Full mooners

I am all settled in for a long winter's nap, but since it isn't technically winter yet, I guess I will blog instead. After all, it has been a few days, which means something had to have happened, and lo and behold, it has.

First, it is going to be a nail biting fantasy football evening for me. My two teams both lead their respective games in the playoffs, but not by the largest of margins. In Yahoo, I am up by a mere nine points, but my opponent still has Minnesota's Adrian Peterson playing this evening. Given the year AP has, I am thinking a loss may be in the offing. In the league where I am vying for money, things are a little safer, but far from secure. I have a 13 point lead, my opponent has Robbie Gould, Chicago's kicker, going tonight. If by chance I lose, I am using my vacation time to go to Detroit and kick Jon Kitna square in the nutsack. Allow me to explain......

As part of our weekly lineup, we are allowed to play one quarterback. Because our rosters consist of more players than we can start (rosters have 25 players, 11 of which play on any given week), most of us carry multiple players at most of the positions on the field, This is to cover bye weeks during the season, you still have someone who can play, even if it isn't necessarily your first option. I am currently carrying two quarterbacks, Jon Kitna and David Garrard on my roster. Coming into this weekend, I was unsure of which to play. They both had their advantages and disadvantages. Kitna plays for a team that is very pass happy, has good wide receivers and has a tendency of throwing for good yardage on a weekly basis. The bad side is, he tends to turn the ball over more frequently (turnovers are a -3 in the point department), he gets sacked a lot as Detroit has problems with pass blocking, his team is on a 5 game losing streak and he was playing a very good defense in San Diego. Garrard comes into the week with plusses and minuses as well. He plays on a very good football team, has only thrown one interception all year and has shown to be a good game manager during his first season as starting quarterback for Jacksonville. His minuses are his experience in big games, he was playing against the NFL's #1 defense in Pittsburgh which hadn't lost at home all year, the conditions looked to be bad, cold and windy with rain changing over to snow during the course of the game, and his team tends to run the ball more, thus taking attempts away from him. It was very much a mental coin flip, and one that I chose poorly on by picking Kitna. Garrard would throw for over 200 yards and three touchdowns against only one interception. 21 fantasy points in all, a very nice game from a QB. Kitna would throw for more yards, 302 in all, and throw for 2 touchdowns himself, but he also threw, let's play Sesame Street and count them, 1.....2......3......4.......5 ah ah ah interceptions, thereby nullifying 15 points. I would be a lot less nervous tonight if I had those points back. A win and I make money this year, a loss and the best I can do is only lose $7 or I could be out my full entry fee of $100.

Sorry, combo lo mein break. I ordered in tonight, just me and the noodles and two egg rolls, yummm!!!!!

Anyway, I am getting ready for the show this morning, Lynn is off tending to her ailing father on Monday and Tuesday this week, and I am listening to our simulcast of the Channel 4 Action News from 5am to 7am while trying to get some work done. About 45 minutes into the newscast I hear a story about a research study that X% of people look up their name on the internet. Also people look up the names of friends from school, boyfriends/girlfriends, and people they are dating. Yes kids, news flash bulletin, people look stuff up on the internet. I know, it comes as a shock to you, personally when I heard this I was floored, because I doubled over with laughter at someone calling this news, but I saw it on TV so it must in fact be true.

This is just one of the problems I have with our programming lineup. I have never understood why we simulcast something that can be seen on TV. People that can watch the news and want to will before they will listen to it on the radio and those listening I know have to be frustrated everytime they do a segment like "Video of the Day", which they obviously can't see on their radio.

It is not my least favorite show that we carry however, that would be saved for Monica Crowley. I have little use for full mooners of any persuasion, but she goes above and beyond the call. I swear she can't do a segment of her show without mentioning the word Clinton, either in regards to Senator Hillary Clinton or former President Bill Clinton. That being said, when I am there on Sundays and we are carrying her show, I have taken to making a game of it and seeing how long it takes her to say the C word. I think it gets her all tingly down below or something, because two weeks ago it took all of 8 minutes, this week, less than 2. Damn that is fast, even for me. It isn't just that she talks about them, as a right wing hack and them both being from the left side of the aisle, surely they will come up in passing conversation, but she interjects them when they have nothing to do with the conversation. Prime example, she is talking to a author about a book he wrote regarding the relationship between former President Ronald Reagan and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. What does Monica ask the author you may ask? "Are Margaret Thatcher and Hillary Clinton similar?" When the author goes on a long explanation that in fact they may be presumed similar is some ways, that was apparently the wrong answer because Monica ended the interview. When Mike Huckabee, who is a former minister, was asked about fellow Republican candidate Mitt Romney's Mormon faith, his answer wasn't elusive, it was Clintonian. It's actually embarrassing that someone would be that much of a one trick pony and have a nationally syndicated radio show, but there is in fact no accounting for taste.

While I am on the rant of full mooners, I ran across something on a friend's page the other day that I would like to address here. I will not name names, because first, I am not about calling people out like that on this page, if they say something that I disagree with, I will mention it to them and be done with it and second, it wasn't the entry itself that was what was troubling, but rather the comments that followed it. What spurred on the comments was a bit about an unwanted instant message that was received by them from a guy, who had less than stellar intentions. I can understand how that can be troubling, personally if I receive IMs from people that aren't on my messenger already, it goes to instant ignore, but to each his or her own. That being said, this brought out the whole slew of female man bashing in the comments section. To the women who find this type of thing clever I say then start fucking women instead or go die in a fire. Certainly we can all come up with our own horror stories of the opposite (or the same if that is you preference) gender. I don't use my ex girlfriend and her unique skill of putting a bullet in her chest as the measuring stick to label all women psychopaths, if you are female and I don't like you, trust me, you have earned that without any broad generalizations needed.

I did take time this weekend to call on Doug and see how he is doing since being fired from the station. He is doing as good as can be expected I guess. It looks like he will be taking a couple of weeks to himself before throwing himself back into the fray that is radio. There haven't been any more layoffs yet, but the ax is still looming. I think I have enough stuff stored away that should I need to move on, I can and over 11 years experience can't hurt in any regard.

The part time gig is working out even better than I expected. I am tired on those days that I double, but other than that, all is good. Heck, I was expecting to make $8 an hour to start, when in fact I am making $8.50 instead. I will have to wait and see if this is in lieu of getting a raise after 30 days or not. there is something about paying a dishwasher $9 that just strikes me as a little much for that type of work, but if they start cutting me checks for it, i am not handing money back. The students have left, so they will be closing for winter break on Saturday and reopening on Jan 3rd, which is fine with me, I have radio vacation time scheduled then, so it works to my benefit to not have to stick around for the break to wash dishes.

Well, I better get scooting, my lo mein is getting cold and I have fingernail biting to yet get underway for tonight's football game. Before I go, a moment of silence for the porn industry, where it seems they are losing money, because much like cooking, people are finding it cheaper to make and view at home.