I realized this morning that I’ve barely seen my family in the last two weeks. I mentioned last week that I had a conference to travel to and then an offsite meeting for work. Well, there have been developments…
I went to the conference two weeks ago and got back late on a Friday. Everyone had a busy weekend last week and then it was off to a two-day offsite meeting for work (far enough a way that it involved a hotel stay). Then I got back and guess what happened… I tested positive for COVID.
I KNEW it was going to be that damn conference that would do it. So I’ve had to isolate for the last five days with today being my last day. But what is maybe even more frustrating is that I had a streak. I got through 2.5 years without it (unless I had it with no symptoms) and it’s work that does it. It makes me feel like a dummy but it shouldn’t.
Hopefully I can take this hybrid immunity and outlast it for another good chunk of time.
Hope you are enjoying your weekend!
The Review
Here’s what happened on the blog last week:
- Monday: Orlando Hudson
- Tuesday: Frank Catalanotto, Dave Rajsich
- Wednesday: Jeff Jackson
- Thursday: Dave Van Gorder
- Friday: Steve Kemp
- Saturday: Rafael Novoa
- Sunday: Ken Ryan
No theme this week so I was just digging through the oldest of my backlog. I think I’ll probably be doing that for a while going forward unless something strikes me worthy of a theme. There was a theme to the #twofortuesday posts… they were all Texas Rangers.
The Preview
Here’s what I have coming up for this week:
- Monday: At your Becker and call…
- Tuesday: I like a-Muser-ment parks…
- Tuesday: Harkey, who goes there?
- Wednesday: Roenicke and Stimpy…
- Thursday: Slam Kunkel…
- Friday: Kirby Your Enthusiasm…
- Saturday: Lucas out below…
- Sunday: Dirty, Broten, Filthy, Stinkin’…
OK after a week of super generic clues, I think these are the exact opposite. I worked in all last names for these. Not that they are all distinctive, but if you know common TTM names you could probably guess these in at max a couple tries I think. Looks like maybe a Chi-town theme to the #twofortuesday this week.
Other Notes
To add onto having COVID, it was pretty much a crap week of returns. I don’t mean that with regard to what I got… I never mean it that way because I always appreciate what I get. From a numbers perspective it was disappointing. Nine returns… that’s a really bad week.
After a couple weeks of some good returns I thought I was off of this up and down stretch I’d been on. October seemed to be looking up. It’s now got a week to redeem itself.
There was only one straggler and that was Matt Treanor at 486 days. Everything else was under 60 days. I didn’t get back any paid returns or anything like that.
The Recent TTM Success page is updated.
Have a great week!