This is the second day this week I stopped by coptix to see my chums in the slums. Basically this new job is starting soon and with that the training and a very fixed schedule which will only allow me a few days off around thanksgivin and christmas. So that leaves me with a lot of days, and my department has a use it or lose it policy with vacation so I took a half day again this week and stopped by to talk to roe. Its really weird at work, i mean i'm a lame duck anyway, but then today I took all my old manuals and trashed them, don't need them anymore. The past two years are now behind me, i've learned a lot and will use that info in my new job but i don't need a manual to tell me how to do my old job anymore. Its weird, life changing and all.
I think wifey's getting annoyed because I come home and play video games. Today there wasn't much for me to do around the house, i mean there is the floors that needs work but that's something you dont' want to start unless you can work all day on it. And the rain kept me from doing yard work today.
Tonight we're going to the MOFO, as it used to be called, Mountain Fountain, or the Mtn Cafe as its now known. Wifey went to the store but forgot a key ingrediant and in her distress i offered to take her out since the weather is so nice.
Copper for a long time wouldn't do the old, scratch the belly and then the dog's leg shakes, but he has recently developed that ability. Its kind of funny because he really likes the scratch, its on his chest mostly where he likes the scratch and you can get his leg going crazy. So kudos to him for that new found thing... yeah whatever.
This weekend will consist of trying to figure out our living situation as far as organizing the house. We're sort of rearranging everything and need to figure proper places for things. We're sort of giving up on a 4 bedroom house and converting one bedroom into mostly storage. Our basement is just too moist to hold a lot of stuff despite the dehumidfier going constantly, anything of value shouldn't be left down there. So the bedroom upstairs is going to look like a storage room with a bed. So if you get that room that means we don't really like you.... or we have other people over as well, or we just don't want to change the sheets of the other bed.
ok that's it
AARRRRRRRRRRRRGHH!!! That was the worst lost ever!!!! It revealed hardly anything and showed more clips from the prior show than new material. Lousy freakin, stinkin, minkin GRRR!!!! I'm so ticked. Lously Abrams, you win this round.... but i will live to see another episode!
We got back from the camping trip this morning around 11:00. After two nights we took the two mile hike back towards the parking lot and called it a weekend.
We got there friday night after a stop at bilo for provisions (though we forgot the smores which we were highly depressed about). We stopped at Father Adams campsite which is fairly close to the parking lot, maybe little under a mile into the park at Foster Falls. In hindsight we should have gone to the second campsite that was two miles 2.2 miles to get a better hike the first day but it was getting late and we didn't care that much. We set up camp and made some hot dogs and beans and Eddie, Jared, Jesse, and I just sort of caught up on life since college. We'd all seen each other since covenant but it was good to just relax and shoot the breeze and quote Dirty Work while devouring hot dogs and beans.
We broke camp around 9 AM and hiked back to the parking lot to put up the bags so we could hike around the park without all that weight. We went down to the falls
and hiked the base of the cliffs and passed a ton of climbers. Foster Falls is a fairly popular climbing destination and has some real challenging climbs. I'm not much of a climber though, and we didn't have any gear so we stuck to hiking the trail. We then came back on the top trail to get our gear and have some lunch. We waited around till two and just sort of rested after hiking and after a lot of peanuts and chips we packed our gear and headed back out to the campsites.
This time we went further in which was tough because we were already pretty tired from the day's hike. But we made it to the campsite and set up camp and pretty much took naps out of sheer fatigue. After a few hours of just sitting by a fire we had dinner, then pretty much went strait to bed after some talkin and chattin. Dinner was good we had some pasta roni that jared cooked up on his portable butane stove and added some canned chicken.
Then sunday we woke up and pretty much packed up and headed out and stopped at a sonic on the way into town. It was a lot of fun and cool to do two nights, I haven't done that since I was a kid. We hope to get another one going to with some more of the Blackwatch crew who couldn't make it this weekend.
I got the big old campin trip tomorrow going on. Its mostly me and some Blackwatch Alum... actually Friday night will consist of only guys that have been my roommates. Then Saturday night Ute's going to try to show up after he does his 18,000 mile run around the world. He's training to be a cage fighter and for a marathon and we told him to get to running and catch up with us.
Ever since the wife bought me some camping gear last year I've felt bad for not using it. Kind of like how i feel bad when I don't ride my bike... though i just tell that guilty little voice to be quiet otherwise he'll cause my body pain and sweat. The camping gear is great, I got a great Gregory pack i got back for Ireland that is so versatile you can strap a mule on the back of it if you wanted to. Wifey gave me a pretty big coleman tent that seats four with a enough leg room for 7... well not that big. But its really nice. I'd like to get a little 2 person one that's super light for just the quick trips camping, hint hint, but this one is great for the amount of camping i do. It weighs a lot but I'll just take more advil and call it a day.
I also got a slumberjack air matress dealio, one of those thermarest type things. Last time I got it for the wife but this time she's not going so its all mine. My ridge rest, that I inherited from crabb dog just doens't cut it, its so uncomfortable that it almost makes the ground feel better.
I'm going to try to go camping more soon, mostly times when the wife is out of town or busy with girl stuff. So if you're interested and not a psycho let me know and i'll go with you or vice versa.
I hope to have some cool pics up this weekend from the trip. Much like this classic from last year...
The weekend seemed pretty short, just sort of flew by. Friday I took wifey out to dinner to celebrate the new job i got. We hadn't celebrated for it yet so we figured we were do. WE of course went to Carrabas, is there any other restaurant in town? No but it was good, the Chicken Marsala could fastly become my new favorite meal there. The Rigatoni Martino is really good but sometimes its a little too intense and too filling. The Marsala also comes with mashed taters and a salad which was good as well.
Saturday I tried making progress on the floors in the office. I made some but the stripper isn't working well on the middle of the floor. The middle of the floor has less paint than the sides, and in fact in some area's it has none, so its hard to feel like its working. I sort of just broke down and realized I'm just going to have to rent a sander to do it right. The stripper will still be used most likely on the edges where there is three coats of paint. A sander wouldn't do much against three coasts. But I'm not too too worried because whatever happens to the floor, its going to be covered up by a substantially large area rug.
Video Game Section
I also started playing Metal Gear Twin Snakes this weekend. This is a redo of the Metal Gear Solid so it basically has better graphics. It says it has Metal Gear Sons of Liberty in it too, but I'm not so sure on that. After some research on Konami's website I found that basically the took the sequal that was made for the PS2 and took all the updates they used in it and applied it to the original, though saying it combines one and two to me means you get one and two... so the box was a little misleading. I never got a chance to play this back on the Playstation as I never had one so its been pretty fun. But the "SNAKE!!! SNAKE!!!" Everytime i die is getting old. Wifey complained that she didn't like waking up to the sound of machine guns and people screaming, "SNAKE!!!" But I figure somebody has to save the day...
I've seen previews for the new one on PS3 and it looks amazing. If i were to ever buy a next gen machine it would be a hard choice. Basically my big thing would be to get one that is reverse compatible. This is because I wouldn't want an Xbox 360 if i couldn't play xbox original games on it and the same with PS3. But chances are i won't have any money so it won't matter. I'll be stuck with the gameboy. Which by the way i went to three stores on friday and couldn't find a good game to play for the gb so i sort of threw in the towel and will just not play it for a while.
Well the wife and I became members of an exclusive club... Sam's Club. We had to return a present I got for my birthday... Sorry Hunt... but while we were there we did some adding and subtracting and price comparrison and realized it might save us a little money to join. A lot of money later we're home now... And you know what the sad thing is? I went to go get a new game (as I returned one) and the selection was so awful I couldn't bring myself to buying any of them.
Best Purchase.... 36 Pop Tarts... oh pop tarts... I love you.
Best value purchase... a giant bag of penne 96ozs for 3 bucks.
Coke oddly enough is pretty expensive there. I really wanted to buy one of those giant bags of coffee, but as I'm trying to cut back my coffee intake and the fact that coffee goes bad when bought in bulk i held off.
So we're members. Though it ticks me off that Chatts sams is possibly the worst and smallest sams ever. That and it ticks me off that Walton's got my money but eh... there just isn't really a mom and pop Sam's type store.
Man that never gets old. At least for me. What can I say... I rock. I figured It'd take some time for the new pope to warm up to me. But in the end my charm won him over.
The Southern Baptists I must admit I was surprised on... what with me drinking, dancing, and generally being Presbyterian.
Root sent me this little link over. Its a Mary J Blige and a U2 singing one for the relief efforts. http://www.u2exit.com/welcome.shtml
I cleaned the clocks of the texans tonight finally winning a game, though I must confess I tipped the scales in my favor. I adjusted my guys to be near perfect and their guys to be sub par. Mainly so i can get the hang of the passing game and figure that all out, as well as defense and special teams. I pretty much threw it every possession and when the lead was big enough I threw it deep every time. I'll basically make it tougher everytime i play and gradually get up to a level where i can play better. But this helps my self esteem get up.
Ryan Adams and The Cardinals Cold Roses is a pretty good little double disk cd. He's apparently busting out two more of these double diskers by the end of the year. Its amazing how depressing his music can be but also so good. This is some of his best stuff in a long while, though I have only not liked one of his cds and that's Rock n Roll. But this one is good for fans, non fans might not find it very good, its an aquired taste i think for most.
Interpol is an interesting band. The music is very much the music of the past few years, its very similar to Killers and Franz Ferdinand, I realize the Killers ripped off Franz, but truth be told Interpol sounds more like the killers than Franz. Evil and Slow Hands are the big singles off the cd and you probably have heard them on the radio sometime. I generally recommend them if you like Franz, Killers, or the Strokes.
Both cds are great but very mellow and I sort of long for the hard cords I heard on the White Stripes new one. I need some good power music.
The David Gray single is pretty good. I read an interview with him where he basically says he wishes he could be more upbeat in his music like Bob Marley or something but he can't express himself in that manner. The single is pretty good, a lot like White Ladder stuff, lyrically good and complex but depressing played in an upbeat manner.
Here's a conversation between me, Ute and Root at work last week that transpired over email... my logic is surely stunning. The topic is baseball... sort of.
The context is this article
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=caple/offbase/050908 (This is a Jim Caple article on Espn.com that sort of says america's over the Red Sox and Yanks rivalry)
Chris: Take that Empire teams (basically dittoing Jim Caple)
Ute: I disagree with Jim Caple. Maybe HE doesn't care, but this series means a lot to a lot more people than just the people in Boston and the people in NY - namely those in Cleveland, Oakland, Minnesota, Anaheim, etc… Not only that, but the Red Sox and Yankees have more fans and probably more fanatic fans than any other two teams in the MLB (except maybe the Cubs). Now, maybe this is a "down year" for them - but a down year for them is an up year for any other team… Case in point: last I heard, the Yankees were on pace for a record-breaking season in attendence, even with the year they've had!
All that said - what else is a compelling story in the MLB? The Braves and Cards have run away with it again. The Astros are daily locking up their Wildcard. And nobody cares about the NL West. And the White Sox won't be caught either. The Yankees-Red Sox is always compelling and people will watch it and talk about it no matter what.
Chris: Last year most of the country got swept up with the red sox thing… everybody but true blue st. louisans and Yanks fans. But now that the sox have done the one thing the yanks had over them… its sort of like, "Well what else is on TV?" Imagine the cubs winning this year, the cubs would in a sense lose their whole image. The sox have lost their luster, they're no longer the bumbling sox and thus in a lot of ways the rivalry isn't what it used to be because its more a parity now than the yanks getting the sox goat time and time again. But in a lot of ways no one cares about the yanks and sox anymore outside of Boston and yanks fans. The people got on the sox bandwagon and have for the most part gotten back off now that they've established themselves as the front runner. The only thing people care about now is that if the yanks tank and if the Indians or Oakland can steal the wild card.
Also note: these two teams have more fans because they're from two of the larger cities. Not to discredit that argument because they do have some of the strongest fans in the mlb but they also come from two of the biggest cities. Its like saying China has the biggest army… well of course they do they have the biggest country (population wise, granted India might have more but you get my point).
Also the fans stat is a little misleading, they do have the most attendance but they also have one of the biggest stadiums and one of the largest populations. (Seattle I think has the largest stadium sadly enough). LA (2nd) and NY(1st) have the record in attendance this year but look how big both cities are… then you look at the third place cardinals and look at the size of their city.
Yankee Stadium Capacity 57,545 population of 22 million
Dodgers Stadium Capacity 56,000 population of 17 million
St. Louis Stadium Capacity 49,676 (Used to be 57,000 but took seats out for scoreboard) Population of 2,698,672 (It was higher but I left)
Boston has a population of 5.8 million but only holds 33,871.
St. Louis city wise is not very big compared to both LA and NY. And their stadium doesn't hold as much either. It used to hold a lot more but they took a lot of seats out to put a manual scoreboard in. No city in a sense will ever have as many fans as NY b/c no city will ever be that big. A better stat is to compare percent of capacity. Which ESPN has and the cubs are first at 98.2%, Boston 97.2%, Giants 94.1%, Angels 93.7% Yanks 87.3% and Cards are 6th at 86.6%. That stat to me is a better example of fanage. Some of the best teams in the MLB (Mets, Braves, Florida, Oakland, Cleveland, Twins), are farther down around the 50% range but some of these are smaller cities, some of these aren't really baseball towns either.
I'm not questioning NY or Boston's fanage but more the fact that the rivalry is not a nationwide phenomenon like it was last year, something I think Caple is trying to say.
As far as more compelling stories you have the debates in the NL over the mvp A Jones vs. Pujols which is a toss up in a lot of ways and I might actually side for Andruw depending how Pujols finishes the season. As well as the cy young debate between Carp and Clemens. That's a toss up in a lot of ways, though I find it convenient that anytime Clemens isn't doing good he's pulled by the 5 or 6th inning and the fact that Carp and Clemens have gone head to head and carp came out ahead in both games. The resurgence of the White Sox is pretty stinkin huge with some amazing management by Ozzie. But the press has been rather silent on it. I think it was big in the beginning of the season but Ozzie has kept this team rolling when many thought the wheels would fall off. The nationals were a great story and still are compared to where they've been, they just need to settle a few thinks, lock up some question marks and work on the future.
Some of these stories have been flushed out but ESPN and others still like to hype up the sox and yanks but the frustration isn't there anymore, the red sox beat the yanks they don't have to feel inferior anymore. So its hyped up but pretty much to no avail. They're more interested stories but this rivalry still hits the front page of ESPN because in my opinion of ESPN's location (in between Boston and NY) and because these are the two larger market baseball teams. That's why the Northeast and the west get most of the air play on ESPN. Cardinals and cubs get short little blips on the news…. "Carpenter had a no hitter… but in other news Arod stuck his tongue out at Varitek, we now go to Tim Kurjin for an in depth analysis of what this means and how it will impact Saturday's match up…." I mean who cares!
The yanks sox rivalry isn't what it used to be. Last year it was huge due to the sox potential to win the WS or the Yanks potential to make the sox sit their butts down again for another year.
Its like sox have been unmasked after the ball, it turns out they're just as empire-ish as the Yanks and everyone's like, "Hey wait a minute, you have a high pay roll too!"
Frankly I think the Indians make a way more interesting story of a team scrapping out of no where to come in and take the wild card from the yanks… if it happens. And really the big story that will come out of the boston yanks series will be if boston shuts down the yanks then the yanks will miss the post season which would be a huge and great story.
Anyway I need to work now.
Root-- Your logic is fallacious. The percentages you show are just numbers and don't necessarily reflect anything. Example: Chapel Hill is nearly half the size of Durham in terms of population. However, the Smith Center holds more than twice the capacity of Cameron Indoor Stadium (22,500 vs. <10000). Cameron Indoor and the Smith Center are comparable, however, in terms of the percentage of capacity on game days given the opponents. These numbers swing in North Carolina's favor, but it doesn't necessarily suggest anything about fandom. Yes, there are more North Carolina fans in the state than there are Duke fans (even if Duke fans are more annoying!), but statistically, you can't draw any conclusions based on the limited information provided. A lot of it has to do with tradition and other things going on in the city. What if I said there is just nothing better to do in St. Louis than watch a baseball game? Would that be fair?
Chris No that'd be ignorant. We have the bowling hall of fame next to Busch I mean there is tons of stuff to do in st. louis.
There's no stat to say one city's fan is better than another, its merely an opinion that can't necessarily be proven. What I was merely providing were interesting facts of city size compared to size of stadium. However I think the fact of percentage of sellouts where Chicago sells out 98% of the time is pretty hard to argue. I'm not saying that cubs have the best fans but they are going to the most games…or at least selling out to near capacity, which granted sometimes opposing fans are in the stands, that's true anywhere. I was merely trying to discredit the "WE have more fans" makes the fans better… because that is fallacious. I’m not saying ute was arguing that but I have heard that argument before.
But if one were to argue NY has the best fans one would think they'd have a higher percentage of sell outs or at least be filled to capacity more often than not. And let's not talk about college basketball, its so vulgar.
Can conclusions be drawn from the statistics offered? Possibly not, but inferences can be. I was just bringing light to the fact that A> you can't argue you have the best fans b/c it is in no way provable B> if you were to try to prove that these statistics might disuade that theory, which I think they do disuade it but not conclusively. I think if you had the best fans you'd have the most sell outs or sell out to near capcity everytime. But then again that stat is flawed because you have opposing fans in your stadium that could be filling up seats. So there's pretty much no answer, I'm just shooting the proverbial… you know what.
Ute: Yeah, there's too many factors to say who has the best fans. Wrigley field has a capacity of not even 40,000, so of course they will sell out more times than the Yankees, who have a capacity of 57000. Plus, you have to factor in ticket prices, and season ticket information and all of the crap. No way to really tell. But, as in my previous email, I wasn't arguing about the best fans - I was more arguing about intrigue - Yankees fans and Yankees haters alike paying attention to them
Chris: People pay attention because THEY"RE ALWAYS ON! You can't get away from them. Despite the fact that most red blooded normal americans aka non yankees fans (heh heh) don't care.
Root: It doesn't work that way, man. TV guys get paid based on ratings.
Chris --True, but instead of showing games that are quantitavely better baseball games they show games that more people will watch. There are more people in NY so if they show an NY game then more people will watch despite the fact that the Oakland might be battling for a play off spot and need a win against seatle. Thus a more important game might be skipped for the one that might get more people to watch it. I'm not saying this happens but it has and it could.
Root: John has already pointed out why the Yankees/Sox series is important. Both teams are in the playoff hunt, so that and the fact that it is a rivalry in and of itself makes it a better game for TV.
Chris-- Yes but the yanks are lame and so are you. You should have seen that one coming… all my arguments end in the same way. 2nd grade name calling!!!!!
I used some borders gift cards down in atlanta this weekend to up the music collection. We went down to Hotlanta to help the inlawgrandparentals with a garage sale. It was fun and we got a lot sold that didn't sell at ours. We also got to see the Crabbs and hold Adam some this weekend.
But as mentioned crabb and i went to borders and I bought two CDs. Both were gambles because I wasn't sure if I'd like the content of either. I took a big gamble on the new Interpol Antics. I'd only heard the one song they've done on the radio but thought it sounded like my style and pace so i gambled and went for it. I was going to get the White Stripes new one but I knew I could buy it cheaper off Itunes or Bestbuy. Borders is the biggest rip off for music and dvds and what not. The other CD I got was Ryan Adams and The Cardinals Blue Rose. I'm a pretty loyal Adams fan and I tend to like all of his cds with the exception of Rock and Roll which I generally loathe. I like the new one, but not much of the cd really sticks out, its all good music and great to listen to but nothing really jumps out just yet and says that "This is a great great song" lyrically some are I can tell already but musically its all good to above average but nothing that knocks my socks off yet. But I've only given it one spin and its two cds. Which was part of the reason I bought it 2 cds for 15 bucks... at borders that's a deal. Interpol is ok, i think i like it but i realize its not for everyone.
I also got a 50 cent cd... no not the rapper just a .50 cent single of David Gray. I got into White Ladder back in college and i got the one after that but after listening to this new single I'm not sure if I could be a true blue David Gray fan. His voice is just a little to weird for me. A little to Bob Dylan sometimes and a lot of times a lot of the songs sound similar. But it only has 2 songs on it so we'll see. So all that for just a 1.50 out of my pocket isn't bad.
OK if you think Clemens should be the Cy young look at last night's game on friday. He lets off 5 runs in three innings and so they pull him, if a Carpenter had that night Larussa would leave him in to redeem himself. YOu don't pull a great pitcher for a sub par reliever, but last night's pull was totally to save his ERA.
So hats off to the Cards though for kicking butt, and rushing their way to the playoffs, only 8 more.
Hats off also to the bravos. I like Sosa, man that guy can pitch. Man the braves are soo good.
Go Irish... sorry roe. Usually my picking Michigan's opponent doesn't pay off till mid season.
Hats off to the Dawgs too, they pulled it off. Hats off to G tech, those jackets can sting.
I need Ohio St to win and Texas will get knocked off their pedastal. I love it when the ranked teams get taken down a bit, especially the big dogs. But what stinks is USC will never play anyone who can knock them down so we have to root for some sub par football teams to do the deed, that or CAL. Iowa ST. dethrowning Iowa is huge too. Its all great.
OK, I'm seriously about to chuck Madden 2003 out the window. Now I bought this game for 6 bucks thinking, "Everyone needs a madden NFL game." But seriously this game ticks me off to no end. I pick madden's plays everytime on defense and that has helped my defense some, getting the opponent to punt for the first time was exciting. But frankly why is it that I, the Rams led by Kurt Warner, can't freaking beat the Admirals of NFL Europe?
I mean I'm tempted to just play two player and control both sides of the game, maybe that way I can win. I've never seen myself be this bad at any one game. Usually I can pick up a game in a matter of minutes, this one... its impossible. The frusterating thing is i know tons of people who are awesome at this game and I play more video games than they do. Part of the problem is picking pass plays that if you don't hit the person at the right spot of the route then the ball goes out of bounds. Also I'm pretty sure if you have a defender in front of your passer you're going to try to throw it over the defender and not right at him, that's just me, I'm no QB but chances are if you throw it strait to the defender he will either A. intercept it B. Block it. C. doesn't matter cause you're guy ain't gonna get it.
Sports games can be the most frusterating, specially when guys on your team don't do what they should. I mean think about trying to control a whole football team. So many players its rediculous. And I love it when I just trust that the computer will control my cornerbacks and safeties to pick up the receivers and then the qb throws it and my guys are hanging out at the line of scrimmage taking a smoke break.
JOSIAH: this one might be heading towards your house, might be my donation to the manpad because frankly i'm about ready to see how far i can throw a gamecube game down Mcfarland.
The whole blame game going on about katrina is pretty understandable. When tradgedy hits us we immediately look for a scape goat or someone to share the blame. Do i have opinions on who's to blame? Sure i think a lot of people are to blame but ultimately it doesn't matter and it doesn't change what has happened and what will happen. I say quit your complaining, and blaming and just get to work. Talk is cheap as they say.
Yes Emily, I got the job, and to the rest of you as well, I got the job. Though we were severely disappointed with the outcome I'll give you one guess as to why someone would be dissappointed with a promotion/new job. But I took it anyway and hopefully my disappointments will be made up for in subsequent months of hard work and leadership. I'm one of the two guys on the new hire team that's experienced, 2 out 5, so I should have a leg up on 3 of the 5 people in the group. I can't say much else because the spies might be lurking about and haul me away to the dungeon. But I'm happy i got the job and am excited to do something different just not terribly thrilled with how the whole thing went down.
In other news, copper needs a bath.
The cardinals are good, but usually the best team in baseball doesn't win the world series, so i'm worried.
My nagging cold won't go away, i've had it a week now.
And I'm late for work.
I'll make this brief but figured I'd update the 1.5 people who care about my video game life.
I got really into Zelda for a while but the dungeons on the game are so stinking long it takes forever to beat them and frankly i get really tired of the puzzles after a while. So I put it down and went back to need for speed.
I beat the best Gameboy game ever Fire Emblem. It was a great game and I was disappointed that it ended. Their is a sequal but I haven't gotten it yet and it doesn't look as good as this one. I'm really not liking Mario Kart but I lost the Mckays recipt so I'm sort of stuck with it. It is multiplayer and Roe has it so we can play together, but I find I like playing strategy games more.
I beat Warcraft 2 the other day... well i got to the end and just wanted to see the ending so i typed in the cheat code to rush through the last level. But i'll probably move on to the 3rd one soon.
Well that's enough of that.
As an adopted southerner in a lot of ways my wife has encouraged me to pick a college football team to be able to relate to my peers in the south and so in her mind, I'd watch more football and less baseball. I've been trying to pick a team for the past few years, Auburn last year was great to watch, TN has that... well the orange stuff i guess, GA is pretty much good every year, so its been a hard decision. I figure I'd want a team out of the states in the surrounding area. Auburn is good, but their fans are annoying and kind of pig headed, so are TN's, Bama's, and Georgia's for that matter. So that's sort of why I think I settled for the Techies, GA tech. Plus they're the spoiler every year. They may not contend for championships but they screw people's championship dreams. So its either them or the Mocs, one or the other.
But I must say I get sadistic delight out tech beating Auburn... heh heh its fun to watch the big boys fall on their face.
Other teams I'm sadistically taking pleasure in in their failures:
Oklahoma... beaten by a Frog! Hahahha!
Tennessee... they didn't lose but barely beating UAB is really going to hurt them in the standings
Boise State... SIT DOWN. I like how GA gave them a rude awakening on how real football is played, not that pansy mtn stuff.
Pittsburg.... GO RUDY GO RUDY!!!! I love Notre Dame they're probably my biggest favorite team just because of the former catholic thing and all. That and I always wanted to go there to be the next Rudy.
Texas A&M...; I like them actually but beaten by Clemson, ouch that hurts.
Auburn, eat it auburn... GA tech brought their calculators and calculated your doom.
I have a problem calling Chris Carpenter the Cy Young leader due to the ERA of Clemens, but today was a day that could help Carp take the lead on Clemens. The fact that Carpenter has gone head to head with Clemens and won both times is good for his case. Granted the fact that Clemens left after 5 innings isn't so good. I bet he left b/c he knew he wouldn't get the win... clemens knew he was done, pansy.
I also saw this interesting stat today, the Cards are the only NL team with a winning road record. Granted all of the west are losers and some of those teams are just a few games under a winning road record (Atlanta, Philly, Florida, and Chicago). And its not just the cards are a few games above 500 on the road, they 45 and 25, which is pretty stinking good, better than their home record.
Today we just worked around the house, cleaned the cars, and tried to pressure wash the house. The yard was in bad shape after the storms from Katrina and it hadn't had much attention to it for a good month or so. I finally figured out how to restring my weed eater too, something that isn't as easy as it looks.
We then went to the 2.50 showing of Bewitched. The movie was a psuedo chick flick with some good comedy in it. Its amazing how many stars are in the movie. Brick from Anchor man and 40 year old virgin was in it. As well as Conan o Brian as himself for a brief stint. It was pretty funny if you like Will Ferrell. Plus I think Will's house in the movie was the same pad from Anchorman, looks similar at least, though not as 70s.
Not much else. Just relaxin probably tomorrow.
Well I'm not a turn coat, but I went to the braves game last night and got a souvenir...
I'm still a true blue Cards fan but as I'll be living in the South for the rest of my life I figure I might as well support the locals. I'd get a Chattanooga Lookouts Hat but their hats are really dorky and frankly they're the double AA team of the Reds and I hate the Reds, same division as the Cards and all.
But the Braves have proven they're a class act team and worthy of my respect and fanage. But if the Braves and Cards are ever in contention than I have to go with my birds. This year its very likely the Cards will battle the Bravos in the NLCS so that should be interesting. Plus the hat was only 5 bucks and that's a pretty stinking good deal.
The reason I got the hat was I went to the game last night in Atlanta to see the Reds and Braves duke it out. The tickets came from the Uthlauts via the Leavengoods who were in Biloxi rebuilding their parentals house and church so many thanks to them for the generousity. The seats were pretty good as seen in this picture of the view.
Best seats I've gotten in Turner thus far. Its also amazed me that the concorse area or the concession area (whatever you call it) is Airconditioned something I hope the Cards duplicate with their new stadium. Turner field is an amazing stadium and really has a fun atmosphere. Busch so far is more of a baseball fan's stadium with more info to look at, a better MLB score board and less of the fun and games between innings. But Turner makes it a more fun experience for the whole family where as Busch relies more on the traditional baseball experience.
I also found it funny/sad that with 2 outs, a full count in the top of the ninth, Farnsworth (or Farny as I call him) is pitching his last pitch to end the game and I was the only one standing on my feet clapping in the entire section. The guy with the Cardinals Hat on... is the only one cheering for the Braves in his section... sad. Just for reference St. Louis August 19th (and 20th for that matter) top of the Ninth a few men on Isringhausen delievers the 3,2 pitch everyone not one single person not on their feet, granted the stadium was also sold out, something I have yet to see at Turner.
Not to knock the braves fans too much, they get their fair share of crap, but they are pretty weak. I mean they still Florida State's Tomahawk chop, don't come to the game, and then don't go crazy when their team wins a million strait division titles. And the excuse of the Braves being too good for too long but only winning one World Series is the lamest thing I've ever heard. Red Wing fans are still die hard and sell out all the time, same with the Cards, same with the Yanks, same with the Red Sox and Cubs i mean its just lazy to not support one of the best teams in Baseball for the past 15 years. Now I will give them the "Its hard to get to the stadium." Busch is a lot easier to get to and back from and the area around Busch is safer than Turner. But in a lot of ways that's Atlanta's own fault for building a stadium in a not so great part of town. Its the same with the White Sox, people might go if they didn't fear for their lives. Plus Marta (the train in Atlanta) doesn't even stop at the stadium which is about the dumbest thing I've ever heard next to "Chris why didn't you ever play basketball in High School ?"
But the game was great, this stud hit a homerun...
But of course i was in the bathroom at the time. I missed his Homer and Giles amazing diving catch. I did see Francoer's amazing game ending dive... and yes I was the only one on my feet in my section going crazy. The cards fan is the better braves fan than the braves fan... how sad. But it was a lot of fun and it was great to see one extra game this year.
And don't get me started about the cards last night from what i've read its all Izzy's fault and granted everyone has a bad night but he basically blew it twice and kept Mulder from getting another win, which Mulder deserves cause he's a stud.
Here's the big KG wiffing big time.
This is by far the cheapest new bike I could find. $2,649
Its a basic bike and all I'm really looking for.
For a couple hundred more, around 3,000, you can get the run of the mill crotch rocket
But lets face it, I'm not the crotch rocket type. Plus i hear their not that comfortable to ride.
Those were Kawasaki's this is a Honda, the only one they have near affordability runs about 3,000.
Its a pretty cool little bike, and it would fit with the motif of the Accord and Mower i got. As you can tell I'm not a motor bike guy as I just used the word motif in a sentence.
THis is the only Yamaha in the price range and its alright but doesn't really do much for me.
Now this is what I would like if money wasn't an option, that way i could say i drive a beamer. It runs around 9k.
But as its 3 times as much as the others there's no way I'd even fork out the dough for it.
This might be a passing fancy, I'll probably go back to wanting a truck next week, but with gas prices the way they are these bikes are looking mighty tempting. Especially cheap payments since I don't have 3K laying around.
I've got the 48 bug as Roe calls it. He had it earlier and now i got it, its going around chatty town. Life's good, can't complain if I did I'd just look down at new orleans and it hits you how good you really have it.
Since I'm sick i haven't really hit the floors in the office much. With Pedro here the other night i used that as an excuse and now sickness. I did play some mad wack Need for Speed tonight. Suped up my Acura RSX, I traded in the civic for the upgrade in honor of my brother Concerned. I figure since he can't drive his RSX I'll drive my imaginary ones down the mean streets of video game USA.
I'm moving cubes at work again, second time in less than a year. Its kind of annoying I just got used to going to this cube now I gotta go to another cube, granted no room to complain as reason stated above. I'm kind of out of it so this blog may not make much sense, plus I'm not sure of what I"m saying because I've been watching the bravos play tonight and my head sort of swimming from sleep and sickness. I'm not that sick to be honest, I'm just a pansy. ok that is all
Not much to really say up here. Obscene and his wife came up to avoid Katrina and we got to hang and eat and have fun with them for a few days. This hurricane is just bleepin crazy. New Orleans is a mess, looters tick me off, and I feel bad for those who fled and came home to a slab of concrete that used to hold their house.
I've been thinking motorcycle lately. I go in these weird phases of transportation purchases. Like for a good while I've wanted a pick up truck four door, nissan frontier type thing (nissan b/c v6 is standard, 4 door in case kids come along). But then I started thinking gas, and the fact that i like driving my sentra still and kind of want something sporty and fun. So then I started thinking a civic for gas and practicality and all. But now I'm thinking possibly a motor cycle just because they're cheaper than a civic, which are expensive since they don't really depreciate. I'd probably only use it to commute to work and back and in bad weather I'd just take the car. Its an interesting idea. Granted, don't have money for one so its all just in my head.