The end of another season

Well, I'm sitting on my couch, having washed the mud off my hands and trying to wind down from a late game of football. It was probably the second most fun game I played this season, the first being the aforementioned mud-fest. The game tonight started at 9:30pm, in close to sub-zero temperatures, and it was 0-0 all the way into double OT when the opposition finally scored the golden goal. Being a playoff game, that finished it for us, not with a bang, but a whimper. Though the whimper was partly because the late game meant so few of us were up for another trip to Redmond's, our magners-on-draft-and-irish-nachos sponsors. Well, can't blame us, it was close to 11pm when we finished.

It was pointed out to me by a lovely lady recently that things had been quiet on the blog-front. I concur, and this post is in part dedicated to her. Though, in retrospect she doesn't keep a blog of her own, which makes her point moot really. Anyway, here's to Janna, middle English literature teacher extraordinaire.

I am currently blogging from a firefox plugin I discovered the other day, called 'performancing'. If you're a firefox user and a blogger, you should check it out, it saves having to keep logging in, but its not good with the pics so I'll have to log in anyway. But the pics are a bit sparse today. Being me, I forgot to take the camera tonight and so have no picture of the team in all our muddy glory. But the picture wouldn't have had Courtney (FL), Stephanie (Kenya) , Erika (Preggers), and Fernando (Jail) so perhaps it would have been severely lacking anyway.

I'm putting a couple of belated pics here just for the sake of it. About a month ago now, Chad, Erika, Emily and me went to a 'hawks game and even met Tommy the Hawk. The only highlight as our team got blanked like 4-0. Thanks to Chad for sending them to me belatedly:


It was my birthday last friday, and I was well treated to breakfast-in-bed, a dinner at Red Lobster with a Bahama-mama and accompanied by my Sugah-mama. The celebration was on saturday night and we had a joint do at Seth's (who's a few hours younger than me) with a few friends to hang, scoff pizza, and play Settlers. The Parsons, despite being new to the game, have continued their winning streak much to the despair of the Seavers. We need to pick our game up! Gladly though, it seems we've won a few more converts.

I mentioned a few posts ago that I was re-reading William Gibson, well he wrote 8 books in all, and I'm now in book No. 7. Enjoying every minute of it, I think this one, 'All Tomorrow's Parties', is probably a close second favourite , perhaps competing with 'Count Zero', to be the runner-up to 'Neuromancer'. My sister sent me a book, 'Arthur & George', the abstract reminded me of another book I read last year, called 'Dr. Strange and Mr. Norrell', which I recommend, but there's no magic in this one, seems more historically accurate (not that there's anything accurate about magic either...). Thanks Amber, I look forward to the time I have for it this weekend, in between Xbox, football and turkey.

Anyway, I'm blabbing, I think my lungs have returned to their normal capacity, g'night...

Low Blow

So I'm watching SportsCenter, as any male american does, and they were talking about something that happened on Monday Night (American) Football, the video made me giggle so many times I went onto youtube.com to find it. Rest assured, within 24 hours, someone had posted the video on the site:


For the non-americans, if you watch the first few seconds after the scrimmage, you'll see a yellow flag flying, that's the 'whistle' for a penalty. Give it a few more seconds (40 to be exact) and you'll see what the penalty is.

Clubs are Trumps

So, we just spent a weekend in Michigan with Erika's folks. One of her cousins got married and it was a pretty typical affair. The nicest part was getting to play cards with her family and the boring part was having nothing to read but science papers on the way home.

Here's a couple of pics. The oldies in front of Erika are her grandparents (on Pam's side). We forgot to take the camera to the reception so nothing there.

Clubs are Trumps is a euchre-style card game that involve losing your money. It mounts up in pennies and nickels and if you lose you generally end up paying anything from 30 cents to over a dollar. I think I won about a dollar and 17 cents in my first game, and lost 48 cents in my second. What I like is that they're serious about it, they'll get up and dig every penny they find that counts, like I got my two cents change from Erika for two quarters. Though I hear Chad still owes Doug :-)

I love 'That 70's Show', its the kind that would probably make your spouse roll her eyes when you stop on it while channel-browsing but the quips make me laugh. Here's a classic:

"Wow Hyde, you're serious about this, you're leaning forward, you've got your sunglasses off....you're freaking out man!"