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Just finished Jeff Zentner’s Goodbye Days, and his writing is sublime: “I think if what you’d do for your last day on Earth doesn’t look like a pretty normal day for you, you probably need to reexamine your life.” That sentence alone stopped me in my tracks. I’ll be contemplating it for days. His In the Wild Light was my favorite book last year with a paragraph on grief that still makes me cry. He’s the real deal.

I’ve heard nothing but good things about The Wager. It’s on my TBR list.

I really enjoyed A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. I then tried The Perfect Marriage but quickly abandoned it. I just finished Brooke Shield’s memoir of her mother There Was a Little Girl. Those stories seemed best left at the therapist’s office IMO.

I remember early on wondering if Ted and Rebecca were being set up as endgame, but once he slept with Sassy I never looked at Rebecca as anything more than his cherished boss and friend.

I think they were still together during counseling, and he moved to London when Jacob suggested and Michele agreed that they needed time apart. I don’t think he’s had an opportunity to find a separate place yet. That is how I explain his arriving at the house with his luggage. In my world, he is there just until he finds his own place nearby, but they are not back together.

I know I side-eyed Ted’s suitcase when he arrived back at the house, but then I remembered he moved straight from there to London. He doesn’t have a separate place in KC yet. His staying there till he gets his own place is the least she can do for him.

Don’t even get me started on The Nurses! I always wished one of them would have called her out on the utter BS of her “the rotten way you treated me” whine. They weren’t wrong.

We are in the Donald Penobscot era; I forgot how insufferable she was. She is acting like she never was party to any of the ridiculous demands Frank made. I also hated how awful she was to Radar; Potter should have reamed her out so many times.

Brendan likened it to a real life situation in which one of his best friends got married on short notice, he wasn’t able to attend, and it didn’t affect the friendship. I, however, am hand waving that Ted is the one filming the wedding for us.

And I was Team Robert in that discussion. If Radar had shown one ounce of concern for the patient, I might have been more on his side. Frankly, I’ve never understood how operating while hungover didn’t happen more often. The colonel tells Pierce he can be drunk any other time but when he’s needed in the OR, but wasn’t it unpredictable when wounded would show? Then the next episode shows BJ, Potter, and Hawkeye drunk and driving.

We are watching reruns and have gotten to the episode in which Hawkeye feels guilty when Radar gets hurt, and Radar gets mad at Hawkeye for walking out of an operation because he was hungover. Listening to Radar complain that Hawkeye let him down — I remain Team Hawkeye on that one.

I sang it here.

I got the feeling that Beard is someone who studies everything about a subject. We saw him reading a soccer book on the plane there. I figured he went all in on learning everything he could about the sport once they decided to come over. I don’t know enough about soccer to know if it is possible to be as good at it as he is, but I guess I am hand waving. Y'all have great points about his drinking/psychedelic drugs now being a huge flag rather than the quirky I think they were going for. Writers too enamored with the “loaf of meth” line to think things through.

I’m horrified that everything I read about Betty is how difficult she was, and that is information is coming chiefly from her murderer and the husband who cheated on her. I’m to the point that I don’t even think Betty attacked her first, no matter how many times Candy said it “under hypnosis.”

Beard heard and called him out for his comments to Colin. Nate’s only question was whether Ted knew, but Beard said he wouldn’t tell Ted. He made Nate give Colin a public apology, though, and told Ted it was nothing Ted needed to address. When Nate complained about Ted taking credit for his ideas, both Beard and Roy called him out.

I wonder if it is also a subtle note - his dad expects and demands Jamie get him tickets while his mom would never think to ask for the favor.

I also read that he turned to alcohol and had gotten a DWI.

And yelling, “love you!”

IIRC he was at first incredulous that she believed it (forgetting it was Phoebe he was dealing with) and then she found out the cat belonged to a little girl and wanted to keep it anyway. Also, when he tried to not hurt Phoebe’s feeling with the evolution discussion, she mocked him for “caving.”

Actually, I think of it as Barnes & Noble or Borders Bookstore destroying the little bookshops and find the movie shows its age considering Amazon killed one of those. I love Meg’s “it wasn’t personal to you and shouldn’t business begin by being personal?” The only part of the movie that makes me well up is her saying closing the bookstore feels like losing her mother all over again . . . and now I’m blinking hard again.

To quote a character on a different show, “ I love my grudges. I tend to them like little pets.” 😉 I love forgiveness and second chances. I also love boundaries and natural consequences, of which Nate has yet to experience IMO. I’ve had to end too many toxic friendships to wink and smile at this one ending in rainbows and unicorns. Next week better bring it because I have yet to see Nate acknowledge anyone else’s hurt but his own.

You know what takes 60 pages to write? The rationalizations about how you screwed up but it wasn’t really your fault so you take responsibility, kinda.

Why would the players decide during a 15 game win streak that they suddenly need Nate back as a coach? And Colin is part of the group asking him? I’m beyond furious. They have a lot of heavy lifting in the finale to save this show for me. Jamie and Beard were terrific.

We’ve been watching it Tuesday nights. I get a notice around 9 pm that it’s dropped.

I think Ted is conflicted about Nate. He cares about him, but really isn’t sure how/whether they move forward. He doesn’t want bad things to happen to Nate. I’m sure he is concerned that Nate is no longer coaching. I’m hoping it ends with Ted expressing how much Nate hurt him and maybe forgiving him, but not continuing anything but an arms length relationship. Nate can be better for the next group of Diamond Dogs; his apology doesn’t reinstate him here. I think the fact that everyone keeps telling Ted he is angry about Nate and should show it is leading somewhere.