I had my fantasy football draft last night and I’m fairly happy with the team I’ve put together. I didn’t get the quarterback I wanted, but I think I’m fairly well off at other positions. My marquee player this year is Frank Gore, so hopefully his broken hand will be all healed up by the [...]
Archive for August, 2007
There was a widely bruited-about statistic reported last week, stating that 1 in 4 Americans did not read a single book last year. Clearly, we don’t fall into that category, but . . . how many of our friends do? Do you have friends/family who read as much as you do? Or are you the [...]
I was looking through some old posts on this blog in an effort to clean up dead links and so forth when I noticed a recurring theme. I’ve made tons of posts detailing things that I want to do (these serve as more of a reminder to myself than anything you readers would really be [...]
I’ve got my fantasy football draft tonight, so I’m going to try to set aside about an hour or so later on this afternoon in order to go through the various injury reports and player projections. I haven’t prepared at all for this draft and since there are a whopping 14 teams in the league [...]
The White Sox have been cellar-dwellers in the AL Central nearly all season, so it’s no surprise that the team is already looking ahead to next year. Towards that end, they recently named seven players from their farm system who will participate in the Arizona Fall League. Donny Lucy (catcher), Chris Getz (infielder), and pitchers [...]
Bears linebacker Lance Briggs was charged with leaving the scene of an accident (a misdemeanor) yesterday after he met with police in connection with an abandoned Lamborghini. The car is reportedly worth $350,000 and Briggs allegedly left it on the side of a highway after crashing it into a light pole. According to Briggs, he [...]
My husband and I eat at restaurants far too often. We go to cheaper restaurants like the Chinese buffet (our favorite; less than $10 per person for dinner) at least once a week and we go to more expensive places like Outback or TGI Friday’s a couple times per month. We spend a lot of [...]