Football, NCAA, Sports

I Got These Blues

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.

Misc

DNA Testing

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?

Football, NCAA, Sports

Big Ten Championship

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.

Football, NCAA, Sports

Victory!

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.

Movies, Reviews

Indian Horse (2017)

What a movie. I almost shut the movie off without finishing it. Not because it wasn’t good. It is a very good movie. Too good. Too believable and accurate. The first part of the movie had me so enraged, I wanted reach through the screen, grab the Christian zealots and snap their fucking necks.

Somehow I made it through the movie without destroying my monitor

I remember talking to a friend about the movie “The Education of Little Tree”. My friend felt that they didn’t properly portray the boarding school that Little Tree was forced into. She thought the movie was too soft, that it didn’t accurately show the horrors that happened at those boarding schools.

I remember saying something about how it might not have been as bad at some schools as it was at others. But also “The Education of Little Tree” is rated PG and technically a kids’ movie, though it is quite fine for all ages. They would not have shown such brutality in a PG movie. Though, I thought what they did show at least gave an idea of how harsh it was.

Indian Horse is rated MA. The horrors at the boarding school are very clearly shown, in depth. It made me very angry. It made me want to yell at Christians I know who think they’re victimtized by other cultures.

Indian Horse is set in Canada. From the late 1800’s to 1996, Indigenous children were taken from their parents and put in boarding schools that were run by the Church. There, they faced all manners of abuse.