General Nonsense

I feel as if I have lost the urge to blog. I dunno, maybe I just don’t have anything important to say these days. Although, let’s be honest, when did I ever. Check the archives, there really isn’t anything groundbreaking there. I really should get back to posting more. I’m not sure what to say.

I pretty much hate watching the Eagles anymore. Watching yet another year of crap and horrible offense piled on top of shockingly mediocre defense is really getting to me. Watching big Andy Reid talk about how “we have to improve” and how he has to call better plays year after year is driving me nuts. The Eagles offense never changes, it never evolves, it just continues to suck when it is needed most. They are terrible in the clutch.

The Bills went 4-0 before exploding to the Cardinals. 4 and freaking 0. The Buffalo Freaking Bills. They are basically at the top of the AFC and still the Eagles fart along at the end of the pack. Oh well.

The Flyers are just getting their season underway and really, I can’t honestly say I am hopeful. The head office has made some changes, but nothing super dramatically different happened from last year. No big signings, no major changes. I can’t see the team getting that extra push it needs with signing cheap has-beens or even cheaper never-were players.

Penn State is 6-0 and ranked #6 in the country. So far, they haven’t (in my opinion) played any teams that have really tested them. That’s coming up though, I promise you.

The Soul won the Arena Bowl. Holy freaking crap. Although that still doesn’t make Philly a championship city. I think I am one of the few people I know that even cares about the Arena League.

The Phils have made it to the post-season this year. They look to be playing pretty strong, but I’m sure it is only a matter of time before they too rip my heart out and stomp on it. Give it time, it’s there.

Lastly, work kinda sucks. The whole “lets buy Macs” thing is really starting to burn me. They just don’t work the way we need them to. They aren’t lasting and/or taking the abuse that high school kids and teachers (more teachers it seems) dish out. But that’s what happens when truly uninformed people make truly uninformed decisions. I can hardly wait until their warranties expire, because that alone may drive our budget into the hole. So far out of about 450 MacBooks, we have had to replace 6 hard drives, 3 motherboards, 3 wireless cards, and over 120 batteries. I only say over 120 because at this point we have totally lost count. Add all that up and I would have to say that I am not impressed. Don’t even get me started on the supposed super friendly and even more super helpful Apple tech support. In a nutshell, it doesn’t exist.

Done!

Richard Wright

Richard Wright (born July 28, 1943) died today after a short struggle with cancer. If you don’t know who Richard Wright is, SHAME ON YOU. He was one of the founding members of one of the greatest bands of all time, Pink Floyd.

Richard wrote The Great Gig In The Sky and Us And Them from The Dark Side Of The Moon, among many other great Pink Floyd songs…

The Wachovia Spectrum

The official word came out today, the Spectrum will be closed and demolished sometime next year. I believe the plans are to build “Philly Live!, a destination retail, dining and entertainment district.”

I’ve been to quite a few games at the Spectrum, and it certainly did have “character.” Let’s hope they will sell the seats to fans like they did with the old Vet, I could really use another pair…

Wow, it has been a long time. Everything is pretty much running status quo. Same old same old as they say. Emily is doing great and has now started day care, which means I am in charge of transportation since the daycare is right across the street from my office.

I also bought a set of golf clubs in the hopes of fiddling around on the links. I need to start out at the driving range and get a bit of consistency before I actually go and play a round. I just need to find the time I guess.

We still have plenty of projects to finish at the house, but I don’t see the need to hurry to get them done. Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow.

I was talking with one of my neighbors the other day. We like to shoot the breeze once and a while. Not about anything specific, just chewing the fat. Anyway. Out of the blue, he asked if I was a sports fan.

Heh. What?

“I thought so. A few weeks ago I heard you screaming at the top of your lungs, yelling YEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH.”

Whoops. I’m sure he has heard far worse then “YEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH” considering the Flyers were wiped out of the playoffs. Oh well, they are just words…

The Stanley Cup Finals are off to a great start this year. To be honest, I really hate both teams. I’ve always hated the Detroit Red Wings. I hate the Pittsburgh Penguins even worse, mainly because of their star kid Sidney Crosby. Let me get some stuff out of the way first. I think Sid The Kid is extremely talented. I think he is one of the best players in the league and will be for a long, long time.

However. The kid needs to grow up and learn to be a man. By default, I am required to hate him. That’s how us Flyers fans are. But us fans can only take the diving and complaining and crying so long. This only continued in last nights game 2. If you saw the game, you saw Sid pull a ref over to the Pen’s bench and whine and complain about god knows what. You would think that the Pen’s coach Therrien would be used to complaining. He apparently wasn’t used to it, because he took the time to do some whining of his own:

It’s really tough to generate offense with that team. They’re good at obstruction. It’s going to be real tough. If the rules don’t change, they’re just good at obstruction.

He then had the nerve to call Detroit’s goalie Chris Osgood “a good actor and diver.” That really is too funny…