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Playoffs and Packers and Cowboys ......oh my.

Alan watched the Green Bay Packers in their play off game on Sunday.
I have learned that this is like a quarter final.
It was something of a nail biting game but fortunately the Packers won.....just.
It was still touch and go in the last 3 minutes, although anyone who has watched American football will know that those 3 minutes can take about half an hour.
They must be able to warp time or something.
Thusly, Alan was a mega happy bunny.
The Dallas Cowboys were probably not.

The Packers now play in the semi final this coming weekend.
I will let you know how they get on and if they are going to be in the Superbowl.
Apparently this is the world championship, which seems a little odd as only American teams are in it.
Still, the winner is given the title of World Champion.

The weather continues to 'event' all over the place.   It has been 'eventing' (snowing) all day today.
I haven't looked to see when the next snow event takes place.......it will just happen anyway.
The snow we have is now nicely frozen and I can, once again, walk on top of it.
That is a bonus when filling the bird feeder.

The cats were quite excited at the window the other day.  I looked out.  At first I thought there was a blooming great chicken eating seed under the bird feeder.
On closer inspection, it was the hawk.
Oh he is a big bugger, like an eagle. It was quite unnerving to see him up close, under the window.

I was thinking, "Blimey he must be hungry if he is eating seed fallen from the feeder."
But, I was mistaken.
He wasn't eating seed.  He was eating one of my doves who had been eating seed.
Oh poor little dove.
I know everything is hungry but please Mr or Mrs Hawk........please have your picnics somewhere else.

I have conceded defeat with my latest Coursera course.
I hate to give up on anything but this time I am....and here is why.
Firstly, it is so boring.  They have made no effort to make their dry facts interesting.  No fun illustrations or interactives.   Just Mr One Shirt reading from his ipad.
Secondly, I am tired of wading through every lecture I have done to try and find where I am now.   There is no list of lectures or quizzes.....nothing.  I have been making notes of the last lecture I have done each time but there is no way to go straight to it without whizzing through all the others first.
Plus, since when does 2.1 come after 3.4?
I tried looking on Coursera to see how many more I had to do.  I couldn't find that out but what I did find out that for all of this work and tests.......there is no Statement of Accomplishment.
I am not talking about getting distinctions or anything like that but all of the ones I have done so far give you a Statement of Accomplishment if you pass, just to say you have done it.
I am not a trophy hunter but it is nice to have some recognition of doing the damn course.
Then I found out that I had only done 61% so far.
Oh stuff it.
Mr One Shirt can keep his course and his ipad.  That blue jumper he put on didn't fool me either.  I could see the collar of his shirt under it and it was still the same one.

I have got my eye on another course but I don't know when it is starting.  I will see how that goes.

posted by Sue Banks @ 2:38 PM