Blood Thirsty Sinner

Win or lose, the Patriots are going down in history tomorrow. That said… GO PATS!!!!!

Looks like Microsoft won the bidding war over Facebook. I’m really hoping Microsoft doesn’t interfere too much with Facebook. They will NEVER be able to go back on this one a la Bungie.

Get the news here: http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9803689-56.html

First of let me apologize for writing about a subject that might be considered somewhat off-topic for the rest of the content in this blog.

I have a confession to make. Yes, it’s true. I’m fan number 11 of 24 remaining NBA fans in the western United States. It’s a sordid lot in life…

It’s a good time to be a Patriots, Celtics & Red Sox Fan is it not? The Bruins… I guess if their league chose to televise on a station worth watching I might pay for it, and thusly watch a game. I haven’t rooted for them since Rick Middleton left the game. That guy was my hockey hero growing up.

Anyways, I need a fantasy league for this year. I got kicked out of the one I played in last year because:

1. I had never participated in a fantasy league before. I had no idea what I was doing as the following will illustrate.
2. I called an unfair trade between other players twice during the season (the trades went through anyways. Thanks a lot commish!)
3. I essentially gave away my first pick by taking Chris Paul in the first round. I picked 4th in an 8 team head to head (H2H) league. I know, I know… I could have had Gilbert Arenas!
4. I never successfully completed a trade with anyone. I made about a zillion offers.
5. I survived the fantasy ebola virus known as Lamar Odom’s bad back AND I gambled that keeping Pau Gasol on my team despite the fact he couldn’t play the first 2 months of the season would pay off.
6. I made my picks thinking it was a roto-league, when in fact, it was an H2H league. Furthermore I didn’t make the realization until week 2…. AND…
7. I won the league! I swear I’m not making this up.

And seriously… I would have kicked myself out of that league if I were anyone else involved in that situation. I’ve turned a new leaf. I’m a new man now. I’m versed in the fundamentals of Fantasy etiquette. Thankfully, no death threats or police were involved when I won. However, to the other 7 guys in that league I’ll forever be branded as the guy who initiated dumb trades, took the top second round pick in the first round, carped to the commissioner about a trade that gave away Brandon Roy for fourty cents on the dollar and won 7/10ths of all my weekly match-ups by one category. I was officially “That Guy” in the league. At least I didn’t start anyone who was injured.

I’m a better person now. By the end of the season I had stopped filling up people’s in boxes with trade offers and I thanked my weekly match up after the week was over. If you need a witness you can ask Enoch Nicholson who will testify bitterly that I’m the original idiot savant of NBA fantasy league play.

Yes, anything. Top voted questions will become a sermon series. Find it here.

If God hadn’t sent that baby seal we might not have made the evening news.

Thank you Jesus!

Private education is expensive.

I went to public school and it benefited me very little. I was profoundly bored my entire education and I ended up getting into a lot of trouble as a result. When I left 8th grade I signed up for the hardest classes offered my freshman year in High School the upcoming year. My teacher did everything she possibly could have to prevent this from happening because I was under-performing in her class considerably. She was nice, caring and a decent enough teacher, but ultimately not very challenging. I had bad study habits. I had terrible discipline and I was sure to be a disruption to the other students who had “earned” the right to those classes.

Paradoxically, the best grades I ever earned in public education I earned my first quarter of my freshman High year. Continue Reading »

Authors note: the following was published on The Vox Pop Network and the observant will recognize that I borrowed some language from older posts here. You can tell I used to write BASH scripts for a living…

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My home group was tasked with painting approx. 50 doors at our soon to be launched Wedgwood Campus. That’s 50 door knobs to remove and replace, 100 faces that need blemishes filled in and sanded, 6 gallons of paint, 300 pins and hinges to line up, 300 hinges that have to masked off with tape. Not to mention dozens of kick plates, door stops, and spring loaded tension mechanisms that have to be removed and replaced. It was an enormous task. The group put in 4 weekends INCLUDING Labor Day weekend when we worked on Saturday AND Monday all day, both days! What a bunch of troopers. The doors look awesome.

I was absolutely convinced I wanted to be an artist in high school. Then I went to college and I lost that desire temporarily for the next 10 years. Now I miss designing things and thinking about color relationships, texture, etc. I’ve found that an artists eye is important for a variety of things. Far from the least of which is websites. Continue Reading »

I think this is rather grand.