Author: The Buchanans Rolling Down The Road

What can be said, about a crusty old curmudgeon, with no fixed address … not much I guess.

Super Bowl Sunday

February 2nd 2020

Sunday morning at 5:30, 42 or 5 degrees, in the desert south of Quartzsite, not really a hot spot of Super Bowl Fever….just saying.

Have you ever wondered any of these thing? Why does the NFL use Roman Numerals to distinguish the Super Bowls? Why don’t they play the Super Bowl on Saturday night? Why are there so many talking heads analyzing the game for six hours before the game? Why are 20% of the Super Bowl played in Miami? These are just a few of my questions…like Roman numerals, hell most kids can’t read a clock with hands so I’m pretty sure they are not being taught Roman numerals. Think of nursing that hang over on a quiet Sunday rather than Monday morning at work. All these has beens analyzing the new kids and it drags on and on repeating the same thing over and over, starting with the PrePrePre game show…like seriously. And Miami great place to visit but not a place most would think of for football, there was a huge panic when it looked like there could be bad some weather…football is best when it’s played in the elements, I know it’s not as nice for the half time show…boo hoo it should be all about the football, the halftime show it not what the Super Bowl is about…

There are some advantages to watching the super bowl from the west side of the country, one being the game is televised two hours earlier, I mean like seriously why start the biggest game of the year so late on a Sunday that old farts like me can’t see the end? Although there have been many Super Bowls that were over in the first quarter, that is the problem with two weeks of hype and build up for the biggest game of the season and quite frankly it sucks…and the NFL has had some seriously bad games. The other issue is the officiating, or the lack there of, look at the lack of officiating in last years Super Bowl, that took the Saints out of the game, in fact probably the worst Super Bowl that I can remember, and I can remember a lot of them.

Especially when you remember back when the game was the big event, not the half time show, not the commercials, not an extra week of build up, when we wanted to see “The Game” not this dragged out two weeks before the game, of nothing but commercialization of every possible thing. Think of the players that have trained and worked hard to earn a coveted spot in the big game, to spend two weeks with every press conference being asked the same question over and over by some reporter that doesn’t know shyt about you or the game, but was lucky enough to get a press pass and is now trying to impress someone with the perfect interview question.

The Kansas City Chiefs vs the San Francisco 49ers, a pair of young arms as quarterbacks, and from what I have seen it has the making of a real good matchup. I personally just glad it’s any body other than the Patriots, especially after the fiasco last year. We watched from Florida last year with friends at Oak Grove, the year before we watched by ourselves from The Oasis RV park in Las Vegas, and this year from Quartzsite the pinnacle of viewing locations. This year it will just be Miss Laurie and I again with a big dish of chicken wing dip, that I don’t have to share with our friends, we will watch from the comfort of the coach and if it ends up being another Super Bore we will just watch something else…you can’t do that with a crowd, because there is always that one guy who thinks his team is going to defy the odds and come back to victory, and I can’t wear my pyjamas when we are out in public, apparently I need to be a few years older to pull that one off.

While I’m just really hopping for a good game, I guess I have to hope for the Chiefs as it’s been fifty years since their last Super Bowl win, and even though they are favoured today that whole 50 year thing has to loom large. While the 49ers have been one of the winningest teams in the league they are on a bit of a Super Bowl drought of their own, here is my prediction for the big game….

February 1st 2020

Brrr it’s a crisp 41 or 4 degrees this Saturday morning here in the desert near Quartzsite and the forecast high is for the low seventies or twenties, after a big day yesterday today will be a relaxing day. Again I have the boiler on to take the chill off of the coach. The batteries are good this morning yesterday was one of our best solar harvests and I’m expecting to have a good day today with nothing but sun in the forecast.

Mr. Sam has expressed his displeasure with being left alone all day yesterday, he has regressed from that independent cat that wondered into our lives a little more than five years ago. He has turned into a cuddle kitty, oh he will put on a good show…but he still needs to be cuddled after he wakes up and just loves to be held and petted. Well it was a good day for Mr. Sam as he made it outside a couple of times today to enjoy a beautiful day in the desert between his naps…

Today I decided was a good day check one more item off my todo list and to clean the barbecue, it was just due for a good cleaning, it’s about six months old and has done a fair bit of cooking, before the comments start…I do clean the grill after each use with a scraper and brush, this barbecue has been a good choice, after cleaning today I barbecued pork chops for dinner and I also cooked a tube of breakfast sausage patties, to be warmed up for breakfast for the next week or so. This cleaning involved the removing the burners and removing the crusties from the bottom of the que, cleaning the scrap tray, and scraping the bottom of the grills, it doesn’t cook any better, it just looks cleaner.

Our electrical system is working the way it is suppose to, (and I had hopped) we use power as we normally would if we were plugged in, oh there are a few restrictions like no air conditioner, but we try to avoid areas that need a lot of air conditioning. So every night we use up about 220 to 250 amp hours of battery and everyday the panels recharge the batteries to allow us to do it again. We have (well to clarify Miss Laurie has) made bread with the bread maker, used the instant pot, and tomorrow will make chicken wing dip in the oven, all without the need of the generator. So today by about 2 pm we topped off the batteries, the solar controller, finally made it to a float charge. To day our solar system brought in about 362 amp/hours while the day before the harvest was 418 amp/hours because we were recovering from a cloudy day and our bread making, but neither effected our normal living…just like being plugged in…just saying.