Dominated
So I’m sitting at home after a trip to rural PA. I banged my foot up during the trip, so I am neither at the game nor at my usual Steelers bar.
Bah. Bah bah bah. Props to the Ravens, who are beating the snot out of my team. They are playing text book smash mouth football and just dominating my Steelers. The Defense is outsmarting the Pittsburgh offensive line; the Ravens offense (which for years was an oxymoron) has been going through our defense way too easily. It’s midway through the 3rd quarter and Ben R has been sacked 5 times already.
So it’s a great day for Ravens fans. A very bad day for Steelers fans. But that is how it goes. Sooner or later the Steelers will have another string of excellent football days, but it sure looks like it might be a while. The loss today pretty definitively shows that the Steelers aren’t doing anything this play-off season. It’s pretty scary to think of what the Ravens will be doing this play-off season, but if today is any indication, they will be doing something big. Congrats to the long-suffering Ravens fans, who have a hell of lot to cheer about!
Ouch
So, I was hanging out with the Tattoo Artist, his finance Ms V, and Dr Foot and his wife the night of Thanksgiving. Ms V had just put her 3 year old (who is soooo soooo super adorable) to bed. The hallway lights were out, to facilitate the youngin’ falling asleep. I was walking to the bathroom after a few drinks, and didn’t notice that the bathroom has a small step up. At least, I didn’t notice at first. I sure noticed it after I’d smashed my right foot into it- o u c h!!! I was hopping around on my left foot, trying not to make a sound in order to avoid waking up the 3 year old. The wee one slept on, and I spent the rest of the night hob-nobbing and hobbling around with an ice pack. Now I am sporting a fashionable surgery shoe and my right foot is a lovely mottled blue/grey/green, but it’s improving a lot and I should be fine in another few days, I think.
It was enormous fun to spend time with my PA friends. One of my old Pittsburgh housemates, Jake, just moved back into our hometown area. He borrowed a car and joined us later on in the evening- it was so good to see him! I hadn’t seen him in nearly a decade, and he’s hardly changed at all. He came in sporting cowboy boots and his hair is a little longer- otherwise perhaps he’s sold his soul in order to remain looking 25 perpetually? He and I talked long into early morning hours, just catching up after so much time. Our hosts had long gone to bed when Jake left. We couldn’t get the door lock to open, doh!
Jake got to the house via a borrowed car and left via the living room window. Good times! A little like the old days, ha.
OK, the game is just about over. This has been a Ravens wet-dream come true, I don’t think there is team that the Ravens hate more than the Steelers (the old time fans might hate Indy more, but overall I’m pretty sure the Steelers are the #1 enemy). Well, they certainly earned this game. Time to hop off and get outside for a while.




