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Wandering through a nearby Menard’s store, I saw some gloves that promised to be warm.

The problem with these is that my wife is allergic to cats, so having cat fur in the house (and on my hands) would not be good.

Normally, fur-lined gloves and hats and stuff are made of rabbit. Cat would be a new one, but there certainly is no shortage of cat-fur supply in this country.

I thought maybe the football game winner prediction metrics might be useful to gain insight into who should win the Super Bowl.

But I could find no correlation between those metrics and the NFL champions in previous years. I went back over the last 7 years. I could have gone back farther, but after the first seven there was nothing to go off.

In 2012 and 2014, the NFC didn’t win any of the 4 categories I was checking, but they won the Super Bowl. Other years, it was mixed among the categories.

For what it’s worth, the Eagles won all 4 of the categories this year. Which means the Patriots should win.

Some questions regarding the usage of certain words in English:

• Shouldn’t one have taliated first, before one can re-taliate?
• Also, something should have been novated earlier, in order to be re-novated.
• And a dress hearsal should happen before a dress re-hearsal.
• How does one linquish something? Once you have linquished something, then you can re-linquish it.

But all of this is stuff you should have membered back in grammar school.

I am amused and perplexed by people who like to dance. I am not one of those people. And I think it’s presumptive of those who are dancy to think that everyone else must be.

My main example of this is the saying “Dance like no one is watching.” I’ve seen it on T shirts and on internet motivational posters. They assume that everyone secretly likes to dance and is held back by the fear of what people will think.

I don’t dance, whether I am by myself or in public. See me standing still? – that is how I dance when no one is watching.

Regular readers of this blog will remember that I switched over to Bing for my default search engine around Thanksgivingtime.

This past weekend, I wanted to cross-check something so I went specifically to Google and searched, and I was surprised to see that they reinstated the feature that had disappeared at Thanksgiving.

So my reason for not using Google does not exist anymore, and it does give better results than Bing. For example, I searched for a football game on Google, and it gave me news articles, video options, relevant items on Twitter, and general information about the upcoming game. I searched for the same thing on Bing, and half of the results looked to be illegal streams of the game.

Okay, okay, it is 2018 at this point, but the results are headlines as 2017 because they match with the 2017 predictions made in 2016 for the 2017 season. Also, the results are not all-haiku, just the predictions were. A more accurate title would be “Results for the All-Haiku Predictions made in 2017”.

Before the bowl games commenced for this past college football season, I made some predictions. Here, for your reading enjoyment, is the tally of those predictions. Note that the results are not in haiku form, in contrast to the predictions.
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My wife saw that the Harlem Globetrotters would be in our arena soon, and she thought it would be fun to take the kids. Tickets were about $20 apiece, so that seemed reasonable for a fun break from the winter weather.

My wife was looking at the tickets and picking out a good section, but I stopped her when I noticed it was through Ticketmaster. They were a major reason I left my last email address – could not get them to stop sending me email, so I abandoned that email address. They’re probably still spamming it. I wanted to setup a temporary email for this transaction, so we could delete it and be free from Ticketmaster spam after our event.

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