Bye Week is here. What's your plans?

pretty nice little Saturday, Going to Home Depot, maybe bed bath and beyond don’t know if we will have enough time.

Wife's bday weekend so it works out perfectly that I am available to do whatever she wants to do 

Bow hunting at my friends camp in the U.P. 

Hunting, whiskey, cribbage and watching games in the evening. Love this time of year.

Haunted houses and horror movies. Like how God intended 

Get the snowmobile out wash and prep. 1st round of leaves for my moms yard and Halloween party on Saturday night. 

I plan to pleasure myself to the MSU UFRs, but not on a late night call with any of you degenerates.

Going to NYC to visit our daughter who's in college there. And yes, we are going to a dog costume parade. 

Being part of the vast network, steal signs as always

Work, sleep, repeat.

Feel unfulfilled and disquieted due to lack of Michigan football.

Scouting our upcoming opponents to decipher their signalsuhhihiyayaya uh I mean. Chores. Chores, yeah

I'm going to go to the Freep website and keep refreshing to find out all the new and improved ways I should feel ashamed to be a Michigan fan.

Am I doing it right?

Spend Saturday the same way I spend every Saturday: watch CFB for about 15 hours straight

Bow hunting 

Making a huge mess in my yard gardening, and making an equally huge mess in the kitchen cooking. I'll get back to you on the whole "cleaning" bit later.

Perfect timing for me, it's the wifes Bday.

Going hiking for a few days in Yosemite, then a couple of days at Sequoia NP and finishing up on the coast in Cambria for a couple of days.

Yo Bartender!!

Make it a double!!

Bye Week??  

It's called "Wife Day" around these parts.

(Whatever happened to Six-Zero?)

Mrs. Foam and I are going to Las Vegas to see U2 at The Sphere! (I’m so excited, I’m almost vibrating)

I wanted to watch care free college football all day, but of course the slate of games is terrible.

Watching the rugby World Cup final, getting some leftover yard work done. Try to keep the family in shape since my wife will be out of town for a couple of days leading a ladies retreat. 

Birthday party for my youngest. He asked for BBQ, and since we’re having people over, it turns into a whole big thing.

So I’ll be smoking brisket & pork butt and making collards and corn fritters and kale slaw and pickles and yada yada yada yada all while we clean the house Friday night and Saturday. 

Don’t most kids just want pizza? SMH.

Purchasing some jerseys.  

I'm planning on going to the Clemson vs. NC State game in Raleigh.  The stadium is surrounded by a big parking lot (that it shares with the Carolina Hurricanes arena).  There's not really very much "day of the game" parking....and most people already have parking passes.  I'll be scouring the internets for parking passes this week.

By contrast, I was in A2 for the Indiana game last week and we found free parking on the street near Schembechler Hall.

Probably something low key like jacking off on a zoom call with a vendor. 

troll RCMB :)

Ya'll empty your hot water tanks once a year?

I'm gonna have an upside down Orji.

Our trick or treating is day of, so not really sure. Very nice weather in Chicagoland this week (77° Tuesday!) But also raining all week, including Sat. Have to see what the wife dials up. Have some household tasks to catch up on, always the case with little ones lol.

Driving 14 hours to my 94-year-old mother-in-law's home early this week to cook meals and restock her freezer with four months of dinners.* Timing of the bye week is excellent for me, as I will be too busy to watch the game. Then driving back 14 hours on Sunday to continue taking care of my 90-year-old father as he slips gradually away both mentally and physically, and helping my mother maintain her sanity. I love watching the Michigan games with my mom, even though she is an MSU grad, as she appreciates good play and is much more knowledgeable about sports than she likes to admit.

*I'll have about four dozen meals prepped and frozen before I leave home. Get yourself a portable refrigerator/freezer for your vehicle, you will find more uses for it than you expect!

Be sad. Drink alone. Watch Banacek reruns.

In other words, the usual.

Costco trip, empty the bank account, date with wife, watch OSU lose to Wisky

I left Sunday morning at 1am for Charleston, SC to go on a Halloween cruise with the family. Wife let me drink enough during Michigan game to be able to sleep first shift. I can't sleep in cars. Woke up at 6:30 and she continued to drive until noon. I only had to drive the last hour. Love that woman.

Our kids were surprised when their 5 year old cousin knocked on our hotel room door today. We kept it a secret.  Their aunt, uncle and cousin from Florida were also going on the cruise. My 12 year old son said this was the best surprise he's ever had. Every parent loves to hear things like that. Made my year! 

I'm sure I'll be driving the majority of the way home!