Boysenberries

Does anybody remember boysenberries?

Mom always had jams and jellies for us to put on toast and tarts.  Apricot, blackberry, strawberry, raspberry, boysenberry.  I haven’t thought about boysenberry for maybe fifty years.  I don’t know what just triggered it.  Is boysenberry still a thing?  Was it ever a thing outside Southern California?  Did it extend beyond Knott’s Berry Farm?

The stand up challenge

Sit on the floor.  Without assistance, stand up.  No touching walls, cabinets, or furniture.  For every time your hand, elbow, or knee touch the floor, count one point.  Stand up with the fewest points possible.

To be fair though, I think I should get to subtract my age from the total.

Happy Chickens

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And happy football fans.  The previously unranked Buffs, now ranked #22, at home taking on the perennial division foe Nebraska.  36 to 14 CU.  Coach says “We’re coming.”  We think they’re here!

The #11 Texas Longhorns win against #3 Alabama was great fun too.

Yay football season.  Go Broncos tomorrow!

A guy being interviewed on TV

He made the point that he was 74, and the average life expectancy of an American male was 76, so he could only expect a couple more years.  Self-serving B.S.  This year I’ll be 78.  By his measure, by my birthday, I’ll have a life expectancy of -2.  It might be a true statement that the average life expectancy of an American male born today is 76, but given this guy had already attained the age of 74, his expectations from there are something completely different.  Every time we achieve another year, we get a new life expectancy.  Take all the people that have already died by that age out of the equation, and his average life expectancy at 74 is now 86.  Besides, it’s an average expectancy, not a specific prediction.

Real data, intentionally misapplied, to mislead.  Grr.