Sorry, Goose, but it’s time to buzz the tower…

Read it, don’t read it, I don’t care…just needed to get some things off my chest.

In no particular order of chronology or importance…

On the clock.  No, not an airplane cast.  Late afternoon.  Super-speed version.  Let’s turn and burn.

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1. Greetings and salutations, people.  Thanks for coming aboard (the boat).  I need to take care of stuff before work tomorrow, so whereas the Sunday cast is typically a long cast…not today.  One sentence per hook.  If you are a newbie and want deeper material, come back another time.  Let’s move.
2. The USA volleyball team is presently getting smoked by CANADA as I sit here on a Sunday afternoon.
3. Someday, someone is going to ask what the first medal was given out in Rio, and tell your friends it was a USA person in rifle.
4. So, Pele couldn’t make the opening ceremonies, but Gisele and that weird guitar player COULD?  
5. AND I have to hear about how Tom Brady went 25 for 25 in a PRACTICE.
6. I have so much respect for Boston fans, and that opinion is FIRMLY enhanced by three people at my work.
7. Greg.  
8. Maggie ( on left).  
9. And of course…Baxter.  
10. We talkin’ about practice.  
11. I don’t know what I am talking about…I have a man crush list.
12. Damon, JT, Brady, Walhberg. Pitt.  
13. Someone I hung out with this weekend had their OWN man crush list, and we agreed on #2…Clooney, JT, Pitt, Denzel.
14. Clooney?  
15. Denzel comes in at #9 on mine…getting old.
16. Déjà vu is a movie we need a flow chart for.  
17. Training Day is EPIC…and although I didn’t have a blog back at that time, I CALLED him winning best actor the moment I walked out of the theater.  
18. Lindsey sometimes makes the mistake of putting ANY documentary about Allen Iverson on and I just become INVESTED.
19. MY guy aside from Zeke.  
20. Had maybe the most amazing third quarter EVER in history in the playoffs.
21. Am I the only one who watched the women’s 4X100 last night AND is excited for the men’s tonight?
22. Ledecky couldn’t have made up that ground.  
23. Maybe, but EVERYONE tune in Tuesday to watch Missy and Katie intersect.
24. Not sure why I said “intersect” right there, but kind of like it…200 free.
25. In three weeks, I get to meet Lindsey’s grandparents, go to Lock’N festival, and show her the GROUNDS of the greatest university on this planet.  
26. We are already going, but $140 for ONE day at Lock’N?  Wow.  We picked Saturday as we could only do one day and I have seen Phish enough times.  
27. Mark Teixeira is retiring this year and he will be a HELL of a trivia question someday.
28. Borderline but not HOF’er, but still one of the best 10 first basemen ever.  
29. You can love your own team, but the Steelers love in showing a SCRIMMAGE on main TV Friday  (ESPN) was pretty amazing.
30. I love the Steelers, love the passion, but just don’t like other Steelers fans.
31. “Mark, where are you watching the game this weekend?”
32. “On my couch by myself.”
33. When I think of how few things I accomplished on my to do list this weekend, I remember that I am out of town NEXT weekend so therefore won’t be doing those things NEXT weekend either.
34. Winter Park is such a fun place.  
35. Blue Print is a new location that opened in Uptown that might be worth checking out.
36. More data to come as I like the place even though it is a little uppity for my taste.  
37. I really don’t like ANY place that has a table cloth on its tables.
38. Unless they serve PBR for $3.
39. Retrograde is a speakeasy in the back of Frozen Matter ice cream store that is worth checking out…get the Fox Mulder.  
40. We watched the Real Sports special on the IOC and Olympics and Lindsey has a hard time in watching them now.
41. It didn’t stop us last night from everyone picking a lane to bet on in swimming last night.  
42. Yesterday was a “I went to brunch and then…” day.
43. If you weren’t called by Lindsey on my phone last night from my phone…then you and I need to talk more…or less.
44. LOVE that her phone calls reunited me with THIS guy…guarded my bar for over ten years while I tended.
45. Can’t say his name nor show his picture as he is kind of a big deal.
46. Black Hawk Down shit kind of friend…
47. So, I had to wear a banana hammock when I was a kid, they advanced to more complete body covering suits in the early 2000’s, and now we are back to skimpy stuff?
48. Full circle.
49. You can love or hate Brett Favre and I didn’t really appreciate how he handled his career, but…the dude came to beat you whether it was preseason or the Super Bowl.  
50. Replaced a UVA guy at QB.  Trivia.  Tell your friends.  
51. I didn’t realize I was supposed to lose sleep over whether Saban or Harbaugh was more liked.
52. Criminal is NEXT on my must see movie list.  
53. WHY didn’t anyone tell me that Focus was a movie that was made for ME?  
54. Lindsey now has the remote, and Rules of Engagement is a show that actually made my vows.  
55. And Patrick Warburton is my guy.
56. My big announcement in one sentence form is that Margot Robbie is now in my top five…Scarlett, Halle, Megan, and now Robbie.  
57. I know that Seinfeld is the greatest comedy of all time, but every time I see him live (like on Jimmy Fallon) he is SO cocky.
58. Stick to the show, Jerry.
59. He is still funny live as I have seen him, but the SHOW is the key.  BOSCO.  
60. Seth Rogen and Jimmy Fallon in a lip sync battle was EPIC.  
61. Watching Rules of Engagement and think I will take to The Bank approach.
62. Jimmy Fallon doing thank you notes every Friday is seriously one of my favorite things in life.  
63. So, the A’s suck AND have hidden cameras?
64. Is anyone excited for Ballers tonight besides me?  
65. And I LOVE the theme song, no matter how dated it is.
66. I think I would like to see Justin Tucker try an 85 yard field goal in a game.
67. Mexico City Lounge is a little ghetto, and the drinks and food were ok, but still mostly confused how their “smothered” burrito was covered with very thin, watery green chile.
68. If you notice a decrease in my pics in my blog moving forward, you need to follow me on Instagram as once again…I am a weekend addict.
69. Mom, you can literally track my movements on weekends on Instagram.  Get an account if you are curious, or don’t get one if you are scared.
70. Since I played with the dog for like 2 hours and love dogs in general, I really, really hope Matt from the Tributary Bar finds his dog, Rue.  Google it if you haven’t heard.
71. Again, I had NO idea that Cheba Hut served drinks, and WHY did they stop the $3 Car Bomb special suddenly?
72. I need to have the off the menu Death Star next time.
73. Casey is a colleague who just moved three blocks from me.  
74. Seriously, how can I NOT like this guy.  He posed with a statue.  
75. He had the Death Star.
76. He also SMOKED me at bags after we smoked the ladies in doubles, and I owe him two full rounds…at Williams…which will be $10 plus tip if I time it right.  
77. This is my cat when we let him outside for the first time.  
78. We find out about Charlie this week.  
79. There might have been two other times he was let out accidentally.
80. This guy was responsible for one of them.  
81. Lindsey thought Wildfire (girl on left) came out of the clouds, but Wildfire is actually one of Nelson DeMille’s novels.
82. When are you writing another novel with John Corey, Nelson?  
83. We find out this week if we get this gal…remember my Indian name is…Two Cat Mark.  
84. Wild Fire, can’t wait to record our new hand symbol.
85. Does anyone else think the main guy from Big Bang Theory and my best friend look a little similar?  
86. 
87. After the amount of compliments Lindsey got last time for her dress, and after a few pops yesterday during the unending Saturday, Lindsey is all over Lexington Avenue clothing and I love everything on there personally.
88. Lindsey informed me that Belize had a horrible hurricane hit it this weekend, and I reminded her that when I open a bar in the Caribbean in 10 years, it is cool BUT also in the hurricane hot zone.
89. Still going there.  I remember buying a 12 pack and sitting on a beach in VA Beach during Hurricane Gloria just riding it out by the ocean.
90. Seriously, betting lanes in the Olympics on a Saturday was a LOT of fun.
91. About to start a separate poker game…concentrating on fun, wrecking the host’s place,talking mad smack, and coming in at $75 instead of $150…
92. Who is interested?
93. First game is the 19^th.  
94. When the Yankees get rid of A-Rod, I will not have ONE single cell in my body that cares that he is exiting stage left.
95. I am mad I missed witnessing a 58 by the weirdest swing in golf, but more proud that when I told my lady about it, she said “the ugly guy with the weird swing???”  
96. Lindsey got a prime rib sandwich at Avenue Grill today, and I still have not eaten a prime rib sandwich since I ate at the White House in Aspen.  
97. Not liked a burger besides Humboldt’s since eating at Justice Snow’s.  
98. So, I now have two people who want to go hit balls with me (Ralph and Amit) and I honestly can’t wait to hit again.
99. And also can’t wait to get my groove back and destroy people.
100. Ask me about my state semi-final tennis story.
101. Playing piano again, Lindsey asks why I wear the earphones, and I just say “I will let you hear me play when I am 50% back.”
102. …could be a while babe.
103. So, Lindsey now loves penguins too, meaning we will have two cats, 5 dogs, a pig, an elephant…and a penguin.
104. Do NOT watch the Olympics guy who breaks his leg on the vault.
105. Of course, you just watched it since I said that…bet you will stop at one time like I did.
106. In finances, Bryan Szabatura still not only owes me $40, but hasn’t even MENTIONED the debt since I first reminded him about it.  
107. None.  Sorry, Rudy.
108. Actually, NO prizes for anyone, BUT I promise a random 5 prize contest on Tuesday or Wednesday…more to come.  Stay tuned.
109. That’s it for today. Will I blog tomorrow?  That is a CLOWN question, bro.
110. It is tough to write 6 times a week, folks…Ben and Amit were all excited to write for this thing and I got TWO articles in two weeks…and they want to be my partner in crime…ha..