Havin' a Birthday. And a draft!

[think of this as yesterday's blog.  I got distracted! 😁]

It's Shakespeare's Birthday!!!  🎉

Well, okay, let's be pedantic (our thesaurus word for the day) -- we don't know he was.  He was christened on the 26th, that we know, the records still exist, but we assume that's 3 days after he was born, but we don't know for sure.  Like a lot of things about Willy Shakes.

Surely you've heard (or are about to) that Willy lived through multiple pandemics.  During the one he wrote his two long poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.  Clearly, he was as bored as we are. 😀.  During a later one, again quarantined, he merely kicked out King Lear.  You should feel bad about yourself (sorry) if you aren't matching that output.  You know, two poems that would make you famous on their own or maybe one of the great plays of all-time.

Before moving on (since this is to KILL TIME!), I will point out that his childhood home is still there in Stratford-upon-Avon (and his tomb) and you can visit if you should go there.   Stratford-u-A is a nice little market town, but it'd no doubt amuse him to see how touristy and kitsche it is, given it is nowhere near any "beaten path." 

Let me also remind you that he died on this day in 1616, yes, just 52-years-old.  A month before he made his extant will and it said he was in good health.  Lots of pandemics, remember. 😢

My Twitter feed was full of people finding ways of sharing things they were doing for his birthday.  So many feeds, so many people with time on their hands.

Now, to the second part: the NFL draft.

I never watch it.  Didn't this year.  I am not sure what there is to watch, really.  Announce a name, the player comes on stage, puts on a hat, shakes the commissioner's hand, and we rinse and repeat.  Of course there are highlights, but most of these guys are better known than your local Congressperson, so there aren't many highlights you haven't seen before (since you probably watched those games).

But I do watch the feed to keep up who is doing what.  And read some of the mock drafts to know what might happen.  It was funny how many guys (all guys!) thought we wanted to see their mock drafts on Twitter yesterday morning.  I almost made up one of mine just to mock them. :)

Anyway, nothing exciting happened.  People tweeted "live sports are back" -- no!  A draft is not playing a sport, but there you go.  (you know that multiple race tracks are running horse races, as per normal, even as we talk and Churchill Downs is talking about opening...maybe "soon" is the wrong word). 

Anyway, nothing exciting happened, by which I mean for the first ten or more picks it was about as predicted by people.  In the teens a couple teams "reached" -- went for a player consensus had lower in the talent list -- and then there were some trades, including the Packers, who have been blessed for a generation with great quarterbacks, trading up and taking a quarterback (his wonderful name is Jordan Love.  One headline, the winner, said "Heir Jordan."). 

So, today there was something.  Tomorrow -- TGIF!!!  🎉.