Odds and Ends

Good morning folks! I hope everyone is enjoying this Friday morning. BTW T-minus one week until I am on to my new job. I hope next week goes by quickly. So let's take a look at what's going on today and this weekend...

Well it looks like Beanie is now a game time decision for Saturday. I have a sneaky suspicion that Tress is pulling a Bill Belichick, which makes me feel a little uneasy. If that's what Tress is doing then he's playing a dangerous game because USC is ready to play us with or without Beanie. To be honest I want to believe Tress isn't playing mind games and Beanie truly isn't healed and may not play. Either way I am standing by my prediction that USC will win.


Have you ever been driving and you're listening to the radio and each song you're listening too keeps getting better and better after each song. I had that this morning. It was a great trifecta of songs, definitely got me tapping my feet and going a little faster on the highway. I also like it when you can go from station to station and keep the list going. That's always cool to listen to one song on one station and then flip to another station and get another great song and just when you think it couldn't happen again you flip to another station and get another great song. It's pretty cool. Of course the flip side to all of that is getting the bad trifecta and even changing to another station and you still have crap songs. There's nothing worse than scanning through channels and getting crap song after crap song. The worst part is trying to decide on the best crap song and sticking it out in hopes you get a better song which sometimes backfires because you get an even worse song. Wow that's a lot of "song" word usage.


My son's baptism is this Sunday and this means a trip to church. I am not religious, I chose my own path when I was 16 and decided that was what was best for me. My wife is Catholic and when she married me she was very gracious in accepting my stance on religion, however we agreed that we would have our children baptised because that was very important to her, however part of the agreement was that when they were old enough they could decide if they wanted religion in their lives or not. I told her I did not want religion shoved down their throats and that I wanted them to grow up to be free thinkers and know they have a choice. She somewhat agreed, LOL. So this Sunday my little man is getting some water put on him. We're having most of her family up on Sunday. My Dad and his girlfriend will be up also, but my Mom is staying in TN for something a little more important which I will get to in a minute. Anyway I guess it's going to rain and we're going to have it at her Mom's which means 30 people in her Mom's house, which is going to be an interesting day. Anyway it's going to be a long day and I'm sure their will be some drama.


So as I mentioned above my Mom isn't coming up for the baptism and the reason for that is my brother is in the Army and is leaving for Afghanistan today. Let me explain something about my relationship with my brother, we don't get along, never have and probably never will. We are definitely night and day. He's had a rough life and some of it is his fault and some of it was just bad luck. All in all he's a good guy just has some issues that he needs to work out. Anyway he's been in the Army for a few years now and this is his first tour. He's going to be gone for about nine months and he shouldn't have to go to Iraq. So I called him last night and told him to be careful and that we would be thinking of him. It was one of those awkward conversation's where you just don't know what to say but at the same time the other person knows what you want to say and helps you out of the awkward situation. It was a five minute conversation and no we didn't come to some storybook happy ending but I at least let him know that I loved him, that I was proud of him and that he comes back safely. He agreed and that was the conversation. I think we both got across what we needed to say and I think my Mom would be happy with the effort, well she has to be because I haven't got a call from her yelling at me yet. LOL


Alright folks I am going to try and do some actual work today, I may put up another post later today, it's probably going to be a slow day today, either way have a good weekend.