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I love mornings! The days just seem so full of potential. I wake up, make my bed, shower, grab my coffee, and sit down at the laptop to do some reading and writing. Glorious! I always say to God, "Thank you Lord for another day."
I've been absolutely hooked on the Bible lately. I read John, John's letters, then started on Luke-- which in turn got me digressed towards Jonah, which I read yesterday, and Zechariah which I've just started. I'm taking tons of notes as I read all of this. Basically anytime Jesus mentions someone or a prophesy, I'm finding myself compelled to go back and read that source material.
In other news, I took Space's sister out driving yesterday in the 2014 WRX ("her car", essentially)-- and she nailed it! We started at the church parking lot, and after many go-arounds she was able to consistently and very easily get the car moving in first. It all culminated in her driving us, in traffic, on slow roads and highways, all the way from the church to Dollar General, and back again. She doesn't quite remember where all the gears are yet, but that will come quickly as I continue to coach her.
I was so confident in her I asked, "Do you want to drive yourself to work?" She wasn't quite up to that yet-- but that day is rapidly approaching, given how quickly her skill is growing. We did have the darned check engine light come on again in that vehicle-- I scanned plus cleared the code when I got home:
I thought all of the O2 sensor replacements had resolved these issues, but apparently not!
In football news, I watched the Cremonese-Sassuolo game yesterday, and holy cow it was the "Romano Floriani Mussolini" show in the final fifteen-odd minutes-- I couldn't believe it! He came on around the 80th minute, and his first action was outmuscling a defender for a long ball, and playing an assist for a goal. The goal was-- in my view incorrectly-- chopped off, VAR having decided that Floriani had fouled the defender.
Minutes later, Cremonese counterattacked after a Sassuolo corner, and Floriani played this magnificent through-ball, only for the attacker to not be able to beat the goal keeper. Minutes after that, he snuck in at the back post, could have scored on a header, chased down the loose ball, was hacked down by a defender, and won his team the game-winning penalty. And to think we let this kid go, albeit just on loan, starting freaking Lazzari and Marusic instead. Plus, Mussolini would have helped with the squad quotas as well, as he is a Primavera product.
Today I'm going to drop Space's sister off at work, pick up Chinese from my favorite place, then eat that while I watch Bologna-Como. I want to see if Como really are that good, or if Lazio simply suck that badly. Oh, and on a Minnesota United front I saw that they sold Tani Oluwaseyi to Villareal for some huge sum of money. I wish Lotito would learn to do this-- it's ok and even good to churn over players, earning capital gains which can be reinvested in the team. Here is a list of all of United's transfer activity this window.
In any event, off to go exercise!
I've been absolutely hooked on the Bible lately. I read John, John's letters, then started on Luke-- which in turn got me digressed towards Jonah, which I read yesterday, and Zechariah which I've just started. I'm taking tons of notes as I read all of this. Basically anytime Jesus mentions someone or a prophesy, I'm finding myself compelled to go back and read that source material.
In other news, I took Space's sister out driving yesterday in the 2014 WRX ("her car", essentially)-- and she nailed it! We started at the church parking lot, and after many go-arounds she was able to consistently and very easily get the car moving in first. It all culminated in her driving us, in traffic, on slow roads and highways, all the way from the church to Dollar General, and back again. She doesn't quite remember where all the gears are yet, but that will come quickly as I continue to coach her.
I was so confident in her I asked, "Do you want to drive yourself to work?" She wasn't quite up to that yet-- but that day is rapidly approaching, given how quickly her skill is growing. We did have the darned check engine light come on again in that vehicle-- I scanned plus cleared the code when I got home:
I thought all of the O2 sensor replacements had resolved these issues, but apparently not!
In football news, I watched the Cremonese-Sassuolo game yesterday, and holy cow it was the "Romano Floriani Mussolini" show in the final fifteen-odd minutes-- I couldn't believe it! He came on around the 80th minute, and his first action was outmuscling a defender for a long ball, and playing an assist for a goal. The goal was-- in my view incorrectly-- chopped off, VAR having decided that Floriani had fouled the defender.
Minutes later, Cremonese counterattacked after a Sassuolo corner, and Floriani played this magnificent through-ball, only for the attacker to not be able to beat the goal keeper. Minutes after that, he snuck in at the back post, could have scored on a header, chased down the loose ball, was hacked down by a defender, and won his team the game-winning penalty. And to think we let this kid go, albeit just on loan, starting freaking Lazzari and Marusic instead. Plus, Mussolini would have helped with the squad quotas as well, as he is a Primavera product.
Today I'm going to drop Space's sister off at work, pick up Chinese from my favorite place, then eat that while I watch Bologna-Como. I want to see if Como really are that good, or if Lazio simply suck that badly. Oh, and on a Minnesota United front I saw that they sold Tani Oluwaseyi to Villareal for some huge sum of money. I wish Lotito would learn to do this-- it's ok and even good to churn over players, earning capital gains which can be reinvested in the team. Here is a list of all of United's transfer activity this window.
In any event, off to go exercise!