Chaos

I'm debating if this is the thing that will push me into getting a PS Portal, or will the latency be too much for even offline play.

Let's just say, this is going to dominate my hour count for the year. Excited to turn Auburn into the power it should be, and become a humble OC for Troy to work my way to the ranks to a top tier job.

I caved and got Balatro on my Switch last night. I'm sure I'll toy with it tonight since I was a bit distracted by the US's Copa game last night. I also have been troubleshooting my turntable to frustrating results.

It was such a frustrating game with brief glimpses of brilliance and inspiration from USMNT, but attacking third/around the box play just completely crumbled every time. Pulisic was getting openly frustrated about bad follow through on set pieces as well.

It was a boneheaded play, and then you quickly go up 1-0. At that point, you should probably focus more on defense to secure the result. Instead, you concede the tying goal four minutes later and spend the rest of the game playing on your heels as your team increasingly tires. This was especially noticeable as commentary frequently highlighted the challenge of playing a man down and the resulting fatigue in tonight's game. Not having Turner in the second half, due to poor play from Panama that caused him to take an ugly landing, did not help matters either. The US mishandled the Berhalter situation after the World Cup, which forced their hand into giving him another shot. Otherwise, I'm not sure he would be the manager heading into the Copa, given the team's performances since then. EDIT: My grammar was not great here, as I wrote it a bit stream of consciousness.

This was the first I've watched any significant amount of AEW in a few months. Although admittedly, I half watched the show while I cooked and also did some work that I have to do before a Monday morning staff meeting. I thought Zero hour was fun, and the crowd seemed amped. It just kind of died off for me after that. I'm about as big of a Danielson mark as anyone, and even that match did not fully click for me. If a match isn't working for me on a certain level, I am more likely to be annoyed by nearfalls that should have been definitive finishes, and I get the story here for Danielson, but he kicked out of at least two legit match enders. I hopped into the discord in the middle of ZSJ and OC and stayed until Moxley/Naito ended. I finally tapped out for the main and will probably watch at some point this week and give a couple of other things a second look. I had never seen Vaquer prior to tonight, and I came away impressed by her. I just think the match was a little long in front of a dead crowd that came alive to turn on Mercedes.

I'm near sighted in one eye and far sighted in the other eye. Depth perception isn't my friend. Also, my late 30s is where my eyesight is starting to wane more than it has. I need to go to the eye doctor and get new glasses, but when does one have the spare $4-500?

I keep hearing people talk about it, and I feel like it's the perfect thing for the Switch I don't play enough, but I've yet to pull the trigger on the $15.

One of my favorite things I've ever experienced live is the Jim James Rock and Soul Superjam at Bonnaroo 2013.

I really enjoyed having this direct on in the background, and I was really surprised by everything. I guess if the Twilight Princess/Wind Waker and Mario Galaxy 2 ports happen, it's going to be next gen.

Punk was the round 2 pick for RAW on the second night of the draft (RAW edition).

My Freshman year of college. I went to Auburn for the Iron Bowl (honk if you sacked Brody), and one of my friends was a pledge at SAE who had gotten us over to their frat house to see whatever iteration of 2 Live Crew existed at the time. That was a wild evening.

My time is so limited, and I never had much luck playing with anyone on here or was too far behind everyone on either D1 or D2. I only completed a couple of Raids on either thanks to running LFG. I saw some streams of this over the week, and I realized I just need to avoid live service games because my time is so limited and my single player backlog is plenty enough. I have games that I started years ago that I'd love to finish. One or two I may start back from the beginning because I forgot how to play or what I was doing. (God of War 2018 comes to mind).

I saw Tyler Childers on Friday in Alpharetta. He was someone I got into right before the pandemic started, and the only show I could have made by the time I was aware of him was a show he and Sturgill did in Birmingham in February of 2020. I was pretty stoked about this one, and I don't think the show disappointed at all. His backing band is incredible, and you can tell they've been playing with him for over a decade now; however, the real treat of the set was the solo acoustic middle of Lady May>Nose on the Grindstone>Follow You to Virgie. I highly recommend checking him out if you're into that brand of Country/Americana at all. The next tickets I have actually purchased are for the co-headlining tour between Nathaniel Rateliff & the NIght Sweats and My Morning Jacket. I'm excited for both, but I'm really excited to get MMJ off of my want to see list. I'm sure I'll maybe squeeze something in before then.

I wish I had played more of the Wii one to have an opinion of it.

I've learned not to ask a lot of my Star Wars content outside of just be engaging and enjoyable. I thought the initial two eps of The Acolyte accomplished that. I'm excited to see where it goes. It does seem that opinions have varied all over the place on it, but many of the reviews also are based on having seen the next two episodes.

Dilfer was on Mac and Cube in Bham a few weeks ago and mentioned that there are some West Coast venture capitalists that want to buy and own some of these college brands. They're just waiting for the opening to do it. With all of these changes, the inevitable super conference, and wild west mentality, this feels like an inevitability within 3-5 years if not sooner.

I may never be productive with my free time again once EA College Football releases. That 4 minute video released today has me more hyped. https://youtu.be/Kf86x8F9M90

Incredible win and incredible scene! Let's see what happens this summer.

That first half was the showing of a great club, which this team is far from that.

Here's hoping Man U can end things on a good note in Wembley today. Ten Hag will be gone as soon as tomorrow regardless.

It's hard for me to get into the cinema these days just because of my own schedule and the extra time committments around making it there. Fury Road is maybe my favorite cinematic experience ever, so I'm not missing this one. I wanted to knock out a couple of other released throughout the month too. Civil War leaves here this week, Challengers I think left last week, so will probably miss that, but Fall Guy, Apes, and maybe one or two more would work.

Apparently, The Fall Guy is already coming to VOD 2 1/2 weeks after it dropped in theaters. I was thinking about renewing A-List this week for Furiosa for $1 and making that one I caught while it was active.

Switch is the one console I still buy physical for just because of how Nintendo stuff holds in value.

I got emotional watching the trailer. You know EA is going to screw it up, but the fact that you hope they won't is what will make you give it a shot.