Hopstretch

Happy Birthday!

Played golf on an actual course for the first time in many moons. Hit it great as is customary after a long layoff, 9/9 GIR and level par. Will of course learn to suck again.

Fun performance and really like their last album.

Eden Hazard continues to be quite good at football. https://streamable.com/dl6du (Bonus for French commentator actually saying "ooh la la!")

The Sprawl trilogy was my bible in the late 80s. Haven't re-read them in decades. Kind of afraid to! "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

Remembering how much this blew me away in 2003. Fun to hear again now.

Yesterday's tritip today. Scramble a few eggs and there's breakfast.

A favorite riff and classic of the band-just-wandering-around-somewhere-cool genre.

Noice! Happy happy Jim!

They're playing my song.

Re: Van. "Woodmobile" "Rolling Lumber" "The Magic Toolbus"

Feng is 11.

Be warned. https://road.cc/content/news/248798-cyclist-who-had-five-bikes-stolen-says-thieves-are-looking-quick-times-strava

My present arrived (delayed in shipping). Some insanely light and delicate handblown Austrian Burgundy glasses. Seen here being christened with some Marcassin. Given that you are talking about a man who has previously managed to spill wine into his friggin’ AirPods case, I wonder how long they will last?

Rough day. Need some serene sounds.

This is what is known as a ridiculous banger. Pure hit, no spin on the ball, knuckles back right inside the post. Oooooooooof. https://streamable.com/0jpkc

I am a sucker for the ultra clean/cold Kanyesque production. Obv. a bit old for the lyrical concerns.

Thanks gents!

Birthday carbs. Yum.

The brute will to surviiiiiiive.

The critics either love or hate this. Me, I love it.

Just let me enjoy the sexy football you big Bayern meanie. We've had two dour, defensive managers in a row with Mourinho and Conte -- so someone like Sarri who wants high energy pressing and fast and vertical ball movement, while allowing flair players like Hazard to use their gifts, is a breath of fresh air at the Bridge. We're playing Liverpool twice in a week at the end of the month and that will probably be the end of the honeymoon.

I love every single thing about this goal. The great pass to break the lines from Rudiger, telepathic dummy from Hazard, one-touch return from Giroud, the little body feint from Hazard that fakes the Cardiff defender out of the 50-50 ball and then a glorious finish past arguably the most in-form keeper in the league. Purest filth, as they say!