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Ok, I will not talk about my hand at all in the blog.
Devin and I have been nurturing our baby boy back to health after his wisdom tooth removal yesterday. We left the outpatient surgical suite while Jack was still on anesthesia and local pain meds. We discovered our son is a nasty drunk.
(Kinda makes me rethink that whole bar hooping scheme when he turns 21.)
When we arrived at Dr. Fs office (No wonder all the mom's rave about him. Really nice guy and great looking. I think he'd be popular is he was using jackhammers to get the teeth out of the kids heads.) it was 0 dark thirty. We were the only ones in the parking area.
Even when we finished, the parking lot was basically empty which made me wonder why a person would park so close to our truck. As Devin and I were walking Manchild out to the parking area, Jack noticed the car parked next us as well.
The next rambling that came out of my son's mouth, must have made my father beam with pride and say, "He was listening when I taught him to curse." I won't repeat what he said, but it went something like this:
"What the butterfly? The whole butterflyen parking lot and a stupid butterflyen Toyota has to butterflyen park right next to our butterflyen truck."
Quite stunned, I looked up at my son who had a cute angelic dopey smile on his face. I replied to him, "It's a Nissan son."
Devin and I have been managing his drug dosages for the last 24 hours. This provides me an opportunity to stay close to his room but also close to my office where I can read the WSJ, IBD, Barron's and all the websites I plagiarize my material from.
Irrelevant Picks
I also had time to work on my football picks. Now I am having the worst year in football picks ever. Ironically, 2012 was my worse year in the stock market? Interesting?
By week three, I noticed Devin was laughing at my weekly picks. Years ago, she was fairly active and aware of football players and stats and could hold her own (much better than I) during conversations about teams and players.
Being home more due to my career change from Chairman and CEO to lead Sherpa allowed me the opportunity to have Devin help with my football picks. Week four she helped and we had a decent week. However I did notice something.
Even on the 4 or 5 losses we had, apparently those were my picks, not hers, or so I was told. I could not argues as I really did not feel strongly about any of the games. In week five, I kinds insisted she make the final decisions on the picks.
I should have paid more attention to her commentary versus her final answer, as when we discovered we had 5 losses, the losses were the teams where during Devin's commentary there was liberal use of the words "UNLESS" and "BUT".
Now, I am discovering that use of the words "UNLESS" and "BUT" while making your picks means the final score becomes irrelevant. Now this concept is difficult to grasp, kind like string theories and singularity.
So if you can grasp the idea of electrons and quarks within an atom are not 0-dimensional objects, but made up of 1-dimensional strings, or that a point of infinite density and infinitesimal volume, at which space and time become infinitely distorted according to the theory of General Relativity, then you should understand the following example.
If you say team A will beat team B, but team B has a player that had a movie made about him three years ago, then the final score does not matter. Team B can win and your weekly standings are not impac ted because you recognized that player who had a movie made about his life.
Ok I know, quantum physics makes so much more sense. Here is another example. Team A used to have a player who arranged Dog fights. That team should loose and regardless of the final score if you pick the other team to win, you get credit for the win.
So as we head into the conference champion ships, Devin has decided San Francisco to wine because she did not like the way the Falcons played in the last few weeks. Now she actually thinks Atlanta will win, but is choosing Frisco because of the nasty Falcons. In other words she wins either way regardless of what our football pool administrator indicates in my post season nembers.
Oh yes, Baltimore will win because they made a movie about one of their players three years ago. Chicago had to wait 14 years between the movie and the Superbowl, but it could happen.
Devin and I have not been to Las Vegas on a true casino Vegas visit in forever, but I can't wait to take her next year during the regular season and watch her make bets on teams with her new system.
Let It Bloddy Snow
In an effort to illustrate we Americans do not have the corner on snow, Douglas from across the pond sent me some pictures of Chez Nash covered in a blanket of the new fallen stuff. Here is that photo and a link to other winter scenes of his estate. He loves it when I call it an estate.
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