Saturday hodgepodge

Mom Needs Some Attention Too!
Happy Birthday Rock'n'Robin!

Home Sick
I am home sick with a migraine. It has been over a year since I took a day off sick, and I feel bad about it. My choices are too much pain too concentrate, too many drugs to drive, um, I choose B. Saturdays are especially busy, and I don't think I'd be able to find a drug/pain balance to make me work.

I appreciate all the empathy and well wishes I get when I have a migraine, but it's a fact of life for me. I accept it, and I do my best to lead an otherwise normal life, but every once and a while it just is awful. Yesterday and today are one of those days.

*edit* the drugs kicked in shortly after writing this section ... aahhh!

Tony Boyle, My New Hero
Things were going along just fine for my Salukis in the NCAA tourney yesterday when at the end of the half, our third leading scorer (for the year) rolled his ankle. Crap! Second half starts, enter back up Tony Boyle, and a star is born. Read ESPNs story here. The Salukis went on to win fairly easily for them, considering our margin of victory all year was not that great.

Next up: Virginia Tech, who we beat early in the season.

My brackets; meh. There were scant upsets this year in the first round, and I didn't pick the right ones. Fortunately the only sweet 16 team I lost was Creighton (more on them in a minute). In the small pool I am tied for first, and in the big pool, I am in the middle of the pack. They next two days are the seperators, lose an eight or final four team now, you're done.

Yes, I somewhat homered (picked the local, favorite team) with Creighton going to the sweet 16, but they have been hot as of late, and playing their best ball of the season. They got screwed. A first round match up with Nevada??? I can imagine that Nevada felt the same way. Two of the best five mid-majors matched up in the first round? It doesn't make any sense. Part of the appeal of this sporting event is David vs. Goliath ... and you put two David's together in the first round. Hard to generate any stories that way. Both teams should have gotten a low seeded major conference team in the first round. Grrr and done.

Finally! Pictures of baby Daniel

Proud "uncle" OnionBoy finally has pictures of the cutest baby around! If you don't believe me, you can just ask Tim & Rock'n'Robin, they will give you a completely unbiased opinion.

You woke me up for this? I can't help it I'm adorable.


I'm so cool... Forget that mothers milk, I want a beer.
Did I happen to mention I got my daddys hair?


Seriously, I can hold my own head up... I think.

You can see all 37 photos in her set here, including some bonus Florida sunrise photos.
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Dragon arm?

Here is my dream from last night. There were three magic items to begin with, one that didn't do much and was like a gold circle the size of a bracelet, a medium-strong one that was gold shining wand about two feet long, and the third which was very powerful and it was black metal shaped like the arm of dragon holding a pink crystal orb and was also about two feet long.

Well the evil guy in the dream had all three, and it was my job to sneak in and get them. I got the wand, then the bracelet, but I got caught and blasted by the dragon arm and sent out into the woods somewhere. My co-conspirators then took the two things i stole, healed me, and somehow made it into my own dragon arm, but with a blue-green orb instead of pink.

The bad guy didn't know i had the new magic device, so it was relatively easy for me to sneak back in and destroy his with mine. He was then caught and arrested by the authorities. It was then my decided the remaining magic item was too powerful to be left, and it was destroyed by breaking it by pulling it in two directions with a bulldozer and a boat ... only it wasn't destroyed, and I knew it wouldn't be, it popped and shattered, but I somehow had managed to follow where the most magical piece went and I got it.

It was the same shape, but now only about six inches long. At the end of the dream I was going around causing mischief with it.

As usual the dream was very vivid. The only part of the dream that made any sense from the previous days events was at one point it was shown that the bracelet could turn river water into hot coffee ... coffee was part of an ongoing conversation I had during the day.

2007 Brackets

For those of you have no idea what the title is all about, you probably don't need to read any further. It's time again for March Madness, and I'm in two (for fun only, of course) pools. I also signed up for ESPN & Yahoo's tournement challenge too.

Here is my pool bracket. I lost two games out of the first eight, but no major catastrophies, like losing a final four or even a sweet 16 team.

YOU all are sending ME the wrong message

Okay, so I was lamenting for weeks about no one commenting on my blog anymore. Then I put up a blog that everyone comments on. Okay, so most of the comments were about how I shouldn't blog about the subject, but I got comments!

You may be reinforcing the behavior you don't want ... I wonder what other bodily functions I could discuss here.