Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah Hanukkah or however it's spelled, Happy Holidays etc etc etc!!

For those of you who didn't receive this years holiday card in the mail (everyone), here it is electronically.

LAME!!! But, Jordan and I do have some ridiculously cute puppies. Shame we couldn't keep them.

Holidays are great. Nothing better than waking up whenever you like, sitting on your butt with nothing planned all day, eating great food and lots of it, indulging in tasty libations, seeing fam and friends and not having to work. Few things are better.

I hope everyone's enjoying their time off and making the most of it. I'm doing my best to do so.

Until next time... Cheers!

ps - anyone else really excited for the January transfer window to open?!?!

Out of Control

Sporting event tickets are way too much money. Shit's gotten so far out of control it's not even funny.

Wanted to pick up tickets for the Sixers vs. Bullets (forget the wizards, so lame) game Friday night. So I went to the Bullets site and hit up Ticketmaster (Whose service charge is BS too!). The cheapest tickets were $20. $20 isn't bad, have no problem paying that.... The only problem is that the seats are obviously garbage. For those of you who've been to a bball game know, sitting far away is terrible. Hockey, soccer and maybe a few other sports are alright from a distance, but bball is horrible from afar.

So I checked out seats from the next price range, $48. They were just as far away (nosebleed) but located at half court.... Both sets suck. Would much rather watch it on tv and listen to the moronic announcers spew garbage for 2 hours. Seriously, if $48 can't get you a decent seat to watch two sub .500 teams duke it out early in the season, than I don't ever want to go to another NBA game again.

It's a good thing the Bullets signed Arenas to such a huge contract. He's earning every penny of that $120 million contract sitting on the bench nursing his 3rd knee operation in as many years (I dono if that's exact, but it's close enough). Seriously, what a F'ing joke. The Sixers are nearly as bad. Brand got a sick contract, something like $80 million and they still suck harder than an industrial strength Hoover. Way to go management, keep shelling out dumbass contracts to undeserving players and jacking up the price of tickets for idiotically loyal fans.

After $48, the next ticket section is $88, and those damn seats aren't even anything to brag about! Maybe I should buy the $2,500.00 tickets. Yea that's what I'll do. For $2,500.00 I'd rather buy a first class round trip ticket to Vegas, rent a car, drive to the bunny ranch and pay three overpriced prostitutes to take turns punching me in the balls. I'd still probably have some leftover money if I chose to go that route. F the NBA's ticket prices!!!!

My favorite thing though was the Wizards $11 Economic Stimulus tickets. LOL!!! Those seats are horrible. Economic stimulus tickets for an NBA game.... Classic! How about you get Gilbert Arenas to go out and buy 10 Ford automobiles, have each of his teammates hop in a car and drive them off a cliff. That's stimulating the economy, and entertainment!

Check this out

http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f7/i-got-married-last-weekend-pics-877461/

I really don't know how to respond to this. Mixed emotions. Read the comments and dude's responses to them, pretty damn funny. The John Candy photo comparison is classic.

3 Days

And then there were 3.

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, home. Beautiful.

It's sort of weird thinking that I'll be back in Maryland come Wednesday. Iowa seriously feels like home. I'll have been out here for 52 days, minus 1 weekend. Wow, 52 days.

So after 52 days, not only does it feel as though I live here, but the people I spend night and day with become good pals. It's weird to think that I won't be seeing any of these clowns for a little while, if again. Wouldn't go as far as shedding a tear (sorry), but I've definitely met some good people here that I'll stay in touch with.
So now that the sentimental crap is out of the way. Let's play ball!

Hedge apple ball, that is. No better way to break up the monotony of a 10 hour work day, then to grab a bunch of hedge apples a nice piece of wood, and play ball.

The Bambino

Nice field, right? The stands were packed.

Amazing form. Simply amazing.

Raw power.

Dustin (The Babe) just showed me a new ball he meticulously handcrafted out of duct tape. I'm excited to test it out tomorrow. Hopefully we can replace the hedge apples and actually be able to see how far we can jack some shots.

So, I'm really looking forward to being back in MD Wednesday, even though it'll just be for the night. I'll be heading up to NJ/PA for at least a portion of the weekend to see the fam and some friends. Should be a great time. I'm pretty excited. That and I get to eat some home cooking! Nothing better.

Also, I've been informed that snow has blessed the MD/PA/WV slopes. If anyone wants to go anywhere, anytime, don't hesitate to give me a call. I know spending more time on lifts then skiing sucks, but any skiing is better than no skiing.

Well, until next time. Au Revoir!

Sunday, not so Bloody Sunday

Well, let's see. Not too much to write about again. Life in Iowa just isn't that exciting.

Today was my last day off work while here in Iowa. Nine, ten hour work days left... ninety more hours of work. Ninety hours, that's it. I suppose I'll move to Maryland after my job here in Iowa is done. For those of you who don't know, I actually used to live there. I remember it being nice, figure I'll move back.

So, the Eagles tied today. That's pathetic. I'd almost rather they lost. Seriously though, I don't know what their problem is... Oh wait, I do. Andy Reid needs to get the axe. Nice guy, nice family (bwaa ha haaa) but shit play caller. 58 passing attempts vs 18 runs. Now that's a nice balanced attack. It's no wonder McNabb gets hurt; Drop back 60 times and you're bound to get injured.

What are the Phillies going to do this off season??? I was disappointed to see Holliday go to the A's. And now that the Yankess are set to buy every other free agent from here to Japan, I'm curious to see what the Phils will do. Need to address their lack of a left fielder. Anyone know anything I don't (regarding this anyways)?

I had grand plans of writing about some worthwhile topics, but as you can see, I've fallen very short of that goal. I'll have to see about posting again tomorrow night once I'm not so tired. Anywho, goodnight to all and to all a goodnight.

This post is almost not worth posting.

Here, have a blog

My apologies.

I have had absolutely zero, zilch, nada and noooo desire to blog of late. It's sad really, it's not there hasn't been enough going on it the world. The Phillies won the World Series, a new Pres just got elected, I think we found Little Boy, I was home for a weekend (which was over my favorite holiday), and all sorts of other jazz... Just haven't been motivated to chime in on any of it.

I think Iowa has won by KO. I put up a valiant effort, fought a gritty fight, pulled tooth and nail... I just couldn't outlast the heavy weight, title belt holding champ. A 5.5 week KO. And there's still more rounds to go.

*Sigh*

Even now, as I'm blogging, I really don't want to be doing it.

So now, I present to you, a very brief picture based rundown of the last however many weeks of life here in Iowa.

Edward 40 hands

Dead deer with ass eaten out by carnivores. Look at my big smile.

Sunday commercial watching that's occasionally interrupted by a blip of a football game.

Sexy poses in the woods with machetes.

Potential deer ass eater.

So, I walked into my room this evening after dining at the finest of Mexican restaurants and realized that my room smells, bad. I need to do laundry and let house keeping come in more frequently.

This is all for now... Maybe I'll add more in a day or two. Must.... get.... motivated.... arrrrrrgh

La Nuit de la Citrouille

Sorry for not blogging for so long... Haven't much felt like it. The fact that I'm stuck in Burlington, Iowa doesn't help much. There's not too much going on out here that's really worth blogging about... That is, until now!!

Bam!! Pumpkin carving night!! Who knows how to have fun? Steve does.

See the excitement? Yea, it's coursing through my veins right here. Actually had to sit down and crank a beer to calm myself. The only bad thing about the evening was that I've been unable to find Sam Adams Octoberfest out here. I've been to 3 places, and each has been sold out! I had to settle for the Cherry Wheat tonight... Just wasn't the same. A great pumpkin can only be carved with the accompaniment of a delicious Octoberfest.

I got over the lack of Octoberfest soon as the first cut was made.

Marc's thrilled to begin the creation process!

Proud fathers.

Yea I know, you afraid. Yea I know, I'm a loser. Especially for adding in the music. Can't help it, Halloween was on while carving. Anyways, I have to be up in all of 4 hours for work.

Au revoir!