This exchange happened between Jen and I as she was trying to get me to go get milkshakes:
Jen: Why are you still here?
Me: I won't be for long.
Jen: Where ya goin?
Me: to hang with my other girlfriend, the one that doesn't nag me to go get her milkshakes.
Jen: I don't blame you. Bring me back a shake when you come home.
Me: You win.
I just downloaded the Blogger app for Android on to my new phone and am testing it out wittis post.
Yea, that's right, the guy who always said that he'd never want a smartphone because of his bekief that there is such a thing as "too connected" got one. Try to not be too shocked.
Yea, I know I killed off doing this last year in exchange for Super Bowl Bingo, but I decided to bring the predictions back this year.
Anyway… here goes.
The game: I’m going Steelers. It bit me in the rear two years ago when I didn’t.
The spread: The Packers are favored by 3 by bodog.com (where I’ve decided to get my numbers from this year), and since I’ve got Pittsburgh winning, I’ve got them for the spread too.
Over/Under: Bodog.om has the over/uder set at 45½. I think it’ll go over, but probably not by much.
We’ll see how this goes…
Jenny inspired me to do this…
If you find yourself in a position where you need some help to get your kids some presents this holiday season, shoot me an email. My email address is justin@jrtblog.com and make sure the subject line says “ChrAmazon” in it.
I’ll take emails until about 11:30 PM mountain time tonight (when I get off of work), at which time I’ll pick two of the emailers at random to receive $30 Amazon.com gift certificates.
Just MAKE SURE you put ChrAmazon in the subject line, or it won’t land in the right folder in my email box and could land in the spam.
Today, I got the results of the shift changes that they’re doing at SUPPORTCO, and I got my #2 pick… 7:30-4 Monday-Friday.
Yes, that’s right, I’m going to have normal hours, not this 3-11:30 PM business I’ve been pulling since I started in June. Which brings up one important battle…
I must become a morning person.
Thankfully, I’ll have a long weekend to sort of adjust my internal clock, since I’m taking both New Years Eve and New Years Day off.
This’ll be an adventure.
Westboro Baptist’s crazy train has soared to new levels:
A controversial Kansas church is changing its protest plan after an incident in Oklahoma last week.
Members of the Westboro Baptist Church said they want revenge after someone slashed the tires on their van during visit to protest a military funeral in McAlester. The group said it plans to now target funerals for Oklahoma children.
Here’s a blog post on the tire-slashing.
Oh, and here’s a fun, related tidbit from the article:
The Westboro Baptist Church's website now reads "God Hates Oklahoma" and "The Lord curses them by killing Oklahoma's children and casting them into hell. Thank God for more dead children in Oklahoma."
Wow. Just wow.
These people just sicken me. What happened to that whole sanctity of a human life thing… or loving your neighbor… you know, all that stuff that these people seem to have skipped over in all their bible studies or whatever the heck it is that they do.
Darrell Craig Vogel seems to be trying to become the Joe DiMaggio of DWI’s:
An assistant city attorney for the city of Beaumont was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated Saturday morning for the second time in two days, according to Lumberton Police Chief Danny Sullins
Darrell Craig Vogel, 50, was arrested about 9:30 a.m. Saturday morning after Lumberton police responded to a call of an intoxicated person driving away from a local drug store, Sullins said.
Vogel had been arrested early Friday for driving while intoxicated in Beaumont and left the Jefferson County jail on bond at 5 a.m. Friday.
Nothing exceeds like excess…
In all seriousness, though, I hope the state of Texas throws the book at him, pegging him squarely in the face and leaving him with a black eye. There’s just no excuse for this kinda stuff. None. At. All.
I deleted the Amazon wish list…
If you haven’t heard, Amazon’s been selling a book for it’s popular Kindle that’s more or less a “how-to guide” for pedophiles, and is standing behind the sale of the book.
"Amazon believes it is censorship not to sell certain books simply because we or others believe their message is objectionable," the company said in a written statement. "Amazon does not support or promote hatred or criminal acts, however, we do support the right of every individual to make their own purchasing decisions."
So… I’m boycotting Amazon until the book is gone. Which means one thing…
There was just one thing missing from the Giants’ celebration last night: the phone call from the President:
Giants players and personnel thought they'd hear from President Barack Obama by telephone after San Francisco beat the Texas Rangers 3-1 in Game 5 to capture its first World Series title since 1954.
But Giants spokeswoman Staci Slaughter tells KNTV they have yet to take that call.
Come on, dude… isn’t this the one easy part of your job?
So, this Sunday Jennifer and I are taking a trip out to Cali. It’s just a brief trip to do the haunted houses at Knott’s Berry Farm, but it’s a trip nonetheless.
And I’ll bring my camera, which means there should be some pictures of the festivities.
But will Friday Photo return?
After some nagging from @molliekatie, I set up a way to subscribe to my blog via email… it’s really easy and can be done with FeedBurner.
The steps I found to set it up are here. It was really easy!
Here’s what I’ve got…
First round:
NLCS: Phillies v. Braves: This is a really tough one to call…. divisional teams that know each other all too well. But I think it’ll be the Phillies here. They had the stronger regular season in the matchup and the Phils will have home field, which doesn’t hurt either.
ALCS: Yankees v. Rays: Rays have home field and went 10-8 against the Yankees this year. I think they’ll win this one.
World Series: Rays v. Phillies: For the first time since Selig came up with that BS idea to make the All-Star game “mean something,” the NL will have home field for the series. They didn’t play each other, so there’s no way to compare them there, but I think the Rays are the stronger team, winning the toughest division in baseball and I think they’ll bring home the trophy.
The team behind Windows Live Writer, my blogging software of choice, finally released the finished product for WLW 2011 yesterday. I’d been playing around with the beta versions of it, which I’ve liked for the most part, but now that the final is out, here are my thoughts.
Oh, and there’s one more really, really big improvement…
…if for no other reason than that I’ve now got the domain name paid for through December 2014.
So I will…
So, about that whole Ines Sainz being catcalled by Jets players thing…
New York Jets owner Woody Johnson, addressing the alleged harassment of a female TV reporter Saturday at practice, told ESPNNewYork.com Monday that the team will begin interviewing players as part of its investigation with the league office.
[…]
The NFL is looking into a complaint made by the Association for Women in Sports Media against the Jets after Sainz [of Mexico's TV Azteca] reportedly was subjected to footballs being thrown in her direction at practice and, later, players' catcalls inside the locker room.
I’m not going to comment on this… instead, I’ll let Hyman Roth comment for me.
We had to get a cone of shame for Bruiser because he’d managed to mess up his feet somehow and he was licking the heck out of them and making them just that much worse.
While I was at work, my wonderful girlfriend shot this video of him trying to escape from it to no avail:
I’ve always heard that everything happens for a reason, but I wasn’t sure if I always believed it.
As most of y’all probably know, I up and moved to Phoenix about five months back.
Well, this story begins long before that.
If it wasn’t for a lightning strike that hit the pole outside our house in Beaumont and sent everything haywire.
It, of course, happened on a Friday so we were stuck with dealing with most everything being wonky all weekend. Which sucked, but Twitter’s @jpenaz sent me a direct message that said to text her if I got bored or miserable or whatever. So I did…
And, from that, a friendship grew and turned into a relationship that grew into me coming out just after Christmas. Which was a great trip that convinced me just how amazing a woman Jennifer is.
That led to my coming back in April, which led to my staying here and getting my job with SUPPORTCO, which I enjoy most of the time.
Last month I got myself back to Texas to get my stuff, and I went to see my eye doctor while I was there… finding out that I had a pretty big problem going on with them, so they referred me to a doctor in the Phoenix area to go to. I called and got an appointment scheduled with him the next week.
I met the new doctor the next week and I’m now convinced that I’m way better off going to see him than seeing the old doctor I was seeing in Houston. I’ve got nothing but confidence in Dr. Rabinowitz, who not only explained the situation to me in way more detail than my previous doctor, but made me feel pretty good about it. He simply told it to me like it is.
For now, medicine’s holding my condition in check, but I’ll almost surely need to have surgery done for it someday and I can honestly say that I’ve got nothing but a ton of faith in the doctors I’m seeing now… something I couldn’t say before.
Everything happens for a reason. I believe that now.
It’s been forever since I’ve blogged anything.
Rest assured, though, that I’ve got a three-day weekend coming up and I’ve got a post or two in mind for that time.
