The Poppa Jeff Curse

Let's take a look and see how my favorite teams did this year.

PGA Golf: Sold to the Arabs in an effort to sports wash their human rights violations.

NFL: Green Bay Packers. Aaron is gone, and all we've got is Love. How they will do is up in the air, but the divisional title and the playoffs are unimaginable.

MLB: Chicago Cubs. Spectacular moments are interrupted by spurts of disaster.

Milwaukee Brewers Second place in the weakest division of the national league. Since I started to become a fanboy, they have yet to play well. Their bats and pitching are sporadic.

Premier League: Leeds United. They fired American Coach Jess Marsch and were relegated down to the championship league.

NWSL: Angel City. I see a coaching change coming here.

MLS: Seattle Sounders, Not good, and the future is not bright.

UW Basketball: New coach. We'll see.

UWGB: Where is Dick Bennet when you need him.

Call me if you have an opponent that your favorite team can't overcome. I buy and wear their kit until they play themselves out of contention.

Health Report

Started radiation this week. It felt like they were filming an episode of Star Trek.

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Ring The Bell

It appears there is a tradition in the radiology department at Ascension Hospital that patients, upon completing their course of treatment, ring a bell. ( We know not for whom this bell tolls.) Ring the Bell with My Sweetheart Jeanne. Jeanne drove me to all but two of the appointments. Pam Frautchi took me to the other two. Today, after being zapped thirty-two times, I rang the bell. This begins a roughly one-month recovery period where the effects of the radiation abate and, I'm assured, a return to normalcy occurs. In my case, I anticipate more energy and greater awareness. Books, Books, & More Books I am simultaneously celebrating the end of the third year of volunteering for the All Saints Hunger Book Sale. Next week, we will wrap up the preparation for the sale and open our doors on August 3 for the public. I ran into this humourous but quite accurate cartoon on a T-Shirt that shows most of the volunteer's sentiments at this point. If you think the printed and bound p...

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It's time again.

It started in 2004 when we moved to our condo off Downer in Milwaukee. Then we mover to the Westside of Milwaukee when we rented from Ken Karr, the former landlord, now a current friend on Highland and 29th St. Then we moved to Mandeville Louisiana for a little less than a year. Returning to The Fox River Valley, we rented a home in Fox Crossing, formerly The Town of Menasha. When the tree fell on the roof, and the landlord felt no urgency to fix it, we moved to W. Commercial in Appleton. Here is a shocker. Are you sitting down? We are moving. No, I don't mean off the couch and out to the patio. There are too many damn mosquitoes for that to happen. No, we are packing our stuff, or at least the stuff we unpacked from the last move and moving to a home Maria purchased on Mason and Glendale in Appleton. Let me unpack that last sentence (pun planned for). We are moving at approximately the end of September to a house. The house has been in t...

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