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And I'd like to see this movie, though it looks like a total brofest, set in the 90s about one last baseball game for the fellas before their diamond gets demolished. Not for a mall or some other corporate bad guy, but for a public school that will benefit the whole community. - An eephus pitch is unnaturally slow, aiming to confuse the batter. “Stays in the air forever,” the player explains. “You get bored watching it. I get bored.” It makes the batter “lose track of time,” he concludes. “It’s pretty mean that way.” “Eephus,” a movie in which nothing really happens but many things occur nonetheless.

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Food stuff!: Better late than never: The Most Popular Super Bowl Dips in Each State According to Google So many good dips to try!

Movie: I went to see My Dead Friend Zoe staring Sonequa Martin-Green (I really like her in Star Trek Discovery and I think she's so pretty) with a little bit of Morgan Freeman (group counselor) and Ed Harris (grandpa just diagnosed with alzheimer's). I cried through like the whole thing for various reasons, laughed more than a little bit at the meet-cute, and really liked the ending. It's grief and it's super messy, and it is a tragedy based on true circumstance.

( Inspired by a true story, a U.S. Army Afghanistan veteran—thanks to the presence of her dead best friend from the Army—is at odds with her estranged Vietnam Veteran grandfather and her VA counselor. )

EMERGENCY: My town is battling fires and yesterday sustained wind gusting up to 80mph. The other side from my house - which I'm just so lucky for since I slept through when their mandatory evacuations started. I woke up at 8:45pm to a handful of messages checking to see if I was okay which was when I realized it was smoke I smelled from in my bedroom. The outside cats were super spooked and actually demanded to come inside. I told them I wasn't sure it was safer, but it wasn't like I was gonna tell them 'no'.

Went into work early at 10 to replace my boss who was finally headed home after 14hrs, the roads were super hazy and their were a bunch of damage from the wind. I figured I might as well get overtime and have more information if I was going to be stuck in a heightened anxiety loop anyway. The lake we manage, which has a decent permanent population, was under a mandatory evacuation order so the officers were going tent to camper to cabin to warn everybody (there's only one road in and it was in danger of being blocked) and a handful of people refused to leave and were told that there was not enough resources and help would not be able to come for them if they changed their mind later. It was brutal.

The wind is less now at 6:30am and it changed direction so hopefully any flying embers land back in previously burnt areas.

I had to flee to night shift to get away from two of the most annoying trainees we've ever had. I hate night shift, but it was a necessary evil to de-stress and let some anger go. The annoying thing is that my trainee was a good guy, just incapable of memorizing, repeating, or doing two things interchangeably. Things that are definitely a requirement for this job. He wants to be a cop and I am crossing my fingers he doesn't ask me for a recommendation and that no one is stupid enough to hire him for that.

So during my summer nights of eternal nothing, I am rewatching Supernatural. ( And wow did I forget how uncomfortable it is )

I guess I am now a Phillies fan? I apologize to all the other baseball fans - I know what I have chosen. I watched all their post seasons games last fall, then I took my parents to St. Louis so they could watch the Cards while I watched Realmuto in early April. Unfortunately (for me) we went to the one game my team lost that series. Since then I subscribed to the single team MLB.TV stream and have watched every game. At first it was so I could have 3 hrs every evening where I could mostly forget about my trainee being The Worst and now I'm on night shift, why not get paid to watch the game? They are a bunch of weirdos and they delight me.

I started feeding a new stray cat, she's a Tortie with at an attitude so I named her Phillie. I thought she was pregnant, but then she brought her three kittens to hang out on my porch under the carport. She let me pet her and talked to me in these cute little trills, but the kittens were totally wild and took off into a pretty gnarly thunderstorm rather than let me get anywhere close. So I borrowed some traps, but was cautious because I didn't want to lose them.

( this is a roller coaster of cat well being that I don't know how it ends yet. )