1,000 Greatest Drivers: Joe Weatherly
People focus on his antics too much and his talent too little. I admit his antics are more fun to write about...
I was still unable to arrange a time to have someone help me move my car out of my garage, and I did not get enough done today. I did go to counseling where I shared the counselor an 11-page document of all the traumatic incidents of my life just through the year 2008 when I graduated college. That was much more than we could discuss in a single week. I’ve been seeing him in the basement of the church I attend. I was talking about wanting to socialize more and he suggested I go to a catechism class. I don’t know, I might do it. But I was thinking more about volunteering. I’m largely losing most of my interest in competitive pursuits all around (it wasn’t just Scrabble) as well as all forms of consumerism (although I’m still addicted to too much contact) and lusting after community. That’s why I started going back to mass, but I haven’t really found what I wanted. Not so much because of the dogma or whatever as the fact that it feels more like merely another form of consumerism and I definitely struggle to feel like I’m in communion with anyone… And my counselor pretty much told me to my face that I was too slovenly when I don’t even think I’m as slovenly as I was throughout the 2010s… As I usually find, I’m too degenerate for church communities and not enough for online/gaming ones. I think the men’s support group at Unique Peerspectives might be more what I was looking for.
My participation in bar trivia (even though I didn’t go the last two weeks) and LearnedLeague rekindled my interest in Jeopardy! just in time for Jamie Ding’s streak. I watched almost every day of my childhood until 2005 or something when Alex Trebek started to tell a lot more jokes, which made it harder for me to watch. But undercutting everything I’ve been saying about how I’ve lost my competitive spirit, I guess this might be the exception. I’ve started tracking my Coryat score and shit (I usually average about 13,000, but maybe I’d be averaging more if I didn’t have to compete with Ding). Brought this up today because man, I think today’s match between Ding and Patrick Nolan may be the most exciting Jeopardy! game I’ve ever seen and I’ve been watching on and off since the ‘80s. If you don’t normally watch, try to catch that one…
