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[I am not getting any younger as fast as all of you.  Perhaps faster when I really try.]

"Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families." 

Charles Dickens wrote that in David Copperfield.  I love the quote, even if my sister might use it with me as the subject.  Yet nobody "asked the question" in the 1989 JEOPARDY! Seniors Tournament.

I never thought I would say this, but there has been too much JEOPARDY! in this household of late.  I am fine with the 6:00 p.m. airing in the New Orleans area.  The same episode airs at 4:30 in Bossier City, and I did not gloat too much, or too early, when I called my mother on the Thursday before the state championships to see if she knew the "question" for the Final JEOPARDY round.  She did not, while I did.  This time.

Aside from the regular broadcast in the last two weeks, there was also the JEOPARDY! Masters Tournament for an hour at 7:00 p.m.  I watched a few episodes, and the finals, but I was tired of seeing the same people in a basic round-robin format over two weeks.  That is enough JEOPARDY! for anyone.  Yet, my sister asked me to edit the four shows my mother was on in 1989 to be viewed at a bridal shower for my soon-to-be niece-in-law.  So even when not watching JEOPARDY! I was still watching JEOPARDY!.  For your viewing pleasure, I have included links to the final 11-minute product.

The MP4 will start playing on your computer, and maybe your cell phone - I would not know.  The AVI and WMV files will download to your computer, and I bet your phone as well.  If you want to watch the actual episodes, then www.ouidarellstabonjeopardy.info will allow that. 

In a world in which Everything Everywhere All at Once won a Best Picture Academy Award, I feel bold enough to say I find the Avengers movies enjoyable.  (I like ABBA also, OK?)  Sadly, I cannot say the same for The Avengers television series.  I thought I did, but that was around 1967, and my father probably liked it when I was six-years-old.  I remembered the name Addison Steed and, well, there was Diana Rigg as Mrs. Emma Peel (her husband, apparently, was lost on a plane over the Amazon).

Well, as a six-year-old she was probably not that interesting.  But, two years later, as Tracy Drago, the assassinated wife of James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, that is tough to forget.  "We have all the time in the world" was the first earlier Bond movie rip-off in No Time to Die.  (The "Poison Garden" was from You Only Live Twice - the book, not the movie.) I recently watched the first episode of The Avengers with Diana Rigg.  She entered in season four in 1966.  A couple of days later my mother asked me if, aside from "B" movies, there were "C" or "D" movies.  I told her that, yes, there are.  Those are the ones that one has to keep watching to see if they can get any worse.  That was exactly how I have to now describe the first, and last, episode of The Avengers I have seen in over five decades.  It is a "C" series at best, just from one episode.

Re the Avengers movies, my daughter has schooled me in the fact that they were made for a younger audience, so I can forgive that obvious artillery and siege tactics are not used in the battles, and that they run out to each other like 11th-century Scots and British armies did is understandable.  There are other issues to confront, though.

Avengers Issue #1:   Why did Wakanda have a special "Hulkbuster" suit of hi-tech armor for Dr. Bruce Banner?  Assuming such suits did not have the "Your bodies would crumble as your minds collapsed into madness," as "Thanos-killing weapons" characteristics, was not that a major blunder?  Why did not all Wakandans have such suits?  Did they simply have one prototype lying around in case the otherwise not too formidable Bruce Banner could fight like the other Avengers?  "Introverted and turbulent" notwithstanding, give that suit to the friggin' Winter Soldier and let Dr. Banner assist with the removal of the Mind Stone from Vision.  I mean, am I wrong?

The wedding referenced above is one of the reasons that, despite a little financial windfall I would rather not have been owed, I will not be going to Fargo in July.  And, well, yes, geography has a little to do with it.  I do not trust my mother enough to tell me if she was correct in Final JEOPARDY! rounds for five days.  My sister would tell me, but she will be preoccupied with the wedding in Brooklyn.  Virginia Beach might be nice next year, though.

The 1989 JEOPARDY! video was approved by my sister.  The dimensions of the box I am building to house the mailbox post at the apartments are correct, so that task is almost done.  The north fence at the apartments will be paid for by the "windfall," which is odd as it fell because of where wind "fell" in 2021.  I will also use the "windfall" for "maintenance proofing" the larger garden beds at the house.  It would be irresponsible of me not to buy a new car, and another apartment triplex is also on the agenda.  The car and apartments will take a backseat to wrestling, though. 

Hence, the state championship article should proceed faster, now.  Well, for a sexagenarian who can only spend so much time on a computer each day, and...well...tomorrow.

STATE CHAMPIONSHIP ARTICLE PROGRESS

Purging Division III now.

A red check mark indicates the photos have been chosen and edited for that particular weight class or section.  The number of photos for each section are in parentheses.

Cover	D1 Summary	D2 Summary	D3 Summary	Podiums	LWN	1948, 1973, 1998 & 2008	Contingents
(14)	(48)	(39)	(32)	D1 98+ D2 98+ D3 98+	(12)	(23)	(24)

This table will indicate when the total match photos have been purged into the ones I intend to keep.

# of Photos	106	113	120	126	132	138	145	152	160	170	182	195	220	285
D1 2,199 D2 1,076 D3 495	D1 D2 D3	D1 D2 D3	D1 D2 D3	D1 D2 D3	D1 D2 D3	D1 D2 D3	D1 D2 D3	D1 D2 D3	D1 D2 D3	D1 D2 D3	D1 D2 D3	D1 D2 D3	D1 D2 D3	D1 D2 D3

The below table indicates when the "keepers" have been individually edited and named.

Once photos are completed:

Build (or reconfigure) Webpages for each Division and weight class and make sure all menu hyperlinks work

Cover	D1 Summary	D2 Summary	D3 Summary	Weight Class Pages (All Divisions)

Add photos to individual pages (including championship rounds, quarterfinals consolations and finals

Write text for each Webpage

Write cover and division summary pages

Publish.

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