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[susandennis]

I'm not at all concerned about ebola. I'm actually getting really tired of hearing about it. News outlets are bending over backwards to explain how very difficult it is to get while, at the same time, talking about how rapidly it spreads.  Seems to be a bit of a disconnect there.  And why/how did the NBC photographer get it - was he playing in somebody's bodily fluids???

I really do spend way too much time listening to news on the radio and tv. Radio and TV news is just mindless. I think my addiction to it is more like not being able to look away from a train wreck.  Not a lovely trait of mine.

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I had a lovely swim this morning. My lesson is coming up on Sunday. I was thinking this morning how lovely it was just to swim with no agenda. I have a feeling that the lesson may well be a waste of time. I could cancel but I don't think I will. I'll just take the lesson, learn new stuff, and use it if I want to. The luxury of being old and responsibility-free.

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The last time Chef Anita was here she left a bunch of roasted salted pumpkin seeds (the inside pit part). A couple of nights ago, for a salad for dinner, I chopped up an apple and tossed in a bunch of these seeds and a tiny bit of mayo and OMG YUM. This is my new favorite thing. Yesterday, I added some chipped chicken to the apple and seeds and a bit more mayo and OMG YUM.  I get on the weird jags every once in a while. Apples and pumpkin seeds isn't even the weirdest one ever.

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I just saw a tweet that Dennis Eckersley is calling the Tigers/Orioles game today. Dennis Eckersley was a great pitcher and a wild character. I hadn't thought about him in years. Guess I'll be tuning in.  Baseball, it seems, this season, I can't quit you!

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I still need to get a flu shot.

Comments

[jwg.livejournal.com]

I tried to get a flu shot today but they were out of the over 65 version.

[susandennis]

Wait. We get our own Senior Special Flu?? Cool. I love it when they pander to the old people.

[galebird.livejournal.com]

The ebola thing is annoying more for the loony toons calling it the end times than anything else, for me. The ignorance is staggering. I am more worried about the enterovirus that's knocking down kids than I am about stinking ebola, and even that is just an awareness and vigilance... I'm not filling up the doomsday bunker and buying Walmart out of shotguns, blaming Obama the whole way down. ;)

Ahem. Sorry for the wee rant.

I love Eckersley. He's a great guy.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Plus some of my more paranoid-lefty friends are expressing the view that the government must of necessity be lying about how low the risk is here.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Eckersley has been employed by NESN (Red Sox TV network) for quite a few years, mostly as a pre- and post-game studio analyst, but with occasional duty as in-game color guy. He's knowledgeable (especially about pitching, as one would expect) and fun, although I don't think I'd want to listen to him every day all season. (He's certainly more interesting than regular color guy Jerry Remy, but that's pretty low bar.) I didn't catch enough of either game to hear what he has to say about the Tigers' bullpen, but I'll bet he has to be careful to censor himself.

I wrote somewhere, before this series started, that although I was rooting for the Tigers, I expected them to have trouble because of their bullpen. I didn't expect to be quite as right about that as I've been so far.

And I'm wondering how many more extra-inning games in a row the Royals can win.

(All right, enough LJ-hijacking for one morning.)