Month: September 2012

Harpooned

Before play this afternoon, the Purple Whales were predicted to score 101 points. By the end of the first quarter of the early games it was down to 87. At around half time it had fallen to 75. Nearing the end of the early games my predicted point total was 64, so I stopped watching both football and my fantasy scoreboard.

I just checked the scoreboard before tonight’s game and my point total is a mere 54. I have one guy going in tonight’s game and that guy is LeSean McCoy for Philadelphia, the preseason #1 running back, my first draft pick, so maybe he’ll go off and get 30 points and I’ll get lucky. More than likely he will pull what Andre Johnson of the Texans did today. Mr. Johnson was the #3 rated wide receiver preseason and my #2 draft pick. Andre scored my first 5 points today by catching 2 of the first three passes thrown in the first drive of the day for 53 (33 + 20) yards. The rest of the game, 1 catch for three yards, so those 5 points were all he got.

I got more tales of woe, but here is a prime example, I picked up the Jets kicker Nick Folk as he was predicted to get 11 points as opposed to 5 for Greg Zuerlein of the Rams. Mr. Zuerlein scored 18 points today, Mr Folk not so much. In the scoring on the web page, if a player doesn’t get any points they put a nice big 0 next to his name, well, Nick Folk got —. Which I assume from the thirty four to nothing victory for the 49ers over the Jets means my kicker never even got on the field.

Northwest Georgia Geocaching

When we got to Cloudland Canyon State Park it was living up to the cloud part of its name, you couldn’t see anything from the rim. By the time we got done monkeying around down in the canyon geocaching and climbed back out, while still not totally clear, you could see most of the canyon.

In two days we have found caches in 3 state parks, on 5 DeLorme map pages and in 11 counties. We’ve left enough glaring holes unfilled on the maps so that we guaranteed ourselves a return trip sometime in the future. Right now we are debating just driving straight home or trying to pick up a few counties near Atlanta on a Sunday morning.

They Say It’s Your Birthday

Gwyneth Paltrow, William Conrad, Arthur Penn and Samuel Adams.

Well, it’s my birthday too.

Those wild and crazy folks in our Shipping Department decided after their surprise birthday “party” for Donna, that they would have to do likewise for me. And I was totally got. I had no clue.

The idea for the shape of the cupcake cake and color scheme were the suggestion of my wife’s and I have to admit that that shade of purple is not the most visually appealing, but they sure tasted great. There was even ice cream and they sung the Happy Birthday song to me too. Thanks for the party folks, I had a whale of a time.

My Favourite Game

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A couple of decades ago at a Miatas At The Gap event someone handed out a Mix CD that included a bunch of driving songs. It included The Cardigans tune My Favourite Game and while it is a cool song I could never really figure out the driving connection, until this morning. Thanks Jalopnik.

Pop Tarts

My morning snack was always a rotating series of cookies until a month or so ago when I rediscovered a childhood favorite – Pop Tarts. All thanks to a random coupon in the Sunday paper.

My favorite then was always the Frosted Brown Sugar Cinnamon, but now I like the Blueberry or Strawberry best. I can still dig the Brown Sugar Cinnamon ones, but they taste the best when hot and I have to walk all the way back up to the front of the Valve Store(C) to get to a toaster or one of those new fangled microwave machines and I’m all about lazy.

They come 2 pastries inside each foil wrapped pack, so naturally the nutritional information on the website lists the serving size as 1 pastry. Right, like you are just going to eat just one. These figures are for 2 tarts:

  Calories Cal from Fat Total Fat Sat Fat Chol Sodium Carbs Fiber Sugars Protein
Pop Tart 420 120 14 4 0 340 68 1 30 4

Look at those calorie and fat counts, no wonder they taste so good.

The above is a photo of a Pop Tart at 450 magnification from Caren Alpert via io9. Click on it to make it bigger!

128,000 Vague NFL Referee Calls

I pretty much gave up watching NFL way back, but started again last year when I joined a Fantasy Football League at work. But this year it is getting hard to watch. I know everybody is all over the replacement refs and the NFL front office has asked the teams to lighten up, but these scab zebras make it a pain to watch the games. I’ve read a few things and they are really not too awful, but what they have messed up have been some game changers and worse for us TV viewers is they take too long to decide most calls. Sloooows the game down.

The Emperor passed the 128,000 mile mark on a routine shopping trip this afternoon. Kinda wish it would have happened yesterday as that photo of the inside of Lowe’s Motor Speedway probably included 128,000 cars, parts or people.