Mikey D

I saw this on Sportscenter tonight. I'm not sure where Tim Tebow will fall in next year's NFL draft (my guess is mid-to-late first), but all those things about him being an "emotional leader"...well, they sound about right.



I'm not saying the Lions should draft him or anything, but it would be nice to have that kind of fire and passion inside the locker room, ya know?

LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!

~Mikey D

I am so sick of these amateur sports stories about sportsmanship! I feel like every other week I'm reading about some team whooping up on another by some ridiculous margin, and the losing team taking offense and feeling like the winning team was being unsportsmanlike in their thorough domination of them.

Well you know what, losing teams? Fuck you. You don't want to get beat 100-0 and look like fools, well then play better. Work harder. Practice longer. If all that doesn't work, instead of crying like little bitches, why don't you just not play. Grow a damn pair and take your loss like a man you fucking whiny pricks. Jesus Christ!

The latest is from a school in Florida. A team got beat 83-0, and the losing team's parents and fans felt "embarrassed". Well no shit, I would be too if I lost 83-0.

But don't take it out on the winning team. God, just stop it already. There was a running clock the second half, they scored three TDs on returns, one on a blocked punt, and ran the ball all but one play in the second half- with their backups. Nobody was trying to embarrass you! You just suck that bad.

I just think it's really unfair that these coaches on the winning side get so much heat for a tremendous performance by their team. Instead of being lauded, they are being criticized. It would be one thing if they went all 2007 New England Patriots on teams (running up scores with less than two minutes to go with all your starters in), but these teams are not. They are just playing the game.

Sometimes I feel like they just want the team that's up fifty to just take knees. Or dribble the ball across half-court and just let the shot clock expire. They want teams to essentially stop playing the game the way it's supposed to be played. If you run a conservative offense with your backups in...and still put up points...well that's too fucking bad for the opposition.

So fuck you losing schools. You're embarrassed, and with all the whining and crying you do, you should be.

~Mikey D

Item: ‘Figure out how to stop the buzzing sound that comes from your new computer tower.’
Umm…so before I had a book pressing down on the top of the computer tower to keep it from buzzing. Well the other day I accidentally knocked the book off…and there was no buzzing. Apparently I figured out how to stop it. So the next time your computer tower makes a buzzing noise, just put a heavy book on top of it for 1-2 weeks, and then remove. Problem solved.

Item: ‘Purchase two more pictures for the kitchen, and frame them.’
Okay, so the pictures came about a week ago, but I didn’t have the frames. I’ve been waiting to find a good sale on frames but haven’t had much luck. But this past week I found a coupon for 50% my entire frame purchase at Michael’s. That couldn’t have worked out any better. I got two nice frames for our two kitchen pictures and put them up yesterday. They look pretty damn good, too. Now with lighting in the dining room and pictures up on the wall, I’d say the dining room is complete.

Item: ‘Put up pictures that are currently sitting on the floor in the office.’
Guess what’s not on my office floor anymore? If you said pictures, you’d be correct. They are now hanging where people can actually see them.

Item: ‘Decide on an internet security option once and for all, and go with it.’
I probably spent a little more than I was supposed to. I spent $70 for my security option, but I’m comfortable with that. I decided to get a fully-loaded Norton security package. I’m pretty sure they’ve assigned a guy to monitor just my computer. I honestly couldn’t decide what to go with, so I paid for something that seemed to get good reviews and was considered safe and reliable. Anyway, done and done.

Item: ‘Watch season one of The Wire (although this may require keeping the Netflix membership a little longer).’
So with Netflix, season one is broken down into five discs, with three episodes on each disc. Each episode is an hour long, so it’s tough to do just a half hour here and half hour there. I’ve gotten through the first three though, and it’s not half bad. It was a little tough for me to follow at first trying to learn all the names, but I think I’m finally getting most of the characters down. I might not know them all by name, but I know their position (he’s the head boss guy or he’s the drug dealer). It’s a decent show, but I’m waiting for the stuff that has made it so acclaimed. Perhaps that’s forthcoming.

Item: ‘Try a new restaurant on a Friday night.’
Addicted to Chick-Fil-A might be an understatement for Grace and me. It’s a Friday night ritual, habit, treat. There’s nothing like working a long five day work week and grabbing that warm and tasty Chick-Fil-A bag and taking it home. We are even regulars! Our drive-thru girl knows exactly what we mean when we say “lots of Chick-Fil-A sauce” (more than 6), and now we don’t even have to say it to her. She just knows.

But Friday was Grace’s birthday and she has been begging me to go to the Melting Pot for as long as I can remember. Being her birthday and all, this seemed as good of time as any to try it out. So we went. And have you ever had that feeling of discovery of something new, even though it’s been around for awhile? Yup, that’s the Melting Pot for me. Dip things in hot cheese? Cook a variety of beef, pork, and chickens and dip them in delicious sauces? Take a variety of awesome dessert items and dip them in chocolate? WHERE THE FUCK HAVE I BEEN?!?

I cannot wait for my birthday dinner because that is exactly what I want. Seriously, I cannot wait. We will probably be back before then…

~Mikey D

~School has started again. Bleah. This year's group of sixth graders is much better than the last, both academically and behaviorally. It's nice to teach the honors math class and have them actually come in with some prior knowledge. Like if we're doing a lesson on rounding to a certain place value, and I say "let's round to the nearest hundredth", they actually know where the hundredths place is (you'd think if you're in honors math that would be something you'd know, but not the case last year...). They are overall a very respectful group, which again is refreshing. My only problem is my workload so far. I've never had as many students as I do this year (north of a 110), which may not seem like a lot, but I'm just not used to it. The grading, the parent contact, etc., etc., it's a lot of time consuming effort. I suppose it's good that I have this group this year and not last, because handling this workload would have been challenging while trying to complete my grad courses as well.

~Speaking of school, a kid got hit by a car the other day. Scary stuff, as five years ago a girl jumped out into the street and got killed. Every day when I leave the school parking lot I think that it's just a matter of time before someone gets hit because these kids have no respect for the crosswalks, crossing guards, or the rule of 'looking both ways before you cross'. Well, sure enough, the kid darted out into the street, and ran into an oncoming car. The car didn't hit him...he hit the car. And of course the car won. Now the kid is okay; he's got some bumps and bruises and a cast on his leg, so he's quite lucky in that respect. I'm guessing he'll be back in school next week. But this is just one of those things that I don't get. How do you just walk into t a street without looking??? It's baffling to me.

~I'm starting to feel good about my fantasy team. The last couple of weeks I've been trying to force a trade just because of my weakness at RB. But then I got to thinking that the weakness is only a perceived weakness, based soley on last year's performances and preseason rankings. What if Addai and McFadden step up this year? Or Felix Jones becomes a star? Well then I have no RB weakness, and I'd be upset at myself for trading away one of my top-flight WRs. Yes, they both could bomb...but wouldn't it be better to know that for sure instead of making a rash move? I think so, and that's where I'm at. And when I look over my starting roster, there's some good names, but what I like best is that practically all of them are in high-powered offenses. New England, Green Bay, Atlanta, Houston, Indianapolis, San Diego...at the very least they'll have some opportunities to produce.

~Yahoo! Fantasy Sports experts have been counting down the top fantasy offenses for the upcoming season. They call it their "Juggernaut Index". Again, this is for fantasy purposes. They have gotten all the way up to the #4 offense, which leaves three more to go. What would you guess the top three fantasy offenses were? If you ask me that question, I'd say New Orleans, New England, and San Diego, in some sort of order. Based on process of elimination, however, Yahoo! will have New Orleans, Houston, and Philadelphia as their top fantasy offenses. I guess I see the potential in Houston and Philly, but are they more high powered in the fantasy world than New England? My only guess is that because they both can produce good fantasy QBs and RBs that they jump New England. But then I think, well San Diego has Rivers, Tomlinson, Gates, and V.Jackson...which, compared to Houston or Philly, is equal to or better than most positions on their squads. Confusing...

~The To-Do list is slowing down a bit, and I knew it would. This next month is just ridiculously busy, with Adam's bachelor party and wedding, the back to school functions that seem to never end, Grace's bday, and on and on it goes. I'm still trying to work through things the best I can, but once October starts, I need to be balls to the wall with the list when I hopefully will have a few more free seconds of time.

~I think Grace is coming around to the joys of arguing. Her work stories now consist of her many daily arguments she has with customers. She has a tone of amusement when she recounts her arguments, which is good, because arguing is supposed to be fun. I'm glad she is enjoying it more. I'm working with her on starting arguments just for the sake of starting arguments, which hopefully she'll come around to in the near future. I remind her that you don't have to believe in what you argue, you just have to act like you do. Once she gets that down, work will become way more fun for her I think.

~Grace also tried to make into the Quote Book the other day. We were watching TV and Grace remarked that a guy "needed to stay away from the tanning beds", which got me laughing hysterically, because of course the guy was black. Good times. That would be totally something I could see myself saying too, and Kevin making fun of me for it.

~Mikey D