Once upon a time in a land far away a beautiful, independent, self-assured princess happened upon a frog as she sat contemplating ecological issues on the shores of an unpolluted pond in a verdant meadow near her castle. The frog hopped into the princess' lap and said, "Elegant lady, I was once a handsome prince, until an evil witch cast a spell upon me. One kiss from you, however, and I will turn back into the dapper, young prince that I am and then, my sweet, we can marry and set up housekeeping in your castle with my mother, where you can prepare my meals, clean my clothes, bear my children, and forever feel grateful and happy doing so." That night, as the princess dined sumptuously on lightly sauteed frog legs seasoned in a white wine and onion cream sauce, she chuckled and thought to herself, "I don't fuckin' think so."
Hey there friends. I am beat. I haven't had a chance to do a quality post in sometime. Work has been crazy, no time to do shit there cause, well, I'm working hard. lol Then we had one of our more busier 3 days in awhile. On Friday, we went out to my wife's cuz's B day party. My wife started to feel sick but we decided to go anyways. It began to get a little cold and not to mention a little windy so we left soon after. I believe this is when my wife got sick.
On Saturday, we had 2 birthday parties to attend. After some thorough thinking and noticing that my wife is now sick, we decided to go to only one of the parties. I think that we both would of prefered to stay home since we were both sick, her more so than I, but we went because it was our soon to be goddaughter's B day and we couldn't disappoint. My cuz was also having a B day party that evening but we sratched that one too. At the B day party, the kids played games and we hung out with some of my old friends from back in the day and it was pretty cool. I had to get on a roof to help with the "pinyata" (spelled that way cause I have no idea how to put that "~" over the n). I'm not big on heights. I can get on roller coasters and what not, but that's because I know that I'm securely strapped in. On a roof, if you slip, that's your ass on the floor so I had to not look over the edge or be real careful with my footing. And then to top it off, I needed to get the "unsafe" part of the roof, which was not flat and all angled, and need to tug away at the rope so that I can give the pinyata lift. lol The night ended with a friend of mine teaching my wife a new "salsa move" so that we can hear about an embarrassing moment in his life. Trust me, this guy has many an embarrassing moment so this was meant to be good if he swore his sister to not tell a soul. lol I'll write about those moments some other time. lol We heard the story, had a few laughs, then headed home.
Tired, we got up Sunday morning, rushing to get dressed. Sunday we were to baptize our soon to be goddaugher. I missed football Sunday, entirely! What a waste of NFL ticket!!! lol It was good cause though, but still... No football!!!! I only got to see the first half the Raider game. We were kicking ass and looking somewhat empressive over a Bills team that looked pretty good the two previous weeks. Anyways, we got to driving over to get our goddaughter ready. We gave her a bath and got her all suited up. I have pics, but I don't have them with me, I can't post. I'll get to it when I get home. We soon then jumpped in the car and off we went to the church. While driving thtough the streets of Downtown Los Angeles, I get a text message that the Raiders lost on a last second fieldgoal. NO!!!! I pound on the steering wheel in disappointment. lol So while at church, we could not understand the priest what so ever. I mean, you can hear the guy, but I just could no understand the words that were coming out of his mouth. We finally got through the sacrement, and we heading out to eat with my comadre and compadre and my compare's mother. We walked around Olvera St and settled in on a place. We chowed down and off we went, on seperate ways.
We finally got home and started to relax. By then, Sunday night football was over... We finally had a chance to just settle down and relax some. I gave my wife a good, long rub down and shortly thereafter, drifted to sleep. Long three day weekend for us. All in all, it was good, but it could've been better if we weren't sick. Last thing we need to get any of our friends or goddaughter sick. I think we're just going to go home and take a nap. lol Let our bodies rest up some. Later!
Hey there. I'm sure that we've all experienced computer problems before. Whether they happen at work or at home, you just can't seem to avoid them. Just the other day, my boss, my wife and I spent almost two hours revising and evaluating our company's policy and procedures when it happened. Microsoft word stopped responding! We waiting a few minutes hoping that it will respond and all will be good but it wasn't meant to be. All of our hard word work gone. Even though we saved our document, "in case something happened", our changes were nowhere to be found. What a frustrating moment that was. Our IT guys were useless and my boss, not being very computer savvy, was ready to toss the machine out the window.
While at home, my wife and I discussed the incident at work. We knew that we had to go back and tackle that task again. While working on our personal laptop, I realized that we have not had any issues whatsoever with Windows Vista. The computers at work run on Windows XP. Compared to Vista, they seem to be slow and less responsive to multi tasking. I always have spreadsheets, word docs, and online applications going on all at once at work and it's freustrating when one application won't respond. While working at home, under Windows Vista, I have yet to have that issue.
I suggested to the boss that it would be a step forward to upgrade to Windows Vista. Since it's more productive and efficient than XP, it will save the company time and money. Not to mention that it also comes with a Windows Backup and Restore Center! I've made the pitch to him, hitting home the points of free customer support and assistance. He seemed to like the idea and will pitch it to his boss. I've grown weary of having to wait for applications to respond. Hopefully, we'll be running Vista Small Business or Vista Ultimate real soon. Later.
Hey there. Football Sunday was not as well as last Sunday. Not because of football. I caught some pretty good games and all, but because I woke up that morning feeling like crap. Head pounding, body aching, and my nose a runnin'. I plopped myself on the couch, covered with a blanket, and just lied there watching my Raiders kick some Chief ass. I tuned back and forth between the Raider game, the Indy game, and the Saints game. Keeping to my Raider loyalty, I always select a few players from the Raiders to be on my fantasy team. This year, I have their defence, kicker, JaMarcus (backup), and their Miller, their tight end. I don't expect JaMarcus to put up big numbers because of the run game, so I expect that Miller would be big for the passing game, catching many short passes. So far, it hasn't happened. Also, word on the street is that the coach Lane Kiffin may be on his way out. Dude can be fired as early as today. We'll wait and see what's up with that.
As for Indy, Peyton, you're supposed to be my cream and butter, man. You only scored me a measly 9 pts or so. I expected Manning to post 20+ pts a game for us fantasy players, but again, many of us expected Brady to do the same and that ain't happening either. Even though they came up with a win on some last second heroics, their game was completely put off by the inexperience of their O-line. Ugoh got hurt and that was that... Saturday was out, Clark was out (also my fantasy team. Waiting for him to get healthy since I know he's a better TE than the young Miller)and now Ugoh. Pass rushers were all over Manning, pressuring him to toss 2 INTs in a mediocre game for Manning. Get it together guys.
I kept tabs on the Saints game because I have Reggie on my team. Didn't get much out of him this week. He had a great game last week but not this time around. I'm glad that they're using him more in the passing game. With his explosiveness (which we saw glimpse of in Week 1) he should be able to break a tackle or two for some big yardage. The Skins, however, relatively kept him in check. I'm surprised that they came up with the victory. Saints D couldn't stop them on a critical 3rd down conversion late in the game and that was that.
As those games ended, me feeling more like crap, the afternoon games started. Brett Favre and the Jets up against the Bradyless Bradys, I mean Pats. On the other channel, Denver and the Bolts. Had to keep an eye on the AFC West rivals. I saw more of the Denver game since it was more enticing. The Pats game had a relatively slow tempo to it while the other was basically a shootout. It wasn't with some controversy too. In the red zone, with SD looking to score, their WR caught the ball and when he hit the floor, the ball came loose. For all of us football fans, we know that if the ball comes loose because of the ground, the player is down. Well, they ruled it a fumble, Denver recovers, and even though the Bolts challenged it, the "replay equipment was not functioning" so the play had to stand as called. Denver makes em pay scoring a TD on that drive. Fast forward, late in the game, Denver is driving, now in the red zone looking to score. Cutler breaks to his right, cocks his arm for the throw, but what's this?!?!?!! It slips out of his hands, SD recovers the fumble with less than 2 mins left and SD up by 7. Game over!!! NOT!!! Refs blew the whistle once the ball his the ground, the play being called an incomplete pass. The weird thing about it is that Denver was at the 2 or 3 yard line when Cutler fumbled, but the refs placed the ball on the 10 yard line. What the hell is that? Denver ended up scoring and went for 2 instead of trying. Guess they were leaving it up the football gods to see if they really deserved to win. The gods answered, and Denver converted, winning the game by one. Check out the highlight reel of the fumble below:
At this point, I knocked out. My daughter snuggled up by me and we took a nap. Didn't even see the Cleveland game so I don't know how that turned out. Now, I'm here at work, coughing away, still feeling like crap. Hopefully, I'll be sent home, doubt it though. Took some dayquil that my mother in law gave to me. Hope it makes the headache subdue in time to enjoy the Dallas - Philly game. The surging McNabb against the sexy pick Dallas should be a good one. Take care, friends and catch you guys later.
