Day 199

Friday and Saturday literally were two of the more disgusting weather days I have seen in ages. It never stopped raining. It hailed. It was sheets of rain and wind. I just wanted to stay on my couch and not move. The good thing was that it stopped for yesterday's Browns/Jets game. It was another 4:15 start - our third 4 PM game in a row at home, which is unheard of. I find them annoying. Its always colder, you dont get home until at least 8, and clearly you know I love falling asleep on the couch during the late games. Uncle Kenny on the other hand is a big proponant of the late game. He likes having a full day of activity before downing a scotch and heading down to the lake front. I'll say this about my uncle, he loves his Browns. To him, its like its still the 1986 season and we are contenders. He is getting as riled up like we are 5-2, not 2-5. He is still old school - brings his newspaper folded in half so he can have the rosters of both teams at his finger tips. He loves the power running game and had nosed defensive football. You want to know who should be the new offensive coordinator? My uncle. Nobody is more thought out than he is. So in the meantime, the Browns won 20-13, but it wasn't for a lack of trying to hand the game over to the Jets. We may have won, but it felt like we lost the way the 4th quarter went. Browns fans can also thank the officials for handing us the game and Chris Baker's last minute TD on 4th down was ruled out of bounds. Everyone, including Browns coach Romeo Crennel knew the Browns got away with one. I still love going to games, as bad as we are, but its just not the same and never will be. To make matters worse, not being there with my dad will never be lost on me. I'm glad mom and I are always there together though. Its good for both of us.

As for my beautiful and talented wife Leah, she has started a job. My cousin's husband Steve owns a scrap metal company that has an office in Solon. They had some one quit on them and were looking for someone to work in their office doing some filing, etc. It is perfect for her right now. She is making her own schedule, working essentially 10-2 everyday, some days 8-12, others 1-5. The office is in Solon, about 10 minutes from our house. Its casual dress, and she can make it into a full time or part time job potentially after the baby is born. I cannot thank them enough for thinking of her when the opportunity arose.

I think this is last week's news, but I have to mention it anyways. How about that fat, bloated, windbag Rush Limbaugh? You may or may not have seen it, but there is a political commercial making the rounds that has Michael J. Fox talking about the need for stem cell research to help future suffers of Parkinson's disease, which he is currently suffering from. In the ad, he is shaking quite a bit and it is so sad to watch. This slob loser Rush Limbaugh has the audacity to go on the air and say that Fox was "exaggerating" the shaking for sake of the commercial and that he has seen Fox in person and "he wasn't that bad." Now I am all for freedom of speech, but is this guy kidding? Do you think he wants to shake that way and have no control over it? Not likely. Limbaugh has only been in the news in the past few years for negative things including his Oxycontin addiction and pill smuggling, his "the media overrates Eagles QB Donovan McNabb because they are desrious that a black QB do well" comment and subsequent firing after 2 weeks from ESPN, and now this. Again, I'm all for free speech, but he crossed the line. My mom and I were talking about this last night. I just don't understand the conservative way of life. These people that are so anti-gay marriage make zero sense to me. Who cares! If two gay people want to get married, more power to them. Its 2006 and too many people in this country still think its 1956. I don't get the need to have rifles and handguns. The Conservative's and their "family values" bullshit is such a load of crap. They couldn't throw Mark Foley off of their bus fast enough. All of these pederass priests out there that have been molesting young boys for years, they are all conservatives who vote one way and one way only - like its 1956. How hypocritical.

I'm sure nobody out there other than me, Leah, and Sheri, is watching Friday Night Lights on NBC, but it is a solid show. It's taken from the 1988 best seller and 2004 movie by the same name. Tonight it is on at 10 PM, special night and time. Peep it if you aren't into to the Monday Night game or another one of our shows, What About Brian" on ABC. Speaking of TV, Its not appointment television for me, but why am I so intrigued by is Deal or No Deal. There is nothing to it, it is all luck, the premise is dumb, yet if I flip it on, I always end up watching it. This show is more proof of what a nation of greedy people we are. Too many regular people are passing up a guaranteed $175,000 because they think they can get more and end up getting screwed. But that is what makes the show so funny to me. Plenty of people are telling me that I should be watching The Office on NBC, but I'm not into it. We are still watching The Nine, Studio 60 (which is getting worse every week and I don't think will make it), The Dual on MTV (why I am still into these former Real World and Road Rules people, I have no idea), and Dallas reruns. I know, I know. But hey, at least I don't watch Dancing with the Stars.

As I mentioned in the last blog, I cannot stand the song "Hang of Sloopy" because of that stupid O-H-I-O chant. True to form, they played it at the Browns game yesterday and the crowd went nuts. Everyone except for me and the Michigan grads in the stands.

Thursday I will have a full report on our first Halloween experience in Orangewood. We have been told to be ready for 3 hours of constant kids at the door.

Song of the Day: "Keep Your Head Up" by 2Pac