Flippy - I Rant, You Read
Thursday, October 04, 2007
the wee hours
Yay! Hockey is back!
Boo! The 2006-2007 Leafs seem to be back too. Ugh, lost the season opener after being ahead in the third period, then giving up the tying goal and losing in overtime. Could there be anything more typical of the Toronto Maple Leafs? Damn.
We now know that Dobby is spending her nights behind the waterfall, next to the pool equipment. It’s so nice to go out there and shine the flashlight at the rocks and see her. Of course, we see her running away, but we see her. Leigh-Ann put a trap (not armed, to get her used to it without scaring her off) in the back yard with food in it, and a crate next to it with our t-shirts & towels in it (to remind her of her loved ones, us!)...and kitty Greenies, and she’s eaten the food (twice!) and the Greenies. Now we now that she’s feeling brave about going into the trap to eat, so tonight it’ll be armed, and hopefully our feral baby will be home. I hope it was just an accident that she left and that she doesn’t have any desire, like Frank, to go roaming the great outdoors. It’s pretty much impossible for us to keep a cat inside if it doesn’t want to be here, if we want to give the big dogs any freedom whatsoever. Eli is getting old lady dribbly bladder, so we really don’t want to keep her locked inside if she needs to go out and pee. German Shepherd bladders are very large, if you know what I mean.
Monday, August 27, 2007
the wee hours
Fantasy Football ‘07 - It’s that time again!
Come one, come all, come play fantasy football with us. It’s fun, and it makes watching the games on tv so much more entertaining. Even if you’ve never played before, there’s no time like the present to learn. When I started playing a few years ago, I barely knew anything about football. I knew the basics, but none of the details, and I certainly didn’t know ANY of the current players. I knew all the players that had retired 20+ years ago. But with a little reading and a little help from your friends, you’ll get the hang of it in no time.
ID# is 611363 and the Password is nfl07 - after clicking on the link above, then click the BLUE box on the right that says “Join a League”. On the next page, click the BLUE box that says “Join Custom” and it’ll ask you for the ID# & password. Then you’ll pick a team name and you’ll be pretty much set. After that, you can poke around and see the rankings of the players and see the league settings, etc. If you have any questions, ask away.
The live draft is Sat Sep 1 3:00pm PDT - if you can’t make it, you can pre-rank your players and the computer will automatically draft according to your preferences.
***Please do not sign up if you don’t really want to play. It’s not very fun for the rest of us to play against abandoned teams.***
Sunday, August 05, 2007
terribly early in the morning
“Bonds Hits 755th Home Run, Ties Record” - many newspapers
Thursday, May 17, 2007
the wee hours
Strep, Strep, Strep To My Lou
What do you get when you combine stress, lots of work, lack of sleep and mingling with teenagers? Yes, Strep Throat. Or, at the very least, a very sore throat & pus-y tonsils. Oh, and all those hours of sitting at your desk get you back pain and Fred Flintstone feet. Okay, maybe not you, but me. They get me Fred Flintstone feet. And you know, I didn’t start out with dainty feet in the first place, so this is not an attractive look for me.
Unfortunately, my finely-tuned athletes on my fantasy baseball team are faring no better than I am. One comes off the DL, two go on. Am I jinxing the players? Are the players jinxing me? Something’s afoot. Chubby afoot.
Maybe if I go to bed, it’ll all be better when awaken. At the very least, I’ll shower, so it’ll be cleaner when I awaken.
Melinda should’ve won American Idol, so now I don’t care what happens. All I care about is that my beloved Cat Deeley will be back May 24th, for the first episode of So You Think You Can Dance? - my favorite reality show, since The Amazing Race started to go downhill. Although, with Survivor: China looming on the horizon, I can hear the siren calls luring me back. But, I will always be loyal to Cat. I’m a tad bit cheered by being able to shove my Melinda Doolittle disappointment under the rug, and to forget about AI, so I can concentragt on my dahncers.
update: - haha, I can tell how sick I was when I wrote this by rereading it and seeing all the missing words and typos. It’s a little funny. It’s also a little funny how optimistic I was in thinking that I’d shower when I got up. I slept until like 4p.
Sunday, April 08, 2007
evening
No Playoffs for the Leafs - Ptooey
I hate the New Jersey Devils. It’s like they didn’t even start playing until the last few minutes of the third period. And when they started playing, they were good. It’s like they’d decided to let the Islanders win, and then in the third period changed their minds. Screw you, Lou Lamoriello and Martin Brodeur. I don’t care that the Leafs should’ve been responsible for their own fate, I wanted the Devils to at least try to win today. Like, try the WHOLE game, not just the third period and OT. Of course, the Leafs sucked a whole lot this season. They had a whole boatload of injuries, but they sucked during some big chunks of games this season.
I’ll root for the Penguins to win the Stanley Cup. I’ll root for the Devils to be humiliated by Tampa Bay. And I’ll now devote most of my fan efforts toward the Dodgers...and my fantasy baseball team.
