The Writer's Life 10/20 - Shifts

NFL: I didn’t expect the Giants to win last night. The Eagles have had their number for a few years. But how in the world do you force four turnovers and still lose by 20? I guess it was because the bad Eli showed up. I‘m glad I didn't watch… The Jaguars have had the benefit of top draft picks the past few years and aren’t improving at all… The Bengals have been impressive, but until they get past the first round of the playoffs it will mean nothing. Dalton and company will have the same big psychological hurdle to overcome in December… It’s great to see the Jets succeeding and ex-coach blowhard Rex Ryan floundering in Buffalo. Of course, there’s a long way to go and fortunes may turn… I just spotted the headline of an article touting a Super Bowl of 18-0 teams, Packers vs. Pats. Will  circumstances ever be more favorable to that end?... The Colts debacle in punt formation will go down as one of the strangest plays in NFL history, another example of over-thinking and over-coaching. I wouldn’t say it cost them the game, as the Patriots are certainly capable of executing a long drive, but what the heck were they thinking? How odd that gaffes from punt formation were the big stories in pro and college football last weekend. It’s still hard to believe how Michigan blew its game vs. Michigan St. by fumbling a long snap and allowing the Spartans to run it 30 yards for a TD as time expired. It's easy to visualize how coach Jim Harbaugh’s slumber has been this week. Talk about the agony of defeat!

I have about 25% of the money in one of my retirement accounts sitting in a money market fund, drawing less than one-percent interest. I'm going to look into a new option that has come into being - a sort of robo-investor, which, once the customer has filed out a survey regarding risk tolerance, automatically adjusts the portfolio. I won't do it if it requires the entire portfolio. If it works out, I'll do it with the ten percent I have laying around in another account. I've been gun shy lately, expecting a major stick market correction, not the minor one that has occurred.

My usual book nook was occupied by a Con Ed crew attaching wires to a telephone pole installed during the summer. It doesn't look like they're finished, as two of the doohickeys they fixed to the pole are still wireless. I adjusted by moving further along Av. Z, where Waj's gyro truck is MIA. I hope it's just in for repairs and not out of business. I'd have to look elsewhere for dinner Wednesday nights. My thanks to Jimmy, who bought four works of non-fiction, including Al Gore's, An Inconvenient Truth, which erroneously predicted that the polar ice caps would all be melted by now, and to the gentleman who purchased Kitty Kelley's unauthorized bio of Nancy Reagan.
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