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[Louanne Learning]

I picked up a pumpkin cream latte cake at the grocery store today.

 

[Set2Stun]

You can feel it in the air. It's pumpkin spice szn.

I slept in late today, and loved it. Think I will just spent the afternoon with my PS5 and my cat and do my best to avoid spoilers for the baseball game (I want to watch it in the evening).

Sports talk! I love when it all comes down to big moments like this. The last games of the season are being played this afternoon. The Blue Jays and Yankees are tied at the top of the American League, though the Blue Jays hold the tiebreaker. So, the season will end with these possible scenarios:

-both teams win their games, and the Jays win the AL via the tiebreaker
-both teams lose their games, with the same result
-Jays win and Yankees lose, Jays win the AL
-Jays lose and Yankees win, Yankees win the AL

Let's go Jays !

 

[Homer Potvin]

Let's go Jays !

Red Sox! Red Sox! Red Sox!

 

[Set2Stun]

Oh man, just finished the replay of the Jays game. Loved the ups and downs. 5-1? Let's go! 5-4? Uh oh! But we got 'em.

 

[Tallyfire]

I've never watched a baseball game. Always wanted to go to a college game when visiting the States, though.

 

[GrahamLewis]

I've never watched a baseball game. Always wanted to go to a college game when visiting the States, though.

Come to Omaha NE in June and watch the College World Series.

 

[Kerrin]

Baseball is such a weird sport. The rules of the game are simple but the culture surrounding the sport and the structure of the season make no sense to me at all. I've been to a dozen or so games and every time something genuinely exciting happens on the field, it seems like hardly anybody is paying attention.

But then again I'm an indoor football / arenaball fan so obviously the weirdo is me.

 

[Link the Writer]

SBS (short bowel syndrome) update.

Ok, so weight went down drastically after cutting back to just two bags. Bummer but not to worry, back to three bags and figuring out how to shove as many calories in my gut without needing to eat round the clock at work.

I honestly like and don’t like my SBS. Part of me has fun with it by mentally calling my pump “Sir Pumpsalot” and putting google eyes in the pole’s arms.

What? We gotta have fun right? Somehow?

 

[GrahamLewis]

Another Scrabble story. I play the word "mon", usually seen as an alternate spelling of "man," and pluralized "men." But there is also the word "mons", a fleshy body protuberance. But that's not obvious from the dictionary. If my play is left alone, I will add the "s" and put the word "squid" across to the triple word box, and likely win the game. Wife asks, with wide-eyed innocence, "can you add an 's' to 'mon'?"

I cannot lie so I refuse to answer. But of course my non-answer gives it away, and she wins the game.

Damn.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Another Scrabble story. I play the word "mon", usually seen as an alternate spelling of "man," and pluralized "men." But there is also the word "mons", a fleshy body protuberance. But that's not obvious from the dictionary. If my play is left alone, I will add the "s" and put the word "squid" across to the triple word box, and likely win the game. Wife asks, with wide-eyed innocence, "can you add an 's' to 'mon'?"

I cannot lie so I refuse to answer. But of course my non-answer gives it away, and she wins the game.

Damn.

mons is a valid Scrabble word. I just checked my online Scrabble dictionary

 

[Homer Potvin]

Another Scrabble story. I play the word "mon", usually seen as an alternate spelling of "man," and pluralized "men." But there is also the word "mons", a fleshy body protuberance. But that's not obvious from the dictionary. If my play is left alone, I will add the "s" and put the word "squid" across to the triple word box, and likely win the game. Wife asks, with wide-eyed innocence, "can you add an 's' to 'mon'?"

I cannot lie so I refuse to answer. But of course my non-answer gives it away, and she wins the game.

Damn.

Well, you can add many things to the ol mons, in a manner of speaking.

 

[Kerrin]

Isn't "mons" just a term for a mountain? cf. "Olympus Mons", the largest mountain in the solar system (on Mars).

 

[GrahamLewis]

Well, you can add many things to the ol mons, in a manner of speaking.

I didn't think that one would get past you, Homer

 

[GrahamLewis]

mons is a valid Scrabble word. I just checked my online Scrabble dictionary

mons is a valid Scrabble word. I just checked my online Scrabble dictionary

I knew that, but she didn't. Her quick perusal stopped at whether an "s" could be added to "mon" -- to can't -- but there is a separate entry for "mons" further down.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Mons Venus comes to mind. Is that a thing?

 

[GrahamLewis]

Mons Venus comes to mind. Is that a thing?

Ask Homer

 

[Louanne Learning]

Ask Homer

Why? Is it a specialty at the best places?

 

[Kerrin]

Mons Venus comes to mind. Is that a thing?

I thought it was "Veneris"

 

[Louanne Learning]

I thought it was "Veneris"

You're right! My memory is not so good. I think there is a Mons pubis, too.

 

[Homer Potvin]

Mons pubis

Yahtzee!