...turkey and football...

and beer! lots of beer!

BG 29, UT 17

GO FALCONS!

...Happy Turkey Day!

Drive safe, eat well, and get funky!

...Just chillin'

Actually, its more like freezing. The thermostat is set at 90, the temperature reading on the thing hasn't budged above 70, and its actually probably about 55 in here. Looks like its time to break out the long pants for bed. I really thought those days were over at the old apartment. I guess not.

And I think the cold has gotten to my site. Completely down. Well, not completely, I can get information FTP'd to it, but can't check the changes because the site's jacked up. I don't need to make any more phone calls today. Seriously.

Though on the bright side, I did watch disc 3 of the Simpsons Season 3 DVD (thanks lyndi!). Can you believe that was 1992? I was young then. Really young. Like high school young. But I realized that season 3 is right about the time they started getting good. As funny as I knew it was, the softball episode is so so so much funnier than even I realized!

...If a rabbit and a puppy screw in the woods....

...is it art?

Seriously. I'm starting to get somewhat open-minded toward art stuff, and not just look and say "ooh, pretty colors!" (Though it usually does come down to colors. Always does.) But this one ceramics/sculpture-type deal in this exhibit today had a rabbit taking it to a dog, well, doggystyle. Though it did make the guys other sculpture, a cartoony look at Sept. 11th, a little less silly.

I would like to take this space to thank the Browns for wrecking a perfectly good weekend. BG beats Ball State to set up a hellified game in BG this Saturday at noon against Toledo. (A game at which I'll be there, be a little intoxicated, but not nearly as slumped-over-trashed as I likely would have been at the original game time of Friday at 6pm. Made for TV, my ass. Oh, and for the record, I was only 8 points a side off on the UM prediction. I even won 5 bucks off the deal. Of course, it could have been quite a bit more, but there is NO WAY I'm betting on an UM-OSU game, the way they normally turn out. Regardless... GO BLUE!

Good to see the little brother chiming in, even if the image of Jesus in a pisser is a little disturbing to me.

...LET'S GO BLUE!!!

Bring this one home! I'm sticking to the 27-13 call, though as close as this game ALWAYS is, OSU *might* kick in another 3 or 7.

Man I wish I could be in Ann Arbor right now.

GO BLUE!

...Good God thats alot of meat!

This one's for you Stouffer's French Bread pizza fans that are horribly disappointed with the lack of pepperoni on your pizzas. Today, I found out where it all went.



Seriously. Check it out again. That's meat on meat. Triangle of pepperoni upon triangle of pepperoni. Oh, and it was tasty. Boy was it ever.

In other news, despite the good its done for my still infant web publishing "career", Blogger's a bitch. I take the "Why won't it let me post twice in the same day without jacking my page up?" question to the support site, then in an email, and get a "its probably in your tags", unfortunately Blogger doesn't support HTML or CSS. Hmm, even when its your shitty HTML or CSS that's causing the problem? Of course, I can't totally prove that, but I'm pretty sure.

Oh well, what more do you want for free? I mean, besides reliability, of course.

...It's the pizza guy...

What a fun morning. Actually, work sucked, but I played "subtle smartass" all morning and it worked out okay. But lets just say the web has been kind to me today. Two email attachments of four-star quality and a porn name generator will make even the most jaded employee's day. For real.

(For the first two, it might be a good idea to hide the kiddies, and not be at work. Just some animated cleavage and a butt shot, but just to be safe...)

Exhibit A: Just in time for Christmas, one girl creates her list

Exhibit B: I've found my new favorite Olympic event

Exhibit C: Hello, my name is Drew Storm, and I'll be violating you today.

At the very bottom of the ingredients list of a bag of Ruffles Sour Cream n' Cheddar potato chips says, "CONTAINS MILK INGREDIENTS".

I'm no farmer, but aren't all the ingredients in milk, well... MILK!?!?

I'm sure modern science is on this one.

This would mark the second time this week I've had blogging issues. I think I might have narrowed the problem down to trying to make entries from the same day. If true, what a crappy glitch THAT is!!! Time to play Inspector Gadget for awhile and see whats up.

...You know what sucks?

When you sign up for something online, then forget that you're getting a confirmation email. That brief moment of "I wonder who sent me email?", then noticing its the confirmation from 5 seconds ago. That sucks.

...HA! In your face, space coyote!

I figured it out! Which, any of you probably know if you're reading this, it looks different. Not all the "toys" I had on the other site, but its basically the same, and looks like MINE! Okay, all you're really missing is the archive stuff, but I don't think that worked anyway. Some day, maybe it will return. Until then, tell me what you think of it.

More to come, but right now I feel so accomplished. Like God must feel when HE'S holding a gun.

...Be nice to me Blogger...

OK, yesterday was hell for blogging. Updating crazy, putting text all over everywhere. I really hope I can get my template hooked up during my "weekend" and move along. I'm excited about the site, but there's alot of work and learning to be done.

A couple cool things, I'm already 6th on the list for a google search of "met tony". Add a few meta descriptions and I should be hooked up! Also, and I still want to find out how this happened, but my brother's father-in-law stumbled upon an old site I did. Funny site, but not entirely something parental types should be reading, necessarily. Though come to think of it, I think my parents read it. Hmm.

So to be honest, about 5 hours have passed since that last segment in this entry. I've played 9 holes of golf (actually 15 or so if you count all the mulligans, but screw it, its November!), drank a number of beers, and made it back home. So yay me!

I had a whole hell of a lot to add to this, but I think I'll save it for some time when I can remember it.

...Sunday Bloody Sunday

3 minutes into the game, and Dennis Northcutt is already the man. 27-13 Browns is my prediction. (I posted this originally at 1:08pm, but Blogger has been a whore today.)

1:05 Up and out of bed, and a little late out of the shower, but the Brownies are driving. I'm taking it as a good sign that the first play I saw out of the shower was a catch-and-go to Northcutt, with 15 more tacked on for a late hit.

1:12 And the Browns keep driving, picking up 3rd down conversions along the way. 3rd and 1 now, I'm betting they don't get it and try the FG. Its the Browns. Yep, Jackson stood up in the backfield, bring on Phil. Ugh. This is painfully horrible. Good job, Philly. 3-0 Brownies.

1:22 Give up a first down, then get the tips for the INT. Earl Little! I don't know how they were stacked 3 DBs deep in a straight line, but I'll take it!

1:23 Holcomb to Davis. Initial thought is Kelly could throw for 375 on this defense, I'll officially predict 312 yards. And aside from that 3rd and 1, James Jackson continues to run well.

1:50 Its points, but I hate getting inside the 20 and kicking the FG. Damn. 13-0, I'll take it, but the defense needs to stay strong.

1:27 Touchdown Browns! How well is Kelly throwing the ball!?!?! Unbelievable! Put this team away! How nice to see them using ALL receivers for a change. Maybe "The Fris" will even get a chance to be a part of it.

1:38 End of 1st. 10-0 Browns. GREAT start!

2:05 Who's this Heinrich guy? Oh well, nice grab and go. NO FIELD GOALS THIS TIME, PLEASE!!!

2:23 Halftime and its 20-3. Not bad, but couldn't we just skip the halftime break and get right to the second half? Not just because the Browns are playing so well, but because there's nothing else on TV!!! Though if they don't get moving quick, this Man vs. Machine chess match on ESPN2 just might get my undivided attention.

2:53 I lied about Anthony Henry last week. He just might be as bad as Chris Crocker. Horrible coverage on the deep ball. Good to see Courtney Brown decided to play this week.

2:54 Another FG for the Cards. 20-6. Remember what I said about putting this damn team away? More important, another TD for each team, and remember what I said about a 27-13 final?

3:04 Jackson sneaks in for the score! And Browns fans and fantasy owners rejoice together! That score is going to make his 30 yard rushing performance a little more tolerable, and a Browns win makes me not care an inch about fantasy football right now.

3:21 Prediction be damned, now I want 50 and a TD for Frisman!

3:27 Did I say 375 for Holcomb? I'm all about 450 now. At least until we see Hybl to Jackson in the 4th! Cincy is up on KC, that needs to change. A Browns win and a Bengals and Ravens loss, and we're only a game out of the division lead. There is STILL light at the end of this long, strange tunnel!

3:30 TOUCHDOWN BROWNS!!! James Jackson again, two scores, about 40 yards rushing. A solid day fantasy-wise, though he's gonna have to pick it up to get my 500 yard over 4 games prediction. Screw it, I LOVE THIS!

3:35 Jeff Blake out for the Cardinals. Some things never change. Welcome back to Cleveland, Jeff!

3:37 Boyer with the pick! This is obviously the Browns day, hopefully its a sign of things to come. Funny though, but I haven't heard Tim Couch's name mentioned once.

3:41 Damn. Bengals get the TD. Looks like KC is going to lose their first, but more importantly, the damn Bengals will stay a game up on Cleveland. I would love nothing more than the last game of the year between those two to be for the division. 'Cause I'll be there.

3:45 Another FG. Unfortunately not able to punch it in, and no sign of Frisman Jackson yet.

3:46 They just brought up Holcomb's numbers. 375 yards passing. Of course, gut instincts trump "official" predictions. Check out the 1:23PM entry, please.

3:58 Pick by the back-ups! I know they're not going to go down and score, but wouldn't that be fun?

4:01 3 hours after the game starts, and its the first Tim Couch bench shot/mention. The way it should be.

4:04 Baltimore loses in OT, the Browns are only a game out. Keep this play up and the AFC North will be very very interesting! The Browns are going to show some mercy and take a knee inside the 20.

4:05 It's over. And it looks like Cincy is going to win.... which of course they do. Damn.

...We must protect this house!

I didnt know what anyone was talking about a few weeks ago, but the "Protect this house" commercials from Under Armour really are pretty dumb.

Any-hoo, I must apologize to the hilljacks I bashed the other day. Turns out, no one's moving in, and they cleaned the hell out of the basement. Seriously! It was a creepy, dungeon-looking place, but now I could almost see myself hanging out down there. If I were into basement hanging out, of course. I mean, throw some old carpet down there, a bar and a pool table, and its an extra living room! Well, an extra living room with an old coin-op washer and dryer, some creepy stable-looking storage lockers and a bunch of furnace stuff, but an extra living room nevertheless.

My random thought from the week, James Jackson will run for 500 yards in the next 4 games for the Browns. Check the date, watch the scoreboard, its gonna happen. Unfortunately, the Browns will likely still go 1-4 over that stretch.

College football predictions for today:
Michigan 52, Northwestern 24
Bowling Green 51, Kent State 17
Ohio State 27, Purdue 17
Toledo 33, Northern Illinois 24

Again, mark the time. 7 hours from now, the countdown to Michigan's Revenge begins. Early pick for 11/22 from the Big House: Michigan 27, OSU 13.

Today's featured twisted old school rap lyric (and when did "old school" mean 1993? damn.):
"With so much drama at the BMV, its kinda hard being Snoop D-O-double G."

...Rednecks scare me...

especially when they're doing one of two things:

1) Moving in next door
2) Rooting through my building's basement

Seriously. I get home from work, two cars with I think 4 white trash women inside, chain smoking away, acting like they're waiting for someone. They are. Two pickup trucks pull up. Now I have no clue, I mean if they ARE moving in, its alot of people to squeeze in a couple of one bedrooms. Eventually, I realize they're all in the basement, as I hear one voice claim "dibbs" on a lamp at LEAST 30 times, while another voice lays claim to a pre-pre-Windows-but-post-C64 computer that's been down there at least since I moved here in August. The saving grace for that one is that it came in near perfect "Christmas Story" fashion, ala "OOO-EEE! A Zeppelin!" You'll shoot your eye out on that 3.5" drive, kid.

Then there's the claim to the "laundry stuff", which pretty much consists of an overfilled trash can piled high with lint filter leftovers and about 12 nearly empty jugs of detergent. Happy shopping! After pounding and hammering and talking and yelling and God knows what else for about 2 hours, I think they're gone. Though I'm getting a slight scent of cigarette smoke, which isnt a good thing. Bastards better not be moving next door if they're human chimneys and I can smell it!

So anyway, it all scares the hell out of me. just awfully shady, and I've lived next to trash before. the lawn's not big enough for ALL of their cars, I know that for sure. Good thing I don't have to go anywhere today, they've pretty much got that route sealed off.

I'm gonna go make sure the welcome mat is still there.

...KJ and the Falcons

Browns release Kevin Johnson... while its a surprise, it really isn't. And thinking about it more and more, I'd rather watch Andre Davis drop an 8 yard pass on third and 6 than see KJ catch another one a yard short of the marker. That said, its going to hurt to watch him catch a pass in the Super Bowl this year.

But, in brighter, sunnier news, I've got tickets on the way to the BG-UT game the day after Thanksgiving!!! It might not be the world's largest outdoor cocktail party, but it could have major bowl implications (at least as far as the MAC goes), and there will be mass quantities of beer and beef.

Today's old school rap song of the day... "La Schmoove" -Fu Schnickens

...The Browns are back! And sweet Jesus, are they ever!

It hasn't been pretty. It hasn't even been particularly "okay", even by beer goggle standards, but at the half, with the Browns getting the ball, its a 10 point game, and as we all know and love, the Browns will make a game of it. I hope.

My notes:

1:03 PM - Browns kick to Super Bug Dante Hall. Seriously, is that Webster in pads? Not a big return, we're good. Whew!
1:09 PM - After a good stop, the Browns get a first down on their first play, then 3 plays later are lining up for the FG. Such a predictable start to the game, they finish EVERY first drive with a FG attempt. Its good, 3-0 good guys.
1:12 PM - A little better return by Hall, but still nothing ugly. This is good.
1:16 PM - KC self destructs, Trent Green is breaking out his game ending play in the first quarter, someone should tell him you don't throw to the fat guys. Then again, if jerkoffs like Gerard "Pocket Change" Warren is going to let him off the hook with a stupid stupid stupid personal foul, maybe he can keep it up.
1:19 PM - More Warren-related stupidity.
1:20 PM - Priest Holmes for 6, at this point, I'm looking for 237 yards rushing out of him today. (He actually finishes with about 90 and 65 or so receiving, I'm not too far off here. That screen pass killed all damn day.)
1:22 PM - In the quest to find some hangover-safe food, I find Timbits!!! (btw, even a couple beers on 2 hours of sleep and a relatively empty stomach can hurt you, especially when flavor mixing is involved) The joy of the donut hole is short lived, KC is in the endzone again.
1:29 PM - I'm really impressed with the way James Jackson is running the ball, even though he just fumbled at midfield. That's okay, the defense is going to tighten up, right? Um, defense? We don't need no stinking defense...
1:36 PM - Chris Crocker has to be the most worthless pile of trash to ever put on a uniform. 3rd and long is no time to make dinner plans with Anthony Henry. Meanwhile, Dick Enberg reminds us that the score is 14-0 Chiefs. Apparently, Phil Dawson doesn't exist in his mind.
1:41 PM - Browns go deep and get the PI call. A cheap way to get 30 or so yards, but I'll take it at this point.
1:46 PM - Huge reverse to Northcutt. THIS is the offense that made the playoffs last year.
1:49 PM - Incomplete, but there's a roughing the passer flag. Apparently, Gerard Warren has snuck into a red jersey for this series. First and goal, Browns, and Holcomb looks gimpy again. This has been a good sign over the past 2 years.
1:53 PM - Touchdown for Jackson, the Browns are hangin in!
1:59 PM - I'm starting to think this "7 yard cushion" defense in the secondary isn't the best gameplan. Anthony Henry is lucky for two things. 1) He had that season with 157 INTs or whatever a couple years back, and 2) He plays on the same field as Chris Crocker. If either or both of these weren't true, he'd be a horrible DB.
2:12 PM - Browns get a break as a punt touches a KC upman. The lethargic offense is given a chance! But what is that big ass ring on Butch's finger? I'm guessing its something Miami-related, and I don't remember if he has a Super Bowl ring from anywhere, but it damn better not be that.
2:16 PM - Despite the down right shitty spot on this run, I'm really liking what James Jackson is doing. Can we find someone to plant a little more ganja on William Green for next week, too?
2:18 PM - My heart was in my throat as Holcomb looks VERY wide for RJ Bowers. TD Browns, but I could have done three loads of laundry in the time it took that play to develop.
2:21 PM - Dante Hall gets loose (I still have no clue how he ducked out of the mass of white jerseys by the sideline.) Fortunately Chris Crocker doesn't get as abused as he looked like he was going to get and trips him up. Still, this Hall kid is scary good. I bet Ma'am and George are very proud of him.
2:36 PM - Whats the best way to top off a job of really shitty tackling? By taking a shot at someone after the whistle, 30 yards from the play. Thanks Daylon. Man, the Browns DB's are piss poor today.
2:38 PM - Man, the Browns DB's are piss poor today.
2:45 PM - This entry was revised after the end of the game. Green scrambles, is going down, but as he's wrapped up inches from the ground, he flings it off a lineman's ass (his favorite route, remember), and its nothing more than incomplete. Clock stops, KC gets an eventually meaningless FG (though a stop right before the half would have been HUGE!) End of the game, Holcomb is wrapped up for half the time Green was and the whistle blows immediately. Go figure.
3:15 PM - Michael Lehan reminds us that he's part of the Browns secondary and gets abused like the dirty kid in the schoolyard.
3:20 PM - Andre Davis looks good in place of KJ. Good return, a couple of good catch and runs, too.
3:26 PM - Jackson picks up a big 4th and 1 down close.
3:29 PM - Which promptly leads to another field goal. How nice.
3:34 PM - I understand the concept of ESPN throwing away a few hours of programming when everyone is easily going to watch another network, but they've got the 2003 International Scrabble Championships on. Are you kidding me? I can't even pronounce most of those words, and I like to think I'm a smart one. Next year, lets hope they can get John Madden and Beasley Reece to do the play by play of this big event.
3:41 PM - Nice job getting on the little runt before he could throw the reverse-pass. He better go hide in the clock after that one.
3:45 PM - Browns have to punt, to the surprise of no one, and have it downed at the "1 blade of grass line", but it somehow pops free into the endzone. I think Lehan was involved. What a piece of crap.

blah, blah, blah.... at this point, I think I realized that living through it on TV was bad enough, I shouldn't have to penalize myself by typing it out, too. Browns go to 3-6 and need ALOT of help from the other shitty teams in the division to make anything of this season. BUT, Pissburgh and Cincy both win. Back to the basement!

At least there's hockey on at 4:30... or then again, maybe not.

...learning sucks

now I know why I took my BA and ran. this learning thing is tough! Just trying to make the start up of this website quick and easy, while learning new things that I'm not going to have to go back and destroy later, and its killin my head. Maybe I'll get to it tomorrow. At least I've got something respectable on my front page, right?

the one thing I also learned this week is that Indiana sucks, too. They're so ass backwards out there, that you can't buy beer until 6pm on Election Day. I guess I didn't even know it was a holiday! Sitting beerless for an hour didn't make the horrible performance by Bowling Green Tuesday night go down any easier, either. ugh.