who are the people watching this shit?
choose between abc’s “duel” with mike greenberg or nbc’s “clash of the choirs?”
please, no.
i couldn’t believe that many people watch such stupid shows. then, i read a little further and nbc’s “biggest loser 4″ had 11.4 million viewers. so now, i guess i can believe it.
quality programming.
ugh, work on dec. 26? not only was i rather tired and surly when i awoke around 6:37 a.m., i had to go to work and face a cacophony of “how was your christmas?” and “what did santa bring you?” or so i thought. you see, this is my first full year of post-college employment, so i didn’t really know what shenanigans to expect when required to work the day after christmas. nothing. i should have expected nothing. there are about 5 or 6 people here today, that number includes my three editors. what’s worse? i don’t have shit to do. well i did, but what little work was required of me was done by noon today. i have one vacation day left and i’m definitely regretting not doing the “call-in and use a vacation day”maneuver. in the words of cletus the slack jawed yokel, “shoulda but didn’ta.” but it all works out. i like getting paid for doing nothing, don’t i? i just have to bear another day of this (tomorrow), which will be thrice as boring as today. then i’ll take my vacation day on friday. my girlfriend, also known in the comments section as pooty mcguyver (you won’t get an explanation on that), is coming down to visit early on friday, so i thought it best to take my day off then. i think i’ll bring my psp to work tomorrow, or some fucking dvds. this is ri-goddamn-diculous. but then again, it’s easy money. i come, i sit, i browse, i eat, i browse and i go home a few dollars richer.
what really grinds my gears, is that i don’t get that day after christmas to just sit around, watch new dvds, play new video games and, and… well, whatever the hell i want. it’s christmas, ain’t shit goin on in the way of news around christmas. everybody is too busy sitting around playing with the shit they got for christmas to go out and cause crimes or make semi-interesting news. you can quote me on that! ooooooo, before christmas, you get the hard-hitting last-minute christmas shopping stories. then the day after christmas, you get those hair-raising stories about returning christmas presents and post-christmas bargains. goddamn, are they interesting. i look at the clock and i still have another hour and forty-five minutes to burn. i can’t even think of a way to tie up this mundane blog post. how about … crap.
“onions!”
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a funny thing happened last night while i was watching television. duke lost. not only did they lose, lavance fields of pittsburgh drained a three with about 5 seconds left to give pitt the lead. heartbreaking, simply heartbreaking. what i find funny, is that two posts below, i inadvertently wrote a blanket-like description of the game last night, before it was played. sure, blanket-like, that’s how i roll. hey, it went down to the wire and pitt won. i don’t think many pitt fans stormed the court, and coach k wasn’t trampled, but pitt won, i’ll take it. i’m happy about that. actually, let me rephrase that statement. duke lost, i’m happy about that. there we go.
as far as the steelers vs. rams game last night, i predicted it would be lame, that was incorrect, depending on your working definition of lame. the score would lead you to believe it was a relatively close game. it wasn’t. the rams did come within seven points once or twice, but the way they were playing last night, they certainly didn’t look threatening. steven jackson had a decent game, 85 yards on the ground, 3 catches, one for a touchdown. however, the rest of their offense is disgusting. besides isaac bruce making a couple impressive sideline, toe-dragging catches and a randy mcmichael (why don’t they throw to him more often) one-handed grab in the closing minutes of the fourth quarter, jackson continues to be their only bright spot on offense. bulger looks like a he’s about ready to snap after every failed offensive play. last night, after getting knocked to the ground after a pass attempt, a rams offensive lineman offered his hand to help him up, bulger looks up at him and the lineman’s extended arm, then decides to get up by himself. i won’t speculate, especially on a minute detail such as that, but the guy was getting knocked around like a rag doll last night. oh, and then there’s the fact, that their defense gave up 41 points to a struggling steeler offense that played all but approximately two plays without willie parker, who broke his leg. najeh davenport poops in closets! there was no way i could resist that.
i’ve also been meaning to address a few statements i made about devin hester during the offseason. i said he was overrated, that he wouldn’t repeat his efforts that made him so popular last season and that he couldn’t flourish as an offensive player. yea, i still stand by those remarks. i refuse to jump on his bandwagon. i don’t care how many returns for touchdowns he has this season. he’s the only offensive threat on the entire chicago bears team. he still can’t play on the offensive side of the ball. he looks lost and he run blocks about as effectively as a chihuahua. no disrespect to chihuahuas. he’s a great special teams player when he gets the ball. kick away from him and the problem is solved. if hester doesn’t get a touch on punt or kick returns all game, the bears would probably average about six points per game. so i’m wiling to cave a little bit. he’s not the second-coming of dante hall, put him on a good or average team like the bears last season and you’ve got something to talk about, but until then, he’s still just a flashy special teamer on a 5-9 team.
i’ve got a question for ya. every time i look at my blog stats, in the search engine terms, people are always searching for the same terms. things like “did danny glover have a stroke,” “finkel is einhorn,” “devin hester,” “ace ventura,” and for a while, things like “lambourghini” would always pop up with varying numbers of views. sometimes over 40 or so views a day with a certain search term. is this because people don’t remember my url or maybe it’s because some people can’t type certain url’s at their respective work computers? through the power of a search engine and specific terms, you can get directed to this blog without typing in the url. or am i just being spammed? i don’t pretend to know a whole lot about this blog business, but i like the possibility that more people are reading what i’m writing than i currently tend to believe. so, i’m gonna throw this out there: if a few couple people leave a quick comment saying that you read this regularly, or that you find me through search engine terms, i’ll do my best to churn out a few extra posts here and there. don’t be shy. but, if nobody comments, then i’m taking my ball and going home. ok, i won’t.
you’ve got my vote, bryant, what are we voting for again?
i’m excited about the no. 7 duke vs. no. 9 pittsburgh college hoops matchup tonight at 7 p.m. an early battle of the unbeatens. haven’t seen a lot of college hoops thus far, but pitt usually has a large following when they play at the garden. i’d love to see pitt come out and smack around duke but, it’s duke, that probably won’t happen. i’d much rather see an intense, well-played game that goes down to the wire … with duke eventually losing and pitt fans storming the court and stomping coach k to the floor. seems logical, no?
however, i’ve become a bit of a sucker for the nfl network. the steelers and rams face off in st. louis in what should be quite a lame game. i’ll watch anyway, because at this point in time, i’m more interested in nfl football than early, somewhat irrelevant college basketball games. i’ve heard differing opinions, but i really like cris collinsworth and whatever gumble that is doing the commentating. they’re subtle and not overly opinionated and seem to stick to the topic at hand, which would be football. it seems like the nfl network is happy to just let the game do the talking. they don’t use overly aggressive or flashy graphics. as an example, i remind you of the fox networks series of football playing robots that accompany you to a commercial break. either way, for whatever reason, i appreciate not getting flogged with loud, arrogant announcers or intrusive graphics and football playing robots. anyway, i’ve totally lost my train of thought now. that will be all.
that second wire on the right, that’s the one she forgot
hey hey. so that whole sick thing i posted about last time, i’m still battling through it. it’s kind of confusing. i’m not really sick, but i am. this is just the theory i’ve been cooking up in my little mind of mine. i got a flu shot maybe a month and a half ago. then last week i get this sickness/bug whatever it was. i felt like complete crap for two days. one night at work i was really achey and chill-y, and then, the next day, the worst symptoms were gone. i literally woke up the next day after that shitty night at work and felt considerably better. since i was so achey and chill-y, i’m assuming that i had a fever of some sort. i still consider myself sick today, although my nose isn’t runny, my throat doesn’t hurt and i don’t have a headache or anything. i’m just kind of fatigued and i have that sicky look on my face.
anyway, could the flu shot have had anything to do with this? when i started feeling bad about a week ago, it was the bad type of sick. not a little cold, that comes and goes in three days time. i’m talking stay in bed, walk around draped in a blanket, chicken noodle soup, 102°F fever sick.
i’ve heard people state that after they get a flu shot, they come down with a little cold or something. i didn’t really buy that, until it quite possibly just happened to me. so, my question is: could it be that my flu shot helped me get better quicker, or lessened my symptoms, even if what i had was not the flu? i’m not expecting an answer.
• also of note, i won the office football pool again. it wasn’t this past weekend, but the weekend before (12/9). i should have posted something before this so i could have gloated the hell out of it, but i went 14-1. i won $14 this time. more importantly, a staff wide e-mail was sent out to let everyone know who won, me, muh fuggas.
• i bought/won this old playstation 2 game from a series of light-gun shooting games called time crisis. i used to have time crisis 2, but i sold it when i was in college. so this time i bought time crisis 3 and the guncon 2 (seen above), which is a light-gun, much like the gun used in nintendo’s duck hunt. basically, you point and shoot. but, upon arrival in the mail. i hooked the old girl up and i couldn’t shoot the broadside of a doggone barn! apparently the seller forgot to send me another wire that comes with the package. the gun and game work, but the gun cannot be calibrated. you can put the barrel of the gun on the tv screen and shoot and it still does not register. so i e-mailed the seller a couple hundred times and she discovered what the problem was. she’s an idiot. seriously, if you’re selling something on ebay, know a little about what you’re selling. maybe it would also be wise to include all things that originally came with the object you are selling. but hey, that’s me. i’m crazy … like a fox.
also included in my winnings were tiger woods golf 2003 and super swing away golf. haven’t played either, but tiger woods games are sweet. it’s only a matter of time before i dust off ol’ eldrick 2003.
• my christmas luncheon for work was today. it was held at a restaurant in close proximity to where i work. and by close i mean about 20 feet down the block. i don’t mean to get too graphic or sound like a whiner here but, the food was decent, i expected better. it was one of those deals where you walk up to a bunch of steam trays or whatever the fudge they’re called and someone gives you a steaming heap of a food-like substance. no pizza, no burgers. i got stuffed chicken breast, mashed potatoes, carrot cake and an afternoon spent walking to and from the bathroom. despite that, it was a good time. i got to sit and talk with co-workers in a relaxed setting. let loose a little bit, which was nice. oh, and i got paid for it, i think. at least that’s what my timecard says. which is nice.
i’m working with the daily morning paper all this week. that means i work the graveyahhhd shift all week, 5 p.m. – 1 a.m.
the person who does my job for the morning paper is on vacation this week and since i’m such a fucking nice guy, i’m covering for her and doing my job at the same time. i’m a wunderkind.
what sucks is that i think i’m starting to get sick. i had a stiff neck and sore throat last night (tuesday) and when i woke up this morning afternoon, my entire body was fatigued and sore. i’m achey, sweaty-er than usual, i have a headache and i’m exhausted. all this information leads me to believe that i might be coming down with something. so i’m guzzling orange juice, taking multi-vitamins and ingesting advil every four hours in hopes of killing this sickness before it really sets in.
so, i’m kinda stuck. i’d feel pretty bad and unreliable if i had to call out sick when i’m supposed to be covering for someone else. not only that, i’d be calling out sick at a newspaper i don’t really directly work for. that option doesn’t float with me, so i guess i’ll tough it out. i could work from home since my job is completely done by computer, but there’s a few too many snags in that plan. anyway, this post is a major disappointment, i’ll get sick, don’t you worry. i even got a flu shot. that’s as good as a cure-all in my book.
see what i did with that title? instead of misc. like miscellaneous, it’s mist. as in mistercellaneous. whooooa, easy folks, i’ll tell ya, my imagination must be running wild today.
i always wanted to do a bulleted list of notes or comments, so here goes. the only problem is, i’m not sure yet if i have/can find enough semi-interesting bits to make a respectable list. but if there are only like four bulleted points, then you know i shat the bed on this one.
ok, that’s six bullets. that’s good enough for me. next time, maybe i’ll think up an actual list before i start. yes, that would do.
