4xJzudDN8HyEEaF17SRsWxpJktWBzIVi0m1_eUwdIeFtkfAHnocUmu0JqKCdETFxUedrLDh9ky6VTCspEbJtMw5F9p1xG2BjXO098fxndeuA02W20p0zyJG1TxZunUn89HSQ_JQDRhxnHq83snRZgjSKIlEW1Q/s3200/17923537%20%5B2022-23%20Miami%20%28FL%29%20men%27s%20hoops%5D.jpeg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="2513" data-original-width="3200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlXhH9LRlgEZk0k-H47ir_qB9JRK4xJzudDN8HyEEaF17SRsWxpJktWBzIVi0m1_eUwdIeFtkfAHnocUmu0JqKCdETFxUedrLDh9ky6VTCspEbJtMw5F9p1xG2BjXO098fxndeuA02W20p0zyJG1TxZunUn89HSQ_JQDRhxnHq83snRZgjSKIlEW1Q/s320/17923537%20%5B2022-23%20Miami%20%28FL%29%20men%27s%20hoops%5D.jpeg"/></a></div>
Two of those first-time teams (Florida Atlantic and San Diego State) taste it up tomorrow...when Miami (FL) takes on one of its old rival from its Big East days, Connecticut.
That's right...a University of Connecticut basketball team made the Final Four after all.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4yHor_vTKifrrtx7Cz40iUzrbRkZ179kePKGWDfR8PfTLl3zBqUBAWtHnDniiD2a8DF4QETr46M2j2thmAXwKhtrcuEb2b2IIxbrlFuSY7wqushdZgDmfqV8IUP0ixTyREhsS3uSvj36DJvU8IlCiAePVReCI8ALAC2Q0JUzy6NpQAIX3X2OUfkj_/s2048/rawImage%20%28Andrew%20and%20Dan%20Hurley%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4yHor_vTKifrrtx7Cz40iUzrbRkZ179kePKGWDfR8PfTLl3zBqUBAWtHnDniiD2a8DF4QETr46M2j2thmAXwKhtrcuEb2b2IIxbrlFuSY7wqushdZgDmfqV8IUP0ixTyREhsS3uSvj36DJvU8IlCiAePVReCI8ALAC2Q0JUzy6NpQAIX3X2OUfkj_/s320/rawImage%20%28Andrew%20and%20Dan%20Hurley%29.jpg"/></a></div>
Dan Hurley's...not Geno Auriemma's.
So...2022-23 is the first season the Huskies' men's team got to a Final Four since 2014 and the first campaign where the Huskies' women's squad got left out of a Final Four since 2007.
And, here in 2022-23, not a single Number One seed among the men's D-1 regional semifinalists...a first.
All right...I'm going to try some predictions about the last team standing in each D-1 NCAA tourney this season.
WOMEN: Louisiana State over Virginia Tech, South Carolina over Iowa...and then on Sunday, an all-SEC final in which Dawn Staley's Gamecocks make it back-to-back titles.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSn33uMbOmrKqjha4C461I2vMjFJeUFcTOFJXB9Sfy2BJ_q_TmxV7hFgOMOzWouBUtn-W4lD2rMrBuerb-_rQaT2CT6ao-_bqejtBo1qbQ2zfSU38mrHKx-w-4dKGeTYZrvngtmSr5by4e8KhWW_l0KxlTHYvQF_EIn9x9eUGWyqNSEEx0geLNMxhK/s963/j8hwzt2q3wjdbgm1feed%20%282022-23%20Virginia%20Tech%20women%27s%20BB%29.webp" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="963" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSn33uMbOmrKqjha4C461I2vMjFJeUFcTOFJXB9Sfy2BJ_q_TmxV7hFgOMOzWouBUtn-W4lD2rMrBuerb-_rQaT2CT6ao-_bqejtBo1qbQ2zfSU38mrHKx-w-4dKGeTYZrvngtmSr5by4e8KhWW_l0KxlTHYvQF_EIn9x9eUGWyqNSEEx0geLNMxhK/s320/j8hwzt2q3wjdbgm1feed%20%282022-23%20Virginia%20Tech%20women%27s%20BB%29.webp"/></a></div>
MEN: Florida Atlantic over San Diego State, Connecticut over Miami (FL)...with Hurley's squad cutting down the nets late Monday night for its first title since 2011.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMlWBBtOUf3X_9cRxqaQANb7_35OvrEHkgtkFxz7MFsJNRDFgaE52wi_q5FPP6J35Khl3DlF1gj9DaRsiZR0gzay4mSUrhtKDwvCG5bDnRndHIP5viwCNWrccvpxk-UxIb7hm7485Oalr64UTAQ7wC8mk5gFj9RO0g09eYMpIFOAsmFk0g1OgsEyL1/s1200/dustymayfauowls.webp" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMlWBBtOUf3X_9cRxqaQANb7_35OvrEHkgtkFxz7MFsJNRDFgaE52wi_q5FPP6J35Khl3DlF1gj9DaRsiZR0gzay4mSUrhtKDwvCG5bDnRndHIP5viwCNWrccvpxk-UxIb7hm7485Oalr64UTAQ7wC8mk5gFj9RO0g09eYMpIFOAsmFk0g1OgsEyL1/s320/dustymayfauowls.webp"/></a></div>
The watchdogs chalk it all up to the transfer portal...something that's redistributed the talent in both women's and men's Division 1 hoops. (You know what I say? Right on for the portal!)<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjtDjMPSOR4gvyy2uJVDr-IAt3mZjrtPQ673hKxx0_pac59YAbO24HQDizj60v1T_GtB1wIKdv3t3OWmPeEtnHrsLkVL2eg6_CVkR363UDwnSuBOEC8oj61A6BlColxb2iG1T46bedm7SX1zhyekyV8T-p5opTUawIW16ZjW9vplRjNAP-vSaDwi2t/s576/dm_230329_dm_230329_NCB_Mens_Final_Four_best_moments_ENHL.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="576" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjtDjMPSOR4gvyy2uJVDr-IAt3mZjrtPQ673hKxx0_pac59YAbO24HQDizj60v1T_GtB1wIKdv3t3OWmPeEtnHrsLkVL2eg6_CVkR363UDwnSuBOEC8oj61A6BlColxb2iG1T46bedm7SX1zhyekyV8T-p5opTUawIW16ZjW9vplRjNAP-vSaDwi2t/s320/dm_230329_dm_230329_NCB_Mens_Final_Four_best_moments_ENHL.jpg"/></a></div>
I'm going to be watching...hope you'll be watching, too.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJUbXILcBw6vH22gNNjSV7sSmCM0fbuum6LWG_giBvgIKqzQKa4vaCI6fQa62xihB1ts4nq9ItvjFC2q7FgcsXp6ZVV15QASKjS_pVfVELWnA0TUy-9RhdwbexsXtqRjJ6FmSNZSPnkjOVq_XSQ468lgYSjdAapFbxfx2LMOWx2PhKO-wPHoZ-mK14/s960/Women%27s-March-Madness-Generic.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJUbXILcBw6vH22gNNjSV7sSmCM0fbuum6LWG_giBvgIKqzQKa4vaCI6fQa62xihB1ts4nq9ItvjFC2q7FgcsXp6ZVV15QASKjS_pVfVELWnA0TUy-9RhdwbexsXtqRjJ6FmSNZSPnkjOVq_XSQ468lgYSjdAapFbxfx2LMOWx2PhKO-wPHoZ-mK14/s320/Women%27s-March-Madness-Generic.jpg"/></a></div>
Jim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693162880100248793.post-58537477179566406842023-03-05T17:21:00.006-08:002023-03-05T17:21:58.441-08:00Tomorrow's the day!This could've taken place in January 2017...except the need to replace the transmission on the car I had at the time (a 2006 Ford Taurus SEL that I bought in June 2007) came first.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7q_0EG-fuSFU_GDLsXBTWFA72YR_Jn9ECflRLFff_696DvdMubBwGOZZstWPA2MDGUmvJUpCfGRTC0o5C4I7TXvGNn6RFyjrZwVQbquP7irR_DtYYFc5VKRpKytXurcDCPUb7_JhGVq77Guvs71br-pSVSZDY7FVf2k4wgW10I3v2rCsmcey9Cx_1/s1500/2006-ford-taurus-sel.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="1500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7q_0EG-fuSFU_GDLsXBTWFA72YR_Jn9ECflRLFff_696DvdMubBwGOZZstWPA2MDGUmvJUpCfGRTC0o5C4I7TXvGNn6RFyjrZwVQbquP7irR_DtYYFc5VKRpKytXurcDCPUb7_JhGVq77Guvs71br-pSVSZDY7FVf2k4wgW10I3v2rCsmcey9Cx_1/s320/2006-ford-taurus-sel.jpg"/></a></div>
Instead, it's going to happen tomorrow at 9:15 AM at the Miracle Hills Surgery Center (11819 Miracle Hills Dr., Suite 201, Omaha, NE 68154).<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX8gBdC17Bk_pvTiEi-bKaVoU-e-Coemnt2uC9jy6LTPn1OTxBcpP6ALtpGA_OeeL3zA4sy5YaNhVGEjIywBAIuRKYKpSMcGNrw5uALgVou2IS3EXH9lZVgeycvD_LXe8D7bFugKrUwfmXTG7wx6QoOKy3lLhSANd1yO7j8PGIwW7n4EfbVBIbAWlE/s300/Miracle-Hills-front-of-building-300x183.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX8gBdC17Bk_pvTiEi-bKaVoU-e-Coemnt2uC9jy6LTPn1OTxBcpP6ALtpGA_OeeL3zA4sy5YaNhVGEjIywBAIuRKYKpSMcGNrw5uALgVou2IS3EXH9lZVgeycvD_LXe8D7bFugKrUwfmXTG7wx6QoOKy3lLhSANd1yO7j8PGIwW7n4EfbVBIbAWlE/s320/Miracle-Hills-front-of-building-300x183.jpg"/></a></div>
The mission: To remove the cataract from my left eye.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5IKpgjzNqHosecgBkbkTlWHe9Ci9fYyokYmAEo07G3W3NHfSYuz-TV9_GNqno5utCpF5ZwYzkrFn5Tkc6BAYP3LeE4Yp5jhjFPmUl2nf02enLJ1QoGIwyGC0Y2Q7TWjv015Lx_9WK0qy9x4rv0prBCl04l_i5WKqlwHMMh8xkj6xtFJo1fQpRenGG/s162/images%20%28laser%20cataract%20surgery%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="108" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5IKpgjzNqHosecgBkbkTlWHe9Ci9fYyokYmAEo07G3W3NHfSYuz-TV9_GNqno5utCpF5ZwYzkrFn5Tkc6BAYP3LeE4Yp5jhjFPmUl2nf02enLJ1QoGIwyGC0Y2Q7TWjv015Lx_9WK0qy9x4rv0prBCl04l_i5WKqlwHMMh8xkj6xtFJo1fQpRenGG/s320/images%20%28laser%20cataract%20surgery%29.jpg"/></a></div>
Quite a few things during the intervening six years and two months delayed the surgery...from the need to continue building a retirement fund to 2020's successful enrollment in Medicare to my having to buy a replacement car in April 2021 to retiring from my factory job in October 2022.
But now, I'm ready for Dr. Matthew Brumm to come after that cataract.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdzHqY36ukTLm5cnUpBh8NMaig8X5CuP7RfKE53gLAsGP-MwOnBp4ynKf-c2fNoL1kXxL9Mzrv_wWGnrNdRaUkqLkCQ0geSOT8FfOvdormZxSM2rMsk44bvE1gCav54awCzIIgJTlbHjEPQ1rtqAqND9ZXKyvHjMd7OWzgww0Nau4VrWIWQQyvhSXP/s140/images%20%28Matthew%20V.%20Brumm,%20MD%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="320" data-original-height="140" data-original-width="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdzHqY36ukTLm5cnUpBh8NMaig8X5CuP7RfKE53gLAsGP-MwOnBp4ynKf-c2fNoL1kXxL9Mzrv_wWGnrNdRaUkqLkCQ0geSOT8FfOvdormZxSM2rMsk44bvE1gCav54awCzIIgJTlbHjEPQ1rtqAqND9ZXKyvHjMd7OWzgww0Nau4VrWIWQQyvhSXP/s320/images%20%28Matthew%20V.%20Brumm,%20MD%29.jpg"/></a></div>
A followup will ensue this coming Tuesday at 8:30 AM at Brumm Eye Center's north office (6751 N. 72nd St., Building 2, Suite 105, Omaha, NE 68122).<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg4h1kJ--pMcUFgiwhRftBhF_D7BPODet5zcdpOJRHToP1lxvawNLnaEb7-T7UYJP7s2-M9mi8ZwygBYXfoaDZcDsVDJ7F8D_wKa8cDbMOh9BiH8n0Oqt3aXoC1fCqJc0DOgLy05YLXe8ziLWl4t6OkR_28rdeWYjTek8nBLjdhojQFedx1pSINwmY/s500/6297ce6dff1e68a256410a18_Brumm_Eye_Center.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="282" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg4h1kJ--pMcUFgiwhRftBhF_D7BPODet5zcdpOJRHToP1lxvawNLnaEb7-T7UYJP7s2-M9mi8ZwygBYXfoaDZcDsVDJ7F8D_wKa8cDbMOh9BiH8n0Oqt3aXoC1fCqJc0DOgLy05YLXe8ziLWl4t6OkR_28rdeWYjTek8nBLjdhojQFedx1pSINwmY/s320/6297ce6dff1e68a256410a18_Brumm_Eye_Center.jpg"/></a></div>
After all this...who knows?
All I want is to see better...so that I can, among other things, drive at night again.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcA0_dvSHcGD7V9ZqDnMhNU7jH6yK-rbLB0voUaBB0RozZhzrOdNeJdOCY5lL1YuTQ2UrPZwo2oRaXzyZcQn8s260x__hRj9hjKwZBV66C-6PZdnqNW9IWUe143Ie-wjbaL1W0rvDPcoMoQkvyXs7Xw2aH6jejbjsthxgiiecOetPL-WQcbuVJueX4/s4724/1600109170-laser-cataract-surgery-illustration.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="4436" data-original-width="4724" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcA0_dvSHcGD7V9ZqDnMhNU7jH6yK-rbLB0voUaBB0RozZhzrOdNeJdOCY5lL1YuTQ2UrPZwo2oRaXzyZcQn8s260x__hRj9hjKwZBV66C-6PZdnqNW9IWUe143Ie-wjbaL1W0rvDPcoMoQkvyXs7Xw2aH6jejbjsthxgiiecOetPL-WQcbuVJueX4/s320/1600109170-laser-cataract-surgery-illustration.jpg"/></a></div>
Now...it's your turn. Have you faced cataract surgery (or surgeries) in the past? What was it like? How'd you fare?<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQP1IvklcHL2Kcu3fnrwTjvO8lDuhk8c6MphaR3R7IRzPakWPf6w9oH3LbjkAGYANb2e-uumRgY5GwhYzj1aJtCIzXQPGDrAC06EBAr7JY-wnA11fchnjwuB9fL0a1w_h2c5XzPOxV9c1gnJoXFZIfy8kc71iy0-qAKQ71lL8tpGHIvfKf05ooOFFl/s931/After-cataract-surgery.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="320" data-original-height="931" data-original-width="768" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQP1IvklcHL2Kcu3fnrwTjvO8lDuhk8c6MphaR3R7IRzPakWPf6w9oH3LbjkAGYANb2e-uumRgY5GwhYzj1aJtCIzXQPGDrAC06EBAr7JY-wnA11fchnjwuB9fL0a1w_h2c5XzPOxV9c1gnJoXFZIfy8kc71iy0-qAKQ71lL8tpGHIvfKf05ooOFFl/s320/After-cataract-surgery.jpg"/></a></div>
Thanks for reading "Boston's Blog!"Jim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693162880100248793.post-31640520744107057662023-02-06T22:26:00.002-08:002023-02-06T22:26:36.623-08:00Scratching the five-year itchThe results are finally in for the 2021 edition of the "shoulda-coulda-woulda" NCAA Division 1-A football playoffs...and for the first time since 2016, the champion came from a league other than the Southeatern Conference.
Well...without further ado, here goes:<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW3TiAz14jyJidKtujuwBfcnNmBNFzqqvsE9yYF5cPVQiJZHzJOvOmVW6ezrZ0OP9XIiT-1JCu9Q_fg3Qy1Scgczq2LUmgIXyt7db1Z-FlUJ__YTNR6ZK7nvf-cBAkxZYJFHwpn50n8Qm-OjdI-9uXSF-p5uB703sVThvHIX4rErz9uOID-uW_2oJp/s920/1230001863.0%20%28Tyrone%20Tracy%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="613" data-original-width="920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW3TiAz14jyJidKtujuwBfcnNmBNFzqqvsE9yYF5cPVQiJZHzJOvOmVW6ezrZ0OP9XIiT-1JCu9Q_fg3Qy1Scgczq2LUmgIXyt7db1Z-FlUJ__YTNR6ZK7nvf-cBAkxZYJFHwpn50n8Qm-OjdI-9uXSF-p5uB703sVThvHIX4rErz9uOID-uW_2oJp/s320/1230001863.0%20%28Tyrone%20Tracy%29.jpg"/></a></div>
FIRST ROUND (seeding in parentheses): San Diego State (9) 45, Northern Illinois (24) 38/BYU (16) 50, Oklahoma (17) 47 (3 OT)/Iowa (20) 28, Ohio State (13) 27/Appalachian State (21) 19, Houston (12) 10/Utah (19) 52, Mississippi (14) 31/Pittsburgh (11) 20, Oregon (22) 16/Michigan State (15) 31, Coastal Carolina (18) 30/Baylor (10) 24, Utah State (23) 17<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGqtKQhW6awx04yTURbjitBjBjkUOVptt8b_Vg1C69eu9aMmU47Os2jJp9mDZojSPHa0RYA1_DxRZy6Dv2Hw6OpGIdpj9Buo2pY7GBUTWZRnyBqWIboBLT8R_xLPDQZdLFGayKXU5AvaziwUf3xE_JI7H6VoE4DWpJIvyglGu9jC1e7n1Lj0RRm4A0/s162/images%20%28Charlie%20Jones,%202021%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="85" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGqtKQhW6awx04yTURbjitBjBjkUOVptt8b_Vg1C69eu9aMmU47Os2jJp9mDZojSPHa0RYA1_DxRZy6Dv2Hw6OpGIdpj9Buo2pY7GBUTWZRnyBqWIboBLT8R_xLPDQZdLFGayKXU5AvaziwUf3xE_JI7H6VoE4DWpJIvyglGu9jC1e7n1Lj0RRm4A0/s320/images%20%28Charlie%20Jones,%202021%29.jpg"/></a></div>
SECOND ROUND: Cincinnati (1) 28, San Diego State 7/Oklahoma State (8) 35, BYU 14/Louisiana-Lafayette (5) 31, Iowa 17/Georgia (4) 45, Appalachian State 9/Utah 24, UTSA (6) 22/Alabama (3) 38, Pittsburgh 26/Michigan State 34, Notre Dame (7) 31/Michigan (2) 14, Baylor 7<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhva-MAoMJhB8k90GZYhWSDu4X1ilqc5UXFlzOvhcZA0he7HHnAMFFLXkcX1wgRYgRkB5Fkonu0LCkT9GtzPO9yz6yHaAkO5qZd0aX48wxjngm6bGiCfN_tQgtYNZeX1pVPerQqDf33YefAVLcqJxvG82_tomFzuL_mPhiO-It2WnSzKA9qf3PVQbqm/s162/images%20%28Kenneth%20Walker%20III,%202021%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="108" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhva-MAoMJhB8k90GZYhWSDu4X1ilqc5UXFlzOvhcZA0he7HHnAMFFLXkcX1wgRYgRkB5Fkonu0LCkT9GtzPO9yz6yHaAkO5qZd0aX48wxjngm6bGiCfN_tQgtYNZeX1pVPerQqDf33YefAVLcqJxvG82_tomFzuL_mPhiO-It2WnSzKA9qf3PVQbqm/s320/images%20%28Kenneth%20Walker%20III,%202021%29.jpg"/></a></div>
QUARTERFINAL ROUND: Cincinnati 24, Oklahoma State 0/Georgia 24, Louisiana-Lafayette 3/Alabama 35, Utah 3/Michigan 52, Michigan State 14<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj__9CiNWtI4lewL3jqx0GHPTiOa_7qouZ08VqhwcpGlKdkV24JIZ9PQ8vyiwdVXrydZ2JsXksiQ0WCtsjY559mf_RnMJgnE0cfcs6qHxWRBlqI37fPN3U6o79eZvbHEtjKGAQ45chwUKbHztZ2S05p3MhpjQdEdQNCd1f1yT7NL4Pdia9hUXeY2gH-/s162/images%20%28Bryce%20Young%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="108" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj__9CiNWtI4lewL3jqx0GHPTiOa_7qouZ08VqhwcpGlKdkV24JIZ9PQ8vyiwdVXrydZ2JsXksiQ0WCtsjY559mf_RnMJgnE0cfcs6qHxWRBlqI37fPN3U6o79eZvbHEtjKGAQ45chwUKbHztZ2S05p3MhpjQdEdQNCd1f1yT7NL4Pdia9hUXeY2gH-/s320/images%20%28Bryce%20Young%29.jpg"/></a></div>
SEMIFINAL ROUND: Georgia 24, Cincinnati 7/Michigan 17, Alabama 10<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI0EarU684TtGMdeKQaWiM4WqZSTaAgldXjpNcvzz9mXZg9KuqqgAymW-KxS7hj6bI1mJaXuBbapHCVeJqRZZjZHfCiQe9fFDFp_gpsD5yN_4tk5toSxsPoWsO0inyEZDkNqcR2FtFB-gleGcuaL4OXhNBjBmJ9tiDgKcymadoHJ8O4clHuFMbUgqL/s162/images%20%28Stetson%20Bennett%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="121" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI0EarU684TtGMdeKQaWiM4WqZSTaAgldXjpNcvzz9mXZg9KuqqgAymW-KxS7hj6bI1mJaXuBbapHCVeJqRZZjZHfCiQe9fFDFp_gpsD5yN_4tk5toSxsPoWsO0inyEZDkNqcR2FtFB-gleGcuaL4OXhNBjBmJ9tiDgKcymadoHJ8O4clHuFMbUgqL/s320/images%20%28Stetson%20Bennett%29.jpg"/></a></div>
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: Michigan 27, Georgia 17<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF01a4Y-2X9Hf8z-Jml_iRsNhDdxWPKEIvyHCMG-EJ6Sn2HqskA2-Stpa-fchqgcNi1WbQ1DRGl7_yZr__QyqHYI9wDxqoxIQ1ai94MFhJRQ7grg8TrCXKemDujTuupoULVxVIvYAwHaUyd-kj13pWSgEJye4CtQqiymSJtKVSULk79jcdNx4qSNFj/s162/images%20%282021%20Wolverines%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="106" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF01a4Y-2X9Hf8z-Jml_iRsNhDdxWPKEIvyHCMG-EJ6Sn2HqskA2-Stpa-fchqgcNi1WbQ1DRGl7_yZr__QyqHYI9wDxqoxIQ1ai94MFhJRQ7grg8TrCXKemDujTuupoULVxVIvYAwHaUyd-kj13pWSgEJye4CtQqiymSJtKVSULk79jcdNx4qSNFj/s320/images%20%282021%20Wolverines%29.jpg"/></a></div>
MVP: Michigan RB Blake Corum<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0XT08uj8xtx3mdntdgUgLCqrZYmZg_i0fo60xga2OCuf6Or_Gj222mYi966jqp5TL5XOPodTwLXCb_Y-ESGNxSjqu47v57TO_1hYcAZTj742GzrPc-zfbxRHG_dygMb1U0sluX49ZemLS9-H-mmx39iIkJQOeNUPGviGG2Gm7FwEe73VG3JnvjEyX/s162/images%20%28Blake%20Corum%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="108" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0XT08uj8xtx3mdntdgUgLCqrZYmZg_i0fo60xga2OCuf6Or_Gj222mYi966jqp5TL5XOPodTwLXCb_Y-ESGNxSjqu47v57TO_1hYcAZTj742GzrPc-zfbxRHG_dygMb1U0sluX49ZemLS9-H-mmx39iIkJQOeNUPGviGG2Gm7FwEe73VG3JnvjEyX/s320/images%20%28Blake%20Corum%29.jpg"/></a></div>
The last time a team other than one from the SEC went all the way in these playoffs, Penn State took down Washington, 29-13...the second straight year a Big Ten team ruled the roost.
What's more, the Wolverines picked up their second D-1-A playoff title. The first one came in 1983 (just the second year of these "shoulda-coulda-woulda" playoffs), when Michigan stopped Texas, 30-17.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinGrhhShBM4Vob9locVKNKkTnM4t41PmC82tos8xi2dGH57VHcoWKCAsV_R7DMU4rVPN2Ss523U1nHGHdG4-isSZvZijFy0emGIUsYEa8gWVGiSj4TvuXTXDI0qGOTAMmr2V7GAMiQGPSSQryuI5dSo9nbRCdhj8e3tgn7YFzMKcKmTd0oTWgOgqQf/s700/cameronrising_2021.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="700" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinGrhhShBM4Vob9locVKNKkTnM4t41PmC82tos8xi2dGH57VHcoWKCAsV_R7DMU4rVPN2Ss523U1nHGHdG4-isSZvZijFy0emGIUsYEa8gWVGiSj4TvuXTXDI0qGOTAMmr2V7GAMiQGPSSQryuI5dSo9nbRCdhj8e3tgn7YFzMKcKmTd0oTWgOgqQf/s320/cameronrising_2021.jpg"/></a></div>
Now to figure out which teams would've made the 2022 edition...Jim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693162880100248793.post-10540704142283612332023-01-24T19:02:00.000-08:002023-01-24T19:02:56.993-08:00Dear Rozanne:It's been eleven days since you passed away...and I still think about you.
We had some great, great times together in the twenty-five years since we first met at the church you joined when you were little.
Man, you touched bunches and bunches of lives...not just at church, but also during the years where you delivered flowers and all the years you brought "Omaha World-Heralds."
You really brought the enthusiasm...especially at those concerts we attended. Didn't matter if they were RCTOS events or GPRS ones...or the times it was just you and me at the Pink Poodle Steakhouse.
Rozanne, you set one heck of an example for the rest of us to follow. You stood tough.
And I'm going to keep trying my best to live up to that example.
So doggone glad for the privilege of being a part of your life...and I'm so doggone glad you were (and still are!) a part of my life.
Thanks so much for everything!
Sincerely, JimJim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693162880100248793.post-37118761704471933372022-12-21T17:56:00.000-08:002022-12-21T17:56:30.454-08:00After a year's absence, it's back!The coronavirus pandemic scuttled the 2020 edition...and so, with college football playing a more-unified schedule for 2021, here's what our "shoulda-woulda-coulda" Division 1-A football playoff field would've looked like (won-lost records don't include bowl games):<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC8qtfUEqB02Fwj_OiJYe495fS1_8lmEskEzoWM6GhyLX02EvYPwoJTwz55vgeyKhy6NuEIvBejAfc_8SsOry-X_KSb3iAD11GwVpC8moTC_7fc3QVZ2oUwXldl52ybu4HaFSoXTK69RuKzivs6ZNCIWkSS5NL5HoR0E4q4mC_zax9IM1obDjdPUuK/s140/images%20%28Desmond%20Ridder%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="140" data-original-width="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC8qtfUEqB02Fwj_OiJYe495fS1_8lmEskEzoWM6GhyLX02EvYPwoJTwz55vgeyKhy6NuEIvBejAfc_8SsOry-X_KSb3iAD11GwVpC8moTC_7fc3QVZ2oUwXldl52ybu4HaFSoXTK69RuKzivs6ZNCIWkSS5NL5HoR0E4q4mC_zax9IM1obDjdPUuK/s320/images%20%28Desmond%20Ridder%29.jpg"/></a></div>
1. Cincinnati (13-0; AAC champ)/2. Michigan (12-1; Big Ten champ)/3. Alabama (12-1; SEC champ)/4. Georgia (12-1; SEC at-large)/5. Louisiana-Lafayette (12-1; Sun Belt champ)/6. UTSA (12-1; Conference USA champ)/7. Notre Dame (11-1; independent at-large)/8. Oklahoma State (11-2; Big 12 at-large)<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiV75POlVQoTYDS4d7x64AFFP1ug8-kLkpKxVg3Tg2owqultll-UOwudCYVLd8uwgbgeDYk_WH8ZMSJ3SnUu8k6TxckWXG2bCJSLVq1Hz95eTrTi_YbqEVmbO1SyyczkXWN0YpTAgrQSwx5aRXuLd0ZRTZAuhYkE8C3KF4Yx6adwHky9Y-V100W4DW/s162/images%20%28Pittsburgh-Clemson,%202021%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="136" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiV75POlVQoTYDS4d7x64AFFP1ug8-kLkpKxVg3Tg2owqultll-UOwudCYVLd8uwgbgeDYk_WH8ZMSJ3SnUu8k6TxckWXG2bCJSLVq1Hz95eTrTi_YbqEVmbO1SyyczkXWN0YpTAgrQSwx5aRXuLd0ZRTZAuhYkE8C3KF4Yx6adwHky9Y-V100W4DW/s320/images%20%28Pittsburgh-Clemson,%202021%29.jpg"/></a></div>
9. San Diego State (11-2; Mountain West at-large)/10. Baylor (11-2; Big 12 champ)/11. Pittsburgh (11-2; ACC champ)/12. Houston (11-2; AAC at-large)/13. Ohio State (10-2; Big Ten at-large)/14. Mississippi (10-2; SEC at-large)/15. Michigan State (10-2; Big Ten at-large)/16. BYU (10-2; independent at-large)<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIENC1-gyKRztsxDT_8wX3de85Fuva6PnVvi4m8siMf1Lod12pQQbS08NSO_2wt9QhpnUPhNJOzaeWcgFv1rgC7ndCfHI4Kg85bw5ozGPK8C_K70UERsjpL6Hgd-_FM9-AO7g70QvtOyd846Jj0hjedcvcSP7ZiFk0zFX7hVyKAPoXthFBl2lJ8j7G/s162/images%20%28Iowa%20Hawkeyes,%202021%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="91" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIENC1-gyKRztsxDT_8wX3de85Fuva6PnVvi4m8siMf1Lod12pQQbS08NSO_2wt9QhpnUPhNJOzaeWcgFv1rgC7ndCfHI4Kg85bw5ozGPK8C_K70UERsjpL6Hgd-_FM9-AO7g70QvtOyd846Jj0hjedcvcSP7ZiFk0zFX7hVyKAPoXthFBl2lJ8j7G/s320/images%20%28Iowa%20Hawkeyes,%202021%29.jpg"/></a></div>
17. Oklahoma (10-2; Big 12 at-large)/18. Coastal Carolina (10-2; Sun Belt at-large)/19. Utah (10-3; Pac-12 champ)/20. Iowa (10-3; Big Ten at-large)/21. Appalachian State (10-3; Sun Belt at-large)/22. Oregon (10-3; Pac-12 at-large)/23. Utah State (10-3; Mountain West champ)/24. Northern Illinois (9-4; MAC champ)<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgas7JuJzuXke0X8C9crUph57i47NSVXGcsYyTk5MB4XuWk4u_fYxOpWaBjEtNhI3iFLAe6hnH6rYrr0C9Jr81LpQci0CGXoBaku1JG62o11sY30OUV0BItnrXxfRxvqL-OjLdJHE0TF_zT5GVSgGsOyQf1YET0ehAZpdjYAYQjgOSDDmCgFXpR2J4j/s162/images%20%28Coastal%20Carolina%20Chanticleers,%202021%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="91" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgas7JuJzuXke0X8C9crUph57i47NSVXGcsYyTk5MB4XuWk4u_fYxOpWaBjEtNhI3iFLAe6hnH6rYrr0C9Jr81LpQci0CGXoBaku1JG62o11sY30OUV0BItnrXxfRxvqL-OjLdJHE0TF_zT5GVSgGsOyQf1YET0ehAZpdjYAYQjgOSDDmCgFXpR2J4j/s320/images%20%28Coastal%20Carolina%20Chanticleers,%202021%29.jpg"/></a></div>
Two first-time playoff entries: Coastal Carolina and UTSA (the latter's the third different C-USA champ in as many seasons, not counting 2020). And Iowa's back in these playoffs for the first time since winning it all in 2015.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDARvcZHSXA-0yj50-q1wMXKHrFbO_5E96acxF4eoCiabLnLe5ioTkD2JRt82spt71cCjiprIjEH-Pv-NXqD4U82aPZ9a9qnz911KQlHdaZKohrQ4ARSNrxDM1RZrMrzyYgJwSKUjZANSoL0gKEn-OUx1Ocb6hY3t_Sa93rt93xD3RyBVc8N8vNc_t/s162/images%20%28UTSA%20Roadrunners,%202021%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDARvcZHSXA-0yj50-q1wMXKHrFbO_5E96acxF4eoCiabLnLe5ioTkD2JRt82spt71cCjiprIjEH-Pv-NXqD4U82aPZ9a9qnz911KQlHdaZKohrQ4ARSNrxDM1RZrMrzyYgJwSKUjZANSoL0gKEn-OUx1Ocb6hY3t_Sa93rt93xD3RyBVc8N8vNc_t/s320/images%20%28UTSA%20Roadrunners,%202021%29.jpg"/></a></div>
Only two ties needed breaking as far as seeding went: San Diego State and Baylor totaled 405 quality points each...but the Aztecs got the nod over the Bears because SDSU's Division 1-A opponents won 72 games in 2021, while Baylor's D-1-A foes got 63 victories. And Michigan State nosed out BYU after the Spartans' 1-A opponents earned 71 wins...two more W's than all the 1-A teams that faced the Cougars. (BYU and Michigan State amassed 360 quality points apiece.)<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgax--e7fyNoXubL2ZYi8hYNYfS87cd3YJ8coLHZQgslZXvqoa6tncp1qUcssxupctUQrGuSQmDA7SRKXhAQc6Mv7vGbx8Yt-IS4qGT4ljibtpZG508aGVaDDUHYhRycw4U2qUUPgOhxiQqZNtfagP7wmak5RjdkIvKGelDkKw-aeYSRpuO2YwMVAiW/s162/images%20%282021%20San%20Diego%20State%20Aztecs%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="125" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgax--e7fyNoXubL2ZYi8hYNYfS87cd3YJ8coLHZQgslZXvqoa6tncp1qUcssxupctUQrGuSQmDA7SRKXhAQc6Mv7vGbx8Yt-IS4qGT4ljibtpZG508aGVaDDUHYhRycw4U2qUUPgOhxiQqZNtfagP7wmak5RjdkIvKGelDkKw-aeYSRpuO2YwMVAiW/s320/images%20%282021%20San%20Diego%20State%20Aztecs%29.jpg"/></a></div>
Well, I'm off to play these games, using Dave Koch Sports' Action! PC Football...and I'll post the results as soon as possible. (Can't wait!)<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirtXSDRHsyFyrTmfUfUMrh0nkeTCWq0KxLOV7ZgSlz0zOuc0JuEnN-MlAES2jYyITZrIuYywXtAVCW5MfFqLU9wJvT0to3TY8w4he9vjw1ufLm0XXFCbuP5Zba1c0caOW_cjSTV5k_Ekh7WhrUAbKhVAstFsq2DQQQsZwcMpwqJmHuv-t6BHWiX1Zm/s162/images%20%28Michigan%20Wolverines,%202021%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="108" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirtXSDRHsyFyrTmfUfUMrh0nkeTCWq0KxLOV7ZgSlz0zOuc0JuEnN-MlAES2jYyITZrIuYywXtAVCW5MfFqLU9wJvT0to3TY8w4he9vjw1ufLm0XXFCbuP5Zba1c0caOW_cjSTV5k_Ekh7WhrUAbKhVAstFsq2DQQQsZwcMpwqJmHuv-t6BHWiX1Zm/s320/images%20%28Michigan%20Wolverines,%202021%29.jpg"/></a></div>Jim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693162880100248793.post-31647147545809700662022-11-30T18:39:00.000-08:002022-11-30T18:39:07.751-08:00Age ain't nothing but a numberHe signed into law the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, the $1 trillion (or so) bipartisan infrastructure bill, and the 2022 climate-and-health spending bill.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaWhFa40QCc1wx_mrTuJEkHtFaAH1-q24itSFUOppXR7Nkntrgc_xlNRslk8zfYmwLpNdjCcQdj22KCZ3iOQqHCn-B91PqwGuJhTkUzgf7eEyL7gL893YEKy4CRYeQVYki1y4kkxip4jScVL3aOEijrbVTeDLoUUhqNJ9Lar_XsJvI9XuNjz7_a4LY/s162/images%20%28COVID-19%20stimulus%20package%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="91" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaWhFa40QCc1wx_mrTuJEkHtFaAH1-q24itSFUOppXR7Nkntrgc_xlNRslk8zfYmwLpNdjCcQdj22KCZ3iOQqHCn-B91PqwGuJhTkUzgf7eEyL7gL893YEKy4CRYeQVYki1y4kkxip4jScVL3aOEijrbVTeDLoUUhqNJ9Lar_XsJvI9XuNjz7_a4LY/s320/images%20%28COVID-19%20stimulus%20package%29.jpg"/></a></div>
He got an albeit modest gun-safety law on the books...one that expanded background checks (if not universally), made it easier to prosecute illegal gun trafficking, and provided federal money for red-flag laws. (Still, a modest gun-safety law is better than no gun-safety legislation if you've been tired of all the mass shootings going on here in the US...let alone years of inaction at the top.)<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU1Tbaft_hOmW3fxkSSiqGc6GFqOPzdmK44lSAlqvmMlX1uG3yNb9T6Ldrmjh1iyN4y8oLdcM3TORi3iZf-xQ3AldqFs12nfgUay6bhYE1SuRtdVRSpHoy8J_talSGyMvwgvhJg5qohMFqvtV3GwT_ZY5q0hEYHWrSTqX03iN2jBJX8gOpfjrRKxHH/s162/Biden%20signs%20gun-safety%20bill.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="121" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU1Tbaft_hOmW3fxkSSiqGc6GFqOPzdmK44lSAlqvmMlX1uG3yNb9T6Ldrmjh1iyN4y8oLdcM3TORi3iZf-xQ3AldqFs12nfgUay6bhYE1SuRtdVRSpHoy8J_talSGyMvwgvhJg5qohMFqvtV3GwT_ZY5q0hEYHWrSTqX03iN2jBJX8gOpfjrRKxHH/s320/Biden%20signs%20gun-safety%20bill.jpg"/></a></div>
And he ended the Afghanistan War...America's longest-running military conflict.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinlfGcToCXhkebq_9GairiQpJMiyX4-8REq4kWCfgZU0ap-6ruiEq7a99xw73UffbYvKOpji4KKeyQXlK-EaBFuYfWeXa8vvCb9J_hN-mZ8p2eGOvf8pvOOo1hdfbIpOL8Wt2SioqLqaofya4AhnFV-bkMvQyo37DzWRMpuY-auAsmH7fePP0AKTVw/s162/US%20ends%20its%20war%20in%20Afghanistan.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="108" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinlfGcToCXhkebq_9GairiQpJMiyX4-8REq4kWCfgZU0ap-6ruiEq7a99xw73UffbYvKOpji4KKeyQXlK-EaBFuYfWeXa8vvCb9J_hN-mZ8p2eGOvf8pvOOo1hdfbIpOL8Wt2SioqLqaofya4AhnFV-bkMvQyo37DzWRMpuY-auAsmH7fePP0AKTVw/s320/US%20ends%20its%20war%20in%20Afghanistan.jpg"/></a></div>
The CHIPS Act (hiking stateside production of semiconductors), the passage of a long-awaited postal-reform bill, much-needed military aid for Ukraine, and the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act all happened under his watch.
So did executive orders to forgive student loans and to pardon folks who were busted for possession of marijuana.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQS35W4ihz2zMec0ayBr3z41wlGnt4vM8Zqv1Dk0N44DJCkYTzwnesM37woGV3ZeaO3aufd_0clUBMVRfkr6b34NDlj2ajnLl2uDKPAZLf8Uzc9KWbk70iucqCdF-tez6Br6SgujE6w79LCFtraek8nVjBYgVTpXIFDjTTi88UaNYQko08N1lsXWRc/s162/images%20%28canceling%20student%20debt%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="121" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQS35W4ihz2zMec0ayBr3z41wlGnt4vM8Zqv1Dk0N44DJCkYTzwnesM37woGV3ZeaO3aufd_0clUBMVRfkr6b34NDlj2ajnLl2uDKPAZLf8Uzc9KWbk70iucqCdF-tez6Br6SgujE6w79LCFtraek8nVjBYgVTpXIFDjTTi88UaNYQko08N1lsXWRc/s320/images%20%28canceling%20student%20debt%29.jpg"/></a></div>
He's nominated federal judges at a breakneck pace...breakneck according to historical standards. Plus, he nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to this country's Supreme Court...and made some more history in the process.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ4yy9NnnLBRfXB2S_s2QARVZMqfA_SzWFMgg6uZbMks29bbhsfxQZFPHgsUhPUqSujZYVqz17hI16G1V0-kBa8YFydhHYWc1PKfYWOXLZ4eQooTuOYXoXq_4qFEpaZXgwYAtCuP5MlHmX5FxKc6zbUWrZtfTx60H7LJS-5Know9Cf0WKOYnUmBX-_/s162/Ketanji%20Brown%20Jackson.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="108" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ4yy9NnnLBRfXB2S_s2QARVZMqfA_SzWFMgg6uZbMks29bbhsfxQZFPHgsUhPUqSujZYVqz17hI16G1V0-kBa8YFydhHYWc1PKfYWOXLZ4eQooTuOYXoXq_4qFEpaZXgwYAtCuP5MlHmX5FxKc6zbUWrZtfTx60H7LJS-5Know9Cf0WKOYnUmBX-_/s320/Ketanji%20Brown%20Jackson.jpg"/></a></div>
COVID has claimed 400 American lives a day since this past April...far below previous rates of 2,000-3,000 dead per day.
The United States has rejoined the Paris Agreement and has done away with that (fill in your favorite expletive) Muslim travel ban.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW7NFuOfOQfRkU1L6Ts92V_xauv7nKSRu1CdSKNEnZRsJmhg7TZolj2QzRKWkfb_WBhpZJGKYoDV5toi7vnuiTGu7pKvtCWuS9F4p8nJR1su6G2bdmnJPN5MhRn11rGKlFRnh2jRe2CYSb_pA8Oh3XRZGitk5Un3MTECyVSY3jiE71styR_YoqcJdT/s162/US%20formally%20rejoins%20Paris%20Agreement.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="91" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW7NFuOfOQfRkU1L6Ts92V_xauv7nKSRu1CdSKNEnZRsJmhg7TZolj2QzRKWkfb_WBhpZJGKYoDV5toi7vnuiTGu7pKvtCWuS9F4p8nJR1su6G2bdmnJPN5MhRn11rGKlFRnh2jRe2CYSb_pA8Oh3XRZGitk5Un3MTECyVSY3jiE71styR_YoqcJdT/s320/US%20formally%20rejoins%20Paris%20Agreement.jpg"/></a></div>
Speaking of travel...the Environmental Protection Agency has established new, higher fuel-efficiency standards for 2023-2026 vehicles.
Service members have now been given a much-needed pay increase. We've now got legislation addressing acts of violence against Asian Americans partly by expanding access to the reporting of hate crimes and expediting the review of COVID-related hate crimes.
And at long last, Juneteenth is a federal holiday...and at long last, lynching is a federal hate crime.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGfauFCqqEmq5xGMfQHeacwzlmFxET03cowbPrsh0zGrutnyyrRxm1pjPVLpMBWPx2ITGnMtncsCUNdP8J1QePHHUvbd6cmanCMBnvyQnDtXUslWcyBuqqUTf80jGH44WWMtt90SH7GDClmg6FoFWDIhZu7v_NgMuLsO_Ola2mTA5NTecjJ8GL6IC_/s162/Emmett%20Till%20Antilynching%20Act%20%282022%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="136" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGfauFCqqEmq5xGMfQHeacwzlmFxET03cowbPrsh0zGrutnyyrRxm1pjPVLpMBWPx2ITGnMtncsCUNdP8J1QePHHUvbd6cmanCMBnvyQnDtXUslWcyBuqqUTf80jGH44WWMtt90SH7GDClmg6FoFWDIhZu7v_NgMuLsO_Ola2mTA5NTecjJ8GL6IC_/s320/Emmett%20Till%20Antilynching%20Act%20%282022%29.jpg"/></a></div>
All if this under the watch of a man who turned 80 years old on 11-20-2022.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY3x6RH3z9pzI0bq_nWFbKDWBdkEJ56CDB4IsYUFz9WUlCQrZ9s8rVLF47L4MjANm9wjz1JC1EMYiHHKUMfrl1IQ0B6RP5NWHUxXwCtg6YZ3NTHH-k8n9pSHZsW9QRpNfDqdGl1ZKg0HwtK7L7p9qoYs1M4KnYEqwAZpf95wHGxOLf_6CNt3v7J_9L/s162/Biden%20signs%20antilynching%20act.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="108" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY3x6RH3z9pzI0bq_nWFbKDWBdkEJ56CDB4IsYUFz9WUlCQrZ9s8rVLF47L4MjANm9wjz1JC1EMYiHHKUMfrl1IQ0B6RP5NWHUxXwCtg6YZ3NTHH-k8n9pSHZsW9QRpNfDqdGl1ZKg0HwtK7L7p9qoYs1M4KnYEqwAZpf95wHGxOLf_6CNt3v7J_9L/s320/Biden%20signs%20antilynching%20act.jpg"/></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaO73eUYzV_dZEQ0WtAiVIK4EvFw3c0OP7HwPNIDs6BucGK69e0biTLTbvlRnOp7gvckscuRVvS3leJODZSRFM13Ysz0uDnkCVI7KW6lCMQ0-oef1lgOsOnITmGZ3JC6ARVTMgvUGZp3TqchOLr5_HdSqmlAXLYN9J1zt_aW4pHXfzcKZ9DOH3yGvi/s162/images%20%28Joe%20Biden%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="91" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaO73eUYzV_dZEQ0WtAiVIK4EvFw3c0OP7HwPNIDs6BucGK69e0biTLTbvlRnOp7gvckscuRVvS3leJODZSRFM13Ysz0uDnkCVI7KW6lCMQ0-oef1lgOsOnITmGZ3JC6ARVTMgvUGZp3TqchOLr5_HdSqmlAXLYN9J1zt_aW4pHXfzcKZ9DOH3yGvi/s320/images%20%28Joe%20Biden%29.jpg"/></a></div>
Still, some of his fellow Democrats are asking him not to go after a second term of office in 2024. (They want somebody younger to be the Donkeys' standardbearer.)
The way I see it, though: Even with a lot more stuff needing to be done to get the US beyond the shadow of where it was on 1-6-2021, I'd love to see Joe Biden run for a second term in the White House.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0iWyeDrwvUzj4gLkf6XNLgiaXnLKP_4_2b5sGaZlCGZ7c3bltivgCVRUwaQblXSUAkCuGI9OeI1pZOd-ZaKr0NYpJtCpMnwW_sO_3HBDyWGh9D4K5yoCmQnEBt_YJqR0WFq4BLM1saemOzyOTJPJJGYljTSktWQDK1RaNWtGAueQ0EQauUmGXbyMz/s140/images%20%28Action%20Network%20on%20student%20debt%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="140" data-original-width="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0iWyeDrwvUzj4gLkf6XNLgiaXnLKP_4_2b5sGaZlCGZ7c3bltivgCVRUwaQblXSUAkCuGI9OeI1pZOd-ZaKr0NYpJtCpMnwW_sO_3HBDyWGh9D4K5yoCmQnEBt_YJqR0WFq4BLM1saemOzyOTJPJJGYljTSktWQDK1RaNWtGAueQ0EQauUmGXbyMz/s320/images%20%28Action%20Network%20on%20student%20debt%29.jpg"/></a></div>
How about you?Jim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693162880100248793.post-64018021484487060332022-10-31T20:13:00.001-07:002022-10-31T20:15:27.410-07:00It's all over...it's all overOn Wednesday, 10-5-2022, during the 12:00 Noon hour, I made a phone call to the human resources department at the company I joined on Monday, 1-26-2004.
And I told the department: "I've decided to retire, effective today."<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBeXKIcxvc5O-hc_ULjVbW8Qo_BkZoMFM9ATfpUS23F3ae5CtAjpZdGdmAQEhU0KesSLOrJJ0E_svYtJfWwpLnB74sSY4M1zGyL65DbzwfGi-TPskCeFd1qUN6zHifD5SHrsJ8TUAwwKU07hmAQr3vhjlclzHlNPixnq-rLJnJXsanLifji4i1TMjz/s900/retirement-wishes-and-messages-900x600.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBeXKIcxvc5O-hc_ULjVbW8Qo_BkZoMFM9ATfpUS23F3ae5CtAjpZdGdmAQEhU0KesSLOrJJ0E_svYtJfWwpLnB74sSY4M1zGyL65DbzwfGi-TPskCeFd1qUN6zHifD5SHrsJ8TUAwwKU07hmAQr3vhjlclzHlNPixnq-rLJnJXsanLifji4i1TMjz/s320/retirement-wishes-and-messages-900x600.png"/></a></div>
Eighteen years, eight months, one week, and two days at the same plastics factory here in Omaha.
Bottom line: My body and my mind just couldn't take the rigors anymore.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHtEYtBvt2jPSLccASTrfLqovBs4xxBgWvzsPN2OGavIBrMActD_Mx84_LttKhQHWJK5e0ZuIOvWF2215HvU-LaA_qemL4qrfteksQqN1QvoZdZVdtEQMVah6bL2fAX8018Ajlmlf9yenhdEKYUrThzMMWfQbyFhVi58cEUz9ECPH0hNSmogZyMnED/s162/images%20%28retirement%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="108" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHtEYtBvt2jPSLccASTrfLqovBs4xxBgWvzsPN2OGavIBrMActD_Mx84_LttKhQHWJK5e0ZuIOvWF2215HvU-LaA_qemL4qrfteksQqN1QvoZdZVdtEQMVah6bL2fAX8018Ajlmlf9yenhdEKYUrThzMMWfQbyFhVi58cEUz9ECPH0hNSmogZyMnED/s320/images%20%28retirement%29.jpg"/></a></div>
I'll be 67 on 11-11-2022.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQqq4-mTsgABvdwH7fAr1qQpO0GALEXC_vOGEVitHK-ItlIZxnKwWxP-b8REfAV9TdyD6bSdC0B2ljxcDgd0pRsQu70Pp-TlwKlSaCB77uS9T30N3E2xdzQlXR3npgXWSSIbhIeGYa-BCiAqT5fY1NIdnGE6MLPgRlrEOls0HuyZIydmxIFsoRSXbo/s140/Des%20Moines%20Register,%2011-11-1955%20%28sports%20section%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="320" data-original-height="140" data-original-width="89" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQqq4-mTsgABvdwH7fAr1qQpO0GALEXC_vOGEVitHK-ItlIZxnKwWxP-b8REfAV9TdyD6bSdC0B2ljxcDgd0pRsQu70Pp-TlwKlSaCB77uS9T30N3E2xdzQlXR3npgXWSSIbhIeGYa-BCiAqT5fY1NIdnGE6MLPgRlrEOls0HuyZIydmxIFsoRSXbo/s320/Des%20Moines%20Register,%2011-11-1955%20%28sports%20section%29.jpg"/></a></div>
Got tired of the traffic hassles...parking hassles...hassles due to lower product standards...increasing pressures at the factory.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4l79kvjSDeHaM2bPtN6100FO2yGRzSejJw2FEqWz_pcHCJXtH4tperlF6cYmocps3UnYVJTUzCfHnwGGfuH18aUbDFxWasw6EC1HbK4eQ9uSLvw4JVuMbLY3UyD1zNC7SmjTZNCkx9B0dlmo1s9vv-PL9Ge7Gv1Lu0SYcImZlt_o6thkf5_4kUZAj/s162/images%20%28retirement%20plan%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="91" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4l79kvjSDeHaM2bPtN6100FO2yGRzSejJw2FEqWz_pcHCJXtH4tperlF6cYmocps3UnYVJTUzCfHnwGGfuH18aUbDFxWasw6EC1HbK4eQ9uSLvw4JVuMbLY3UyD1zNC7SmjTZNCkx9B0dlmo1s9vv-PL9Ge7Gv1Lu0SYcImZlt_o6thkf5_4kUZAj/s320/images%20%28retirement%20plan%29.jpg"/></a></div>
Since calling it quits at the plastics plant, I've been devoting more time to my screenwriting/TV writing efforts. (I can now read whole screenplays in one fell swoop...one sitting. Previously, working in that factory forced me to read ten pages at a time...and confined my own writing to weekends.)<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpNL38lRuVLyXn9aCmKslLWgy818TuHM6w5377D047CiCQGoXTyOGOhrfVtS5flALdtq0cuPMJvdx9CaLB9rOTniR9IYP4-Tu1xHhU4g4ZytM9Ku1aOqIfuQD1qb52Ci6njwKb05GwF55YG5mwmSnDL5D9plZ4Hy7d4yKhxd2ek3wCbquEGAFx4EBg/s800/1%20%28Grey%27s%20Anatomy%20pilot%29.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpNL38lRuVLyXn9aCmKslLWgy818TuHM6w5377D047CiCQGoXTyOGOhrfVtS5flALdtq0cuPMJvdx9CaLB9rOTniR9IYP4-Tu1xHhU4g4ZytM9Ku1aOqIfuQD1qb52Ci6njwKb05GwF55YG5mwmSnDL5D9plZ4Hy7d4yKhxd2ek3wCbquEGAFx4EBg/s320/1%20%28Grey%27s%20Anatomy%20pilot%29.png"/></a></div>
Got some hobbies I want to get back to...such as playing computer sports games more often than in recent years (in addition to stepping up efforts to digitize my vinyl albums).<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPVzTqMv7EbjPwZdvu2clS16Q51ATLPz6JoimurR-HwlVoJr80XdXQ_Sj8rgy1kVhyWiNV81x5ZrDoMWhegALH0Qq7OEj6MUsSEYT6EkAihIetYou0Hepam5oZSTdC3hYUVJhmPne2TEJOpNeKa_NsXQMXTfRURxOkfYX2riOfUCDhUNCDne3cSRJ0/s1500/9135YPCDImL._AC_SL1500_%28digitizing%20vinyl%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPVzTqMv7EbjPwZdvu2clS16Q51ATLPz6JoimurR-HwlVoJr80XdXQ_Sj8rgy1kVhyWiNV81x5ZrDoMWhegALH0Qq7OEj6MUsSEYT6EkAihIetYou0Hepam5oZSTdC3hYUVJhmPne2TEJOpNeKa_NsXQMXTfRURxOkfYX2riOfUCDhUNCDne3cSRJ0/s320/9135YPCDImL._AC_SL1500_%28digitizing%20vinyl%29.jpg"/></a></div>
Plus: As long as things work out, I can get "Boston's Blog" back to once-a-month status.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxid0T_yiaGtZYqUYju2AZUtc6itX12Gvco0GGm2IR7s3PpIbUqq-FeEG0wHgY-6yKkEGBRKRH8JaaKnsxfDNrnHQigoQ8iKnNjficn9O05qEj4BTXaUhxWt8C7yERt0soDsbHW_b5rBGpnbrD3pas-4oSjO5C8ufBq8f5bJOpvOTU2CiNwdsR9uik/s1024/fb17%20Autoplay%20Live%20%28APC%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxid0T_yiaGtZYqUYju2AZUtc6itX12Gvco0GGm2IR7s3PpIbUqq-FeEG0wHgY-6yKkEGBRKRH8JaaKnsxfDNrnHQigoQ8iKnNjficn9O05qEj4BTXaUhxWt8C7yERt0soDsbHW_b5rBGpnbrD3pas-4oSjO5C8ufBq8f5bJOpvOTU2CiNwdsR9uik/s320/fb17%20Autoplay%20Live%20%28APC%29.jpg"/></a></div>
To top it all off: I feel a lot better since making my retirement official.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRTc-26EhTMRjIRj9YT6oMQ6BbC_oTHLMUufNSJbiMue-l7FbvcYrbWT4vt6frnsTfpCNOKpIx2a8OXroFTzCoG3F9YGy1aMRUVEiAKzr90qyQ3xnOXT-IxnZUm3Af7NXlh2H_Xjwf8kLmdIpW3BAWzxrBQ_2WyjN4xu6aCBRbs_0KHaEZwJBT4qB-/s900/retirement-wishes-and-messages-900x600.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRTc-26EhTMRjIRj9YT6oMQ6BbC_oTHLMUufNSJbiMue-l7FbvcYrbWT4vt6frnsTfpCNOKpIx2a8OXroFTzCoG3F9YGy1aMRUVEiAKzr90qyQ3xnOXT-IxnZUm3Af7NXlh2H_Xjwf8kLmdIpW3BAWzxrBQ_2WyjN4xu6aCBRbs_0KHaEZwJBT4qB-/s320/retirement-wishes-and-messages-900x600.png"/></a></div>
Now it's your turn: If you've recently called it quits, how do YOU feel?
Jim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693162880100248793.post-86629395276006808142022-05-21T18:25:00.002-07:002022-05-21T18:25:20.882-07:00Finally..."Geaux Tigers!"Two years after I announced I'd do it, I got it done at last.
Had to take care of two years' worth of life issues...but I got this project done, once and for all.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcBQa2icjZ7tBgD4WBs8bTynvbDjCrCi4rUmHIsJJhSTQNaZVZcpUSuMAgyN-li6lo9gh-dYxy4pCMln_4d4dhvGY_Wu6jJsQ4K_nk7GijYlzaIES2jP-Wmvq8YAdBCpmTnjyRebMJH5WmEcqHqnuZn616KwjAQJHlamIv3R40XaahxPjqQzCfq0Gw/s162/images%20%282019%20LSU%20Tigers%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="91" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcBQa2icjZ7tBgD4WBs8bTynvbDjCrCi4rUmHIsJJhSTQNaZVZcpUSuMAgyN-li6lo9gh-dYxy4pCMln_4d4dhvGY_Wu6jJsQ4K_nk7GijYlzaIES2jP-Wmvq8YAdBCpmTnjyRebMJH5WmEcqHqnuZn616KwjAQJHlamIv3R40XaahxPjqQzCfq0Gw/s320/images%20%282019%20LSU%20Tigers%29.jpg"/></a></div>
I'm talking about the 2019 edition of the "shoulda/coulda/woulda" NCAA Division 1-A football playoffs.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1rQ4p_lRksGipfPi3HR1wZuniI5s0ihFqYXwXAjzloEZZWtz2kJcQH3GCmpTBsR4SS7XAJpLSPhS227tMhEEgiKe46FlWbFUM8FIrWGC3pvqkBvjegAnkeMSaTkt6_z59JOp-X-9NE3oLhk_BrmBVBB3l9v664F4rGo162LOjkFfCwsfa8qFliwxn/s140/images%20%28Joe%20Burrow,%202019%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="320" data-original-height="140" data-original-width="96" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1rQ4p_lRksGipfPi3HR1wZuniI5s0ihFqYXwXAjzloEZZWtz2kJcQH3GCmpTBsR4SS7XAJpLSPhS227tMhEEgiKe46FlWbFUM8FIrWGC3pvqkBvjegAnkeMSaTkt6_z59JOp-X-9NE3oLhk_BrmBVBB3l9v664F4rGo162LOjkFfCwsfa8qFliwxn/s320/images%20%28Joe%20Burrow,%202019%29.jpg"/></a></div>
Using Dave Koch Sports' Action! PC Football, here's how the 24-team field fared:<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGtJc_C7BJ8bly1P6qKg6pk7xQbk38bO3iur-2fNsbzDCqkc2esWalnTdqBfZfAsRbrWRhVETxc7P6QK70U2MXuoX0NFYFyalKLIHdjs01AWpsTe-1j3TBEE7BfatVquWjAqjYVnEJk967BXg9iEyxGAXS_MBX8_Tzn6VnWPq-D4sUWoof3LYLo-cc/s162/images%20%28Action!%20PC%20Football%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="91" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGtJc_C7BJ8bly1P6qKg6pk7xQbk38bO3iur-2fNsbzDCqkc2esWalnTdqBfZfAsRbrWRhVETxc7P6QK70U2MXuoX0NFYFyalKLIHdjs01AWpsTe-1j3TBEE7BfatVquWjAqjYVnEJk967BXg9iEyxGAXS_MBX8_Tzn6VnWPq-D4sUWoof3LYLo-cc/s320/images%20%28Action!%20PC%20Football%29.jpg"/></a></div>
FIRST ROUND (seeding in parentheses): Oregon (9) 37, Miami (OH) (24) 14/Alabama (17) 38, Air Force (16) 14/Penn State (13) 38, Cincinnati (20) 17/Wisconsin (21) 24, Notre Dame (12) 10/Florida (19) 39, SMU (14) 14/Utah (11) 35, Florida Atlantic (22) 6/Minnesota (18) 38, Navy (15) 17/Louisiana-Lafayette (23) 32, Baylor (10) 13<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg21sTIWronXSCiN5HiXVcwUKaYNicSqP3TCEQlQynSzD4QLyUQSHStEX6xb1bEIq_f6HFhe4J4QDrBIIrlvUiFfMUbgEVxYH2T4KwK4R9NeuwciY8ZmKeGIpjTueNnUlOGyQNvZkYCAlVTa9VjNjAi_CFeOUlshPVDFf_puqr8_bLQdTtoGAxqzgeb/s942/FB_Web%20%28Chris%20Smith,%20UL-Lafayette,%202019%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="942" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg21sTIWronXSCiN5HiXVcwUKaYNicSqP3TCEQlQynSzD4QLyUQSHStEX6xb1bEIq_f6HFhe4J4QDrBIIrlvUiFfMUbgEVxYH2T4KwK4R9NeuwciY8ZmKeGIpjTueNnUlOGyQNvZkYCAlVTa9VjNjAi_CFeOUlshPVDFf_puqr8_bLQdTtoGAxqzgeb/s320/FB_Web%20%28Chris%20Smith,%20UL-Lafayette,%202019%29.jpg"/></a></div>
SECOND ROUND: Ohio State (1) 47, Oregon 14/Alabama 31, Georgia (8) 20/Memphis (5) 52, Penn State 48/Wisconsin 24, Boise State (4) 10/Florida 31, Oklahoma (6) 13/Clemson (3) 28, Utah 7/Minnesota 38, Appalachian State (7) 10/Louisiana State (2) 52, Louisiana-Lafayette 31<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQdWScuq0EB3nED4oTQ31yWSZCyo-SjVcsry2El4mKHwVeViaohIkpL5eHVIEl_axqDajYfEtiBBFhYSyQ2dONOqUJBVB27KHyWBWfA_41DwB9Mw30OL8zHbZoU2JMwM57lUOIxWfAonQ3c1gcIHPspgNG9U7wT3aMOvEBnInJA0EiZZNHBU_klDlJ/s1917/17_MemphisAtULM_2nd_half.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="1083" data-original-width="1917" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQdWScuq0EB3nED4oTQ31yWSZCyo-SjVcsry2El4mKHwVeViaohIkpL5eHVIEl_axqDajYfEtiBBFhYSyQ2dONOqUJBVB27KHyWBWfA_41DwB9Mw30OL8zHbZoU2JMwM57lUOIxWfAonQ3c1gcIHPspgNG9U7wT3aMOvEBnInJA0EiZZNHBU_klDlJ/s320/17_MemphisAtULM_2nd_half.jpg"/></a></div>
QUARTERFINAL ROUND: Ohio State 26, Alabama 14/Wisconsin 28, Memphis 17/Florida 30, Clemson 27 (1 OT)/Louisiana State 38, Minnesota 35<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTSxm5n1zGqsncLacq_6LUWHcJmg4diZ9LQBS0F6GBM43qDKVSyUlkW_MK-TzBIydoch2BW3fliQIgvJCWhAiEv61LY8CdHoT_6FJzhnD4FR5cwu3qdYkudD6cPDNyoqcnk-q2bGd80mI-vusTC02b2Rp_6WYhwhSPn2dwk0Bz3wyhiKtq2OoCAjii/s1000/jaydon-hill-v-tenn-3%20%282019%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTSxm5n1zGqsncLacq_6LUWHcJmg4diZ9LQBS0F6GBM43qDKVSyUlkW_MK-TzBIydoch2BW3fliQIgvJCWhAiEv61LY8CdHoT_6FJzhnD4FR5cwu3qdYkudD6cPDNyoqcnk-q2bGd80mI-vusTC02b2Rp_6WYhwhSPn2dwk0Bz3wyhiKtq2OoCAjii/s320/jaydon-hill-v-tenn-3%20%282019%29.jpg"/></a></div>
SEMIFINAL ROUND: Wisconsin 33, Ohio State 21/Louisiana State 31, Florida 28<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM2vr9QpfstIWK8miMJz01GycjtOsMdSONw2c7ymUN8eWsjJMj4MCKkwxFkEiRs9KEIAr7BwdvvsdO1bEpvG90pprnAR2DZ7JLW2916r6QVBrAd6Gf9u_CQzWTMQTZUnAHKLmp2Cl48c8rm5AvF8lOi5XC4G4YemRf8l0A0i4sGPu30ZREO8YbQdhg/s920/1046944592.jpg.0%20%28Jonathan%20Taylor,%202019%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="613" data-original-width="920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM2vr9QpfstIWK8miMJz01GycjtOsMdSONw2c7ymUN8eWsjJMj4MCKkwxFkEiRs9KEIAr7BwdvvsdO1bEpvG90pprnAR2DZ7JLW2916r6QVBrAd6Gf9u_CQzWTMQTZUnAHKLmp2Cl48c8rm5AvF8lOi5XC4G4YemRf8l0A0i4sGPu30ZREO8YbQdhg/s320/1046944592.jpg.0%20%28Jonathan%20Taylor,%202019%29.jpg"/></a></div>
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: Louisiana State 41, Wisconsin 17<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYa24d9TzQhcVlAmzLeYiucW7UHdBWL7PK43k8pwuiir5vO7SHFqvBPn1ZYa_QMh7laDnMLJMU3yvWw4YT3V2jvU5DBOJ1f9HWqyPRsS0SzCmvzZdJU1rcMlhYHg9sMiEWOEe04bWC_XcDzCHug7UplO5EvNFzKv8_NpmqbU9pyox2tj7zBk_1MNqI/s1024/merlin_164161290_953bfb13-3be3-4a35-93c8-6abb692d41c4-jumbo%20%28Burrow%20and%20Orgeron%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYa24d9TzQhcVlAmzLeYiucW7UHdBWL7PK43k8pwuiir5vO7SHFqvBPn1ZYa_QMh7laDnMLJMU3yvWw4YT3V2jvU5DBOJ1f9HWqyPRsS0SzCmvzZdJU1rcMlhYHg9sMiEWOEe04bWC_XcDzCHug7UplO5EvNFzKv8_NpmqbU9pyox2tj7zBk_1MNqI/s320/merlin_164161290_953bfb13-3be3-4a35-93c8-6abb692d41c4-jumbo%20%28Burrow%20and%20Orgeron%29.jpg"/></a></div>
Playoff MVP: LSU quarterback Joe Burrow.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU75mf10CO-6X4lMUv7dZwquj7xZWkHb80oycF1tMwE1pdvHhgrA_VTZOELAQYWN2H17c8T9o_IAfxYJIO7PMPRAq8fdGCBKNbweV7Oda_L8zzgsygHcq11g8nlXtMRn0HFtSrYEbkJyd7MNWDSKishhwhRnq34HO_WRIJFTrlNIKzW5NG5e9nA9aD/s790/joe-burrow-lsu.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="790" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU75mf10CO-6X4lMUv7dZwquj7xZWkHb80oycF1tMwE1pdvHhgrA_VTZOELAQYWN2H17c8T9o_IAfxYJIO7PMPRAq8fdGCBKNbweV7Oda_L8zzgsygHcq11g8nlXtMRn0HFtSrYEbkJyd7MNWDSKishhwhRnq34HO_WRIJFTrlNIKzW5NG5e9nA9aD/s320/joe-burrow-lsu.jpg"/></a></div>Jim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693162880100248793.post-83944627061698592602022-04-01T09:26:00.001-07:002022-04-01T09:26:19.754-07:00Hey! We've been here before!Have you been following either or both of this season's NCAA Division 1 basketball tournaments?<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizUE_LPrcoUif-s2F9deVNlXONdGZEU7uByHe0c39JFqbNADjxGaJpEVln2D8Q8xhjUAjIB0Z_HWHLbAeDfU-Os3g_JGpzL852ix_H2zKwIDA1a3vEo6rexNKFEmBA20N9BILT6RqOdhz_XO0V4LSZewpVgKmKzcDSbRx47AxLhfbKLNlZtjI2ezaz/s147/images%20%28Kansas%20men%27s%20basketball,%202021-22%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="140" data-original-width="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizUE_LPrcoUif-s2F9deVNlXONdGZEU7uByHe0c39JFqbNADjxGaJpEVln2D8Q8xhjUAjIB0Z_HWHLbAeDfU-Os3g_JGpzL852ix_H2zKwIDA1a3vEo6rexNKFEmBA20N9BILT6RqOdhz_XO0V4LSZewpVgKmKzcDSbRx47AxLhfbKLNlZtjI2ezaz/s320/images%20%28Kansas%20men%27s%20basketball,%202021-22%29.jpg"/></a></div>
I was disappointed at both Iowa basketball teams, pleased at how far both Iowa State hoops squads did, but...I wasn't surprised at how the season ended for Nebraska's women, Creighton's men, and Creighton's women.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSY3_-WWhi7XzuypIHffE4NXNTsAaSIlDSLobeHwS5TrxtGYREMX3ApfYpUk6HcP9f1KEwCogEVHS-8TfZDb5PHADIS-_WsmO8oeIg9iuerxxxDubASES2b8B8uqYQdormA3RStP0v-9EulSm33EXr-tbjzmW3_QJ6haT1Tc09gZBHV-y9p74JRT1i/s162/images%20%28Creighton%202021-22%20WBB%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="65" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSY3_-WWhi7XzuypIHffE4NXNTsAaSIlDSLobeHwS5TrxtGYREMX3ApfYpUk6HcP9f1KEwCogEVHS-8TfZDb5PHADIS-_WsmO8oeIg9iuerxxxDubASES2b8B8uqYQdormA3RStP0v-9EulSm33EXr-tbjzmW3_QJ6haT1Tc09gZBHV-y9p74JRT1i/s320/images%20%28Creighton%202021-22%20WBB%29.jpg"/></a></div>
Now each tourney is down to four clubs...and here's how I think it'll all end:<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRL4uGAW2fJ7OaW1vd3h-w-PinaoysAxK2pIkJ9ZWRpXmzqOl99chClFgvNg78tQa7dz5sawF4wXuWV1YKXlx9UaMmfyiuv0PmX0FHpxYy7KVy9i1gMYqyQ_KdeEFrs6tgE9YL865y280lLa5vQ-YQ-i-W--2ShU1fszM6IEJZYgUTz_lWrhkTex0U/s140/images%20%28South%20Carolina%20women%27s%20BB,%202021-22%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="140" data-original-width="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRL4uGAW2fJ7OaW1vd3h-w-PinaoysAxK2pIkJ9ZWRpXmzqOl99chClFgvNg78tQa7dz5sawF4wXuWV1YKXlx9UaMmfyiuv0PmX0FHpxYy7KVy9i1gMYqyQ_KdeEFrs6tgE9YL865y280lLa5vQ-YQ-i-W--2ShU1fszM6IEJZYgUTz_lWrhkTex0U/s320/images%20%28South%20Carolina%20women%27s%20BB,%202021-22%29.jpg"/></a></div>
WOMEN: South Carolina over Louisville, Stanford over Connecticut (although I smell a win for the Huskies against the Cardinal), and South Carolina ending Stanford's reign.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlkhLa8Ae-CiiUQfXfLHgdlAF8Mgd7TyT5E2Lb_egtXKuP1FTaKYQ_kGnLlx03dhogmPY9iJN6JsA1px_tYCWUzzlt9oM-wFFCQs8YY1Mh_szektxrpYmGtk3oAzddAUkduIz1v203u4CqoxTcN62COOY4-HA_viz0myPL801HNPjqSbkxOsLqPw_J/s162/images%20%282021-22%20UConn%20women%27s%20BB%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="107" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlkhLa8Ae-CiiUQfXfLHgdlAF8Mgd7TyT5E2Lb_egtXKuP1FTaKYQ_kGnLlx03dhogmPY9iJN6JsA1px_tYCWUzzlt9oM-wFFCQs8YY1Mh_szektxrpYmGtk3oAzddAUkduIz1v203u4CqoxTcN62COOY4-HA_viz0myPL801HNPjqSbkxOsLqPw_J/s320/images%20%282021-22%20UConn%20women%27s%20BB%29.jpg"/></a></div>
MEN: Villanova over Kansas, Duke over North Carolina, and Duke sending Mike Krzyzewski into retirement in style by stopping Villanova.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7wakBf3GGalqsouY-s_LiylO-IAeumjdSBfV6juefB1rgtTwYMnp_T3equHxYgOjEO0YnYAH_iL8mzUxeBXtHi4gY7uA0Dhj-ligGIsoRIRZsmOBPwgoYUjEnIE4MfygHJSS7jLB3x8MB0iXGr0dYf3ePC2QOFj9I_FDc7O9kj-IkgDnOohuyiO1C/s162/images%20%28Mark%20Williams%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="91" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7wakBf3GGalqsouY-s_LiylO-IAeumjdSBfV6juefB1rgtTwYMnp_T3equHxYgOjEO0YnYAH_iL8mzUxeBXtHi4gY7uA0Dhj-ligGIsoRIRZsmOBPwgoYUjEnIE4MfygHJSS7jLB3x8MB0iXGr0dYf3ePC2QOFj9I_FDc7O9kj-IkgDnOohuyiO1C/s320/images%20%28Mark%20Williams%29.jpg"/></a></div>
There you are: Eight teams that've already been to the Final Four before...seven of them have won it all before. (Only Louisville's women have yet to be the last to cut down the nets.)<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijGAMBR4LCxwMI8LjAkeFoPjR8UKq17jwBqsZBMsljPhcJ5aOX7tS7x6sBF-PpCRQ7WaKOs2lY56DwIwjgiXdgg0CHRMBwg8CWS0_Oo8ZOVs9EZI-dnp4bx-HlNk3pLbQTEZobpr3uRj8LSXM67JDMpezf7E0iR-kmJdaxLEjS5g6_6GFdnXTgx6M8/s162/images%20%28Louisville%20Cards%202021-22%20WBB%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="108" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijGAMBR4LCxwMI8LjAkeFoPjR8UKq17jwBqsZBMsljPhcJ5aOX7tS7x6sBF-PpCRQ7WaKOs2lY56DwIwjgiXdgg0CHRMBwg8CWS0_Oo8ZOVs9EZI-dnp4bx-HlNk3pLbQTEZobpr3uRj8LSXM67JDMpezf7E0iR-kmJdaxLEjS5g6_6GFdnXTgx6M8/s320/images%20%28Louisville%20Cards%202021-22%20WBB%29.jpg"/></a></div>
Well, let's just sit back this weekend and see what REALLY happens.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrUic5sMNY6s7b8Xpv4jQr3KpIp4RPMI4W7iwDxk__TKR88CNmorrVZem-oV61XfwtQ4CV2rHKdpdVzHnF6ioqU01gq8_QQQRSdxMc78pGlrt9NUNV6wpg_UjeaRLSR66xDxk06HXtNF3UPUNunZ2FGVrmRom10RRzlStWFMhVwaQxl_umVulYofAs/s162/images%20%28Collin%20Gillespie%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="87" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrUic5sMNY6s7b8Xpv4jQr3KpIp4RPMI4W7iwDxk__TKR88CNmorrVZem-oV61XfwtQ4CV2rHKdpdVzHnF6ioqU01gq8_QQQRSdxMc78pGlrt9NUNV6wpg_UjeaRLSR66xDxk06HXtNF3UPUNunZ2FGVrmRom10RRzlStWFMhVwaQxl_umVulYofAs/s320/images%20%28Collin%20Gillespie%29.jpg"/></a></div>Jim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693162880100248793.post-45105004235657029592022-02-28T22:00:00.001-08:002022-02-28T22:00:10.221-08:00The countdown is overI needed to let you know that, due to a bunch of personal issues (most of them job-related, some related to finances, some even church-related), I've decided to stop holding the Ragtime to Riches Festival.
The continuing pandemic sure hasn't helped, as it wiped out what would've been the 2020 and 2021 R to R events.
Still...I'm thankful for everyone who attended the festival since its 2005 inception, and I'm thankful for every performer who did the festival.
Haven't dropped music for good, because I'm still going to the Pink Poodle Steakhouse in Crescent, IA to perform on the last Sunday of the month. (Hope to see you there!)Jim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693162880100248793.post-9264841188783335072022-01-31T18:39:00.001-08:002022-01-31T18:39:28.524-08:00He helped make theater organ fun!He passed away at age eighty on 12-30-2021...and he was the very first person I saw play a theater pipe organ in person.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMDwKv32ONQOwlmetM7efEP67Fq-qFmBC9W-xb2xY-GsS_hHUOdzFLbHGa1F8hvBg1AKfpiBd7JaXhZ3iqt6lZ36fRfefMgXbdNa5E0l0-mCqszw71rSDvCDFWiyM2tEfGGQCfiqtaVT5R_3EJ17F4Ig6kCuu0jri-tDy8vptCJa2JbSfQXVDXz4ct=s851" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="851" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMDwKv32ONQOwlmetM7efEP67Fq-qFmBC9W-xb2xY-GsS_hHUOdzFLbHGa1F8hvBg1AKfpiBd7JaXhZ3iqt6lZ36fRfefMgXbdNa5E0l0-mCqszw71rSDvCDFWiyM2tEfGGQCfiqtaVT5R_3EJ17F4Ig6kCuu0jri-tDy8vptCJa2JbSfQXVDXz4ct=s320"/></a></div>
His name was Jack Moelmann.
In November 1984, he did a concert at Nebraska's Bellevue Little Theater, a playhouse that, at the time, had a two-manual, five-rank Wurlitzer theater organ. After the concert, I was invited to what turned out to be an organizational meeting of the River City Theatre Organ Society.
I've been a member of RCTOS ever since.
And Jack was one of the biggest reasons I joined the club.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirHLhk49UVLVsDUhC_CaWXNSGTOsXx67bF8cxiCjO7n2WcA87lVgyVGYIRELVjgrlt2VRsDT_XaeGgpJ8qV2iUDUcKIb048994M8zxFnV12kFdq_Lk45vMKIofSP0Yw418xnO002OJrxR3F1CRrpDVGq-DLF3DMcRFDuQfdf9fjYJCiFKCmGPf1nea=s162" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="121" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirHLhk49UVLVsDUhC_CaWXNSGTOsXx67bF8cxiCjO7n2WcA87lVgyVGYIRELVjgrlt2VRsDT_XaeGgpJ8qV2iUDUcKIb048994M8zxFnV12kFdq_Lk45vMKIofSP0Yw418xnO002OJrxR3F1CRrpDVGq-DLF3DMcRFDuQfdf9fjYJCiFKCmGPf1nea=s320"/></a></div>
At the time I met Jack, he was an Air Force colonel who was stationed at Bellevue's Offutt Air Force Base. He'd been in the Air Force since 1965, the year he received his Bachelor of Science degree from Bradley University.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMIlicqf4E8ewc-hkmaC_tqUDxj8AOyXoAYuayZALdeRVZKrxWugRi5-TRQ6XDhQqmS5sa-L2a8IHdkYX18Bv3oPOocobVa8euH5peeK9LSeaF5tVOErGhwpz1woRpAC-mt1aBAwCKm09PIp4dUk7tstuzIwCDvNiihDwxTdgrZnuItAlmKvtX9OMR=s162" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="121" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMIlicqf4E8ewc-hkmaC_tqUDxj8AOyXoAYuayZALdeRVZKrxWugRi5-TRQ6XDhQqmS5sa-L2a8IHdkYX18Bv3oPOocobVa8euH5peeK9LSeaF5tVOErGhwpz1woRpAC-mt1aBAwCKm09PIp4dUk7tstuzIwCDvNiihDwxTdgrZnuItAlmKvtX9OMR=s320"/></a></div>
Chicago-born Jack got started in music in 1949, the year he turned eight years old (he not only took to the piano, he also sang in the church choir).
He was hooked for the rest of his life, thanks to the many gigs he played in high school and college.
Theater organ fans around here were very fortunate that Jack lived here in the Omaha/Council Bluffs/Bellevue area during 1984-85, a time when RCTOS was in its infancy. This highly-accomplished (both in the Air Force and in the world's concert halls and movie palaces) man helped make those early meetings fun, due to his vast repertoire AND his trademark humor.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVHTkLe9xhQC-UJp20CWaev5s_SS0Nz3CKWzTVhhY6bS9YCFohB2kHI1QiK3VE9hleY1Lyt3QcZ6ZoIY3Y_zU-oW1KbFDOvTJbL_3Mxu1QOFTLHTMSIGVDGG5P7Au1mIDKD9phoqTDhyLM2UPrFdfjXanfRs18-x1lccydXPpJ7iR42VEvuXB3n_vP=s162" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="115" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVHTkLe9xhQC-UJp20CWaev5s_SS0Nz3CKWzTVhhY6bS9YCFohB2kHI1QiK3VE9hleY1Lyt3QcZ6ZoIY3Y_zU-oW1KbFDOvTJbL_3Mxu1QOFTLHTMSIGVDGG5P7Au1mIDKD9phoqTDhyLM2UPrFdfjXanfRs18-x1lccydXPpJ7iR42VEvuXB3n_vP=s320"/></a></div>
Jack joined the American Theatre Organ Society in 1967; in 1983, he launched a 23-year period where he served on the ATOS board of directors in one capacity or another. From 1985 to 1988, he ran ATOS...then became its secretary in 1993, keeping that gig until 2006.
Two years before becoming ATOS secretary, Jack retired from the US Armed Forces. All the time he was in the USAF, Jack earned hardware such as the Air Force Commendation Medal, the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, and the Legion of Merit.
Jack eventually left the Omaha Metro and moved to the St. Louis area...where he turned everything up a bunch of notches. He became a lifetime member of ATOS in 1994, an inductee into the organization's Hall of Fame in 2008, and ATOS Organist of the Year in 2018.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifrUvYHKCUbFUTa4xrmWcXTOwOzPX95_EZ_HwKufYSqfVYrPmaeOTUsN4wH6C67onLVOeN7LEQe9U5RT2Z3h4v3r5QxrFCabNqtMVgUzf1EymjBBYLxaNvh26QbPVLMdhn6FyvO1gApW0W7KRyi-6xSPCHv7eG4fj9EnfZago6Pw68E37vnNrszE3_=s162" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="91" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifrUvYHKCUbFUTa4xrmWcXTOwOzPX95_EZ_HwKufYSqfVYrPmaeOTUsN4wH6C67onLVOeN7LEQe9U5RT2Z3h4v3r5QxrFCabNqtMVgUzf1EymjBBYLxaNvh26QbPVLMdhn6FyvO1gApW0W7KRyi-6xSPCHv7eG4fj9EnfZago6Pw68E37vnNrszE3_=s320"/></a></div>
The crowning touch (well, I like to think so!) came in August 2008...when he headlined at New York City's Radio City Music Hall. (If I can find that on YouTube, well...)<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSVIECwPBmPOfNkd6uQq7xj3A2XD2FFrSFijDfImzDXrnsHdSkD9Jym8jmbQdy7oP9KfzQC4vfrQ8guESs0036LZRwCn13xh9XW96RokPpEBnAOTHdKZS3I-hhnlUbSI54yrH5vz2xJAM3j_vj5zAz3LTf-tvVV3m8UroeSXsv9wlW7CXgBveBjsud=s162" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="125" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSVIECwPBmPOfNkd6uQq7xj3A2XD2FFrSFijDfImzDXrnsHdSkD9Jym8jmbQdy7oP9KfzQC4vfrQ8guESs0036LZRwCn13xh9XW96RokPpEBnAOTHdKZS3I-hhnlUbSI54yrH5vz2xJAM3j_vj5zAz3LTf-tvVV3m8UroeSXsv9wlW7CXgBveBjsud=s320"/></a></div>
Jack, I'm glad to have been a part of your life.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhD5Vxrbih-KZNQL4IfzUylb1k9AQ6Qiti-GIZ9hNYLuJGO7yD_JxkBtYw15-Qd2pliGO3F30dprM6uHdT40g0xqm81nYZVxumzREO6Y0ntizxgaAUqFyTX6LwQe1Re0CRZUclKFv9niLuUKSBcQkGlRnzIlh65zKMfc32wBNwoCT-aZf3e8pcpVsO4=s162" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="108" data-original-width="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhD5Vxrbih-KZNQL4IfzUylb1k9AQ6Qiti-GIZ9hNYLuJGO7yD_JxkBtYw15-Qd2pliGO3F30dprM6uHdT40g0xqm81nYZVxumzREO6Y0ntizxgaAUqFyTX6LwQe1Re0CRZUclKFv9niLuUKSBcQkGlRnzIlh65zKMfc32wBNwoCT-aZf3e8pcpVsO4=s320"/></a></div>
I'm glad you were a part of mine.
Jim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693162880100248793.post-70854271763434970522021-12-24T17:43:00.000-08:002021-12-24T17:43:04.382-08:00To JohnOne day late last month, I looked in the obituaries section of the <i>Omaha World Herald.</i>
And I was shocked to find John F. McIntyre's name in there.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWYSUL5e7Zz4gj5EbN6RzTx1WvqnJnPwKKRlcPsDk5JNjl9wifBU4ebotgTxcDE3ivU_hDJgGJbHRC_KnSZZRS2X8wr-ZxBSexY8k0YRKqNu_V_q6nf2aRHfNAqqhcjy3V6d7dxCDoAUoTDCqQptnzJF2ChTK7CEAPmUbHDgi1hqHMtu29ubDdoEGl=s519" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="320" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="465" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWYSUL5e7Zz4gj5EbN6RzTx1WvqnJnPwKKRlcPsDk5JNjl9wifBU4ebotgTxcDE3ivU_hDJgGJbHRC_KnSZZRS2X8wr-ZxBSexY8k0YRKqNu_V_q6nf2aRHfNAqqhcjy3V6d7dxCDoAUoTDCqQptnzJF2ChTK7CEAPmUbHDgi1hqHMtu29ubDdoEGl=s320"/></a></div>
When wife Laura Vranes and parents Dan and Barbara McIntyre were listed among John's survivors, it hit me:
<i>I met John and Laura on Labor Day 2013 (9-2-2013) at Omaha's Tree of Life Sculpture.</i>
The occasion was the Omaha/Council Bluffs/Bellevue area's "Play Me, I'm Yours" street piano art project.
By contributing Barbara's old Richardson upright piano to the local exhibit (and enabling Bill Hoover to paint the piano), and with Barb's okay to the contribution in the first place, Laura and John helped make the Omaha Metro's stop on Luke Jerram's "PMIY" tour a tremendous success.
The "Boston's Blog" post about the Tree of Life experience ("Monday, September 2, 2013: M-A-G-I-C!") is still up. (Check it out!)
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John, you, Laura, and Barb enabled so many of us in the Omaha area to have so much fun during "Play Me's" time in the local spotlight.
<i>Thank you so much for all the great things you've contributed.</i>Jim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693162880100248793.post-48777197416266888182021-08-21T17:40:00.000-07:002021-08-21T17:40:36.676-07:00Sorry I've been away so long...It's been a year since I last posted anything here on "Boston's Blog."
And I apologize.
Just didn't know what to make of the new format...at the time the Blogger format changed, you couldn't add photos. (And adding pics is one thing I like to do with a blog.)
Still trying to ride out the coronavirus pandemic...and I've been devoting more time to writing screenplays and trying to break into screenwriting.
Well, that's enough of me. How are YOU doing?Jim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693162880100248793.post-22033865503265902372020-08-15T19:59:00.000-07:002020-08-15T19:59:38.049-07:00Good enough for me...and then some!He'd double the tax rate for nonworking millionaires, eliminate the lower rates on dividends and capital gains for those Americans who annually make a million bucks or more, and boost the top tax rate to almost 40%.
He'll continue to champion America's constantly-marginalized people.
Once in the driver's seat, he'll start a pandemic testing board to scale up and allocate nationwide testing. He also wants to launch a state-and-local-government emergency fund to provide medical supplies, hire more health-care workers, give certain essential workers overtime pay, end cost sharing for COVID-19 testing and treatment, and start up a national public health jobs corps. (Who knows? Maybe these moves could mean 100,000 people doing contract tracing.)
Scientists would be taken seriously. Period.
His housing plan would cut child poverty by 33%, reduce racial opportunity gaps, and would even help with middle-income housing affordability, especially in cities on the two coasts.
And then there's his economic plan:
In it, $400 billion over a four-year period would go to American-made materials and services. At the same time, the plan would earmark $300 billion more for US-based research and development...like electric cars, artificial intelligence, etc.
The plan also boasts a 100-day "supply chain review" to get federal agencies to choose American-made medical goods and supplies.
It'd close up all the loopholes in the government's "Buy American" clauses.
And his economic plan would restore the jobs that the coronavirus pandemic has taken away. In addition, the plan would fire up an additional five million gigs.
He'd build on the Affordable Care Act and on the Violence Against Women Act...and these moves would help level the playing field for America's physically-challenged people.
And earlier this week, he found his runningmate: US Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA).
Well, there you are: A ticket whose members have been fighting for years for America's rank-and-file citizens.
On 11-3-2020 (better yet, earlier than that as long as I can vote by mail), I'll be more than happy to cast my ballot for former Vice President Joe Biden and his pick for vice president, Harris.
How about you?Jim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693162880100248793.post-28068485603185125622020-06-21T17:42:00.001-07:002020-06-21T17:42:05.271-07:00Video Lookbook- "Rivertown Rock!" (2020)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FqhakP9Vm00" width="459"></iframe>Jim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693162880100248793.post-27848965486791658712020-06-17T11:40:00.000-07:002020-06-17T11:40:04.557-07:00Lookbook #2- "Rivertown Rock!"<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been wanting to put up this lookbook for some time...and I would've kicked the idea to the curb if it weren't for the way you responded to the "Really Old School" lookbook and its video counterpart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1992, I wrote a screenplay called "Rivertown Rock!" In it, I wanted to take a look at how music's British Invasion affected teenagers here in America's Midwest in general...and one family in particular. Always wanted to take a look at it through a screenplay of mine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wouldn't have started a record collection if the invasion weren't a catalyst...and maybe you began collecting 45s and albums back then, too, because of groups like the Beatles and the Dave Clark Five and the Rolling Stones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, after getting feedback through Stage 32, I decided to revise that script of mine (same for "Really Old School" and two others)...and now, through sources like Network ISA, I'm looking for a producer who'd like to film it. (I've already submitted five screenplays of mine through ISA...and got yet to hear from any producers. That's okay...that's the way the system is.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the "Rivertown Rock!" logline:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's Sunday, 2-9-1964...when the Beatles' appearance on <i>The Ed Sullivan Show </i>inspires a Sioux City, IA teenager to start her own rock group and show that girls can play the music, too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm Jim Boston...thanks so much for reading this blog!</span><br />Jim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693162880100248793.post-9294419508397263532020-06-07T20:21:00.001-07:002020-06-17T10:29:33.747-07:00The protests MUST continue<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last week, two encounters with coworkers at the plastics factory that employs me made it personally crystal clear why the worldwide protests against the brutality shown by America's police forces MUST continue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last Sunday, Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert issued a 72-hour curfew in light of the Big O being one of the many American cities holding demonstrations not only against police brutality, but also against the militarization of this country's police forces...and against vigilante brutality. In the curfew, people couldn't go out between 8:00 PM and 6:00 AM...unless they had vital jobs. (The company I work at makes, among other things, personal protective equipment...no, not coronavirus masks, but the masks worn by assembly-line employees at dairy factories and by soldiers.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So...on 6-1-2020, as I got off my second-shift job at 11:00 PM and was heading for my car to drive home, a supervisor from another plant within the same building headed for his own car to go to his own home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I held the door for him (just trying to be polite, that's all)...and he started talking about the local curfew.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And then he praised this country's chief White House occupant, talking about how "honest" this occupant is...and how this one-time reality-TV show host "says what's on his mind."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Guess what? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just because the former host of NBC's <i>The Apprentice </i>says what's on his mind doesn't make what's on his mind cool...especially when he declares war on the nation's own citizens by vowing to sic the military on protesters if governors don't do his bidding and "dominate the streets."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's dictatorial talk...no ifs, no maybes, no buts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sorry, folks. The way I see it, we started having a dictator here the afternoon of 1-20-2017.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A couple of nights ago, a fellow second-shift employee of mine at the same plant I work at weighed in on the continuing protests.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She wondered when the demonstrators would get off the streets "so that people can get on with their lives." What's more, she wondered what good the protests are doing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I told her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not only did I tell this fellow machine operator that the demonstrations have, at long last, gotten the attention of some corporate leaders (one of the leaders took to the electronic billboard at 72nd and Pacific Sts. here in O and loaded a message: "We Need Each Other")...I told her I'm glad the protests continue to take place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The sign on the east facade of Omaha's Do Space (at 72nd and Dodge Sts., in a building that previously housed a Borders book store) proclaimed: "BLACK LIVES MATTER."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By the way...some of the protests here in Omaha happened at 72nd and Dodge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hours before second shift began that day (6-5-2020), NFL commissioner Roger Goodell released a statement admitting that the league was wrong in the way it's been handling player protest ever since San Francisco 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick went to one knee in 2016.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eleven days after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis cop named Derek Chauvin (with an assist from four other members of Minneapolis' Supposedly Finest), Goodell finally gave the okay for the NFL's players to speak out and peacefully protest. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What's more, he stated: "We, the National Football League, believe Black lives matter. I personally protest with you and want to be part of the much-needed change in this country."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Goodell also admitted that "Without Black players, there would be no National Football League." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now, Roger...if you and the league's 32 team owners get rid of that kneeling ban, I'll be glad to get back to spending Sunday afternoons and evenings (and any Monday night or Thursday night I can get off during the season) watching NFL action.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And what about US Sen. Willard Mitt Romney (R-UT), the most recent Republican to lose a presidential election, marching <i>with </i>protesters in the nation's capital?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We'll see what happens in the days/weeks/months/years to come...but Romney's and Goodell's actions are a start. So are those taken by corporate bigwigs everywhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So if you're still upset because the protests, as this fellow machine operator of mine put it, prevent people from going "on with their lives," let me tell you something:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Philando Castile, Michael Brown, 1<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7</span>-year-old Trayvon Martin, 12-year-old Tamir Rice, and too damned many others weren't allowed to get on with their own lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Vigilantes took it upon themselves to snuff Martin's and Arbery's lives out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">FOR NOTHING.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And I'd like to ask you something:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do you REALLY believe in freedom for all to live their lives peacefully...to go about their everyday business just as you do?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do you REALLY believe people have a right to petition this country's government...especially this current garbage fire of a government, one built on hatred and bigotry? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>Jim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693162880100248793.post-556652358325976182020-05-31T20:23:00.000-07:002020-05-31T20:26:42.633-07:00It sure didn't have to be this way<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Wednesday, 5-24-2020, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, the United States became the first country to suffer 100,000 deaths due to COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's just about like wiping a Billings, MT off the map...or a Davenport, IA...or a Sparks, NV.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Think about that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And it sure didn't have to be this way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I read an online article at theintercept.com that stated America's first confirmed case of COVID-19 was made public on 1-20-2020. That same article said that Vietnam saw its first case of the disease three days later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Vietnam still has yet, as of 5-24-2020, to record its first COVID death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yes, yes, yes...Vietnam doesn't have as many people in it as the US; the 2020 edition of "The World Almanac" states that Vietnam has 97.9 million people in it compared to America's 327.2 million people (a 2018 estimate).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now take a look at the world's most heavily-populated country, China.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not counting Hong Kong or Macao, China's population is 1.39 billion people. <i>Billion. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you go right now to worldometers.info, you'll find that the latest figures show that 4,634 Chinese have died from COVID.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Nope. That's not a typo. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As far as I'm concerned, it all comes down to the White House's totally inadequate and completely halfhearted response to the coronavirus pandemic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And yes...it's an utterly racist response.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Maybe you've heard that deaths from the disease have been disproportionately Black and Brown...the two biggest ethnic groups America's Republicans love to defecate on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you're thinking about cutting out on this post, just understand that the same article from theintercept.com yielded a quote from HHS Secretary Alex Azar: "Unfortunately, the American population is...very diverse."<i> </i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's Azar trying to justify the world's highest COVID casualty total. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Remember: Azar is part of the first White Supremacist administration in Washington since Woodrow Wilson slept at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Republicans- especially those in the White House- made this whole coronavirus pandemic political. They, not I.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To them, it's all about winning on 11-3-2020. The Con Artist in Chief knows that the fewer people out there casting ballots this year, the better his chances of staying in the Oval Office.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And to The Adolf...oops, I mean The Donald, the pandemic is just another weapon in the GOP arsenal. Just like the call to keep the country's meatpacking facilities running, labeling meat as a vital item.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A significant percentage of immigrants and non-White people works at those plants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And too many of the employees at those plants have complained about the lack of coronavirus (or any other kind of) protection at too many of those facilities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Listen, if protein's the issue, cookinglight.com lists 21 other sources of protein. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For instance, you can get protein from peanuts, yogurt, cottage cheese, kidney beans, peanut butter, veggie burgers, lima beans, and all kinds of cheeses from Swiss to mozzarella to Colby Jack.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Okay...is social distancing the issue?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I get that millions of us are chafing to Get Back to Normal...even if it's not going to be all that simple. Millions are chafing to hear the nation's cash registers "KA-CHING!" at the same rate as when 2020 began and we were looking forward to a whole new decade.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Coming back to the article from theintercept.com, epidemiologists Britta L. Jewell and Nicholas P. Jewell said that about 90% of America's COVID-19 deaths could've been prevented if social-distancing policies had been put into effect on 3-2-2020.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At that time, only 11 Americans had died from the biggest global pandemic since the Spanish flu outbreak of 1918-20.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In response to COVID, social spacing finally got placed into effect on 3-15-2020.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Think where we'd be right now if the United States had REAL leadership at the top...instead of the con job that commenced on 1-20-2017. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For now, let's think about saving lives first.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then we can worry about saving the economy. <i> </i> </span><br />
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Jim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693162880100248793.post-69436468315723223782020-05-09T14:22:00.001-07:002020-05-09T14:22:03.560-07:00"Really Old School" video lookbook (2020)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hem4718jNeY" width="459"></iframe>Jim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693162880100248793.post-44050651373527020972020-04-27T11:46:00.000-07:002020-04-27T11:50:43.382-07:00Lookbook #1- "Really Old School"<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Things have gotten to the point in the movie-and-TV industry where writers trying to break in (and those who've already established themselves) need to put together a collection of photos serving as an expression of the writers' vision of how a movie or TV series is supposed to look. (Directors have been using this tool for quite some time.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This collection of pictures is called a <i>lookbook. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, anyway...here's my very first attempt at a lookbook, and it's connected to my very first attempt at a screenplay since 1994, "Really Old School."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i> </span>Jim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693162880100248793.post-62631274816045804612020-03-30T11:19:00.002-07:002020-03-30T11:19:37.392-07:00I'm ready to retire...right now!<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But my wallet isn't ready for me to retire right now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even with a company 401(k) and a personal retirement fund, the money still isn't plentiful enough right now for me to say: "That's it, I quit, I'm moving on!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week marked the first time I ever told any of my superiors at my present place of work that I was ready to hang it up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway...it all stemmed from heat I took on 3-17-2020 from the machine operator I was supposed to replace as first shift (hers) morphed into second shift (mine).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"You're late," she told me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was 2:56 PM (Central time).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you're on second shift where I work, you're supposed to report at 2:55 PM. (And I manage to do so the vast majority of the time.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the last several years, things had gotten to the point where I end up eating lunch at the factory before I get to my machine(s). And this <i>did </i>happen this past St. Pat's Day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you, Internet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Previously, I'd eat my lunch right here at home prior to shoving off for my plastics-factory job. (By the way...since I work second shift, and the second half of second shift is when most Americans watch prime-time TV, I call the meal break we get on second shift "dinner." Or else I just call it a "meal break," anyway.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since the incident, I've been trying to leave earlier for the factory...and been trying to eat lunch at home again before going to work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On alternate Mondays, I go to the laundromat...and 3-23-2020 was one such Monday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I clocked in at 2:45 PM (something I strive to do each and every workday), ended up eating lunch at the factory (because of the laundry load before that), and hurried to get to my machine on time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Got there at 2:55 PM...right on the dot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still, I was unable to escape the wrath of the same coworker from first shift: "Why you in such a hurry?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I let it all hang out and confronted her. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was still upset the next day about the two incidents...and told her to get off my back and leave me alone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What's more, I mentioned the two incidents to the supervisor on first shift and the supervisor on second shift. Plus: The chief on first shift reported the two incidents to the company's human resources department.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of that helps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But then, I've been thinking about the increasingly demanding nature of work at the factory...and about the fact that I'll turn 65 this November.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I've even been thinking about the effects the coronavirus pandemic has had on people's lives. (For instance, the three places I've been going to to practice music- one of them the church I go to- have abandoned or cut their office hours for the time being.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a result, I've found myself with extra time for writing...especially screenplays.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And blog posts, too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're getting ready to slam into a new workweek at the factory...and I'm going to gear up to go through it.<i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I'll keep trying to build up that retirement chest so that I'm ready.<i> </i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Jim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693162880100248793.post-69688274249350268162020-02-29T20:00:00.003-08:002020-02-29T20:00:42.441-08:00They kept writing 'em like that anymore<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My childhood fell between the middle 1950s and early 1970s...and for television fans here in the United States, that meant that variety shows were all over the dial. If you watched, for example, <i>The Ed Sullivan Show, </i>you'd more often than not get to see your favorite rock/R&B act...about a half hour after Ed introduced one of those smooth pop crooners on the show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In fact, my first eight years of life (1955-1963) were a period when America's music industry was trying to figure itself out. In early April 1957, for instance, Perry Como's "'Round and 'Round" was <i>Billboard's </i>Number One pop hit...only to be displaced a week later by "All Shook Up," by Elvis Presley.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And "All Shook Up" rode high for nine weeks...until knocked off the top spot by "Love Letters in the Sand," by Pat Boone, a man whose records, by then, had one foot in the Presley ethos and the other in the Como system.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Industry leaders, as a group, <i>loved </i>the old Tin Pan Alley styles...but knew the newer styles were where the money was.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even so, some of the biggest hits of the late 1950s through, really, the middle 1970s, owed something to the way pop music sounded in the 1890s-1920s period...when ragtime, followed by jazz, caught America's attention.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With that in mind, here's a list of ragtime/honky tonk-influenced rock/R&B/pop songs recorded from 1956 to 1974:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. "The Green Door," Jim Lowe (Dot 14586; r*5, *1, 1956)/2. "When I See You," Fats Domino (Imperial 5454; r*14, *29, 1957)/3. "Sugartime," McGuire Sisters (Coral 61924; *1, 1958)/4. "The Stripper," David Rose (MGM 13064; r*12, *1, 1962)/5. "Alley Cat," Bent Fabric (Atco 6226; *7, 1962)/6. "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer," Nat King Cole (Capitol 4965; r*11, *6, 1963)/7. "Washington Square," Village Stompers (Epic 9617; r*22, *2, 1963)/8. "(Down at) Papa Joe's," Dixiebelles (Sound Stage 7 2507; *9, 1963)/9. "Southtown, USA," Dixiebelles (Sound Stage 7 2517; *15, 1964)/10. "Java," Al Hirt (RCA Victor 8280; *4, 1964)/11. "Daydream," Lovin' Spoonful (Kama Sutra 208; *2, 1966)/12. "Spanish Flea," Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass (A&M 792; *27, 1966)/13. "I Love Onions," Susan Christie (Columbia 43595; *63, 1966).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">14. "Winchester Cathedral," New Vaudeville Band (Fontana 1562; *1, 1966)/15. "Lady Godiva," Peter and Gordon (Capitol 5740; *6, 1966)/16. "Words of Love," Mamas and the Papas (Dunhill 4057; *5, 1967)/17. "Hello Hello," Sopwith "Camel" (Kama Sutra 217; *26, 1967)/18. "I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman," Whistling Jack Smith (Deram 85005; *20, 1967)/19. "Like an Old-Time Movie," Scott McKenzie (Ode 105; *24, 1967)/20. "Cab Driver," Mills Brothers (Dot 17041; *23, 1968)/21. "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde," Georgie Fame (Epic 10283; *7, 1968)/22. "Cinderella Rockefella," Esther and Abi Ofarim (Philips 40526; *68, 1968)/23. "Indian Lake," Cowsills (MGM 13944; *10, 1968)/24. "Those Were the Days," Mary Hopkin (Apple 1801; *2, 1968)/25. "Goodbye," Mary Hopkin (Apple 1806; *13, 1969)/26. "Abergavenny," Shannon (AKA Marty Wilde) (Heritage 814; *47, 1969).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">27. "Is That All There Is," Peggy Lee (Capitol 2602; *11, 1969)/28. "Rag Mama Rag," Band (Capitol 2705; *57, 1970)/29. "Gimme Dat Ding," Pipkins (Capitol 2819; *9, 1970)/30. "Mississippi," John Phillips (ABC Dunhill 4236; *32, 1970)/31. "In the Summertime," Mungo Jerry (Janus 125; *3, 1970)/32. "Rubber Duckie," Jim Henson's Ernie (Columbia 45207; *16, 1970)/33. "Honky Cat," Elton John (Uni 55343; *8, 1972)/34. "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree," Tony Orlando and Dawn (Bell 45,318; *1, 1973)/35. "Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose," Tony Orlando and Dawn (Bell 45,374; *3, 1973)/36. "Who's in the Strawberry Patch with Sally," Tony Orlando and Dawn (Bell 45,424; *27, 1973)/37. "Last Time I Saw Him," Diana Ross (Motown 1278; r*15, *14, 1974)/38. "Nothing from Nothing," Billy Preston (A&M 1544; r*8, *1, 1974)/39. "Steppin' Out (Gonna Boogie Tonight)," Tony Orlando and Dawn (Bell 45,601; *7, 1974).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The chart positions were taken from Joel Whitburn's "Record Research," compiled from <i>Billboard's </i>Pop chart, unless indicated otherwise; r*= the record's position on <i>Billboard's </i>R&B chart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See you next time, and thanks for reading "Boston's Blog!" </span>Jim Bostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01664830009200938716noreply@blogger.com0