Getting sleepy

I had an awful week picking NFL games. I blame the short week and not enough time to do research since I went back to PA on Wednesday afternoon. Mom only has dialup at home and things take for-e-ver to load there. I had dialup at my first apartment in Bloomfield and I don't miss it. at. all.

It was the final week of volleyball playoffs tonight and I played another night of 'C' volleyball. That's not going to help us win, especially against the other good team in the league. They beat us 2 of 3 times during the regular season, but we beat them in the first match of the playoffs. Leah is on vacation in South Africa (good for her! bad for us!) and our rotation is a little off. Off enough to really affect us on the court. I feel like I gave away a few points in the first and third games which led to them getting a pretty big lead that we couldn't come back from.

We went out afterward which cheered us all up. Loaded cheese fries and beer will do that for us! The MNF game was terrible, but Joe, Liwayway, Susan, Larry and I had a good time. We ran into Laurent who is here from France working on some things with the robot and we had a good time with him too.

Oh! I hit 130mph on the way home on the parkway. That's a lot of fun. It feels like you're sitting on a rocket!

Please to be seeing the title of the previous post

I've wanted to mention this for a few days, but my computer is never within arm's reach. The Samsung commercial with Ozzy Osbourne is really funny. My overanalytical mind asked why he would have everyone's phone numbers, but I got past that the second time that I saw the commercial. I can't say the same for the most recent McDonald's commercial featuring 2 triple cheeseburgers for $3. The woman sitting at the desk is eating the wrong sandwich! It bugs me because you can it's a Big Mac (you can see the lettuce) and lettuce doesn't come anywhere near a McD's triple cheeseburger.

I'm watching the 24 season premiere/prequel and I missed the beginning while I was in the kitchen. I wasn't too excited about it since it has been so long since the end of Season 6 (in real time), but it seems to be getting more exciting. Guns and land mines wil do that.

The Jets beat the Titans today (unbeaten no more!) so it looks like it's time to start believing in Gang Green again...and then get our hearts torn out two or three weeks later. My fantasy team is destroying this week behind Big Ben (17.5), Chicago D (20), Matt Forte (17.3), Warrick Dunn (12.35), and the Cardinals' duo of Boldin and Breaston (14.65 combined).

The new BCS standings are out..before that, Penn State is heading to the Rose Bowl after laying the wood to Michigan State on Saturday. Back to the Big College Screwup..there's going to be a giant mess in the Big XII. I don't know who to root for now that Texas Tech misfired in Norman on Saturday. They just looked like they were trying too hard in the first half and by the time halftime came, it was 42-7 and all over. The Nittany Lions had an outside, around the corner shot at the title game, but that's all over now that Utah has jumped them and the Utes' season is over after winning Saturday's Holy War. Nothing wrong with sunny Pasadena and it would be awesome to see the Lions take on the Trojans.

Once a week is not enough

Went to the Nets game tonight and LOLed all over the place at them. They are terrible. Josh Boone still can't play defense and Brook Lopez is worthless on the offensive end. I flipped on the TV when I got home and the Suns-Rockets game was on ESPN and I heard something about Robin Lopez (currently with Phoenix) not being as good offensively as his brother Brook. I continued to LOL a little more. I feel bad for Vince Carter since it looks like the plan this year is give it to Vince and get out of the way. That might change after Devin Harris gets back from injury, but we'll see. I know an awful lot about the NBA for not liking it very much!

Work's been pretty good this week--knock on wood for two more days of that. Natalie, my salon compatriot, has been in Ohio the past three days and I miss seeing her.

The rest of the week includes Jets-Pats on NFL Network and the CW Thursday, game night at LP's Friday, Quantum of Solace Saturday, and Sunday football at Leah's on...Sunday.

I should start trusting my first instinct

even though it's just fantasy football. I was going to pick up Brady Quinn tonight since Big Ben's shoulder is a mess and might not play and Jason Campbell is on a bye this week...obviously 2 first half TDs.

The game is on the NFL Network, which isn't good since a majority of America can't get it. The Jets are playing the Patriots next Thursday and I'm sure the NFL and Comcast and whoever else won't have a good answer before then. I tried watching the game on nfl.com, but they're only showing bits and pieces sprinkled around their studio show.

I have UMD-VaTech on tonight as I work on a bottle of cabernet. Ralph Friedgen (UMD head coach) is about as large as Mark Mangino (Kansas), but Ralph doesn't disgust me as much (not at all, actually) as Mangino does. I'm not sure why that is. 20-13 VaTech after 3 quarters.

Dateline Lubbock: Guns Up

What an amazing 2nd half last night. Texas goes ahead 33-32 with 1:29 remaining after being down 19 in the first half, but Graham Harrell and Michael Crabtree hook up for the winning TD with :01 left. The Big XII is absolutely sick this year. I've realized that I've been following and getting excited over Big XII games a lot over the past few years. They say defense wins championships (and it does), but the throttles on the offenses down there are wide-open.

In addition to the crush I have on the Big XII (and additionally, the SEC), I have admitted to having a giant man-crush: LeBron James. I realized it last week when he was on GameDay, but it definitely came out this week when I went looking for the NBA on TV. It's a known fact that I think the NBA is terrible basketball, but I will watch the Cleveland Cavaliers LeBrons when they're on.

Back to college football. It seemed like every team that I was rooting for won yesterday: Texas Tech over Texas, Oklahoma putting a giant beatdown on Nebraska, USC over a hapless Washington, Florida wrecking Georgia at the Cocktail Party, Michigan State over Wisconsin (nice timeout Bielema), South Carolina over Tennessee (<3>Random notes:

• I forgot to turn my clock back last night so I woke up at 9:00 this morning, which was actually 8:00.
• Grocery shopping took 12 minutes last night. There were about a dozen other people shopping at midnight last night which makes for a very easy trip through the store.
• I saw the Commerce Bank across the street changing its sign to TD Bank as I was in the Taco Bell drive-thru line. I completely missed that TD bought Commerce earlier this year.

And before I forget, my current list of most annoying commercials:

1. Toyota - Saved by 0%...I've mentioned this before and would be very embarrassed if I had gotten a Camry in April.
2. Volkswagen - Routan w/Brooke Shields...I miss Fahrfegnugen (and I think I even spelled it right on the first try-honest!)
3. Microsoft - I am a PC...No, you are all people. You look nothing like a computer.
4. Lincoln MKS - Ground Control to Major Tom...please maintain radio silence.
5. CDW - I want to pummel the guy on the beach with coconuts. Thankfully I haven't seen it on anything other than "The Sports Reporters" lately.
6. Cash4Gold.com - Infomercial appearance with really terrible actors
7. DirecTV - National Lampoon's Vacation pool scene...This is awful, this is awful, this is awful!

Edit (8:38pm): Made additions to the list. Also, the Toyota commercials keep saying 'for a limited time' or whatever. I finally read the fine print and it'll be over tomorrow.

From Monday back to Saturday

Not a terrible Monday by any stretch of the imagination. I got a bunch of stuff done at work, including some requests for other people to do some things for me. They don't take too much effort so hopefully I can get them back tomorrow and file some documents.

Julio took Meriam and I out to lunch today. We tried to go to a Portuguese place in Roselle Park, but when we got there, they were closed. LOL places other than salons being closed on Mondays. We ended up at Theresa's in Westfield (after walking by a bunch of other places that were closed). The sauce for the calamari was phenomenal and the pasta special was really good too. Pasta with chicken, spinach, bacon, and a parmesan sauce.

Sunday ended up being a pretty blah day as I spent most of it dozing on the couch. I did see the Jets win after giving up 3 INTs and a 91 yard return. I don't remember how long Favre's contract is, but please don't bring him back next year.

Penn State beat Ohio State in Columbus to take the lead in the Big Ten and keep their #3 BCS ranking. Oh yeah, party at Alyssa's! We had a great time on Saturday night. Costumes and beer pong and the name game. I have to bother Ilya since he didn't make it, but I saw some people from the last party and the Avalon house when I was down there a couple summers ago. I don't see why it's so hard to get a picture to show up where I want it here, but I think I got it right. Here's me with some pirate booty...er, the hostess. :)

LeBron James on GameDay

Niiice. The boys are in Columbus for Penn State-Ohio State tonight. People have been talking about Texas-OK State this week, but the majority of the conversation has been about the matchup at the Horseshoe. I'll be on the road for the first half and then at Alyssa's, but hopefully we can check in on the game at the party. I'm sure we'll keep tabs on the World Series game too since we'll be right outside Philly.

I know it's going to rain today, but my car was filthy from all the dirt and stone dust from construction so I had to wash it this morning. It got a wax too and it's nice and shiny..for probably about two hours. It'll still look black after the rain though as opposed to the brown tint it had earlier this morning.