Think I’m going to put framed pictures of cars all over this wall.
It sounds like the stores are being picked clean again. Last time this was happening, I was an enraged screaming shitbag. This time, I think I’m just going to quietly accept that I might starve to death. 
2022 has arrived. It doesn’t feel like anything special. My only resolution for the new year is to increase production.
The last year was a hard one, full of loss. Hopefully we’ll see less suffering and more healing in 2022.
I made a mistake
Being a cheapskate.
I should’ve bought alcohol
Before it was too late.
I hoped to end the year
On a happier note.
Instead, I got these blues.
It was shortly after Halftime
That I picked up my guitar.
I played the thing in a way
That I haven’t played in years.
McNamara’s pass was intercepted
In the endzone,
And I got these blues.
Penalties and fumbles,
The ball turned over too many times.
The Bulldogs were a brickwall
And a charging pack.
Thanks to Moody and Henning,
We got in a fieldgoal and a touchdown.
But I still got these blues.
I jammed through the game
As I watched the nightmare unfold.
They finished up with 11-34.
The Orange Bowl didn’t go
The way I had hoped.
But I love my team,
So, I got these blues.
Back in November, my twin brother Fred and I each got a DNA test kit from MyHeritage.com. We did the swabs and sent them back.
My results came on December 10.
Fred’s results came on December 17.
Our results are slightly different, but I don’t think that means anything. The difference is just a pinch. One of the reasons I wanted Fred and I to both have our DNA tested is we’re twins and if our results are the same, it should mean the DNA tests are real and accurate.
So, our results being what they are, I’m convinced that MyHeritage is not a rip off.
When Fred’s results came in, he turned up on the list of family on my MyHeritage account. Apparently, they think he and I are the same person under different names.
As twins, our shared DNA is 99.9%. I say that’s as it should be.
Though the top four results are English, Irish-Scottish-Welsh, East European and West Asian, there are many more results, but they don’t amount to a percentage.
My DNA was matched with 8,510 other people in MyHeritage’s database. These people are from all over the world. Out of all those people, I recognize only two of them. My brother Fred and our cousin Wendy.
The DNA matches are sorted into three categories. “Close Family”, “Extended Family” and “Distant Relatives”.
Under Close Family, I have one match. Fred. Under Extended Family, which is cousins from closer branches, I have nine matches. My cousin Wendy is one of them. I don’t know the other eight people.
There are 8,500 Distant Relatives. Maybe I would know some of them, but I haven’t taken the time to go through that list.
One of the eight unknown cousins under Extended Family sent me a message on MyHeritage. He is French and he was born in 1944. He’s looking for his father, or information about his father. His father’s name is James Darnell and he served in France during World War II, which is how his father met his mother.
I know our family has and had a few different men named James Darnell, but I can’t think of any old enough to be this guy’s father. Does anyone have an idea who it might be?
The Michigan Wolverines are the Big Ten Champions!
They beat Iowa 42-3. Y’all said they would choke in the Championship Game?
Jim Harbaugh is a great coach. Don’t ever again suggest in my hearing that he should be fired.
I’m proud of my team. They are the champs.
We won! We beat the Ohio State Buckeyes! 42-27. I can go to my grave happy.
To y’all who said Harbaugh can’t win a big game, up yours! He just won the biggest game there is.
Thank you, Jim Harbaugh. Thank you, Cade McNamara, Hassan Haskins and J. J. McCarthy. Thank you, Blake Corum, Andrel Anthony, Josh Ross and all the Michigan Wolverines who gave us this victory today.
Bare Back Magazine published my story “One Night When It Rained“. This is my fourth sale to them. Natasha Brooks, the Editor-In-Chief, keeps things running smoothly at Bare Back.
The two characters in One Night When It Rained, Jianzhu and Liyun, are from an international conspiracy thriller novel that I hope to have published some day soon.