Friday with the White Russians
Oct. 7th, 2022 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wombat_sochoWeight was up a few ounces, but BG and BP were normal. Fixed eggs, bacon, sausage, potatoes & English muffin for breakfast.
Spent a good part of the afternoon trying out the White Russian focus tree from NSB, and while I did manage to secure all of Siberia starting from the base in Chita thanks to the pile of free cavalry & infantry units, I am running into the familiar problem of too many Soviets and not enough rebels. Also, I don't have enough civilian factories, which is making it hard to build out the war machine. On the other hand, I do have Vladivostok and the rest of the far eastern provinces, having exterminated the Stalinist cell in Kamchatka.
What I didn't spend on HOI was spent downloading various financial statements from Fidelity and PayPal, and napping for 90 minutes before my two-game season against Oakland. Surprisingly, I swept the two-game series. Jim Kaat shut out the A's in Game 1 for his eighth win; Jim Hannan faced three batters in the 8th and Moe Drabowsky got the save after allowing one hit in the 9th. The game's sole run came on a homer from Jim Northrup. Game Two was a nailbiter. Juan Marichal pitched well, giving up only three runs in 7.2 innings, and the hitters pounded Pat Jarvis for four runs, including two homers from Cepeda and Mays, but Moe blew the save, Romo and Moore gave up a run each, and Gelnar completely shit the bed, coughing up three runs in the top of the 12th to make it 6-9. Fortunately, our hitters pounded Weaver for four runs in the bottom of the inning, including a sayonara homer by Willie Mays after Byron Browne tied it up with a three-run homer. So we're 36-72 now, with 54 games to play, and we have to win half of those to avoid a 100-loss season. Here's hoping.
Did the daily blogging, cooked up some pork chops with broccoli/carrots/cauliflower mix, and had a couple slices of bread & butter before and after.
Spent a good part of the afternoon trying out the White Russian focus tree from NSB, and while I did manage to secure all of Siberia starting from the base in Chita thanks to the pile of free cavalry & infantry units, I am running into the familiar problem of too many Soviets and not enough rebels. Also, I don't have enough civilian factories, which is making it hard to build out the war machine. On the other hand, I do have Vladivostok and the rest of the far eastern provinces, having exterminated the Stalinist cell in Kamchatka.
What I didn't spend on HOI was spent downloading various financial statements from Fidelity and PayPal, and napping for 90 minutes before my two-game season against Oakland. Surprisingly, I swept the two-game series. Jim Kaat shut out the A's in Game 1 for his eighth win; Jim Hannan faced three batters in the 8th and Moe Drabowsky got the save after allowing one hit in the 9th. The game's sole run came on a homer from Jim Northrup. Game Two was a nailbiter. Juan Marichal pitched well, giving up only three runs in 7.2 innings, and the hitters pounded Pat Jarvis for four runs, including two homers from Cepeda and Mays, but Moe blew the save, Romo and Moore gave up a run each, and Gelnar completely shit the bed, coughing up three runs in the top of the 12th to make it 6-9. Fortunately, our hitters pounded Weaver for four runs in the bottom of the inning, including a sayonara homer by Willie Mays after Byron Browne tied it up with a three-run homer. So we're 36-72 now, with 54 games to play, and we have to win half of those to avoid a 100-loss season. Here's hoping.
Did the daily blogging, cooked up some pork chops with broccoli/carrots/cauliflower mix, and had a couple slices of bread & butter before and after.
