The New England Patriots have parted ways with 4th-year quarterback Matt Cassel, sending him, along with veteran linebacker Mike Vrabel to the Kansas City Chiefs for a 2nd-round draft pick. Moving Cassel like this wasn’t entirely surprising, as the QB showed incredible growth as a player last season while filling in for injured starter Tom [...]
Archive for February, 2009
There was lots of movement in the NFL today, as many teams are navigating the free agent waters to see which guys would potentially be a good fit for their teams. One of the biggest signings of the offseason is that of former Titans defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth, who reportedly signed with the Washington Redskins [...]
I’m one of those people who takes tons of photos with my digital camera. I almost always carry it with me, and end up using it to take candid snapshots of my family, friends, and pets nearly every single day. And yet I rarely ever print out the pictures and put them into albums so [...]
Ok, I’m not much of a superstitious person, but we all know the saying that tragedy/bad news comes in threes, right? Well, there was another commercial airlines plane crash today, making a total of three in the past month: U.S. Airways Flight 1549, Continental Connection Flight 3407, and today, Turkish Airlines Flight TK1951 came up [...]
The economy is still so bad that I’m really beginning to worry now. Prior to this, I honestly didn’t give it much thought because my family seems to be ok. We both still have our jobs and though our hours have been cut recently, we’ve been assured that this is just a temporary measure. We [...]
My son got sick on Friday, some kind of 24-hour bug thing that he must have picked up from kindergarten. He was up puking most of the night, poor thing, and of course I had to stay up to comfort him as best I could. He was still weak on Saturday, but at least the [...]
I just got done reading the book Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks. Yes, I know it was recently made into a film starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane, but I always prefer the original stories better than the adapted screenplays. Anyway, before reading the book, I kept wondering where Rodanthe was. I’d never heard [...]