Bears, glasses, and 90 degrees: How I spent my Tuesday evening

The biggest surprise of the NFL’s first week should be that there really are no surprises due to the fact hardly any of the starters play meaningful minutes during the preseason schedule of games.

Practice is one thing, but actual game experience is a completely different beast altogether.

The Bears taking advantage of, and staying with the 49ers, was one of the biggest non-surprises going, if you think about it at all.

All the talk by the pre-game pundits largely consisted of their expounding that it is a rebuilding year for the Bears.

Bears don’t rebuild, they either stay the same (losing games against first tier teams), or they improve marginally to the point of their gains being unrecognizable.

Let’s face it.

We really don’t know who is good and who is awful until we are well into the first three to four weeks of the season

Until that time, each team is jockeying for position so as not to become the first team predicted to go winless for the season.

The Bears certainly look like they play hard.

The 49ers appeared dazed that the Bears kept it close until they went ahead.

Either way, it’s a statement on the preseason.

I’d suggest taking the preseason games and just adding them to the regular schedule if preseason is going to be used to play the guys with hardly any chance of making the team.

But, the starters would hate me if I suggested they should play more regular season games, as the league re-conceptualizes just exactly what the intent of the preseason is.

Other visual stuff

I have new glasses with an updated prescription in the works.

Like the last time I received a new prescription a couple of years ago, it’s always a case of how much dizziness I want to inflict upon myself when I wear new glasses.

But, my vision was 20-20 when wearing my old glasses at a recent checkup.

The good doctor said I didn’t need to get new prescription glasses unless I wanted to as my vision was fine.

Never one to leave well enough alone, whether it’s an old computer running slow, or the prospect of new prescription glasses fine-tuning what I see and look at, especially on screen, I just had to see what, if anything, a new pair of glasses with better, prescription lenses would do for me.

So, I ordered a pair online. Now we wait.

Still more 90s to come

I looked at the 10-day forecast and amazingly enough we’re headed towards more 90 degree temperatures. Or at least, that is what the forecast is calling for.

This was discovered after pronouncing to my better half this morning at 5 that we’ve probably seen the last of the 90s.

Just chalk this one up to Skelley’s mutterings proven incorrect.

It’s one thing to be incorrect.

I just don’t like being wrong.

No, it’s fine to be wrong as long as the next person is even more wrong.

And that, dear readers draws another illuminating post to its bittersweet conclusion.

It’s nighttime, so I’ll wish you a good day tomorrow.