Sabres Fan in NS

Medeira is perfect, especially now with the cruise ships not dumping any annoying people there.

I also like the home of CR7 a lot ... Madeira, Portugal. I will find some pictures.

@Wilbur sighting!!

I really like the mountains near Sarajevo for hiking ...

Turkey is a fascinating country.

Istanbul ... the ancient part. It is very cool to walk across a bridge from Europe to Asia.

Old Turkish area of Sarajevo, Bosnia ...

Joe's famous reaction when he was told that a Billboard (I think it was them, or maybe Rolling Stone) Magazine poll put London Calling as the top album of the 80s ... "I thought it was released in 1979". Love Joe ... RIP brother. Even though Joe was the son on a Diplomat and born in Turkey he grew up to be the best poet of his time. He is right, of course. London Calling was released in the UK in December of 1979 and in January 1980 in North America. I did not discover London Calling and The Clash until 1982. I was 18 and that album definately changed my life.

If I close my eyes I'd swear I was listening to King Crimson from about 1975. Starless and Bible Black.

Yet another Friday ... yous all know the rest ... Also, have been reminiscing a bit this morning. I generally don't feel, or look old(er), but it just struck me this morning that it has been 40 years since the release of the album that changed my life. This has me thinking that it's a fantastic Friday for this reason too. And it's not their best album, IMHO, but it did change my life.

In other news ... Today at sunset Eid ul Adha will start. The festival of the sacrifice. It is the most significant day on the Islamic calendar. It also makes the end of the Hajj Pilgrimage, which was not really much of anything this year ... a handful of residents of Arabia were allowed to be on Hajj. Again, as with the Eid al Fitr to mark the end of the fasting month, this Eid is going to be very different than any other year that I can remember. In 3 weeks it will be our new year ... 1442. 1442 years since the migration from Mecca to Medina.

Yeah. Charlie must have an extra job, or 2, eh!! Yeah. Charlie must have an extra job, or 2, eh!!

Of course, you are right, but this is the first summer that I can remember since we moved to Halifax (22 years ago) that we have extreme heat and humididty even right at the ocean. Inland has been progressively worse over the last 5 to 10 years. And it does not cool in the evening, or overnight.

For once the idiot politicians listened to the rioting (or as close as we NSers can get to a riot) masses ... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-shooting-public-inquiry-celebration-march-halifax-1.5667415 The cowards said they were just going to do a small review of what happened. They had no clue. This was the worst mass shooting in the history of Canada ... modern and pre-historic Canada. The RCMP and the Province really ***** up the handling of the event. Now, hopefully, we can really see what went wrong and learn from it.

Yes.

I think he is projected to be a mid first rounder. The Sabres would have to trade to get into the range.

Just passing throught ... BARRON!! ?

Oh, God, no. Just no. Anyone but that. Even the team from The Great Satan. My fearless prediction ... The Sabres won't win a damn thing. Nadda. Zilch.

No kidding. I have given up on all the big time and big $ EPL clubs. In fact, I will have to be content with following the EFLC this coming season. Right, @Eleven, eh!!

You are right, my friend, all creatures and I love the album Jazz, although many do not, right up the Brad Friggin' Park part. While I will not shiv him, or any of the other dastardly ones, I will never embrace him, or any of the others, unless it is in a WWF (showing my age here) style head lock leading to a power slam. I hear you about the squirrel too ... @Wilbur

You give Erdogan too much credit. He is faithless, IMHO, but is always talking about his piety. He is a problem in that region, where no more problems are required, thank you very much Mr. Trouble Maker. As for Hajj and the timing, it changes each year and will be 11 days earlier each year. So, one can, in theory, plan their Hajj for a "cooler" time of year. "Cooler" being a very relative term, as the best case one could hope for is maybe 25 degrees.

This is utter nonsense. Why are they doing this? It is just dumb, dumb and dumb.

That idiot Turk actually did it. First prayers were on Friday last. What a terrible mistake, IMHO. The father of modern and secular Turkey (Ataturk) must be just spinning in his grave. ===== In other news ... The stangest Hajj ever starts tomorrow at sunset and will end at sunset on August 2nd. This means that Eid will start at sunset on Thursday, July 30th. I am not a big fan of Eid for reasons I have explained here and vowed that I would not go on Hajj (one of the 5 pillars of Islam) until the Saudi's were removed from power and that the country was again referred to as Arabia and there was no longer a Kingdom. Fat chance in my lifetime. But now the love of my life has asked me to take her on Hajj, so we will do it and I will enjoy it very much. Things are viewed differently when the love of your life asks you to take her someplace very nicely. Yup.

As others have said, no worries about the fanhood. We are all in the same boat, but in Canada you need to say it like boot, eh. Thank you for your service too. How are you? Healthy, I hope. Stay safe.

Bump ... Another Friday ... I'm in love ...