Oct 18

Another Monday, it’s been a busy weekend. My son moved out into his first apartment. It is just in the next building. He got new furniture and it looks really nice. We’ve been moving odds and ends over throughout the whole weekend, but we got all of the big stuff over. Every time he comes over, we seem to have stuff we’re pawning off to him. I don’t think he realized that he had so much stuff. Most of it is toys for the baby, but we gave them a lot of pots and pans. Next time, it’s going to be dishes and glasses and stuff like that. Our place is looking very empty now. But, we only have a few more weeks in it before we move. Most of our remaining stuff is going to storage. So, it won’t be as big of a move when we try to fit it all into one weekend.
My eldest daughter had a rough weekend. Her first boyfriend is incarcerated in juvenile detention. She told me what it was for, but I don’t remember. She swears up and down that he has changed and is going to turn his life around when he gets out. But, he received an 8 hour pass on Saturday to get out. It’s a preparatory program to ease him back into civilization. So, their plan was for him to spend about a half hour with his mom and then my daughter was going to come over and they would spend some time together. (Supervised by his mother of course, he isn’t supposed to leave her house without her being there to watch him.) Well, his mother had other plans. She picked him up and took him out to eat and then to visit with their relatives. My poor daughter was stuck at her grandmother’s house for the whole day waiting for him to call her to come over. Then, her phone dies and she couldn’t find a charger. They didn’t get to see each other, but they did get to talk on the phone. She was so depressed.
The Broncos lost again. They are now 2-4. They were playing the Jets, and they had the game won. There was less than two minutes to play. The Jets had the ball in their territory. It was fourth down and the quarterback throws a desperate Hail Mary pass down towards the end zone. All we had to do was not let the pass be completed and it would have been our ball. We could have run out the clock and we would have won. But, down on the one or two yard line, both the wide receiver and the defender were falling backwards, the ball was short. On their way down, our guy reaches out to make sure he wouldn’t catch it and grabs hold of his face mask. They got the call and they got it down on the one. Of course they scored. We had a chance to come back. There was a minute and thirty seconds on the clock, plenty of time. We start driving down the field. Everything was going ok until the rookie center snapped the ball way to the left. The Jets recovered it and that was all she wrote. Very disappointing. We play the Raiders next week at home, hopefully we can break our losing streak. We have a lot of divisional games coming up and we need the wins.
Because of the move and stuff, I’m only a third of the way through the re-read. I want to get it done this week so I can send it to the editor. So, I’m putting Foreigner, Chicago, and Boston on the playlist. Time to get started.
-Thom