Planning Games for an Adult Birthday Party – Revised March 2020

Yep, he is turning 67 this year and we were throwing a party Sunday he may forever remember.  Or since he is turning senile, he may not remember anything.

Using Cisco and Skype technology, we will allow anyone to the virtual party.

As with kid’s parties, the selection of games to play is very important.

What party games would you prefer to play, ladies and gentlemen?

1. Find the Banana
2. Things Donald Trump would Say or Do
3. Hide the Zucchini
4. Card Tricks with Leland
5. Nasty Deeds with the Birthday Boy
6. Old Fashioned Scavenger Hunt
7. Bury the Beaver
8. Finding Baby Jesus
9. Dancing with Mister Jelly
10. Guess the Final Score
11. Kickball — Shirts vs. Skins
12. Oakland Raiders at Santa Clara 49ers
13. Drinking Games
14. Read-My-Mind
15. Spin-the-Bottle
16. Charades
17. Russian Roulette – This game should be played last as a few guests, the birthday boy, or the hosts will be eliminated.

 

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Case to Include the UCF (University of Central Florida) Football Team into the Final Four National Championship Playoffs

UCF is undefeated. Only four college football squads remain undefeated. If their North Carolina Tar Heels game was not cancelled because of a hurricane, UCF would be 11-0 also having soundly beaten a team from the Atlantic Coast Conference, that includes undefeated Clemson Tigers and other colleges that have upset higher ranked teams.

Not only would this outcome be righteous, but it would eliminate any controversy about allowing one team over another school with a similar record, which had lost one or two games this season, from being included into the four-team playoff. Why should one single-loss team be chosen over another? This would be an objective, not subjective committee decision.

How else could UCF prove it is on-par with the Notre Dames and Alabamas of the world unless there was an actual match-up on the field.

Another reason to select UCF is based not only on their unbeaten performance but also their outstanding defensive and offensive prowess. Could Clemson, Notre Dame, or Alabama hold back UCF’s potent offense?

Not only is undefeated UCF deserving of a crack at the playoffs, having the longest two-season winning streak, and they are an exciting team to watch. Their entertainment value is very high.

Selecting UCF this post-season would give over 200 colleges hope that in coming years that they too could play for the National Championship.

Honestly, using the same ol’ measuring sticks and computer-generated models, the committee has ‘sort of screwed up’ for the last two years.

• In 2016, Ohio State was selected as the fourth team and they got smoked (shutout) in the first round.
• No team from the Big Ten in 2017, like Ohio State, was chosen last year in favor (giving the appearance of SEC conference bias and favoritism) allowing two of the four teams to be from the very same conference in a tournament that is supposedly a NATIONAL Championship playoff.

(For God’s sake) Look at their statistics:

1. UCF has a quarterback with a marvelous 161.9 rating. No professional quarterback has even achieved this very high rating over the course of ten and eleven games!
2. McKenzie Milton has passed for 24 touchdowns and thrown only 5 interceptions during ten games! He has also run for 9 touchdowns on 74 carries for close to 300 yards. Keep in mind that quarterback sacks and kneel-downs behind the line of scrimmage figure into statistics of those 291 total yards gained by running.
3. The UCF has a total of 31 rushing touchdowns this season; that is an average of three per game. They have an average of 5.8 yards per carry with 444 carries totaling 2,577 yards. Few college teams have rushed for more than 250 yards every game!
4. UCF’s place-kicker has NOT missed an extra point all year long! Matthew Wright is 58 for 58 and has scored 88 points (8.8/game). His longest field goal was from 47 yards. Not even Notre Dame’s career record-breaking senior kicker  – Justin Yoon – cannot boast these kinds of accuracy statistics this season.
5. Statistics and algorithms can lie. If the Selection Committee ignores objective selection criteria (simply wins and losses) they are going to make mistakes again and continually be open to both valid and irrational rounds of criticism.
6. UCF’s passing offense is also very exciting. They have scored 25 touchdowns by the pass (that is 56 TDs in all). Very few college teams have averaged more than 5 touchdowns a game. They average 17.8 yards a pass play. In their first ten games, UCF has amassed 2,715 yards with 183 catches!

Three receivers have made more than 35 catches, four more players have more than 15 receptions this far, and as previously mentioned UCF’s turnover ratio is phenomenal.

Take note that this analysis and recommendation is coming from a 64 year-old lifetime college football fan that grew up in South Bend, graduated with two degrees from a Big Ten Conference school in Southern Indiana, and am a huge, huge Coach Jim Harbaugh (University of Michigan and former Stanford and San Fran 49er) fan.

Of course, I would root for Michigan to be chosen over another one-loss team (the Wolverines only lost to Notre Dame on-the-road by a touchdown) if there was not another deserving undefeated team.

 

Fact: UCF is Undefeated at 10-0

 

Come on man! Please NCAA Selection Committee (please) be more objective and allow the three-game national championship playoff scheme to crown an undisputed national event. Even the “March Madness” national basketball tournament gives smaller college programs a chance to win and succeed.

Johnny Lattner

 

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Medi-Cal and “Obama-Care” Hassling Sick Writer in Nor Cali

Just wondering why my care “runs out” tomorrow . . .

 

Convalescent and Rehabilitation Center with Personal Health Crises 11/11/2016

at Cedar Crest, Sunnyvale / Generations Healthcare

VISION = NEAR-SIGHTED ASTIGMATISM

No corrective lenses

PSYCHOLOGICAL

Tuesdays 9:00 therapy at PAMF with Dr. Link

NUTRITION

Bought vitamins last week

UNDER-WEIGHT

Target  Post-Bariatric surgery = 187; currently less than 167

HYPERTENSION

NOT taking 3 meds. normally prescribed

PAIN MANAGEMENT

Next visit with Dr. Peter Wu on 12-2-2016 at PAMF

BROKEN HAND

Cast to remain on until Friday, November 18, 2016

G I ISSUES

 

ALLERGIES

No antihistamines administered since left El Camino Hospital

ASTHMA

not taking Q-Var as done by self daily

PNEUMONIA

RECOVERED after 5 days of hosp. Treatments at El Camino, Mt. View 10-28 to  11-2-16; 5^th case since 2003

LUNG BLOOD CLOTS & FRACTALS

Developed October 12; lung/lower ribs sore again today 11-13-2016

FEVERS 4 TIMES,  LAST DURING EVENING OF SAT. NOV. 12^TH

EAR, NOSE & THROAT

• Could see Dr. Melinda Moir at PAMF; 
• Had hoarseness since Sept. 30th; 
• Wish to sing with Tongan SFoA EPA Choir on Christmas Eve, Menlo Church   Chancel Choir on Christmas Eve Eve, and Christmas morning with John & Co.  At St. Raymond’s Menlo Park

FEET; MUST make appt. To see DR. KRIS at PAMF

BAD KNEES MUST SEE DR. JAMES HARTMAN AT PAMF

After Thanksgiving, 3 injections planned

PHYSICAL THERAPY

Needed for back: 8 degenerative discs = 2 cervical, 4 thoracic, 2 lumbar

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

Needed for week after cast is removed by PAMF’s Dr. Edward Moon

I’m SICK OF AGGRAVATION BY CERTAIN STAFF MEMBERS

1. Lydia,  Jonathon LVN, Cynthia,  Marvi,  Argh,  

KUDOS FOR STAFF “BIG HELPERS” AT CEDAR CREST, SUNNYVALE

 = Station One RN s late p.m./early a.m. and LVN s, like Miss  Hermila and Ranvir 

HYPOTHYROID

  Abborrent levels of hormone affect both mood and metabolism

DENTAL HEALTH

Poor according to UCSF Student Clinic; Nine (9) cavities; very high Medi-Cal  share of cost due

DISABLED AND WITHOUT SERVICE DOG FOR MORE THAN 4 YEARS

Latest dog Teddy passed away in June 2012; no one has been identified to offer  a trained nor untrained for free or for full-cost; Teddy’s cost from the breeder  in Sebastopol was $8,500 plus licensing and vet fees when purchased in  January 2008

 

#1 Complaints / Potential Grievances =

1. No Exit Conference on 11-11-2016 with feasible or realistic futures for patient/client/Medicare + Medi-Cal recipient; informed of discharge late in the afternoon on a state and national holiday,
2. Never an introductory Care Conference conducted with patient/ resident – – 2 scheduled but none held,
3. Three times confronted by Nursing staff to sign ‘outlandish’ legal document to discharge own sick, feverish body back on-to-the streets,
4. At Cedar Crest since 11-2-2016; many routinely taken Rx medicines not administered, i.e. Omeprezole, 3 blood pressure meds, Levsin/ Hyoscyamine Sulfate, unable to get Maalox
5. I was only offered one shower between 11-2 and 11-13-2016

Occupy Northern California (The County of San Mateo Citizenry Revives All The Best of the Decade’s Occupy Movement)

November 2015 through February 2016

PRESS INFO FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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OCCUPY COUNTY OF SAN MATEO [NORTHERN CALIFORNIA]

(WOODSIDE, CA ~ “The Dailey Sun-Chronicles” ~ November 5, 2015) –

Charlie Chan, Buck D.D., and Jimmy Crackcorn announced the beginning of the Occupy _______  movement throughout the San Francisco Peninsula today. In keeping with the neighborhood civic acumen(s), business climate and unchanging weather conditions, and current Facebook and Tesla social and corporate management theories, occupy camps will be moved weekly from one announced and government-permitted location to another. Some Occupy The San Francisco Peninsula camps change daily.

As the Sam Trans’ Route 295/296 bus arrived into Menlo Park (population 131 homeless, 3,880 canines, and no horses) at noon Wednesday, an organizer praised the contributions of 007 by providing professional transportation services to a community severely lacking good public transportation systems and safe female drivers of oversized sport utility motor vehicles (SUVs).

Editors’ Notes: “Buck” is a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) who in 1986 purchased his 1^st home in the 3200 block of Alameda de las Pulgas [unincorporated  Menlo Park, County of San Mateo California]. Although he is remains a public person he has largely been hiding as a “houseless American” since January 2007.  In 1992 “Buck” lost an U.S. congressional race [to the same congressperson Anna Eshoo who is still employed in D. C. ~ giving away high-compensation with health insurance and other employee benefits ~ American jobs locally via visas and green-cards] and in 1994 he tried to get more votes than popular Stanford Law Professor Tom Campbell in order to work in Sacramento to become a California State Senator for human rights and services. He spent over seven years at Lockheed working during the Cold War about seven years after graduation from Indiana University at Bloomington (A.B. ’76, M.S. ’78). Buck was illegally terminated last September by the United Parcel Service (UPS). After over 50 months of service between 2003 and 2008 as a California Department of Public Health and Health Services Health Facilities Evaluator, he was illegally terminated and narrowly lost his judicial appeal versus current State of California Attorney General Camilla Harris, who now insists on running for one of two seats in the United States Senate!

Buck is a publisher, author of Lessons Learned From Dogs [copyright 2011] and Confessions of An Oenophile ~ An American Family Cookbook of Comfort Food [copyright 2008], comedian and humorist, sports reporter and wagering handicapper, business administrator and environmental, health, security, and safety educator, and household engineer. Deer, California is the title of his first book about homelessness written from 2005 to 2014.

• Take Responsibility if Accused of Vehicular Manslaughter
• Be Reasonable with Demands on All Government and Quasi-Government Agencies
• Let the County government work on more important issues that biking.
• Teach Youth about the “Buddy System”
• Let the California Highway Patrol (CHP) focus on higher priorities than soccer-mom driving.
• Demand that local (i.e. City of Menlo Park) officials solve their internal problems.
• Boycott free newspapers and their advertisers that do not practice ‘responsible journalism.’ Therefore, no fear-mongering, reduce sensationalism, write truthfully and factually, and promote good news.
• Do not expect a public agency to solve woman problems, particularly if they are personal things.
• Restore Sam Trans and improved Cal-Train train and bus services to your immediate community.
• Plan to improve education, both public schools and private entities: A) At Home, B) In School, and C) During Every After-School Activity [i.e. Menlo Park Lyceum].
• Find better means of energy consumption and public transportation. Sam Trans / Redi-Wheels Paratransit / Cal-Train are among the worst-managed quasi-governmental agencies in the USA.
• Help the Bay Area Air Quality Management Board, the clean water agencies, and local zoning commissions revise improved public policies.
• Blame Congressperson Anna Eshoo for what she has done in the United States Congress, as a hospital board member, and County of San Mateo Supervisor. If you re-elect her, you are now responsible and should be held accountable. FYI: In 1991, Eshoo was asked to put street lighting and traffic lights along Alameda de las Pulgas. She did nothing. Many were injured and some animals died a gruesome end.
• Support elected officials like the current efforts of California Senator Jerry Hill who has represented the people of the County of San Mateo very well.
• Work with the office of United States Senator Dianne Feinstein before, during, and after congressional hearings discussing the dreaded houseless populations in Northern California.
• Improve health care; particularly the County of San Mateo Health System’s policies and daily protocols. People are needlessly suffering because health care professionals are following poorly-conceived and implemented procedures. Ask that the current county director resign and be quickly replaced.
• Take issues in prayer to God, first. Then bother your priest, minister, social worker, and friends.
• Utilize ‘The Brothers’ for issue resolution and decrease stressors on the court systems.
• Make housing more affordable, safer, and livable!

 

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County of San Mateo California / Monroe County in Southern Indiana / Cook County Illinois

Maui County Hawaii / Sarasota County Florida / Garfield, Eagle, and Pitkin Counties in Western Colorado

Ulimatum for Minor Female Characters of the “Country Corner” Trilogy [TAKE NOTE: ‘Kathy Bates’ and ‘Debra Winger’ Characters]

This screenwriters’ hunger strike began today (Saturday, January 24, 2015) before 7:15 a.m. PST.

In addition, the screenwriter will never set foot in this store ever again, unless . . .

Therefore, these two bissyiness-meddling, “sexy”, gossiping, perhaps overweight, whatever-else, post-menopausal women MUST sell-out all their real estate ownings  – WITHIN 100 YARDS OF THIS BUSINESS –  AND leave this fine community that has probably the best deli, best wine selection, best three owners, best family-oriented business, best weather, best busy traffic, and best customers in the Americas.

Failure to do so will result in guilt, anguish, anxiety, danger, and many negative consequences (that largely will be self-inflicted). Yes, you Kathy. Yes, you Debra Winger character model icon to youth.

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Three (3) Underdogs + One Favorite [ That Being My / Our Packers ]

Leon Hart of the Detroit Lions and Heisman Trophy Winner at the University of Notre Dame (Class of 1950)

– On Three National Championship Teams –

REVERSE TEASER CARD

3 of 3 pays off 17 to 1 odds [ $50 or $100.00 ] wagers

NFC
Dallas Cowboys at Green Bay Packers –

• Big D – 17.5
• The Pack is Back – 28.5

Carolina Panthers at Seattle Seahawks –

• Cats – 10.5
• Birds -17.5

AFC

Baltimore Ravens at New England Patriots

• Crows – 18.5
• Pats – 21.5

 

Indianapolis Colts at Denver Broncoes

Hoosier Horses – 21.5

Rocky Mountain Horses – 24.5