6/21/10
backyard blast
the best thing about living next to Hopkins prep school is that every 350 years, they put on a wicked awesome fireworks show. Owen was pretty into it but -- here's your old pal Andy Rooney again -- I'd've been fine with it being 10 mins shorter. Plus the cats went ape-sh$%. Sam burrowed into the pipes and didn't come out for an hour.
6/11/10
Grant proposal is Done and other news
I signed off on the cover sheet of "Defining and Measuring Opioid Failure in Chronic Non-Cancer Pain" yesterday at the VA research office. Now I just sit, wait and blog for another few months. I may also start putting my dishes directly in the dishwasher after rinsing them but not because I'm being forced to or trying to ingratiate myself with anyone but because I independently decided that makes the most sense.
Confirmatory reports have come out that the Huskers are joining the Big Ten. Many unanswered questions remain:
1) what do those of us who have spent the last couple decades bashing Big Ten football do now? Well...it's looking ?likely that UT, Texas A&M and Oklahoma will join the Pac-10 meaning the former Big 12 will no longer exist. The new Big Ten (which will, incidentally, be composed of 12 teams) fans will now bash the Pac-16. This prospect was made a little easier by USC's recent troubles.
2) if the Big 12 dissolves and the Big 10 has 12 teams, will the Big 10 be renamed the Big 12? Sources close to the story are not talking.
3) did Julie really find a scrawled out list of Big 10 and Big 12 towns and their distances from Lincoln, NE? Yes... I was trying to figure out how much this conference shift would really affect Big Red booster travel. While distance still favors the (former) Big 12 locales, how about the tourism factor? Austin and Boulder are/were the gems of the Husker travel schedule but it might be worth the trade to get Madison, (sorta near) Chicago, Minneapolis, Columbus, Ann Arbor and, because Julie might still be reading this, State College out of the deal.
Confirmatory reports have come out that the Huskers are joining the Big Ten. Many unanswered questions remain:
1) what do those of us who have spent the last couple decades bashing Big Ten football do now? Well...it's looking ?likely that UT, Texas A&M and Oklahoma will join the Pac-10 meaning the former Big 12 will no longer exist. The new Big Ten (which will, incidentally, be composed of 12 teams) fans will now bash the Pac-16. This prospect was made a little easier by USC's recent troubles.
2) if the Big 12 dissolves and the Big 10 has 12 teams, will the Big 10 be renamed the Big 12? Sources close to the story are not talking.
3) did Julie really find a scrawled out list of Big 10 and Big 12 towns and their distances from Lincoln, NE? Yes... I was trying to figure out how much this conference shift would really affect Big Red booster travel. While distance still favors the (former) Big 12 locales, how about the tourism factor? Austin and Boulder are/were the gems of the Husker travel schedule but it might be worth the trade to get Madison, (sorta near) Chicago, Minneapolis, Columbus, Ann Arbor and, because Julie might still be reading this, State College out of the deal.
6/2/10
Baseball Update
1) O's losing to yankers again tonight. I tuned in last night just in time to see Tejada's 2 run error lose it for the Os who will need to go 65-45 the rest of the way to make my 80 win prediction.
2) Phils' offense has hit the skids. Crazy -- 14 runs in the last 11 games. No one could've predicted that. The Braves have taken over 1st in the NL East. Phils need J Roll back and Utley's gotta start hitting again. But count on Ryan Howard to explode as the weather heats up in Philly.
3) Junior is retiring. 1st ballot Hall-of-Famer, no question.
4) Get to know Ubaldo Jimenez. The Rockies' 26 year old righty SP is 1/3rd of the way through the best season for a starter in 42 years.
2) Phils' offense has hit the skids. Crazy -- 14 runs in the last 11 games. No one could've predicted that. The Braves have taken over 1st in the NL East. Phils need J Roll back and Utley's gotta start hitting again. But count on Ryan Howard to explode as the weather heats up in Philly.
3) Junior is retiring. 1st ballot Hall-of-Famer, no question.
4) Get to know Ubaldo Jimenez. The Rockies' 26 year old righty SP is 1/3rd of the way through the best season for a starter in 42 years.
Class of '95
Our 15 year reunion was last weekend. Good times were had by all, or at least by the eight people at our house, as far as I could tell. Here's a fact that makes it sound like the way Yale reunions were meant to be: things got so crazy that a champagne glass was broken in the hot tub. (not a fact: things got so crazy, one of the polo ponies jumped our fence and bit our yacht).
I think it would've been pretty hard 15 years ago to predict me living in New Haven. The rest of the events in between I think went pretty much as scripted.
I think it would've been pretty hard 15 years ago to predict me living in New Haven. The rest of the events in between I think went pretty much as scripted.
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