In the middle of the holidays...

and I have to admit I'm having a better time than usual.  Maybe it's the new house or the kid on the way but I'm  not as...eh...as usual.  I also forgot to update this thing for about 2 weeks so might as well give it a go.

Best gift:  

Only on first chapter but the detail and approach is very smooth to read and I expect to find it very enjoyable by the end.










So football season is damn near finished and I find myself depressed yet again by letting it slip through my fingers.  Every year I promise to watch as much as possible but on every level I can't do it.  Watching some suckass mountain west game, local HS teams, or even a game like Seattle-Tampa is mind numbing to me.  I just have to accept I am a sports snob.

Speaking of sports, why would you fire your coach with 1 game left?  Its not like you save money by cutting him out early.  But no, let's throw in the assistant coach who is ill prepared to be a HC into the fire for a job that 99% chance he won't keep.  Makes a lot of sense doesn't it 49ers?

For those not keeping track every since this douchebag and his mama and daddy showed up to "run" the team we've been embarrassingly terrible.  Hey kid, get your head out of ass if you can manage it without damaging the silver spoon in your mouth and give Uncle Eddie a call and LEARN HOW YOU RUN A FUCKING FRANCHISE!




In related news:   Hey Bar....

LEARN HOW TO RUN A FUCKING COUNTRY!

Update on the Snow

We didn't get shit.  It's not even worth uploading the pics.  It's cold as fuck outside.  That is all.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow..pt1

So we're in store for a storm, basically the same thing that's collapsed the Metrodome roof and cause havoc across the Midwest.  It rained all morning and then around 1:45 I started to notice flurries outside.  Luckily I snapped some pics of the backyard to document it because being Mr. Opportunist I decided this would be a good topic for blogging.  I'll post some of those before and after..and after pics later.  As luck would have it I was already scheduled off work tomorrow and I'm hoping the wife's school closes so I don't have to drive her to work in the midst of this shit.

This has been a pretty good football weekend.  Heisman last night-no shocker, a local crybaby team got DEMOLISHED in their WV state title game.  Right now Pittsburgh is up on Cincy 20-7 but I'm beginning to wonder exactly how long the NFL is going to order the Refs to fuck us at every chance.  Good play on offense? Holdng.  Ben gets nailed 4 seconds after throwing the ball?  No flag.  I mean if you're going to do this, have the balls to go on Sportscenter and say 'yea, we're going to do out best to make sure they lose.'  It's not our fault that everyone James Harrison hits is a pussy.

Things we apparently need reminded of..

There's a new windows phone, among a droid...and an evo....
The most overrated band in history is now on itunes

Well as the snow continues I'll keep documenting this.  They're saying 6 inches I guess.  Something tells me that we're going to get more but it'll all be gone by christmas.

It's been a good weekend

Well I survived the great baby shower of 2010 and truth be told it wasn't as bad as I feared.  We had a great turnout and got a ton of stuff for Morgan.  We have a wonderful support base from friends and family.  So enough with the touchy feely shit, let's get to the show.  :-D

Item #1 --Football

A)  Pitt vs Bal, NYJ vs Pats...does the football or the hatred get any better?

B)  Thank baby Jesus that we get Auburn vs Oregon.  If the undeserving TCU got in I'd have lost my mind.  Let them play someone like Wisconsin and be done with it.  Also, ND vs Miami.  I don't care if its a lower midcard bowl, there is something special about that match up.

C) High School football championships were this weekend and there were some very good games and some ass whippings.  5 out of 6 were public vs private schools and I believe the Privates swept 5-0.  So now we get another 8 months of pissing and moaning about how there needs to be separate playoffs or how the evil private schools recruit.  Of course a public school with open enrollment is completely above board and never do anything wrong.....

Item #2   Movie Review:  Passengers.

Let me give you the short short version without ruining this.  Anne Hathaway is pretty good looking.  The cast wasn't bad.  The movie sort of drug on and the ending was not completely a surprise but done pretty well.  I won't tell you to move it to the top of your netflix list but if you're looking for a not-horrific 2 hours to spend I'd put it in the top 15-20.  *** out of *****

Item #3  Tax Cuts

The dems want to keep Bush's cuts for middle-lower class.  Reps want them for everyone since ya know..those horrible rich people pay most of the income taxes in this country and create a nice slice of the jobs which we need since Barack's still an inch below 10% unemployment.  So they play games and the incoming Speaker called it chicken shit.  Next year's Congress might be interesting to see how long they can play nice.  My opinion is renew them for everyone.  Tax breaks aren't the problem in Washington, the problem is these career politicians spending OUR money like it's THEIR money.  Stop spending like a virgin in a whorehouse and maybe we can cut the debt.

Item #4  Wikileaks

So now the asshole who runs this thing says if he's arrested he'll release a giant secret dossier of embarrassing documents.  

He's like a bad Bond villain...and not the 'Roger Moore is getting old' villain...the kind they'd match up with Timothy Dalton.  I have a crazy idea.  First, we kill this mother fucker.  Second, we send them a document which when they read it, or anyone else downloads it, it ruins their hard drive and alerts us to where they are so we can arrest and have a talkin' to with them.  

Item #5   The end of my 2 favorite Series..for now.

Walking Dead and Boardwalk Empire both have season finales tonight.  Both of these shows are great and I can't wait to see what happens next.  Waiting till next Oct for WD will suck but as long as they don't screw anything up in the meantime it'll be worth the wait.

Public Enemy #1

This guy is the one who runs wikileaks, who makes it their business to leak classified and secret gov't documents to expose them.  Now a lot of people think that it's a good thing, even though the documents ruin our relations with allies, worsen relations with enemies, and put the lives of our secret helpers around the work at risk by naming them.  All of these things don't anger me more than one other fact.  

This metrosexual little fuck is still alive somehow.

How pussified is our nation that this guy shits on our national security and we just shrug and go...well...we're looking into how to prosecute him?  Um...I have an idea.

Remember this moment?

We didn't mind sending in snatch and grab guys to handle a kid who floated in on a raft.   

How about this one?

Maybe I'm just a sucker for nostalgia but I remember living in an America where if you fucked with us, you got a visit from guys like ^^^ at 3 AM right after they chucked some flashbangs into your condo in Ecuador and 10 mins later you were on a chopper headed back to the US to have a little talkie talkie.  Can you imagine if someone like this guy was around today?

Hey Obama, man up and send in the professionals instead of dicking around playing 5 on 5.  I also find it funny how Homeland Security led by this woman....

sorry...

will crack down on a hundred websites which are letting people download music, but when it comes to a site which has THOUSANDS of secret government documents...eh, we can't do anything.  

Absolutely Pathetic