{"id":20753,"date":"2022-01-14T13:14:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T21:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=20753"},"modified":"2022-01-15T12:24:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T20:24:43","slug":"first-post-friday-january-14-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2022\/01\/14\/first-post-friday-january-14-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Friday, January 14, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Indian summer in mid-January<\/p><\/div>\n

Hey! How\u2019s the weather out by you? Nearing the ides of the first month of 2022 here now in sunny Southern California \/ La-La Land \/ Studio City \/ Upper Nichols Canyon, and we\u2019ve reached today\u2019s forecast high of 75\u00b0F just before the noon-thirty hour.<\/p>\n

As you can see in the snapshot in today\u2019s lede, the autumn-type leaves still are falling around here. We are sweeping this patio area several times a day in order to keep the combination human-canine jai alai fronton \/ kickball-pinball surface \/ Aztec balance-ball court free and clear of any potential interference to the five rolling rubber spheroids in play at any given moment. Nothing worse than a bunch of crunchy dead foliage \u2014 or, when it\u2019s rainy, puddles \u2014 spoiling the continual rolling action of the games. It\u2019s like at the ice arenas with their Zambonis; you want as clean and glassy a surface as possible. <\/p>\n

Wrestling with one-for-97 streaks with that one hit being a whopping 2\u00bd-1 on the toteboard. Withstanding that existential crisis. Then like the buses in London, or the cabs in New York City, after not showing-up for forever, the winners come in droves and you\u2019re back in front \u2014 what one-for-97?! \u2014 for the long haul. Not for mere mortals. You probably would be better off throwing darts at the official track programme, more-frequent cashing. Yet after several hundred wagers, you\u2019d likely be down the track-take, or the track-take-plus. Randomness!<\/p>\n

On the other hoof, somehow after these demoralizing one-for-97 streaks, the remainder of the couple of hundred races are good enough to make up for the dragged-out drought. If you\u2019re a robot or one of those rare birds who doesn\u2019t let doubt or emotion get in the way of long-term \u2018rational\u2019 thinking, no harm, no foul. But most mopes out there need a more regular feeding schedule, even if it means giving back some money. Would you withstand a one-for-97 to come out ahead at the end of it? Not for the fainthearted. <\/p>\n

The trials continue, experimental and existential. We look ahead to now and find Golden Gate 6<\/strong>, Gulf 10<\/strong>, Santa Anita 5<\/strong> trying to bring some reward to the ever-lurking risk.<\/p>\n

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