Welcome to the Friday Feedback, which feels fortunate to be typing this today.

I’m trying to squeeze in some off days and eschewed resisted logging many hours yesterday. I instead ran a number of errands I hadn’t run in, say, a month and decided it was a nice enough afternoon to take the dog to the dog park. I’m there for about five minutes when an ominous sky turned apocalyptic.

Now, this park has a lot of trees and sticks, as you might imagine. And considering the winter that was, there are a lot of dead branches. It is generally impossible to get my dog to leave the park. Yesterday was different and as the sky opened she hurried to the gate. As did I. And when I did, I was pummeled by a three-foot long branch that came at me with great anger and smacked me very solidly in the shoulder-neck.

Now we’re moving as sheets of rain soak us and a parade of projectiles threatens us. We get in the car and we’re going at a slow speed to better negotiate the tree limbs littering the road … and hitting my car. Not 20 feet in front of me a large, large tree falls. Hard. Five seconds later and we’re probably not having this conversation — it’d be Monday, at the earliest; I’m not going out like that.

I did what most would do in this situation: Grabbed my cell phone and took a picture … my phone is being stubborn today and won’t send the image and instead encourages me to “be certain you have network coverage and that your account information is correct.”

Back to the story, I put the Cavalier in reverse and looked behind me and see another fallen tree, and while nowhere near me, it does block the only other way off that street that doesn’t involve a helicopter — and I wasn’t ruling that out at that moment. Since you know how this ends, I’ll skip to the end. I actually backed the car over the second, smaller tree in my rear-view mirror — take that, Midvale! — and kinda-sorta broke the tree, which allowed me to move the smaller pieces out of the way and clear a route for a needed exit.

The moral? Friday Feedback will not be stopped. Onto said Feedback. As always, comments appear as posted. In other words … screw it. This is my rapidly becoming my favorite story of the year. I can’t put on my Carlsberg Liverpool F.C. jersey fast enough.

Josh24601 said:

This was a good team that was able to, as Huggins has said, ham and egg its way to a great season. Duke was able to close the kitchen Saturday night, but it’s remarkable that it had been open as long as it was.

/Rolling fingers on keyboard

Wish I had thought of that.