Halloween

It that time again. This year I will be playing the roll of a Halloween version of Scrooge. We are not handing out candy. In fact I’m are going to pick up a pizza for dinner, then we will turn off all the lights and retreat to the back of the house to watch a movie.

Last Halloween I was home, I cannot remember how many years that has been, this was how the night went. As it was getting dark, we had several local neighborhood children and parents come to the door, which was a pleasure. This was great chance to catch up with the neighbors and see the cute costumes of the little kiddies. But since Shell is pregnant and I don’t want her to frequently get up for the door. In addition, I won’t be home from work until later so this part I will probably miss out on anyways.

Back to the last Halloween. Then later that evening, I opened the door to see several older kids trick and treating. Behind them in the street was two cars parked with doors open and a flood of kids flowing out. This reminded me of the circus act where all the clowns are pilling out of the car and you think to yourself, how many more of them can really be in there, as it continues. This act created a constant stream of kids at the door. Yes parents were dropping groups of kids off in our neighborhood, which brought me to the conclusion that we (we as in neighbors) give out too good of treats. So to save the cash and constant annoyance after the initial rush we’ll spend our last Halloween as non-parents relaxing watching a movie.

Stopping by the Entertainment Section

I usually skip the entertainment section of MSN mainly due to the fact that I do not care if Paris, Brittany, or Lindsey is in jail/rehab this week. But I noticed one head line that I could not resist. Of course this lead to others to note.

- Leno is out in 09, Conan is in. Since I go to bed around 8 PM anymore and I’m OLD, I really couldn’t tell you that Leno was still alive. If I did stay up that late, I would probably watch Letterman over the two anyway.

- Paris has decided to move to a secret location in Africa to never be heard from again. To keep her company she will be taking along Brittany and Lindsey. Just kidding, this is more of a wish. I seen some headline concerning her visiting somewhere. I didn’t bother reading because I don’t care.

- The Backstreet Boys are releasing their new album yesterday. That is great, I thought they were dead. Now, I don’t wish that they were dead, I wish they would stayed where ever they were hiding.

- Speaking of boy bands, one of Justin Timberlake’s buddies from what even band her use to be in, thought he was gay. Who cares I wish he would go where the backseat boys were hiding.

- Hannah Montana tickets are being scalped for $3k a piece. What the hell is going on, have I been in a comma.

- One last wish. I wish that I did not waste the ten minutes with the entertainment section and this post.

No Football For Week 8

If you were thinking the No Football this week was due to Cowboys were not playing this week. You are wrong. It was too busy of a weekend to see much football or read the sports page. I turned on the TV to see about 2 minutes before Tampa Bay screwed up their final attempt to win the game. In addition, I was able to see the final scores. Hopefully next week, I’ll have more to talk about.

College Mascots

The other day I was reading the sports page online. After finishing one article, for some reason still unapparent to me, but I decided to see who ISU was playing. I selected the division AA football schedule for the weekend and as I was scrolling down, I noticed that each college mascot was included. Now most of these schools had a mascot that I have heard of before, but there were a few that I haven’t. Like the following: Murray State Racers, Tennessee-Martin Skyhawks, Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, and Albany Great Danes

Then there were a few that were a little weird to me or made me question “what the hell is a _____”:

Chattanooga Mocs - Short for Moccasins. If I ever become a founder of a college, the mascot is going to be either the Steel Toes or the Tennis Runners.

Coastal Carolina Chanticleers - I had to look up Chanticleers, which is a chicken. By the way Wikipedia has all of these, and some with pictures. Boy that is one mean looking chicken.

South Dakota State Jackrabbits - Now I thought mascots were suppose to represent a desired quality in your group, usually a figure that has a characteristics of power, strength, bravery, etc... Not to offend anyone for South Dakota State or the jackrabbits, but what in the hell are the jackrabbits majestic qualities. A see a small animal that are easy to pick off. The only thing I could think is the stupid symbol of good luck, but that is only a foot and not the entire rabbit. This is even worse than the chicken, but maybe it is me.

Western Illinois Leathernecks - My initial vision is a football game with large group of energized fans in the stands with the cheerleaders up front leading them in rooting for their team, when leather face (Texas Chainsaw Massacre) shows up with a chainsaw instead of a guy in a chicken suit. If you want your scare your opponents as well as your own supporters, job well done.

Fainting Goats

A friend at work asked me if I had ever heard of a fainting goat. Not until now. According to Wikipedia, a fainting goat is a domestic breed that will freeze when scared/startled. This is brought on by a genetic disorder, which is also said to be painless. But it didn’t say that these goats could talk, so I say how do they know that it is painless.


(No it is not dead)

Anyway back to the goat. Now younger fainting goats will usually stiffen and fall over when scared. Old versions have learned to spread there legs or lean against something when this starts and even continue to run around awkward, stiff-legged shuffle.

This whole discussion was brought about since this previously mentioned co-worker was thinking about purchasing one of these animals to keep his children entrained next summer. First he is joking around, at least that is how the discussion went. But I could see this a possibility after answering my next question. What are the usues of a fainting goat? According to the web they are around for two reasons:

First, to be raised as a pet. They can be friendly, intelligent, easy to keep, and amusing.

Second is awful in my opinion, but I also think it is awful to own one just for the amusement of scaring it to watch it freeze up and fall over. Not to say the entire idea is not funny, but if this is the sole reason it is awful. Again I digress. Second, they are also used for protecting livestock such as sheep by involuntarily "sacrificing themselves" to predators. Allowing the sheep to escape.

iCrime

Just recently I read an article concerning a report that linked the increase in crime rate due to the popularity of iPods, which is also addressed in the RedTape blog. The link is included if you wish to read further. Besides the discussion of increase in the crime rate, there is also discussion pertaining what is being done to help stop gadget thefts. The first is not the best proactive approach, but it seems like a good idea to me. And the second is good idea for some expensive gadgets:

JustStolen.net that allows victims to register their lost items in a nationwide database accessible to law enforcement officials. Should a stolen item show up in a cache of gadgets recovered by police, it can be returned to the rightful owner. So far, hundreds of thousands of stolen items are listed on the site. No idea on how many have been returned to their owners, as agencies can contact victims directly without notifying the person that set up the site.

GadgetTrak, is a service that can be installed on almost any USB-enabled device which will make a stolen gadget "phone home" as soon as it is connected to a computer with Internet access. Registered devices, when told to do so, will send the user's IP address, computer name and other identifying information to GadgetTrak, which then provides the data to the victim so it can be shared with police. The service costs $12.95 a year.

Football Thoughts for Week 7

10 - To start at like normal with college football. LSU barley squeeze by Auburn. Which apparently is good enough for them to pass Arizona State in the polls, who are still undefeated. I guessing that this is another SEC is the best and the rest suck. I will also say that ASU did have a bye week and moving up 4 spots is pretty good for not playing a game.

9 - It’s a miracle. The impossible is now possible. The thing that will never happen in million years, happened. ISU won!!!!!

8 - I thought it would only be fitting to have the Titans at this point. After have a fairly large lead going into the 4th quarter, the Titans gave up the lead before diving one last time for a field goal to win the game. This was the 8th field goal for Titans kicker in the game, a new record.

7 - The NFL Bungles (Bangles) were able to come from behind to beat Chad Pennington. Too bad that the Jets as a whole had to take the loss. I know that he was not the entire reason for the loss, but it is the main starting point. If the head coach for the Jets wants out of his contract, he should continue to start Chad.

6 - I am tired of hearing about soon to be super bowl champion Patriots and their MVP Brady. But after 6 touchdowns in a game I have to note the accomplishment. In addition, I will also note that this was the Dolphins and Brady only had the 6th due to the poor performance of the backup. Resulting in his return in the 4th quarter before handing off again to the 3rd string QB.

5 - Well the sea chickens were able to get the win against the Rams. Alexandra looked horrible and if they keep playing like, things are going to be very ugly in the rainy city. By the way, last week I enjoyed giving a co-worker a very hard time that the Cardinals were leading the division. Of course this was only brought on by him giving me a bad time about the Patriot/Cowboys game. But anyway to continue the taunting, I was hoping for a loss. The chickens were able to win easily. I guess I will give him a bad time about his team barley leading in a division that sucks so much.

4 - I started writing this post yesterday, leaving this blank for after MNF. But since the Colts stomped the Jags, there is not much to go on with this particular game. So onto another subject, prior to the season John Kitna (QB of the Lions) noted that Lions will win 10 games this season. Everybody, including me laughed at the idea. It only took only 7 weeks into this season to match the number of wins for last season, at 4. Now they still have 6 more to win for his predictions to come true, but I’m impressed that they have won so many.

3 - On too the windy city. Looks like the change at QB paid off for DA BEARS. Griese was not too bad and lead the final drive for 97 yards in less than 2 minutes without a time out for the go ahead score. Of course it took both teams 3 plus quarters for either to score a touchdown and luckily for the Bears they were last.

2 - Back to college. The number 2 in nation has lost, for the 4th straight week. This weeks victim was South Florida, which seemed to have ever sports news was saying that they were not as good as their ranking. Well here came Rutgers to prove them right. This brings up the next question, can Boston College break the habit next Thursday or will it be the 5th in a row?

1 - Was there any doubt that this would be about the Cowboys. Now they did try to give away the game, on multiple occasions, but they were able to get the win on the blocked field goal and return for the TD. They were able to control the unstoppable Adrian Peterson. Now is a good time for a week off, before they take on the Eagles.

DAMN THE MAN, THE MAYTAG MAN

Last Friday marked a joyous occasion, we got our Fridge back. As the repairmen were putting everything back together, one guy noticed a leak in the water system. Damn fridge!! Of course these repairmen don’t have the replacement part in stock. So we do have our fridge back and the previous problem is now fixed. But now there is no ice or water due to leak, waiting for the part to come in.

I now know why the MAYTAG repairman is never working on MAYTAG’s, because he is incompetent along with the entire company. Good thing Whirlpool bought them out, after our purchase.

WHAT I'VE LEARNED FROM MY EMAIL THIS PAST YEAR

Just recently received this email, and thought I would to share since I seen about 90% of these and I found it amusing.

I must send my thanks to whoever sent me the one about rat poop in the glue on envelopes because I now use a wet towel withevery envelope that needs sealing.

Also, now I scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason.

I no longer have any savings because I gave it to a sick girl (Penny Brown) who is about to die in the hospital for the 1,387,258th time.

I no longer have any money at all, but that will change once I receive the $15,000 that Bill Gates/Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating in their special e-mail program.

I no longer worry about my soul because I have 363,214 angels looking out for me, and St. Theresa's novena has granted my every wish.

I no longer eat KFC because their chickens are actually horrible mutant freaks with no eyes or feathers.

I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water buffalo on a hot day.

I have learned that my prayers only get answered if I forward an email to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes.

I no longer drink Coca Cola because I've learned that it can remove toilet stains.

I no longer buy gasoline without taking a man along to watch the car so a serial killer won't crawl in my back seat when I'm pumping gas.

I no longer drink Pepsi or Dr. Pepper since the people who make these products are atheists who refuse to put "Under God" on their cans.

I no longer use Saran wrap in the microwave because it causes cancer.

I now know that I can't boil a cup water in the microwave anymore because it will blow up in my face...disfiguring me for life.

I no longer check the coin return on pay phones because I could be pricked with a needle infected with AIDS.

I no longer go to shopping malls because someone will drug me with a perfume sample and rob me.

I no longer receive packages from UPS or FedEx since they are actually Al Qaeda in disguise.

I no longer shop at Target since they are French and don't support our American troops or the Salvation Army

I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a number for which I will get a phone bill with calls to Jamaica,Uganda, Singapore, and Uzbekistan.

I no longer have any sneakers -- but that will change once I receive my free replacement pair from Nike.

Thanks to my many internet friends, I can't use anyone's toilet but mine because a big brown African spider is lurking under the seat to cause me instant death when it bites my butt

And thanks to the great advice, I will never pick up $5.00 I dropped in the parking lot because it probably was placed there by a sex molester waiting underneath my car to grab my leg

If you don't send this e-mail to at least 144,000 people in the next 70 minutes, a large dove with diarrhea will land on yourhead at 5:00 PM this afternoon and the fleas from 12 camels will infest your back, causing you to grow a hairy hump.

Which is the reason for this post!!!

I know this will occur because it actually happened to a friend of my next door neighbor' s ex-mother-in-law's second husband's cousin's beautician...Have a wonderful day...

PS: A South American scientist from Argentina , after a lengthy study, has discovered that people with insufficient brain andsexual activity read their computer screen with their hand on the mouse. Don't bother taking it off now, it's too late. .

Baby Names

Once finding out Shell was pregnant, we started thinking of possible names. Now my initial thoughts were:

A) No very common names. I started writing this part of the post and determined my thoughts took too much time away from the subject above. So see the “Damn It Jim” post.

2) No funny names. Everyone has experience hearing a name and responded by saying something in the lines of (out loud or to yourself) “damn his/her parents are seriously messed up” or “ boy his/her parents didn’t like them very much.” I knew a girl through out school that was named Grevela. Now I’m not sure if I spelled that right but it was pronounced GRA-V-LA

3rd) I don’t care too much about the meaning. But there has to be a point where you have to not choose a name since it would just be bad luck to start out in life that way.

No need to expand on A) above, but here are some examples I came across in searches:

Examples of 2)
Oh course there are the 3 celebrity babies - Apple, Camera, Zola Ivy
Then there are colors - Blue, Indigo, Red, Teal
Rupinder (roo PIN der) - Sanskrit for Superlatively beautiful.

Examples of 3rd)
Mara - Hebrew for Bitter
Cecelia - Latin for Blind
Porsche - Latin for Pig
Brutus - Latin for Stupid
Baya - Swahili for Ugly Girl
Weeko - Native American for Sexually Transmitted Disease

Damn It Jim

Trying to decide on a baby name has been a little difficult, since we still have not decided. Note that we already had a boys name picked out and due to this fact is the main reason we are having a girl. But as I was discussing Baby Names in the other post, I started typing and got a little carried away for that post. So I create a second post. I started thinking that we cannot name our baby with a very common name and this is why:

First, I don’t know how many times I turn to see if someone is trying to get my attention. Whether it is for me or not, it probably averages out to 5 times a day. Why, because my name is officially James. And how many other people are also names James. Well there is 5,032,038 in the US alone and that does not include variations. To see where you rank see the on link in the “useless-information-i-lost-count” post. My current group of co-workers named James is 43% of us, or 3 out of 7.

And last, during my 30 years of experience I have heard it all Jimmy, Jim Bob, Jimbo, Jimmy dean, and the usually from trekies “damn it Jim, I’m just a doctor” in bones voice. The best is saved for last, a professor of mine called (accidentally) by 1st half of my last name instead of Jim, and used Jim with the second part of my last name.

In other words, people stop the madness.

Proud!!!!

A recent study found the average American walks about 900 miles per year.

Another study found Americans drink, on average, 22 gallons of beer a year.

That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon. Kind Of Makes You Proud To Be American !

Maytag or should it be Fridge-A-Dare

I lost count of how may times we have had a repairman at our house trying to fix the fridge. Until yesterday I shouldn’t complain too much, since the fridge is still under warranty and there is no cost to us. But the number of attempts to repair is annoying and a little inconvenient. Well yesterday was another visit, but this time they took away our fridge for the repair. The repair will require welding and observation, to ensure the problem is corrected. This leaving us in cooler city for most likely a week.

Maybe that damn Maytag repair man should stop fixing other items like shown on the commercials, let the factory produce stuffed animal with 2 butts, and go back to work on Maytag items (aka our fridge).

3 Essentials to Survival

I was able to survive this weekend. Even though there were moments that the feeling of crazy would take over my mental state. What event threatened my insanity? Well this weekend was Shell’s baby shower. With this event brought Shell’s mother, sister, best friend, Shell, and myself under one small roof for 3 days.

Now let me first say that I like her family and friends. Second I would not consider our house small, but small considering 5 adults and 1 Bailey (aka dog) is a different story. And third, until just recently I have been living away from home surrounded by male construction workers. Last item is not a pretty site, but I had my space and was able to adapt. Needless to say I’m not use to be in a crowded area and I was a little overwhelmed by the female presence around me. Even the soon to be born baby and the dog are female.

So how did I starving off lunacy? Here are the 3 essential items:
1 - Frequent breaks from the group (their shopping trips, working in the garage).
2 - Not holding the baby shower at home (a friend luckily hosted).
3 - Heavy dose of Football. If not available at this time, there are some sports substitutes will suffice.

My Weekly Football Posts vs. ISU Football Program

My weekly football posts are kind of like ISU football program, no one actually partakes in entertainment aspect of either one. The difference in the two, I’m not throwing away a ton of cash writing and publishing these posts. Where as the football team has been in the red for many years. Don’t worry let the students pay for it, too late they already are paying for it with tuition.

Week 6 Football

10 - Well ISU is now 2-4. Season is done, start planning for next year. Too bad there is not a draft for college football, there would be something to look forward to at the end of the season. I guess there is one thing, the season being over.

9 - Purdue was un-able to put away Michigan. After beating 2 top 25 teams Michigan is back in the top 25 themselves.

8 - The rate that top 25 teams college teams are falling this year, there will not be a single undefeated team. South Florida is number 2 in the nation, what???? And I still don’t understand why Hawaii isn’t ranked higher, they are undefeated? Oh I forgot non BCS team, what a load of crap.

7 - The Packers were saved by there defense again. I still cannot believe they won so many games so far without a run game. It could be potentially bad at the end of the season, especially at home where the cold/snow is a factor.

6 - Well the Rams and Dolphins were unable to break there streaks this week. I have seen articles on both teams, talking about the possibility of either team not winning a game all season. Good thing the pros do have a draft.

5 - Saints finally won a game, too bad for the Sea Chickens. It is fun to give all the Seahawk fans around me a bad time. Like Cardinals have are 1st in their division. It makes number 3, of this post, less painful.

4 - Both Boise State and Nevada cannot even slightly comprehend the word defense. After the 4th OT period, Boise State was able to prevent the 2 point conversion, the final score 69-67. I regret missing this one, but hopefully it will be replayed on the ESPN classic channel as an instant classic since it was the all time record for scoring in a game.

3 - Yes the Patriots won. When Dallas was only able to have there offense on the field for 5 minutes total for each half, there no other possible result. My main thought, only team to go undefeated during the regular season didn’t make it to the super bowl.

2 - Number 2 this week goes out to the grandpa of the NFL, Mr. Vinny Testaverde. This 43 year quarterback started for the Panthers, leading them to a win over the Cardinals. The Cardinals lost their grandpa of a QB in the first quarter to an injury, too bad since they tried to get Testaverde and had to settle for Rattay and possible vist by Tim Hassleback in the future.

1 - Kentucky was too much for LSU to handle. Saturday afternoon I sat down to watch a little college football and was able to see the OT periods for this game. Even though I did not see the whole game, it seemed to me that LSU play wasn’t worth the number 1 ranking. Next week Kentucky will looking to give Florida there 3rd loss of the season.

Coupon

A couple of weekends ago, Shell was out of town and I decided to go rent some videos. This was the perfect time to rent any action flicks that might be a little too grotesque for Shells taste. But the main reason for the trip was a “rent one, get one free” coupon that I had was about to expire. I couldn’t let this coupon go to waste. Now the main movie that I wanted to see was Pathfinder, but I was having a hard time finding another (my free one) movie. I was getting tired of walking back and forth and started heading up to the counter when I noticed that Quentin Tarantino had a new movie Death Proof. Since I was tired of being in the store and I was in the mood to handle a Tarantino film. So “Bobs Your Uncle”

This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. For those who want to see the movie, you may not want to read any further. But I suggest just reading about it on the link above and save yourself about an 2 hours.



I know that all of Tarantino’s movies has a long segment where there is no action and all it is a conversation with the movie characters. It has happened in Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, and Kill Bill vol I & II. But when two of these segments take up a total of 98% of movie, this is the limit. I was able to watch the first segment without fast forwarding, but the second I had to see what happened without watching it entirely. By doing this, I found out that I was not missing any of the plot. The movie should have been 30 minutes, which would have been long enough to give Tarantino one of his conversations segment.

In other words two things took place. I now have a new movie I rank in the top 10, worst of all time. Ranked in-between Cabin Boy and Chocolat. Second, I am pissed off that I wasted a free video coupon, which was about to expire, on this movie.

Weird News

It has been awhile since I made a post concerning the Weird World News, but there was a couple of stories I could not pass up.

- In a Pittsburgh supermarket this last weekend, a man was seeking to use a $1 million bill.

The particular act is not what is weird for me, it is the frequency. I swear this is the 5th of 6th time I have seen this headline in the last couple of years. I’m amazed that people think that this will work. Okay lets even go beyond the first question, say that there is a slim chance in hell that this will work. My next stupid question would be, do they a think the store has enough money onsite to change the bill? Now is this make believe world lets go 1 further step. Say for some reason a supermarket in Pittsburg does have that much money to give change for this bill. Depending how much they are buying , but lets say a $1,000. Was this guy expecting 9,990 $100 dollar bills. Maybe this is why I am not a criminal, I think way too much and have no faith that any of these cons will work.

- Somewhere is Missouri, a man accused of stealing a doughnut could be spend 30 years in jail. This man slipped a doughnut into his shirt and then pushed away the clerk who tried to stop him as he left the store. The push is being treated as minor assault, which transforms a misdemeanor shoplifting charge to strong-armed robbery. This charge alone has a potential prison term of 5 to 15 years, but with this man’s criminal history the prosecutors say they could seek 30 years.

Tough call, is 52 cent doughnut worth 30 years in jail? It must have been one hell of a doughnut. Isn't Springfield supposedly in Missouri. I have the feeling that this will become a Simpsons episode where Homer goes to jail for stealing a doughnut. Or... maybe it basically has already been done.

Monday Continue

Apparently I spoke to soon. Yesterday after posting on how great my Monday was going, I found out that the computer was just the beginning. Come to find out our fridge needs to have the compressor replaced. So next MONDAY the appliance repair company will pick up the fridge and it should only take 5 days to repair. Since the fridge will need to be emptied, hopefully I’m hungry this next weekend. Luckily we have houseguests this weekend, which will help.

Week 5 Football

10 - Notre Dame actually won a game, what happened to UCLA.

9 - Ohio State won and Wisconsin lost. These are the two unfortunate results for college games this week.

8 - Stanford was too much for USC

7 - LSU-Florida, I was torn between which team I hoped to win. If LSU (SEC team) wins they still #1 and if Florida wins there was still a chance for a National Title. I think the least of 2 evils did prevail, just due to my high regard of coach Meyer.

6 - Is there going to be anyone undefeated in college football at the end of the season.

5 - Note to ISU, I heard that San Diego State is thinking about getting ride of there football program. It probably costs too much for there students. It would be different if a program could be self sufficient (cost) for at least 1 year every decade.

4 - Pro football was very boring this weekend. The most exciting game was the Rams-Cardinals and that was not too interesting.

3 - Everybody still thinks the entire NFC sucks, and it did not help with the Steelers pounding the sea chickens. And the Colts destroying Tampa Bay.

2- The Packers are no longer undefeated thanks to the Bears. Congratulation to Brett, who surpassed another record this weekend. Most interceptions of all time.

1 - I was worn out after this game. This was the most exciting game of the week, Bills-Cowboys. Who would of thought that Dallas could turn the ball over 6 times and still win the game. Next week is the Patriots. Dallas better bring there A game, instead of there D minus game (barely passing the test with no honor).

Surprise

Today started out as a normal work day. Struggling out of bed at 4:30 in morning. Trying to wake up with a nice hot shower while trying to motivate myself to get out and get ready for work. Then trying to get a few more minutes of sleep on the vanpool drive while attempting not to loose my breakfast with speed racer behind the wheel. Reaching my final destination, my desk. But at the later event I was surprised with a present from Santa. He left me a shinny new computer. OH JOY!!!!! HAPPY DAY!!!!! I am so glad I’ve been a good boy this year.

This was such a pleasant event, since my old computer had a processor equivalent to the slide rule. The heap of crap, aka old computer, was so slow that it was a daily practice for it to freeze up or be so slow that I would have to reboot multiple times. Anyway back today, I logged in waiting for a little while letting Microsoft Office do its initial thing. Then coming to find that nothing was been transferred to the new computer. For those who have previous read Garfield, you’ll know there is always one re-occurring event that he extremely dislikes more than anything else is MONDAYS.

So after leaving a message with IT, I started searching, loading, installing, etc.. items that I need to do my job. After a couple hours of struggling to remember where all these items are located (the few I did remember), I finally decided that there were enough to do some work. This was about the time the IT person showed up to transfer my previous computer configuration. Even though I wasted a couple hours I was thankful for the help. 15 minutes later he was done and on his way. So I waited for the system to reboot and configure, ending up with duplicates of all the items I was trying to restore. This took another hour to eliminate these items and final get to work.

Then it was lunch time and time to share this lovely Monday contribution. Damn I could have sleep until noon and would have accomplished the same amount of work.

100th

This post was actually written prior to this date, due to a miss-calculation on my part. The blog website also contributed to the mishap, in a way. After logging on and navigating to the post area, there it gives you the number of posts you have. What I did not know is that it also counts your drafts. There were a few entries that I never did post and after a time I felt these subjects weren’t relevant anymore.

Anyway here is the 100th post. If the rate of posts continued as I first started out, the 100th would have probably been published in the year 2050. Now with a baby on the way, I’ll probably not be posting as much. Even though lately it doesn’t seem like it, but we’ll just have to wait and see.

Follow Up: Rumor Has It

The rumor concerning Mr. Updates, Suckas! visiting us up North ended up being FALSE. As for not hearing from him, he has recently added to his blog. But has failed to respond to any email from me. Bringing me to one of the following conclusions: As Brian pointed out it must be the Grocery Outlet wine or he likes to keep me guessing or he now has a different email address.

Baseball

This day and age, when it comes to sports for me it is mainly football, basketball, and occasionally soccer. Growing up there was always another part to this equation that involved baseball. It was a game I loved to watch and more importantly play. The younger me admired Doc Gooding and Darrell Strawberry. Yes I know that these two people ended up being the worst of role models. But if you know about these two guys then you know I was a Mets fan. It not that I don’t like the Mets, it is that I don’t like baseball anymore. After one of the strikes, not sure which one, I totally stopped following baseball.

This is a little late, but better than ever. While on the sports page, I happened see a headline that basically stating the Mets had one of the biggest let downs in history. This I could not resist reading to see what was going on. I came to found out that the Mets have basically leading the division for the entire season until the next to last game. With 14 games remaining, they were ahead 7 games and were unable to win the division. This has to be sad for Mets fans. But all I have to say “Who cares, bring on football”.

NEW YORK SPORTS FANS

This has to be hard on New York Sport Fans this year. The Mets blow a almost fore sure post season appearance. Both the Giants and Jets suck this year, luckily if one of them end up with a .500 record this year. And last but not least, the Knicks only relevant news for this year and probably next is the sexual harassment lawsuit that settled in court to the tune 11.6 million. How big of fan would you be to admit you like the knicks.

What to write about when changing the topic from sports? Hmmmm... How about DRUGS

I know that lately most all my posts have been sports related. This is due to lack of this sport substance while I was out of the country. Before entering a couple more sports post, I thought a quick change of pace would be good. My new subject drugs. Just recently I caught a couple of interesting articles (aka weird section) in the news about current drug busts by customs.

The first was in Australia, were customs were able to intercept a package from Ireland that was trying to smuggle ecstasy into the country. The device to hid this drug, MR. POTATO HEAD. I didn’t know that he was so devilish evil.

Interesting, but not as cleaver as the next story from the Netherlands. Customs captured cocaine sent from Peru inside bugs. I wonder how many bugs it would take to make up a kilo.

Week 4 Football

10 - Well ISU is now 1-3. I am predicting 1 more win this season and no more. Next week is Northern Colorado, this will be it and they might as well cancel the rest of the season.

9 - With the number of upsets in the top 25 for college football this week, there is more college talk in this weeks post. I don’t know why but I love when ranked schools loose, except the few I like to see win, which is very few and even less this year (Total Number is 0). Start with No 3 Oklahoma loosing to the Buffalos (aka Colorado). Enough said

8 - I was able to see the final quarter of this game. In my opinion it was the best college game I have seen this year. No. 6 Cal outlasts No. 11 Oregon. Only if that receiver’s arms for Oregon were longer, he would have been able to reach across the goal line before fumbling it out the side of the end zone. Which would have sent the game to OT. Instead, giving Cal the ball on the 20 to take a knee to end the game.

7 - K-State beat the crap out of Texas. The final score was 41-21

6 - Now time for NFL. When it comes to the NL East, I always root against everyone in the division except the Cowboys (of course). But when there is two other teams from this division playing against each other, it hard to get excited about anything since both teams cannot loose. Except when DE Osi Umenyiora's leads the Giants with 6 sacks, of a total 12 sacks of the Eagles QB Donovan McNabb. Tells me last week against the Lions was a fluke and the Eagles really do suck.

5 - Cards finally drop the Steelers

4 - DA BEARS, DA BEARS, DA BEARS had more troubles than just the QB position. Griese threw 3 ints, 2 in the red zone. Then the Bears allowed a record number of points in the fourth quarter to loose again. Where is coach DIKA when you need him.

3 - I feel sorry for Alex Smith of the 49ers. If Rocky Bernard of the Seahawks' (308-pound defensive tackle) fell on me, I still would have been laying on the field. Don’t worry that is last time I feel sorry for the 49ers

2 - Almost the best thing that could happen in college football has happened, Florida and especially Meyer lost. Only thing better would if they lost to a AA division school or if they loose another game, but any loss by Florida I will take. By the way I will be rooting for LSU next Saturday.

1 - Well Holt of the Rams guaranteed a victory Sunday against the Cowboys. He did not get the support of the rest of the team, and they forgot to show up in a 37-7 win by the Cowboys. Only score was a long punt return and this was not be Holt.