The View From Wisconsin
Just a random set of rants from a Sports Fan from Wisconsin.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Sunday's Fun Day Charlie Brown
With all the re-airings of the various Peanuts movies this weekend, my wife started mangling the "Snoopy Come Home" theme last night. Amazing how so many people can get movie themes so wrong.
Anyways - some not-so-deep thoughts for the post-Turkey Day week:
Anyways - some not-so-deep thoughts for the post-Turkey Day week:
- Why is it that, just as you're about to replace a lightbulb in your car in a remote and difficult-to-get-to location, right before you pull it out of the socket - it flickers back to life? It's bad enough that I have the car that defines "hard to get to that part" (a PT Cruiser), but just as I'm trying to pull the bulb out of the shroud of the cargo lamp in the back of my car - it flickers back to life. I ended up replacing it anyways, since I'm pretty sure the bulb was on the verge of going out - thus it not coming on for most of the time when I had the liftgate up.
- Signs that you like turkey: you have a turkey sandwich for lunch the Sunday after Thanksgiving - and it's not leftovers.
- Strange dollar store indulgence: 2008 Upper Deck MLS Soccer cards. They're somewhat reminiscent of Upper Deck's Victory set for hockey, with the near-trademark UD 200-card "base" set and multiple inserts. For some reason, though, I didn't get a single Columbus Crew card. And no, no Landon Donovan nor David Beckham.
- Matt Schaub cost me a win in my NFL Fantasy Football league game this week - but it's not the end of the world, since I'm leading my "division"by a game and a half. That's the one thing I like about NFL's Fantasy leagues - they divide teams into three four-team divisions, and have the playoffs with the three division leaders and the "wild card" team. I doubt the team in second in my division is gonna lose, as they're up by 41 and his QB is Drew Brees, but a win or tie by my guys next week gives me the division title.
- My two Yahoo leagues are hard to figure; the NQRFPTFL (I think we're already in decade #2, by the way) is a bit jumbled up, but I'm pretty sure, barring a free-fall of some sort, I'm in the playoffs. My public league team... well, let's just say it's a good thing I caught that Kurt Warner was made inactive for the game today vs. the Titans. I'm currently up by just under 10 points (public leagues in Yahoo are apparently figured to the 100ths now), but he has Randy Moss and Mike Bell going for him.
- You just know that Tiger Woods and his wife were arguing about something. That's the ONLY reason why you're pulling out of your driveway like an idiot at 2:30 AM without alcohol being involved.
- A sign that my life is just sad: I did a Twitter "cloud" of words that I used in the last month and the last year on Twitter. My top words: time, times, please, game, night, team and goal. Maybe I should get Timex to sponsor my Twitter feed?
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