Watching Last Week's Tottenham Game With Mark

I visited my friend Mark this past Saturday morning and we watched Tottenham's last soccer match (which took place a week ago) before games were paused due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II. That match was against West Ham, which is a pretty bad team, although the game ended in a 1-1 tie. Tottenham still remains in third place, however, despite the disappointing result. Mark works at the University of Denver's Anderson Academic Commons (the library), and today marks the start of the Fall Quarter, which was a pretty significant event when I worked at the DU Bookstore. For almost 30 years I was the Finance Manager there, and for much of that time also the "rush" coordinator. Even after "retiring" (i.e. outsourced) in 2012, I still think about all the tasks that have to be done this time of year, such as putting together schedules for the cashiers, puzzling out lunch break times, making sure all cash registers are up and running at peak times, and answering lots of questions, among other duties. And by the way, I took the photograph above of Mark in the backyard, which is the pride and joy of Mark's brother Mike, who works at the Denver Botanic Gardens. Mike feels about gardens like Mark feels about soccer, which is really saying something.