Monthly Archives: September 2006

Mom and baby are doing supa dupa.

• Tomorrow’s game versus Purdue is basically the season-in-a-game for the Gophers football team. I watched the Cal game and midway through the first quarter I was ready to start calling-up my college buddies to yell “I SMELL ROSES” into the phone. Then the Gophs rolled over and played dead for the next three quarters and I was glad I hadn’t dialed anyone yet. They followed that up with proves-nothing 62-donut routing of a team that I’d go even money Eden Prairie could beat. And now we go to Purdue, which is a Real Team in a Real Conference. How we play will set the tone for the rest of the season. Win – or even respectably lose – and there’s hope for a middle of pack or better finish. Lose – or worse yet, lose badly – and prepare to guard the basement for the rest of the season. At least homecoming is actually late enough to feel like a homecoming this year.
• Good lord how about those Twins. I’ll leave the real Twins insight to the bloggers who know what they’re talking about, but let me just say this. We’ve got all these awesome players up for all these awesome awards: Batting Champ, Cy Young, Rookie of the Year, MVP, probably other stuff. We’re the hottest team in baseball since the break. For like 45 minutes yesterday we were in first place in the toughest division in baseball. Paints a pretty nice picture. But for some reason, *nobody* is willing to put any expectations on this team. We’re still just The Unbelievable Story and/or The Team That Nobody Believes In. It’s gotten to the point where I think we could lay an egg in the first round of the postseason and all Twins fans would say is “oh darn, well, the regular season was fun”. Even frickin Barreiro seems to have drank the kool aid on this one. How is all this possible? Seriously, explain it to me.
• The Vikings play the Bears on Sunday in a battle so intense FOX has upgraded the 9th grade b-squad announcing team we got last week with their JV team. Maybe this week the camera doofs will be able to keep Brad Johnson in the frame. Then again, this team is boring enough that playing a little Where’s Brad? actually helps spice it up a little bit. (Related note: work.buddy.Hoffmaldo postulated the other day that the NFL has become boring across the board, not just at the dome. And he plays in like 5 fantasy leagues, so he’s not just some random hater, he’s a fan. Interesting theory.) Either way we’re 2-0 and that’s so much better than the Packers it totally cancels out the boring. At least for now.
• The Wolves prospects are so grim I’d rather not talk about it right now. Except for this bit of poetry that McCants wrote to KG, I’ll talk about that. Just let me know when you’re ready to talk. Or for me to feed you like a mommy hawk. I could do that, too.

Shaping up to be an interesting fall.

Internet and phone moved to the new house today, which is why I’m sure at least 4 of you noticed that this site was down and/or maybe your messages to me (or her) were bouncing. I had called last week to schedule the move and the customer service dude told me it’d be done on Wednesday morning and lo and behold, Libby said it dropped right around 10:30 this morning. Everybody panic.
Between the phone, the DSL, the ISP, and me figuring out how to rehook it all up, I was only giving the move a 20% chance of working without issues the first time around. I’m happy to report that the only dumbass in the process turned out to be me, and that after 15 or so minutes of unplugging and replugging – and one quick trip back to the old house to fetch what turned out to be a necessary crossover cable for the modem – everything sprung to life without a hitch. So many blinking green lights, so few power outlets.
In other news, now that I’ve got it all figured out here, I think I’m ready to switch to the Google Apps stuff. At least the price is right.