Thursday miscellanea #365

• I decided to watch The Visit, M. Night Shyamalan’s latest, by myself as a Tuesday nightcap. I liked it quite a bit. Genuinely creepy, but keeps a healthy and appropriate sense of humor. If you think from the trailer that you’d enjoy it, you will.
• It is now clear that the Browns will fire Johnny Manziel as soon as is practical. Yes, he’s an adult, responsible for his own actions, blah blah blah. Even so, I saw Dad as a big problem three years ago, and I still do.
• On a much more grave football note, it seems Kenny Stabler had chronic traumatic encephalopathy. I hope the equipment and protocol measures we’re undertaking are effective. I also hope we can develop ways of measuring progress without needing a dead football player to do so (i.e. it’d be great if we could tell something useful about CTE from a 28-year-old who’s been playing for five years, which we currently can’t). I’m going to need this problem solved for me to continue following football. Yes, I just said that.
• I’m losing steadily, and for that I’m thankful, but I’m probably not going to collect on my first foray into Diet Bet. Enjoy, Paula!
• A new favorite trick: use broad slices of bell pepper as sandwich bread. Works great with turkey and Swiss.
• We saw a new Prius in the metal for the first time this past weekend. I’m glad we weren’t coming from lunch. Profile not bad, but a face only a mother could love. The outgoing generation is a spectacular sexpot compared to the new one.
• Mostly seasonal temps on deck, but as I type the forecast is sun and mid-50s for Sunday. Go for a walk before the game.

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