- We got our first snowfall on Sunday. Actually it more sleet/freezing rain than snow. Either way, winter is finally here, and it can go back to where it came from now.
- Speaking of winter/snow/freezing rain - On Sunday Sara and I went out at 11:30 to go pick up Blake from his dad. We couldn't get out of town. About 2 miles into the trip on Route 29 (the main road here in C'ville) there was a minor fender bender. Once we got past that, traffic soon came to a halt again. After waiting impatiently for about 15-20 minutes, I tried to take a back route to where we were going. I got about 2 miles down that road (a country road), we had to turn around because the road was blocked, due to probably an accident. We tried yet another backway (a dirt road..I felt like I was back in North Branch for a minute), and had to turn around because small cars tried to take the same route, and were going off the road. After about an hour of going absolutely nowhere, Blake's dad called and postponed the transfer until later, due to the roads being bad for him as well. We found out on the news that there were 12 separate accidents on Route 29 around the time we were on the roads. Pretty crazy, I don't think I've experienced anything like that before.
- Right now is my favorite time of year....for TV watching. There's basically something good on every night that we watch TV. Sunday's have "You're the One That I Want" (Sara made a point to watch this, and I'm hooked) and "The Apprentice". Monday's have "How I Met Your Mother" and "Two and a Half Men". Tuesday's have "American Idol"(finally!!!), and Boston Legal (my 2nd favorite TV show). Wednesday's have American Idol, and Thursday's have "The Office" (my #1 favorite TV, thanks to getting hooked on the original British version) and Scrubs. As far as Friday and Saturday goes, we're usually doing something else. And yes, I'm not afraid to admit I like American Idol. I'm can't wait for the actual competition to get started. Right now we already have a favorite. A guy named Blake from Seattle. And maybe we are biased because of his name!
- Thanks to iTunes and some random music blogs I've come across lately, I've found some interesting stuff to listen to. Some of my new finds are: Lily Allen (a UK artist..kinda pop like Jem, only more edgier) and David Vandervelde (from Chicago, has a cool 70's David Bowie-like sound going). If you're interested in finding something new to listen to, you should look them up on iTunes, or Myspace to get a taste of what they sound like.
-Spring Training is less than 1 month away. I can't wait for baseball to get started back up again!
Monday, January 22, 2007
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
It's a Hit
Any chimp can play human for a day.
Use his opposable thumbs to iron his uniform
and run for office on election day.
Fancy himself a real decision maker
and deploy more troops than salt in a shaker.
But it's a jungle when war is made,
and you'll panic and throw your own shit at the enemy.
The camera pulls back to reveal your true identity.
Look, it's a sheep in wolf's clothing.
A smoking gun holding ape.
The lines above are from one of my favorite songs, "It's a Hit" by Rilo Kiley. It also sums up how w. has, and is continuing to handle this war. (Oh wait I guess this isn't a war anymore...didn't we already decide that the war was won when he landed on the aircraft carrier in a jet, and made the proclimation in front of the big "Mission Accomplished" sign?) Tonight he's going to announce a "surge" (note: this will be the first overused catch word of '07) of 20,000ish troops to Iraq to help clean up the mess he made by not apportioning enough troops when this whole debacle started way back when. Apparently this time, there will be benchmarks set which will make the Iraq government/army more accountable themselves, for taking back their country. The only way they'll start being accountable themselves is if we get out of there and make them take control themselves. What incentives do they have for stepping up, when they can just rely on us to do the work for them, and get killed in the process?
Speaking of accountability, how has w and his evil minions (Rove, Rummy, Cheney, etc.) gotten away with running such a shoddy operation. The whole premise of the invasion was because Saddam had "WMD's" and was a threat to world peace. It's been what, 4 years, and no WMD's found, and its a generally accepted fact that no WMD's ever existed. How is there no accountability for that? Oh right, whenever this gets brought up, its inevitable that the words "nine" and "eleven" are uttered at some point in the conversation, and its at that point you are supposed to stop the questioning. If that doesn't make it right for you, then you are 1.) unpatriotic, and 2.) helping the terrorists win.
It blows my mind that one president can get a blow-job and get impeached, while another can wage a war on a faulty premise, where 3,000+ soldiers get killed, (tens of) thousands more mamed and disabled for the rest of their lives, and absolutely nothing happens.
It's beyond belief.
Use his opposable thumbs to iron his uniform
and run for office on election day.
Fancy himself a real decision maker
and deploy more troops than salt in a shaker.
But it's a jungle when war is made,
and you'll panic and throw your own shit at the enemy.
The camera pulls back to reveal your true identity.
Look, it's a sheep in wolf's clothing.
A smoking gun holding ape.
The lines above are from one of my favorite songs, "It's a Hit" by Rilo Kiley. It also sums up how w. has, and is continuing to handle this war. (Oh wait I guess this isn't a war anymore...didn't we already decide that the war was won when he landed on the aircraft carrier in a jet, and made the proclimation in front of the big "Mission Accomplished" sign?) Tonight he's going to announce a "surge" (note: this will be the first overused catch word of '07) of 20,000ish troops to Iraq to help clean up the mess he made by not apportioning enough troops when this whole debacle started way back when. Apparently this time, there will be benchmarks set which will make the Iraq government/army more accountable themselves, for taking back their country. The only way they'll start being accountable themselves is if we get out of there and make them take control themselves. What incentives do they have for stepping up, when they can just rely on us to do the work for them, and get killed in the process?
Speaking of accountability, how has w and his evil minions (Rove, Rummy, Cheney, etc.) gotten away with running such a shoddy operation. The whole premise of the invasion was because Saddam had "WMD's" and was a threat to world peace. It's been what, 4 years, and no WMD's found, and its a generally accepted fact that no WMD's ever existed. How is there no accountability for that? Oh right, whenever this gets brought up, its inevitable that the words "nine" and "eleven" are uttered at some point in the conversation, and its at that point you are supposed to stop the questioning. If that doesn't make it right for you, then you are 1.) unpatriotic, and 2.) helping the terrorists win.
It blows my mind that one president can get a blow-job and get impeached, while another can wage a war on a faulty premise, where 3,000+ soldiers get killed, (tens of) thousands more mamed and disabled for the rest of their lives, and absolutely nothing happens.
It's beyond belief.
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Crazy Weather
While growing up in Michigan, the months of December and January usually meant the weather was cold and snowy. It was that way most of my life. I honestly can't remember a Christmas or New Years where there wasn't snow on the ground. One of the main reasons (aside from the crappy economy) that I moved out of Michigan right after I graduated from EMU, was to get away from the dreary never-ending winters that we got every year. I love the climate here in Virginia. The summers are hot, and they last longer than 5 weeks. Spring is awesome, and the Fall season is great, with the temperatures staying on the warm to cool side. The Winters are 10,000 times better. The temps are usually chilly, and we usually get one or two decent snowfalls, and when it does snow, its gone within a couple days. The first full winter I lived here (2001-2002), we got something like 6 inches total for the entire season. Awesome!
This year has been completely unlike anything I've ever experienced. It hasn't been all that cold yet. Its a littly chilly in the morning on the way to work, but I've only had to scrap a light layer of frost off my car maybe 3 times so far. This past Saturday it was in the high 70's, and I for a time, contemplated wearing shorts...just because I could. Coming back from Blake's basketball practice, we noticed that trees around his school were budding. While this is completely out of the ordinary, the most bizzare thing that I've seen took place while we were in Virginia Beach over New Years weekend. When we got to our hotel room on the beach on December 30th, we stepped out on the balcony to check out the view and enjoy the sounds of the waves, but we were unable to hear the waves due to the maintenance man mowing the grass below us. He wasn't mowing the lawn just to mow it, the grass was actually needed to be cut.
Of course now that I've bragged about the awesome weather we've been having here, I'm sure that I've completely jinxed myself, and we'll probably be hit by a Nor'Easter this weekend. Because I have awesome luck like that.
This year has been completely unlike anything I've ever experienced. It hasn't been all that cold yet. Its a littly chilly in the morning on the way to work, but I've only had to scrap a light layer of frost off my car maybe 3 times so far. This past Saturday it was in the high 70's, and I for a time, contemplated wearing shorts...just because I could. Coming back from Blake's basketball practice, we noticed that trees around his school were budding. While this is completely out of the ordinary, the most bizzare thing that I've seen took place while we were in Virginia Beach over New Years weekend. When we got to our hotel room on the beach on December 30th, we stepped out on the balcony to check out the view and enjoy the sounds of the waves, but we were unable to hear the waves due to the maintenance man mowing the grass below us. He wasn't mowing the lawn just to mow it, the grass was actually needed to be cut.
Of course now that I've bragged about the awesome weather we've been having here, I'm sure that I've completely jinxed myself, and we'll probably be hit by a Nor'Easter this weekend. Because I have awesome luck like that.
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