April 29, 2009
Wed 11:56 PM
so, yesterday i gave a big thank you to mother russia for all the great hockey players she's given the capitals, apparently in dc they call this Moscow on the Potomac. Fitting. Learned this from czaban, the morning sports guy on 102.9 the hog who's from DC.
ear still not fixed. i know, i said i was gonna go the school clinic today, well, sleeping in just seemed like the better course of action this morning. i think i'm gonna go friday, less to do that day. but i gotta say, i'm a little hesitant to go to a gathering place for the sick with all this talk of swine flu going around. just today four milwaukee schools were closed indefinitely because of confirmed cases on the south side. we all know schools are breading grounds for disease... hurray for being in college and coming into contact with hundreds of people each day.
pig flu aside, today was a good day. group meeting, class, group meeting, pub. played darts again with Console, and my second throw, well, i'll let the picture speak for itself.
geez, last time i put a picture in my blog no problem, this one was not as easy, i just want to move the picture around, is that too much to ask? anyway, nice shot huh? I think that's my first double bull, and i don't think i could get any closer to center than that. i won the first game, Console won the second, and after trivia we played teams, me and Console against her boyfriend and his friend. We were winning almost the entire time then it came down to the bulls, like it always does. I hit another double, but we just couldn't close it and lost. barely though, we dominated until the end. I think sunday me and Console will finish out our current series of three. tonight we were back to the new, supposed regulation darts. i did pretty good in the first game. but those new darts man, they definitely take some getting used to.
my team did good in trivia tonight, we only missed like four questions. we swept the history & politics, geography, and music categories. for once the music clip answer was an artist i had seen in concert- joan jett (she opened for Aerosmith two years ago in Chicago). And, i was able to name all the countries that end in -stan... Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Kyrgestan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan. I own the geography category. Another question was name all the living former vice-presidents. There are five, four were really easy, and somehow i pulled walter mondale out of thin air for the fifth, i thought he was carter's vp but i wasn't sure... but it was right! and i knew the NFL combine was held in indianapolis, another answer out of nowhere. In fact, the only sports question we got wrong tonight was the soccer question, but to be fair even the pubtender who is a huge Manchester United fan (and it was a Manchester United question) got it wrong. So, in my opinion, if the british pubtender gets the soccer question wrong, it should be void. the highlight of the night was when he sang a patriotic english song in response to the answer being st. george's day for one of the questions (the question being what national holiday of britain did william shakespeare die on?). i don't know what song he sang, i think it was Jerusalem... it probably was. that's what is customarily sung on St. George's Day. I'm not sure though, all i know is that he sung it with incredible enthusiasm and i couldn't make out the words because of his thick accent. oh, and since i already put up one picture on this blog, why not make it two? In honor of my trivia team and a job well done tonight.
that picture makes me smile.
i just read on Yahoo! Sports that rumors are swirling that a certain old washed-up loser quarterback might come out of retirement (again) and play for the minnesota vikings. what an asshole. mr. indecisive... the way he's acted the past year and a half i completely understand all those picks he threw in his career.
ah, i'm not gonna let that get to me. even though i had countless posters and pictures of him on my wall as a kid, even though i owned his jersey since i was nine, even though i have his rookie card, an autographed football, and autographed card. even though he was my sports idol growing up... he holds no place in my current sports hero hall of fame. Right now it would include Michael Jordan, Ichiro Suzuki, Alexander Ovechkin, Randy Couture, Bart Starr, Kevin Seitzer (i know, random, but he was my favorite brewer as a kid, of course after...), Robin Yount, Bo Ryan, Muhammad Ali, Michael Phelps (i don't care if he smokes every now and then), Georges St-Pierre, Arnold Schwarzenegger (bodybuilders are athletes too), Oscar De La Hoya... and that's probably it. A few more minutes of racking my brain and I'm sure I could add to that list. Oh, yeah, and Tiger Woods and Lee Trevino (my golf coach used to call me Lee Trevino and said I reminded him of The Merry Mex, the dude won six majors so I'll take that compliment any day). Although, I think it had to do more with my sense of humor as opposed to my style of golf... again, i'll take that compliment too, Trevino was in Happy Gilmore.
that's it, off to bed, who am i kidding, i'm in bed. well, off the bed to put the laptop back on the desk and then back to bed to get some sleep.
salbrent
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