I am in two leagues this year, and in both t/he leagues my teams have exactly one player in common, and that player is reggie bush who is not starting in either, so really no players of consequence in common.
Anyway, the season started off with a bang, as I went 2-0 in both leagues, nothing wonky there. Then it happened, I went on two concurrent and consecutive 8 game losing streaks. Nothing out of the ordinary there, but then it happened
at 2-8, both my teams won their "game" last week, which seems odd to me. So now my teams are 3-8. In case you're wondering, my teams are "The sweet potatoes" and i use a stolen picture of Mr. potato head from toy story as a logo and "Attempted Murder" and i use a picture of 2 crows as a logo. That one makes me laugh, not entirely my idea, as I stole, but it makes me laugh.
Anyway, and completely unrelated, yesterday, I signed up for an introduction to curling class, it is 2 hours in 2 sessions. So I gots that going for me.
Thirdly, remember when Romney said he lost the election because Obama promised people gifts, well, I am headed to DC for thanksgiving, and i think I am going to go see if I can get my gift :-D. I have been really hoping for a new car.
Speaking of new cars, some one who i think is an ass hole, hit my car in the parking lot, I got in and looked and the passenger mirror is hanging from 2 wires and bent all the way forward, ARRRGH.
I had to duct tape it up, the plastic covering to the mirror was on the ground. Who does that? Oh well, Karma be a Beotch you don't want to anger. In hopefully related news last Sunday, I was stuck in traffic for a while, because of an accident, they had shut the highway down, and i was sitting cursing and thinking why are we stuck, set the phone down and drive and stop texting and then i thought, we've been stopped for a while, I don't want to think badly of people who are potentially dying up there, and causing me to be late.
Anyway, i get up to the accident, and what happened as far as i can tell is some guy, had his trailer with motorcycles and an atv lose control flip and while attached to your car this is bad, it looked like his car just fell onto its side, anyway, it was on a bridge they where doing construction on so there where no shoulders, and it is hard to move a car that is not on its wheels. Anyway, it didn't look like anyone got hurt, just messed up stuff. I like to think it was him that hit my mirror.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
ebooks
So I have been struggling with what to read, I settled on 3 books.
1. The age of miracles not sure why I got this book, It just seemed to look like a good read to me, and Barnes and Noble said it was a notable fiction of 2012 or 2011 or maybe just notable.
2. Heart-Shaped Box This one is by a cat named Joe Hill, which is a suprizing nondescript name, well it is a horror book I think. Nothing notable about that, but it turns out that Joe Hill's dad is Steven King. It takes a giant serving of I am not sure what, to attempt to do what your dad does, when your dad is argueable the most successful person at somethign. Anyway the lady at the book store said it was good, and when i looked on my nook it was cheap so i got it.
3. The world according to Garp THis is the one i wanted, it is another book, I have meant to read for a long time, but I never got around to it. This book is not available as an ebook. which is very frustrating.
but anyway, my search for what book to read has been solved for a little while. with that I'll move on to something else.
1. The age of miracles not sure why I got this book, It just seemed to look like a good read to me, and Barnes and Noble said it was a notable fiction of 2012 or 2011 or maybe just notable.
2. Heart-Shaped Box This one is by a cat named Joe Hill, which is a suprizing nondescript name, well it is a horror book I think. Nothing notable about that, but it turns out that Joe Hill's dad is Steven King. It takes a giant serving of I am not sure what, to attempt to do what your dad does, when your dad is argueable the most successful person at somethign. Anyway the lady at the book store said it was good, and when i looked on my nook it was cheap so i got it.
3. The world according to Garp THis is the one i wanted, it is another book, I have meant to read for a long time, but I never got around to it. This book is not available as an ebook. which is very frustrating.
but anyway, my search for what book to read has been solved for a little while. with that I'll move on to something else.
Books
As I am just a few days, really hours from my Thanksgiving day, flight, I need to settle on the book I'll be reading while stuck in airports, and stuff.
This really should not be that hard, but for some reason I am struggling with finding a book that I hear the plot or review to and think, that is something I could get behind.
Which is really kinda sad, because despite all the technology, and I will in fact be reading a paperless ebook, it is the stories of books that engross and enthrall and if done right capture the reader.
Stories that can pull you into them so that reading the story isn't so much a task but a reliving of the tale. If that makes sense, I just read Catch 22, and this book, does that. It points out the flaws of man and men, and also points out our hopes and dreams. It is funny in bits and compelling overall.
A while before that I read the power of six. Which is just a crappy teen sci-fi book, but it is fun to read, it isn't world changing, it is not meant to me.
Also before that I read a book called "The Middle Damned" which was written by a high school/college chum. Actually it is written by a guy that i respect more than nearly everyone else I've ever met. If you happen across this and like sci-fi, i would recommend it. But again not because it is life altering or anything, in parts his vocabulary is trying, but that makes you smarter right?
That is neither here nor there, I keep thinking if I am going to read something it should be to make me smarter there is so much great stuff there, I don't want to waste time. On the other hand discovering a great book for you own, is kinda like a treasure hunt.
Which despite it having won the Pulitzer prize, was how i felt about the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay, I had not heard of it found it at Barnes and noble, and gave it a read, I loved it.
Oh I also read 50 shades of this just plain sucks, and thought, well 2 things, this just plain sucks, and second if this is what romance books are like, women have no business judging men for porn, that was straight up porn, there is a line from it that say, "I want to F(*k your mouth" and then he does.
I also recently read the hunger games, I don't get it. I read 2 books from I think John Green, Teen books, quick reads but both of them were fun.
So anyway, I think I have going to make a rash decision and go with, never mind that is a horrible way to pick a book, i went with "sharp object" was about to purchase it, and thought, i should at least read a review, the protagonist is a cutter, you know a damaged person that cuts themselves, i don't why. Anyway, that doesn't seem like the light fun read, i am hoping to find to read on flights over the thanksgiving and potentially christmas holidays.
Anyway i got, i can't even remember now, and it isn't showing up on my nook, oh well maybe it will be there in the monring.
Sunday, November 18, 2012
reading list
A few years back I decided as i am not good are picking books to read, I would do something foolish and read all the pulizter prize winners for fiction.
I read these one
2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides(Farrar)
I read these one
2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides(Farrar)
2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo(Alfred A. Knopf)
2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon(Random House)
1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
and i really tried more than once to read
It was after reading these books that i decided, these books all have one thing in common, and this is dispair, where it is mostly economic as in Empire Falls ( I know the abandon kid is sad, but mostly I got that this was about the town and not about the kid) or War (As in Amazing Adventures (side note, i actually liked this one, and red it first then thought I would read others), or wasted life, or lost love, or pride, i am not sure what iron weed was about other than some times the problems in our head are just that, i think, i don't really know, it was sad, and well sad. These books didn't offer much in the way of that is a good story, i think i'll go exercise, or get a degree or something.
So a while back i came accross one of those internet meme things everyone does to make themselves feel smarter than everyone else, you know the bbc only thinks most people have read -3 of these books, but it actually seemed like a good list so here it is. Well not yet, I jsut finished Catch 22, that started slow but it ended in a Bang, that is a good book, for all that is wrong with the world, which it doesn't even sort of sugar coat, and as it is a war book lots of folks die, it has parts that literally made me laugh. So if you're looking for a book that you where supposed to read in high school but instead just faked it while dreaming of having the courage to ask a girl out but coming up incredibly short of that, then I suggest Catch 22.
I was going to post the list then i thought that was incredibly long, and kinda annoying, so i skipped it, anyway, i really doubt it is really from the bbc, but it had a good mix of stuff and promted me to read catch 22.
For some reason in the last week 2 people have recommend the Girl with the dragon tattoo to me, but i am kinda leary, I have seen the swedish movie, and I heard that is pretty true to the story, which is a good thing, but it ruins it for a kinda thriller suspense novel, if you know the who done it bit before you read it.
As I currently have one person that comments, on this an I'll there assume one read, hi abby, I have taken some of your book remmends before, the short bus one, although that was kind painful to read and really made me examine how I had treated other kids as kid. Anyway, I am currently seeking suggestions for books again.
Saturday, November 17, 2012
the devil
As some know, or may not know, i am tryign to get into shape, pertetually, but I have been lunges and squats while i walk the dog. One of dog's better qualities is they don't care if you make a fool of yourself.
Anyway, I have a pain in my backside that can only be described as fire, anyway, I sure hope I gget through this little phase and actually start to be able to do more, I only did like 30 per leg, and not in a row.
yikes.
Anyway, I have a pain in my backside that can only be described as fire, anyway, I sure hope I gget through this little phase and actually start to be able to do more, I only did like 30 per leg, and not in a row.
yikes.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Christmas
My daughter is 3 and I am not sure she even understands Christmas, but she keeps asking for stuff. Even though it is not yet thanksgiving. Also and only a slight detour, she keeps asking for stuff at her birthday too.
Anyway that inspires me to put together a list of the things I want.
Thing 1: Move to Virginia, with my daughter and wife, I miss them so much it is is painful, but this is the last a not thing on my list, and be, the last i am going to get mushy, but it is what i want most.
Thing 2: A really nice guitar http://www.larrivee.com/instruments/acoustics/60/D60.php like the one there, I nearly wet myself looking at it.
Thing 3: A pair of throw back Diadora Borg shoes, I would look sweet in a pair of those.
Thing 4: Without stealing an image from their website I really unexplainably like the new Nissian Xterra. I could go for one of those, but my jeep is still pretty new, and as mention above, i hope to move to the great dc area, maybe i should get a prius.
Thing 5: lift tickets for the ski season
Thing 6: a trip to somewhere exotic and nice, like beachy but not so beachy that everyone says, oh i have done that so Jamaica out, and in it steed will be Nevis, here is a picture from Nevis of St. Kitts I think
That is all i can think of right now, but i am sure there are more i am must kinda sleepy.
Anyway that inspires me to put together a list of the things I want.
Thing 1: Move to Virginia, with my daughter and wife, I miss them so much it is is painful, but this is the last a not thing on my list, and be, the last i am going to get mushy, but it is what i want most.
Thing 2: A really nice guitar http://www.larrivee.com/instruments/acoustics/60/D60.php like the one there, I nearly wet myself looking at it.
Thing 3: A pair of throw back Diadora Borg shoes, I would look sweet in a pair of those.
Thing 5: lift tickets for the ski season
Thing 6: a trip to somewhere exotic and nice, like beachy but not so beachy that everyone says, oh i have done that so Jamaica out, and in it steed will be Nevis, here is a picture from Nevis of St. Kitts I think
That is all i can think of right now, but i am sure there are more i am must kinda sleepy.
Monday, November 12, 2012
11/11
Well, actually it is 11/12 and in a great deal of the country it is 11/13 but never mind that.
I thought i would take a few minutes and thank the troops, if you are a veteran and you happen to stumble upon this post, I thank you for your service voluntary or not to the United States.
My father was in Vietnam, my Grandmother was a WAC (or i believe she was), still not exactly sure what that is, and my mother's father was in the Army in WWII. I also believe my father's grandpa was in WWI.
I am very thankful, that I have not been drafted and called to fight in a war like they had. I am not diminishing the sacrifice of those who have been in Desert Storm, or the second time in Iraq or the Afghan one, I am sure all combat experiences are harrowing and horrible and i want no part in any of that. Not that i think the soldiers want to be there, but well, this is getting off track but here is a side story
In the town i grew up in there is a statute that was dedicated to the 5 men killed in world war I from a defunct tiny little near by town. According to the piece i found on the statue here. This town lost 12 service men to the World Wars. According to wikipedia in 1930 Hiawatha had a population of 939, and in 1940 had a population of 858. Maybe just a statistical anomaly but the wars since have not had such a requirement from such a breadth of the population. For that I am thankful.
I would like to state that I do not think the service men of the wars since have sacrificed any less, or in anyway diminish their service, just the population as a whole has sacrificed less, which in a kind of weird backwards logic makes the individual sacrifices of the recent wars greater. But I don't think they're greater either, war sucks, but were it not for the brave few who do voluntarily serve the world would be a more dangerous and evil place.
Which brings me to my point, usually I am a democratic voter, and usually liberal in things like this, but this little nugget angers me, but it requires back story. So a few years ago Peter King of Sports Illustrated decided to raise money and team up with USO to help entertain deployed troops or something like that. I was discussing this with my boss at the time, and I made a donation, under the name J "I need some Karma" DuBois.
Less than 6 months later I was and am still getting flooded with mailing from the heritage foundation, the NRA, American Crossroads, and some outfit with a weird name like national republican convention or something like that, I don't even know if that is the official name of the other party which is why i call them some outfit, they could be legit, but they could also be a scam, who knows. What I do know is they all send me mail addressed to J. "I need some Karma" DuBois
What angers me is not that i get mail from them, but that they assume just cause i want to support the troops that i am a conservative, gun toting, GOP member. Is this an accurate assumption? If so that sucks. Also I hope to break that association. I am a liberal, i subscribe to Mother Jones, I think Obama has done a bang up job, and I support the troops. I even donate to the wounder warriors project, a tiny little amount, but if everyone gave a little, they could get a lot!
Anyway whether or not you're a liberal or a conservative if you fought for our country I thank you!
I thought i would take a few minutes and thank the troops, if you are a veteran and you happen to stumble upon this post, I thank you for your service voluntary or not to the United States.
My father was in Vietnam, my Grandmother was a WAC (or i believe she was), still not exactly sure what that is, and my mother's father was in the Army in WWII. I also believe my father's grandpa was in WWI.
I am very thankful, that I have not been drafted and called to fight in a war like they had. I am not diminishing the sacrifice of those who have been in Desert Storm, or the second time in Iraq or the Afghan one, I am sure all combat experiences are harrowing and horrible and i want no part in any of that. Not that i think the soldiers want to be there, but well, this is getting off track but here is a side story
I would like to state that I do not think the service men of the wars since have sacrificed any less, or in anyway diminish their service, just the population as a whole has sacrificed less, which in a kind of weird backwards logic makes the individual sacrifices of the recent wars greater. But I don't think they're greater either, war sucks, but were it not for the brave few who do voluntarily serve the world would be a more dangerous and evil place.
Which brings me to my point, usually I am a democratic voter, and usually liberal in things like this, but this little nugget angers me, but it requires back story. So a few years ago Peter King of Sports Illustrated decided to raise money and team up with USO to help entertain deployed troops or something like that. I was discussing this with my boss at the time, and I made a donation, under the name J "I need some Karma" DuBois.
Less than 6 months later I was and am still getting flooded with mailing from the heritage foundation, the NRA, American Crossroads, and some outfit with a weird name like national republican convention or something like that, I don't even know if that is the official name of the other party which is why i call them some outfit, they could be legit, but they could also be a scam, who knows. What I do know is they all send me mail addressed to J. "I need some Karma" DuBois
What angers me is not that i get mail from them, but that they assume just cause i want to support the troops that i am a conservative, gun toting, GOP member. Is this an accurate assumption? If so that sucks. Also I hope to break that association. I am a liberal, i subscribe to Mother Jones, I think Obama has done a bang up job, and I support the troops. I even donate to the wounder warriors project, a tiny little amount, but if everyone gave a little, they could get a lot!
Anyway whether or not you're a liberal or a conservative if you fought for our country I thank you!
Sunday, November 11, 2012
I need help
It may just be that i don't know any better, but I have always found that men's dress boots look funny, i mean i like hiking boots, and cowboy boots well not my cup of tea are not just goofy looking, but men's dress boots, that just confuses me.
I am need of a new pair of work shoes, you know the shiny kind that make you look professional? I do not think they do either, infact i think they're obnoxious and at best are just shiny, but it is what business people wear. Like ties, I do not understand ties either, but that is neither here nor there, i don't have to wear ties.
Anyway, so this is my informal survey, and as I suspect no one will read this, it is really just my thinking out loud, do men's dress boots, make sense, i mean it is 26 outside, which is just this side of bitter cold. Not sure which side it is on but it is right near the line somewhere.
Also I have dropped like 7 lbs on my diet, and today began exercising, I had been putting off starting for a bit, but today i worked out, and i feel better for it.
I am need of a new pair of work shoes, you know the shiny kind that make you look professional? I do not think they do either, infact i think they're obnoxious and at best are just shiny, but it is what business people wear. Like ties, I do not understand ties either, but that is neither here nor there, i don't have to wear ties.
Anyway, so this is my informal survey, and as I suspect no one will read this, it is really just my thinking out loud, do men's dress boots, make sense, i mean it is 26 outside, which is just this side of bitter cold. Not sure which side it is on but it is right near the line somewhere.
Also I have dropped like 7 lbs on my diet, and today began exercising, I had been putting off starting for a bit, but today i worked out, and i feel better for it.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
stuff on my mind
Nightmares suck, and not just a little, i have some freakishly vivid ones last night, eeeks.
Second only slightly more unnerving then having nightmares involving home invasion, are the political ads that where all the rage last month, or last 6 months really. It is kinda insane, but they ended now.
I went out to visit the family and completely fell off my diet, then I got back and got depressed, but well, i made the 2 lists tonight, to start my diet anew in the morn.
I also put together a workout i can do from home so i got that going for me, i will also start that in the morning.
I really really really miss my daughter, which based on the converstaions i had at work with a women about her ex. Who are these guys that have kids get divorced then just sorta leave their kids? I do not understand for a second, like I love my wife and we're happily married, or at least i am anyway, i should speak for her, anyway, if we where to get divorced and she where to move to like I don't know des moines you can bet your ass i would move there too, just to be able to see soccer games, and dance recitals, bike riding and all kinds of groovy things.
This is who i don't like today dead beat dads!!!!
Second only slightly more unnerving then having nightmares involving home invasion, are the political ads that where all the rage last month, or last 6 months really. It is kinda insane, but they ended now.
I went out to visit the family and completely fell off my diet, then I got back and got depressed, but well, i made the 2 lists tonight, to start my diet anew in the morn.
I also put together a workout i can do from home so i got that going for me, i will also start that in the morning.
I really really really miss my daughter, which based on the converstaions i had at work with a women about her ex. Who are these guys that have kids get divorced then just sorta leave their kids? I do not understand for a second, like I love my wife and we're happily married, or at least i am anyway, i should speak for her, anyway, if we where to get divorced and she where to move to like I don't know des moines you can bet your ass i would move there too, just to be able to see soccer games, and dance recitals, bike riding and all kinds of groovy things.
This is who i don't like today dead beat dads!!!!
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