Javon Walker. Currently my least favorite Packer and one of my two keepers from last year's Fantasy Football team. That means I'm counting on this guy for two big reasons, but with the Packer receving corps in good shape this season, I'm a little bit more worried about how his holdout (should it go into the regular season) will affect my fantasy lineup. I have money riding on this people!
On the subject of holdouts, I think Drew Rosenhouse is on a lot of people's "people to kill" list right now. The guy is a complete bonehead. I know some of these players feel they deserve more money and would probably holdout regardless of agent, but this guy pumps so much crap into players heads about how they're getting screwed and how he can get them a better deal that it's preposterous. It's even more ridiculous that he's doing it with players who just signed a new deal last year (ie. Terrell Owens) and guys who don't have much left in the tank (see: Grady Jackson). I'm not even gonna touch on how much this crap is runining the game for the fans...
I realized this afternoon that I really miss watching Pardon The Interupption on ESPN. It was never a daily thing for me but now that I work until 5:30 every day except Fridays I never get to see it. The things we take for granted...
This post is ending here because as always, the subjects I've been meaning to write about are escaping me. As you may have noticed, I did add links to some blogs that I think are pretty cool. I'm going to leave you with a recommendation of a song that I've been listening to constantly since I've heard it on The Current (God bless them).
Cheers,
EH
CURRENT LISTENING: AC Newman - "Miracle Drug"
LAST MOVIE SEEN: Million Dollar Baby rental - worth the hype
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Zip, nada, nothin'!
It's 3:10pm. Since 10:32am I haven't done a thing at my internship. Nothing, unless you count going to lunch, browsing the web, and talking on AIM. I've asked supervisors if there's anything that I can be doing and have basically gotten the "there's nothing I can think of at the moment" response each time. I was fine with "at the moment," but the amount of boredom I have right now could probably be harnessed and transformed into some sort of alternative fuel resource. There's only so long I can keep my interest tuned into browsing webpages. To make matters worse, I don't have my iPod today and I'm in desperate need of a Red Bull right now.
This place is great but I need some real work. Give me a brief and have me brainstorm 100 different interactive executional concepts. It doesn't matter if you're not going to use ONE of them and if you do, that's one heck of a bonus.
This place is great but I need some real work. Give me a brief and have me brainstorm 100 different interactive executional concepts. It doesn't matter if you're not going to use ONE of them and if you do, that's one heck of a bonus.
Monday, July 11, 2005
That was some wicked air guitar
After a good string of posts, I seemed to have reverted to my old habit of the rare update. Summerfest came and went. We missed Petty, Phantom Planet was pretty cool (besides possibly being the only ones in the crowd old enough to drink legally), and I wish we could've caught more of Rusted Root. Spent a beautiful day by Lake Michigan and introduced another friend to the Safehouse, an activity that is inherently part of every Milwaukee visit. The food sucked but it's still one of the coolest restaurants ever. Overall, it was a good 4th of July weekend.
This past weekend, I spent the evening on a boat on Lake Minnetonka with a group of friends and an open bar. My friend's parents threw him a graduation/birthday party by renting out this boat for 4 hours and allowing a group of recent college grads to go nuts. And we did. The weather was beautiful, the beer was cold, and the Zeppelin was blaring. The night proceeded with a stop at Maynard's and a limo ride back to Uptown. The rest of the details are mucky.
Right now I'm without a cell phone. Coincidentally, it broke the night that I just described. It really wasn't a surprise that it broke given that the hinge of this flip phone was loosely hanging by a thread for the past month. If you own a Samsung Verizon camera phone with a swivel head that rotates 180-degrees and is connected by a small neck-like piece, I hope you have insurance on it. These "customer service" reps at Verizon don't have much sympathy for broken phones so because I'm "not eligible" for the promo prices yet I either have to pay the full retail price on a new phone (about $180 for the bare bones model) or find a used one somewhere. Next time I'M getting the insurance!
Besides music festivals and the 4th, July is great for another thing: the start of NFL training camp. This is the time when football fans start to get that itch for football season and have an unquenchable thirst for any news related to their favorite team. It's a time filled with arm-chair quarterback analysis and hypothesis. Who is going to emerge and be make a needed impact on a weak defense? What rookie is going to make plays? Can the offensive line gel with the holes it has filled? These are all questions I ask about the Pack these days. It's definitely going to be an interesting year and my anticipation for opening day mounts daily. Along with all of this speculation and excitement for the regular season comes the buzz and research of prepping for fantasy football drafts. Last year I was in two leagues, this year it might be three. No wonder women think men are ridiculous when it coms to this stuff.
Time to wrap up. I'm checking out a premiere of Wedding Crashers tonight. Hope it's as funny as it has the potential to be.
CURRENT LISTENING: Black Eyed Peas feat. Q-Tip, Mos Def, and John Legend - Feel It
LAST MOVIE SEEN: Spanglish
This past weekend, I spent the evening on a boat on Lake Minnetonka with a group of friends and an open bar. My friend's parents threw him a graduation/birthday party by renting out this boat for 4 hours and allowing a group of recent college grads to go nuts. And we did. The weather was beautiful, the beer was cold, and the Zeppelin was blaring. The night proceeded with a stop at Maynard's and a limo ride back to Uptown. The rest of the details are mucky.
Right now I'm without a cell phone. Coincidentally, it broke the night that I just described. It really wasn't a surprise that it broke given that the hinge of this flip phone was loosely hanging by a thread for the past month. If you own a Samsung Verizon camera phone with a swivel head that rotates 180-degrees and is connected by a small neck-like piece, I hope you have insurance on it. These "customer service" reps at Verizon don't have much sympathy for broken phones so because I'm "not eligible" for the promo prices yet I either have to pay the full retail price on a new phone (about $180 for the bare bones model) or find a used one somewhere. Next time I'M getting the insurance!
Besides music festivals and the 4th, July is great for another thing: the start of NFL training camp. This is the time when football fans start to get that itch for football season and have an unquenchable thirst for any news related to their favorite team. It's a time filled with arm-chair quarterback analysis and hypothesis. Who is going to emerge and be make a needed impact on a weak defense? What rookie is going to make plays? Can the offensive line gel with the holes it has filled? These are all questions I ask about the Pack these days. It's definitely going to be an interesting year and my anticipation for opening day mounts daily. Along with all of this speculation and excitement for the regular season comes the buzz and research of prepping for fantasy football drafts. Last year I was in two leagues, this year it might be three. No wonder women think men are ridiculous when it coms to this stuff.
Time to wrap up. I'm checking out a premiere of Wedding Crashers tonight. Hope it's as funny as it has the potential to be.
CURRENT LISTENING: Black Eyed Peas feat. Q-Tip, Mos Def, and John Legend - Feel It
LAST MOVIE SEEN: Spanglish
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)