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Got Tammy's shoe rack done y-day. Now I can get back to important stuff.

A couple things are clear, the organization loves him, Stevens loves him and his teammates rave about him. Those are always good things and even more so for a well run organization like the Celtics. I think they see how hard he works, what kind of person he is, and the high ceiling that is there. He just needs to spend the summer in the lab getting stronger, shooting a ton and working on his handles, primarily his left hand. He's certainly capable of all of that. I just again worry about a guy that isn't naturally active offensively, and also a guy that had so much success scoring at a young age but has glaring weaknesses like shooting and using his left. I am really high on Langford. You should see our house (me and the kids) every time we watch a Celtics game and he enters. We go crazy. Just in analyzing his game, there are concerns. My biggest concern is still his activity. I've watched him closely for two years now, in different situations (as an offensive leader at IU and as a rookie on a stacked team in Boston), and he so often just stands around waiting for things to come to him. I worry about that aggressiveness. I watched other rookies around the league, and granted every situation is different, but a guy like Tyler Herro as a rookie didn't stand in the corner he asserted himself. There's other examples. I understand the injuries and that of course legitimate. Again, I love Langford, am so excited he's a Celtic and I agree with all of the upside. Just analyzing his game so far and what he needs to improve on.

My fav. Mickelson story that i can tell. We were paired with Phil in New Orleans one year. Phil 3 putts the first hole, 4 putts the 2nd. on the way to the next tee he says to Bones, i don't feel i have it today, lets play to the center of the greens and try and make pars. Phil birdies the next 6 holes.

Wish my wife only had 10 pairs of shoes by the back door....

On this date one hundred years ago jazz great Charlie Parker was born.

Your perception is fair and it seems possible he could go either direction — but I think it’s really hard to gauge him on a rookie season repeatedly marred by injury and playing at first sparingly behind all-star level vets on a playoff team. Stevens did begin to work him in more, so he’s earning that, but even now he comes in and almost immediately has another hand injury. His handle getting to the rim had been very good at times — that elite and smooth downhill push to the basket. How much of his offensive limitations this season has been injury related? Don’t think we know. That was the same at IU.

Great to see Phil found a golf course that he could hit their fairways.

Interesting point on Romeo. His enemy remains his health. Man I hope to see him healthy, consistently, soon. I think his ceiling is high, don’t think he’s scratched it yet, keeps getting slowed by injury.

https://www.history.com/news/george-washington-farewell-address-warnings I think this might qualify maybe.

The one on the right is nice.

Not directing this directly at you but at the idea of shopping Vic. It’s just silly imo. Talk about fickle fans. Vic was lauded and loved, showed incredible poise in the playoffs, consistent top - 20 level play, crunch time major scoring threat, and he gets injured and wham it’s consider trading him.

The general public is much more of a "nuisance" then cops or even bad cops. We have too many criminals, drug users, and overall pieces crap in this country and it multiples everyday. The cops are the scapegoat right now. Sure take away some funding, sure have some reforms.. that has zero to do with the amount of crap this country is producing on a regular basis.. and its colorless.

57 Years ago, August 28th, 1963, Dr Martin Luther King gave his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC... Everyone should read it today... "And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream." "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

read 2 vaccines sent to FDA for approval after completing 3rd phase of trials. 1 said to have immune 60% of the people in the trial including a person 95 years old. High bar for FDA is 50%. The only thing they dont know is how long the vaccine will last of course. meaning a shot yearly, like the flu shot, until they figure it out over time. 8 other vaccines are now in phase 3. Hope we can see one out in Oct. or Nov.

Finally got the decals on for Tammy...

Not sure if anybody ever listens, but I always like to share when Donald McNeil is on The Daily. He speaks about some of the things we've discussed on here: - He speculates that the flu season will be very mild because of all the restrictions in effect due to COVID: washing hands, social distancing, travel restrictions, etc. Cases in the southern hemisphere (where it's flu season) are way down. Australia is reporting 95% less flu cases. So, good news....he still recommends getting a flu shot to be safe though. - He and many immunologists are not worried about the guy from Hong Kong who was re-infected with COVID. Basically, the first time his symptoms were very mild. The milderer the infection the less antibodies that are created. When he had it the second time he was asymptomatic, which most likely means he only had enough antibodies to decrease the severity of the illness, but not completely make him immune. These 2 factors: mild first case and even milder second case are a good sign and are typical of antibody behavior in other illnesses. There will be outliers who get re-infected, we should really only be worried if the symptoms of a re-infected person are more severe the second time. (at least that's how I understood it) - He said immunologists, for the most part, believe immunity will last a year or more. Again, this is an educated guess based off of how long immunities last in other viruses that closely resemble COVID. - From what immunologists can gather, COVID mutates at a third of the rate that the seasonal flu does. If this holds true, it may mean we need to vaccinate every three years, but again, (I sound like a broken record) it all depends on the vaccines that are developed, and how long immunities last. - He also speaks about vaccines in China and Russia. Both are by passing the third and most important phase which Western scientists think is crazy. He explains why bypassing or rushing a third phase is extremely dangerous. Worst case scenario, the vaccine increases the severity of the symptoms for those who get infected....it's not something you want to play around with. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/podcasts/the-daily/coronavirus-plasma-reinfection.html