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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickbeam" data-source="post: 1841380" data-attributes="member: 635">If Stockdale doesn't cow to the pressure I'm exerting (or if he would simply prefer to play), I think this is an excellent option to replace Mark's game in the morning.As for last Saturday, are you referring to the Chicago Gameday two weeks ago, or the giant windstorm last week which caused a 24 hour power outage in my area?If it is the former (which is my presumption), Sunday was brutal...just BRUTAL!  I play in a football league, and had to drag myself around the field for 90 minutes on only five hours of total sleep in the preceding two days.  That was followed by a birthday party and other family activities.  Needless to say, I crashed at about 8:30pm that night right around the time we put our youngest in bed.If you were asking about last weekend, that was also difficult.  Why?  Because the power outage prevented us from carving pumpkins effectively; led to the purchase and hook-up of a generator; contributed to Griffin (our youngest...and most active child) going to bed early; and nearly wrecked our plans for the neighborhood Halloween party we were hosting.  Worst of all, Griffin's early bed time combined with Daylight Savings, led to us being up at 4:30 with a very alert and busy child <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />.Was that too much information?  If so, I apologize.  But in any event, thanks for asking CtD!!</blockquote>

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