February 2017 – Sisyphus Project

Oscar Night in America

I don’t think it was a setup, or fake news if you will. After all, the screw up on announcing the Oscar for best movie cast PricewaterhouseCoopers in a bad light. The reputation of any of the giant accounting firms is important (as in worth a lot of money) to them, so I doubt PWC would go along with a fake announcement.

It might have been a legitimate mistake. Mistakes do happen, or so I’ve heard.

On the other hand, perhaps “La La Land” won the popular vote, but “Moonlight” carried the Electoral College.

Things I Want (or Need) to Know

Can you believe that nine years of this nonsense passed on Friday, without notice?

Has the website Floridaman.com ceased operation? Looks like it. It’s a website that chronicled the adventures of some of the idiots who do idiotic things in Florida. First, they didn’t post anything for four weeks. Now, if you type the URL, there’s a note for the domain owner to contact the ISP.

Burger King, in its recent TV commercials has been touting its breakfast Croissan’wich made with “100% butter. I don’t understand. Wouldn’t a Croissan’wich made with 100% butter be butter, rather than a Croissan’wich?

There were 19 slices of bacon in each of the last three packages of Oscar Mayer bacon consumed in my family. I don’t know about you, but when I have bacon for breakfast, I usually eat six slices, because I have no self-control, and six is the number that fits comfortably in my largest frying pan. Depending on the size of your frying pan, and your level of self-control, you may eat anywhere from two slices up. I don’t know anyone who has enough self-control to eat only one slice of bacon. But all this leads me to one question: do the people who sell Oscar Mayer bacon know that 19 is a prime number?

Amanda Knox claimed she had a lesbian experience in an Italian prison. Why on earth did that qualify for the front page of the NY Daily News?

Do people who live in Australia refer to the United States as “up over?”

Are the chickens who manufacture the eggs we eat for breakfast trying to discourage us from eating them every day? The reason I ask is there are seven days in a week, but eggs are sold in multiples of six.

What if there’s a guy with a heavy Indian accent, and a very American sounding name who actually does work for Microsoft support?

I’ve been battling a miserable cold. You know, the kind where you go to bed and sleep, but in a couple of hours, you wake up basically drowning because of post-nasal drip. This made me realize that post-nasal drip is a misnomer. Shouldn’t it be pre-nasal drip, since it comes out before it gets to your nose?

Things I Know

This isn’t a complaint, by any means, but I have noticed that the lady on the cover of Sports Illustrated’s 2017 swimsuit issue isn’t wearing a whole swimsuit.

The Powerball jackpot this Saturday night is $349,000,000! And, since Monday is a holiday, if any of us win, we can’t collect until Tuesday. Just in time, I have a new plan. If I win, I will jump on the bed, but that won’t be the first thing I do. First, I’ll giggle all day Sunday, and all day Monday as well.

Black Sabbath recently performed its “Final Concert” in the pioneer heavy-metal band’s hometown of Birmingham, UK. So many performers have had much-ballyhooed final appearances, and then continued appearing, that I hereby propose a new law: Once you’ve charged extra for a final appearance, you are no longer allowed to charge admission to any other shows you give for the rest of your life. Maybe Black Sabbath will never do another concert, who knows?

I don’t want to stamp out live shows. I want to do away with faux final appearances. For example, I don’t know how many final appearances Barbra Streisand has made so far, but she’s got at least nine shows scheduled in 2017.

My wife and daughter both have jobs meeting the public. I don’t. I got a flu shot. They didn’t. All three of us got the flu. But between Tamiflu and the fact that I got a flu shot, I was only sick for 48 hours. They were sick for a week or more. Flu shots and Tamiflu are both great stuff. I recommend them highly. My wife told me that if she doesn’t get a flu shot on her own this fall, I should drag her by the hair to get one. I want her to get a flu shot, but me dragging her by the hair is never going to happen.

Congratulations to our son, and our daughter-in-law. They are in contract to purchase their first house.

It might change in the future, but for now, I’m making a conscious effort not to discuss President Trump too much. I didn’t vote for him, but he did win the election. I do hope he calms down. If he’s going to be the leader of the free world, he’s way too sensitive to criticism and way too defensive.

Post Game Analysis

So, which Super Bowl ad did you like best? I liked Peter Fonda’s ad for Mercedes AMG. I think you have to be a certain age to like that commercial, which I am. I believe you must be wealthy for it to have the desired effect; I am not.

Ground Hog’s Day in Punxsutawney

What’s the point of Ground Hog’s Day?

I’m talking about the day, not the movie, which is kind of funny. Doesn’t Punxsutawney Phil always see his shadow because of TV lights? Punxsutawney Phil is a fraud too, because according to Google Maps, Gobbler’s Nob is actually just outside the boundaries of the borough of Punxsutawney. Also, the same map shows Punxsutawney is not far from Alaska, so it should be cold there at this time of year. I mean Alaska, Pennsylvania, of course.

I’ve been to western Pennsylvania, more than once. I was tired of Winter before it started. I’d like Spring to start soon too, but to the best of my knowledge, Spring has never showed up in Punxsutawney, PA, in early February.

So, what’s the point of Ground Hog’s Day?