
Happy New Year! Happy 2019! πππβ€οΈ

Happy New Year! Happy 2019! πππβ€οΈ
Posted by Thadd F. on January 1, 2019
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We got our VW Jetta GLI into the shop today to have the check engine light looked at…

And now we’re up and running again. They had to replace the thermostat and a valve that had an slight oil leak. I got to hang out over by Xavier pretty much all day and it’s never cheap. But at least it’s fixed again and we’re back on the road. πππ§β€οΈ
Posted by Thadd F. on December 31, 2018
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I played fantasy football again this season…

For whatever reason this season, our league at work never kicked off. I’m not sure what happened there. But I still played five teams for just the fun of playing fantasy football.
I ended up with a combined record of 39-26 for the season. This season I named all of my teams some sort form of Bears…

My Firey Bears ended up in sixth place after going 5-8 during the regualr season. Team Auction AutoDraft ended in fifth at 7-6. My Growly Bears ended in fourth at 9-4 and Hungry Bears also ended in fourth after running riot in their league, thumping teams every week gto go 10-3 before completely collapsing in the championship semifinals.
My Blocky Bears went 8-5 during the regular season and were the only team I had that made the leauge championship matchup this season. And they were the only team I had that actually won their league…



So once again, I can call myself fantasy football champion. I think fantasy football is so much fun. It makes the football season really interesting and enjoyable, especially when you win. πππβ€οΈ
Posted by Thadd F. on December 31, 2018
https://tplusg.com/2018/12/31/fantasy-football-wrap-up-2/
Nine years ago today, I started using Foursquare which eventually spawned a little spin-off app called Swarm…

And I got my Foursquare/Swarm 2018 year in review…







I love stuff like this. I just think it’s pretty neat. And I stillΒ reallyΒ love my check-ins on Swarm!Β πβοΈβ€οΈ
Posted by Thadd F. on December 31, 2018
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Posted by Thadd F. on December 31, 2018
https://tplusg.com/2018/12/31/200-timehops-in-a-row/
When we were out walking the dogs today, we noticed this lone Christmas ornament hanging on a shrub by the Montessori school on the hill at the end of our street…


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Posted by Thadd F. on December 30, 2018
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Today was a big sports day. So this afternoon we went with a bunch of friends to Dana’s Gardens just across the street from the campus of Xavier University to watch Xavier play basketball away to the DePaul Blue Demons…

It’s just a great little hole in the wall sports bar. As it turns out, it’s also an official Everton supporters bar. My Arsenal was playing Liverpool this afternoon. So there were no shortage of people pulling for the Arsenal to beat Liverpool. And Michigan was playing Florida in their bowl game. All at the same time. And Dana’s had the TVs to have all those games on. I’m irritated with myself that I completely forgot to take a photo of the inside of Dana’s. But it’s just a little low ceiling dive bar. And like I said, they have a bunch of TVs. They also have really cheap drinks and equally cheap but really great food. It was also one of those places that had a lot of words of wisdom in the restroom…

It was a really fun time…

Xavier beat DePaul by ten but Arsenal got thumped 5-1 by Liverpool. ππβ½οΈβ€οΈ
Posted by Thadd F. on December 29, 2018
https://tplusg.com/2018/12/29/danas-gardens/

Good evening from Northisde. ππβ€οΈ
Posted by Thadd F. on December 28, 2018
https://tplusg.com/2018/12/28/good-evening-from-northside-88/
This morning we dropped off the rental car we that we used to drive up to Michigan…

It was a pretty nice ride. The check engine came on in our Jetta GLI the day before we were going to drive to Michigan. We didn’t feel super comfortable driving all the way up north with that hanging over our heads so we just rented a car from Budget at CVG to get us there and back…


After we dropped it off, we stopped by Crestview Hills Town Center and decided to have lunch at The Pub…



We shared a Scotch Egg…

Genfier had a half chicken salad wrap and a caesar salad…

I had these delicious fish and chip sliders…



We don’t get over to Crestview Hills very often, It’s pretty nice over there, and The Pub has some really good lunch. ππ¬π§β€οΈ
Posted by Thadd F. on December 28, 2018
https://tplusg.com/2018/12/28/meanwhile-across-the-river/

We had a wonderful time over Christmas in Michigan. Click to see all the photos from our holiday up north. ππββ€οΈ
Posted by Thadd F. on December 27, 2018
https://tplusg.com/2018/12/27/christmas-in-michigan/