I'll put this at the top so that maybe it will remind me that my new year's resolution is to write at least one post per week. I should be able to keep that up til at least February.
I had a solid holiday/vacation. I got a bunch of gift cards/certificates which I magically turned into a bunch of books/DVDs. So I'm planning on that keeping me occupied for a significant amount of the future.
When I was purchasing books I snagged what I'm calling The Evolutionary Triple-Pack. I got The Origin of Species by my homeboy as well as Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea by Carl Zimmer and The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of The Human Animal by Jared Diamond. I haven't read any of them yet so I can't comment on at the moment, but you can be sure that I will at some point. Anyway, when I was buying the books the cashier asked me if I was a teacher and kinda pointed at the books. Like only teachers buy educational books? And it wasn't like I was even nicely dressed, I wasn't rocking the top hat/monocle combo or anything. I know I had my headphones still in, and I'm pretty sure that I was wearing trackpants (yeah I'm a classy motherfucker).
The Detroit Red Wings retired Steve Yzerman's #19 on January 2nd. I was thinking about 'live-blogging' the event but I decided to give it my complete undevided attention instead. The videos and speaches were are really good, and the Wings wore four different Yzerman jerseys during the warm-up to represent his time in the OHL, his all-star appearances, his Stanley Cups and his gold medals with Team Canada. If you know me then you know how I feel about Yzerman. He's at best the greatest player of all-time and at worst he's the league's all-time most underrated player
I learned how a weather vane works today. That was one of the random thoughts that I had on the way in to work this afternoon so I looked into it when I got home.
Speaking of things you probably don't care about: My two football pools are done for the season. The two teams I managed were pretty much mirror images of each other. In one pool I jumped out to a commanding lead with an 8-3 record and then promply went on a 5 week losing streak before turning it around in the consolation final to take third place (Although my team put up the most overall points on the season...kinda like Al Gore's popular vote). My other team pretty much sucked ass from day one. I finished the regular season 8th out of 10 teams, but my team started clicking for the last two weeks to make me the 5th place winner. I was kinda mad at my preformances in those pools until I realized something...
Baseball pools start soon!! I don't know when the official date is that Yahoo opens their pools up, but it's usually before spring training, and the first spring training game is on February 26th. I really want to run 3 auction-style pools this season. One AL-only, one NL-only and one with all of MLB. Although I'm pretty sure that it's going to be difficult to find support to just do one.
Thats enough outta me for now. Seeya in a week (or less).
- posted by Mike @ 10:35 PM
