- Rook, Hearts, Dutch Blitz, Exploding Kittens. I like euchre, but only with family. We had a 22 person euchre tournament at the beach one year that lasted til about 2 am that kind of made all other euchre events inferior for me.
- I like watching golf, aka watching with my eyes half closed, a handful of weekends a year. Naturally, I learned this from my father "resting his eyes" on many Sundays. But this is the ultimate Golf Dad weekend and I'll watch a little, so cheers to golf dude and puppies to most of your wives.
- I was about 28 years old when I figured out my dad's "favorite" game to play with my little brother and I when he came home from work, "clutch monster," was just a way for him to lay on the floor and grab our ankles or whatever and not move. We thought it was the best game and had no idea he was actually laying there exhausted. Dads: always working smarter, not harder.
- Most of the weekend will be spent a) at a funeral b) watching my friends compete c) competing in meet #9. Eeeeek. I am not ready, but LFG. (Clearly, the meet director isn't a golf fan.) Excited to see some all time world records get broken. To be clear, they will not be broken by me. With the way the last couple weeks have gone for me, I'm just happy to be doing it, and still hoping my luck improves and I don't somehow fracture my spine in a freak accident before I get there.
- I am currently addicted to Quordle. It's four Wordles at once, with fewer puzzles like the Wordle today in which I had four letters in the second line and had to guess four more damn words to get it. F U, Wordle. NYT spelling bee is a close runner up.
- Which is more turgid: Vince McMahon around any muscular man, or Jim Nantz in the booth at Augusta? I think Nantz gets the slight edge, just because the Masters is only once a year. (I would like a Vince version of "hello, friends," though.)
- Restarted Justified. Art is my all time favorite TV boss. I mean, who doesn't love a boss who wraps his hand with cloth to beat the hell out of a felon?
Also, Ava >>> Winona.
- Friday 3:
Tyler Childers - I'm Your'n
Ghost - Spillways
Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz - Get Crunk