Bulldogs win!

Holy Crap.. the UMD BULLDOGS Men's team actually won a game.. beating Alaska Anchorage 7-3 up in Alaska...

Vikings playing in Chicago......

Earlier in the season, the VIKINGS almost beat the Chicago Bears, losing only 19-16 back in week 3. They've been bad the last 6 weeks, just barely beating Arizona.... but.. I'll be watching at least until the game gets out of hand. Hopefully Rex Grossman's season keeps going downhill at least through the game

Sea World Whale Injures Trainer

This article's the talk of the Internet today... a Sea World killer whale took it's trainer underwater twice during a show. This version is from Mediacom's news page:

A trainer at SeaWorld Adventure Park remained hospitalized Thursday after a killer whale grabbed him and twice held him underwater during a show, officials said.

The trainer was in fair condition at the University of California, San Diego, Medical Center, nursing supervisor Denise Thompson said. Ken Peters, 39, was "resting comfortably," SeaWorld San Diego spokesman Dave Koontz said.

Koontz did not know the extent of Peters' injuries and the hospital declined to release details.

Peters was hurt around 5 p.m. Wednesday during the final show of the day at Shamu Stadium, a 36-foot-deep tank.

The show's finale called for a female orca named Kasatka to shoot out of the water so Peters could dive off her nose. The whale is about 17 feet long and weighs well over 5,000 pounds.

As several hundred spectators watched, the whale and trainer plunged underwater, where Kasatka grabbed Peters by the foot and held him for less than a minute before surfacing, Koontz said.

"The trainer was being pinned by the whale at the bottom of the pool," Karen Ingrande told KGTV-TV.

When they came up, Peters tried to calm the animal by rubbing and stroking its back but it grabbed him and plunged down again for about another minute.

The crowd "began to realize there was not something right and the whale was down again under the water. Again they were splashing the water to try to get the whale to come to the surface," Ingrande said.

The whale finally released him and Peters was able to surface and swim away. Other trainers stretched a net between him and Kasatka, Koontz said.

He emerged from the tank with one leg of his wet suit torn.

"He tried to stand up on the stage and that's when we realized there was something wrong with his leg and his foot. He was just white as a ghost," spectator Sherri Justice told KFMB-TV in San Diego.

Mike Scarpuzzi, who oversees zoological operations, said Peters has been working with animals for 16 years, including 12 spent at Shamu Stadium.

"His skills and techniques, and close relationship with the whale played a major role in helping the animal calm down and allowed him to eventually swim out of the pool," Scarpuzzi said.

The park planned to continue the Shamu Stadium shows Thursday using other whales. The park has a total of seven killer whales, including two of Kasatka's offspring, Koontz said.

He did not know whether Kasatka would be allowed to perform.

Koontz said trainers from the San Diego park and sister parks in San Antonio and Orlando, Fla., planned to confer Thursday and review the incident in an effort to figure out what made the orca grab Peters.

Koontz said the 30-year-old orca had been performing most of her life and was familiar with the routine.

"She's been one of our strongest, most consistent performers," he said.

Koontz said a different whale dived with a trainer's foot in its mouth two or three weeks ago but obeyed commands to release the trainer and return to the side of the tank. The trainer was not injured.

SeaWorld officials reported in 1999 that Kasatka tried to bite a trainer during a show, but he was unhurt.

I'm not sure anyone really knows why it happened but I'm sure we'll find out soon why they think it happened.

DAMN it's cold

Damn it's COLD here... without any snow on the ground it seems to feel even colder for whatever reason! I may have blogged before that winter was here.. but **NOW** it really is!

Winter's finally here, It's COLD anyway

Winter's here.. as far as temperatures go. Yesterday it was freezing rain that slowed the temperature on the interstate from 70 to 35-40 at the fastest. 45+ minute home instead of the normal 20.

We're finally to the point where it won't get much warmer than 20 again until March I think... but.. if I could guess the weather temperature I'd be better than the weathermen.

They're still not forcasting much snow at all though, it'll probably be a really bare winter and more of a "brown" christmas than white christmas.

Survivor Series, predictable but not THAT bad.

The Survivor Series PPV last night was definitely predictable, though it wasn't totally bad or anything.

In keeping with the random thoughts title of the blog(for once):

It was obvious that Ric Flair would end up finishing his match and winning, but getting beat up by 5 guys after wasn't as easily seen beforehand.

The UMAGA thing was stupid.. get yourself DQ'd and be done rather than dominate the match and give your character more legitimacy.

John Cena FU'ing (a fireman's carry into a "side slam") the 520+ lb Big Show was great. Every time he gets to do that it gets better.

It's great to see Jeff and Matt (used to be Matt and Jeff) Hardy together as a tag team, at least as long as they let it last on TV. I think they're supposed to be on the ECW PPV next week.

It was great to see BOOKER T (King Booger) lose his title finally.. but damn.. can't the guy EVER lose clean without some sort of weapon etc taking him out? Booker as himself rather than "king" is a much better character, whether he's a heal or face.

Check out my eBay store!

I've opened an eBay store again, this time permanent I think, to sell sports trading cards and other items that I might get from consignment customers to sell bulk.

I'll still obviously still put auctions up as well, since that's what the eBay consignment business is about :)

Check out the *STORE*

WWE Survivor Series tonight!

WWE's Survivor Series PPV is tonight! They're going back to most of the old style Survivor Series elimination matches so this PPV should be really good!

My favorite match to look forward to is Ric Flair (captain)-Dusty Rhodes-Sgt. Slaughter -Ron Simmons vs. Kenny (captain), Johnny, Nicky & Mikey (aka the spirit fags).

Minnesotan who won Powerball sitting on their ticket?

This is weird.. the NEWS TRIBUNE today has an article about someone who won $47 Million of a $94 Million powerball jackpot not claiming their money yet. It's been 3 weeks since the drawing and the moron (MY choice of words) hasn't claimed their portion. WTF? Unless they're already a big millionaire why would you sit on a ticket worth that much?

Hopefully it's just someone who has no clue they won... but that could mean the ticket will never be claimed.

Some of the possibilities are:

Clint Harris, the state lottery’s executive director, is eager to award the Powerball jackpot — the first since his 2004 hiring.

“Maybe they’re waiting because they don’t want to impact their taxes this year,” he said Wednesday. “Maybe someone’s talking to a tax attorney or financial planner. Maybe the ticket is sitting behind a magnet on someone’s refrigerator and they just forgot about it. Or maybe it’s lost. All those possibilities are there.”

I know *I* didn't win nor did I buy any powerball tickets that day.

I've been buying $5 of 'Hot Lotto' myself since it's at something around $14 million(a record high easily) and hasn't been won in weeks. It's supposed to be easier to win because there's not as many states playing... but.. noone's won in a long time

Christmas Shopping? I don't think so

I went and bought a newspaper just to see the "big sales" for what is called "black Friday." Nothing stood out as a superb deal really. I might actually go visit some of the companies on MY WEBSITE to do my Christmas shopping. Most of the places that are selling stuff are offering gift cards to be used online OR in stores if there is an available store.

The Internet's just so much easier than dealing with the huge crowds of people, and parking at the mall.

Justin Morneau American League MVP

Congratulations to JUSTIN MORNEAU, the American League Most Valuable Player! It's amazing also that Joe Mauer and Johan Santana were in the top 7 in voting for the same award!

Even though the Twins didn't make their playoff run last, they had a huge 2nd half of the season winning the American League Central on the last day of the season. I think they just ran out of gas at the end.

GO TWINS!

Fox News Finally Gets Smart

Fox News **FINALLY** got smart and cancelled the OJ Simpson bullshit they were going to air next week titled 'If I Did It.' DUH.. *IF?????*

The moron Simpson on foxnews.com said

Simpson told The Associated Press in a phone interview late Monday he could not comment on the situation "until I know legally where I stand."

He added, "I would like nothing better than to straighten out some things that have been mischaracterized. But I think I'm legally muzzled at this point."

Screw the PS3 anyway

Screw the PS3.... I have the original X-box (before the 360) and I'll keep that instead. When they stop putting out games for the X-box, maybe I'll invest in a 360, but no thanks SONY.. you don't produce enough of the machines, so you can raise the price to amazingly high amounts for a video game system.

So much for the Duluth Nationals

I've never *BEEN to the Duluth National Snocross, but I don't suspect it will actually be happening this year. It's scheduled for the Friday/Saturday/Sunday after thanksgiving and we have no snow. They can MAKE snow on the hill etc but not when the daily forecast this week is this:



40 degrees and sunny may be nice for us all.. but not for them. Oh well, I guess ESPN will just have to stay home for Thanksgiving.

Cardboard Heroes

Playing basketball

Somehow, after 8 months, I managed to play 2 hours of basketball without collapsing from exhaustion on the court/floor. Waking up in the morning might make it a little tough to walk up the stairs to the kitchen but.. oh well :)

Went to Quiznos after playing. The first time they put my Prime Rib "steak & cheese" through .. they burned the bread.. so they put another bread through to replace that and put the meat/cheese on that.. first time I'd had the Prime Rib sub and holy shit it's GOOOOOOOOOD!

Jamie's Great Italian Escape

Jamie Oliver, host from some Food Network shows, and the British cooking star from "Channel 4" in England, has a great show on the Travel Channel, called Jamie's Great Italian Escape. He's traveling the "underbelly" of Italy learning to cook his favorite food from the start. 4 episodes were on tonight, and there are 6 total episodes in this series. The episodes aired originally in england back in October '05.

Jamie's WEBSITE profiles the show perfectly...

After the school dinners project I needed a break. I've always loved Italy and for ages have wanted to travel around the country to get inspired again by the food and the people. So I set off with my VW camper van and a specially-built trailer kitchen on the back of it so I could cook wherever I pitched up!

I had a great time exploring the delights of the busy night markets in Palermo, entering pasta making competitions with the mammas in the small mountain community in Le Marche and injecting some enthusiasm into cooking for the Benedictine community North of Rome.

O.J. Simpson on Fox News?? How he would have killed his wife

This article on fox news says they're going to broadcast an internet the end of the month, with O.J. telling how *HE* would have killed his wife had he been the killer. WTF?!?!?

Blog, trade links?

To anyone who actually comes and reads, if you'd like your blog listed on the left side where I've listed blogs I read, leave a comment here and I'll add your blog to that list.

Britney Spears sex tape?

While 2257 laws in THIS country may make the video a foreign market thing, who *DIDN'T* know Britney Spears/K-Fed made a sex tape? If you were married to her and fucking her, wouldn't you have taped it? You would know the marriage wouldn't last *that* long so you'd want proof, or maybe even $$ sometime.

Boston Herald Article about K-Fed threatening to sell the tape.

It's snowing

It's only light, small amounts, but it has snowed a little finally. The forecast is for warm weather though, so I know it won't be white after around noon. It still at least LOOKS a little like the season.

Get firefox, it's better than IE

Bloggers help files say that 71% of bloggers still use Internet Explorer. WHY? Internet Explorer contains multiple bugs and security errors that can allow people into your computer. Their stats say that only around 6% actually use FIREFOX. I would have imagined that many more would be using FIREFOX for their web browsing. It's a MUCH better program than IE ever has been.

Go download Firefox and give it a try!

Minnesota Vikings STINK!

The Vikings played like crap and lost to the Packers today, at the Metrodome. This season's basically over as far as a shot at the playoffs now. As soon as Tarvaris Jackson is 100% healthy from a small knee injury I think he needs to start a game or two to see what he can do.

Simply Potatoes... yum

I know they've been around a long time, but this is one of the best things in the grocery store.


... Simply Potatoes is a ton better than frozen crappy hash brown squares. I like to make a 1 egg hash brown omelette with them a lot of the time by just frying some of the hash browns and pouring a beaten egg over the top. Sometimes I won't be lazy and I'll actually add ham and stuff to it also, and use 2 eggs.. then ya gotta finish it in the oven though or it'll spill when ya flip it.

search box :)

Just a quick reminder that you can go to the bottom of any blog page and use the search box to find either stuff ON the blog, or stuff on the internet with GOOGLE. Just use the little bubble and choose the blog, OR on GOOGLE and find the information you want that way. :)

"Stone Cold" Steve Austin movie this spring

Steve Austin, aka the Rattlesnake, aka Stone Cold, has a new movie coming out this spring called The Condemned.

IMDB's film/plot description:

"The Condemned" tells the story of Joe Conrad (Stone Cold Steve Austin), who is awaiting the death penalty in a corrupt Central American prison. He is "purchased" by a wealthy television producer and taken to a desolate island where he must fight to the death against nine other condemned killers from all corners of the world, with freedom going to the sole survivor.

WWE.com announced the new movie on their website HERE

You Tube Funny Accidents

I'm bored, so I thought I'd put a couple youtube videos up

First is a greek motorcycle rider getting hit through a red light


Second is a snowmobiler not getting enough air.


Third is a dumbass snowmobile racer

Spears drops K-Fed, Fed Ex jokes

This shit's funny, Britney Spears dumps K-Fed as his cd is barely selling (released on Halloween), and while he's making an ass of himself on WWE Raw.

The Fed-Ex jokes have been really funny too.

From the Fox News article (click on blog title):

He had to cancel a concert this week at a House of Blues in Cleveland, Greenblatt said, because of low ticket sales. He played to a nearly empty house at New York City's Webster Hall last weekend.

Maybe now this moron will figure out he's a nobody just like millions of us around the country.

By the way K-Fed, get a better webhost or webmaster, I tried going to his website and it took 3 minutes to load just the front page intro with his initials on it. THe website's as lame as what he calls a career.

Oh well ... voting still works even if your guy loses

It turns out, a few of the people I voted for didn't win.... oh well :) I can still complain since I voted..right? The Governor election was close, but Pawlenty managed to win anyway so we've got 4 more years of not existing in northern MInnesota. We'll see what he does when it comes to the DECC arena in Duluth. He's already "promised" to make sure the money shows up in 2007, but we'll see.

Ksex Radio

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MMMMM Baked Beans

Today I actually made baked beans like Grandma used to when she was alive. I mixed brown sugar, molasses, liquid smoke, garlic powder(*NOT* SALT), ketchup,Famous Dave's 'sassy' bbq sauce, 1 large onion, 5 cans of Van Camps baked beans, and all but 4 slices of bacon from 1/2 lb of thick cut bacon. After I mixed it all together I put it in a baking dish and laid the other 4 slices of bacon over the top and baked at 250 for 3 hours then 300 for half hour. The whole house smells great and it realllly tastes good as well.

Being a guy, I do *NOT* measure my ingredients.. I taste as I go instead of measuring and writing ingredients down. YUMMMMMMY(haha)

Election day

My ballot was the 454th one entered at my polling place, as per their machine that you insert the ballot in and counts the number. Maybe the number changes, but on the counter I was 454.

Google ads

Someone told me they didn't know what a google ad was, so today, I changed the colors of them so people actually notice them. If you have a blog and don't know how to do such things... it's simple, as long as you know something about Google and a little bit of html.

The site I actually use for HTML colors is HERE. I've used it for a couple years now and as long as it's online I'll continue to use it.

One good place for help with google ads (if you want to make a little money on your blog, go read this blog

That site has good information on setting up your blog in the old format.. I'm right now searching for ways to modify a beta blogspot layout (they dont' call it a template in the beta.)

EA Sports NHL 07 SUCKS

This game started our being fun as per my blog entry that it was fun. Well, playing at MEDIUM skill level it started to become boring when I'd win games 20-10. Hockey games are *NOT* won 20-10 in real life. I tried the game on difficult and won a couple.. but now.. it's fucking PATHETIC. Every body check (even with penalties turned down) or if I take a shot and try to hit the rebound results in a penalty.

The computer teams now just ice the puck and no matter what team I play as.. skate their forwards down and beat out the icing and take control. The game doesn't even let you kill off 50% of penalties.. I just played and lost 15-10 and gave up 6 powerplay goals on 7 attempts. Not to mention going ON the powerplay myself, when they ice the puck their players are able to go GET the puck and score short handed. The goaltenders are terrible on this game as well. I used to really like the EA sports NHL franchises but after playing 18 games of this "season" it's starting to seem stupid.

You used to be able to bat rebounds into the net but now.. your damn player dives to the ice and swings his stick around.... the deek moves are terrible as well. Like the other years, you can occassionaly score from your own blue line or farther back as well. I also did some checking during game play, and the PENALTY clock moves 1 second SLOWER than the game clock. I gave up a powerplay goal 2 minutes 43 seconds AFTER a 2 minute penalty should have expired, thanks to being able to look at the game summary and sort between goals and penalties.

I guess I'll have to go back to MEDIUM skill level and win all the games easy, because difficult is impossible when the computer players skate 3 x's faster than yours.

Don't forget to vote!

If you read this on Monday, November 6th, DON'T FORGET TO VOTE Tomorrow! :) As always, if you don't vote, you can't complain.

WWE Cyber Sunday stink, stank, stunk

WWE's PPV Cyber Sunday was last night, and it stunk. It was maybe as good as a regular Monday Night RAW at best.

Umaga vs Kane again? I know this is supposedly what the fans who voted PICKED, but how are they going to prove that the fans actually picked? When are they going to end Umaga's (aka Jamall from 3 minute warning) 'winning streak?' It's getting old...fast!

The Texas Tornado tag team match was also a joke, since it wasn't a real Texas tornado match. In a Texas Tornado match, yes, all men are in the ring, and BOTH have to be pinned to be knocked out of the match. The definition on Urban Dictionary fits best what a bunch of us were talking about on Paltalk when the match was going on

In a texas tornado match, both members of each tag team are allowed in the ring. Essential, you have 4 wrestlers and 1 referee in the ring. In order to win, BOTH members of the opposing team have to be pinned or made to submit or disqualified or counted out.

The Jeff Hardy vs Carlito match wasn't that bad, but you knew Jeff was going to win before they even started the match.

The DX/Bischoff stuff also was obvious, and more than likely will set up having Bischoff on tv as the leader of the "new" NWO with Orton and Edge, and who knows who else.

The only real good thing of the night is the dismantling of the gay 'Spirit Squad' as the tag team champions. Even if the combined age of the new tag champs is over 100, it was over 120 before when "any of the 5 spirit squad members can defend the title."

Worst moment of the night is Kevin Federline on yet another WWE show....His cd must REALLY suck that bad to need the money from WWE.

I'm glad I didn't PAY for the stupid PPV anyway, and no, this blog isn't a wrestling blog, just an every once in a while thing that I'll mention wrestling :)

Firefox Browser

Just reminding people that Firefox is the best way to view most if not all blogspot blogs. Firefox's popup blocker works better than anything from Internet Explorer or running an extra program.

Wally Dupuis for Carlton County Sheriff

The News Tribune on November 2nd profiled the 2 candidates for Carlton County Sheriff. Below is the Wally Dupuis information.

Dupuis, 48, is director of law enforcement on the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation. He has 19 years in law enforcement, including eight years as a patrol officer and detective with Cloquet police, as well as experience with the Scanlon police and as a conservation officer.

“My experience is with the community of Fond du Lac and understanding the diversity of these people out here,” Dupuis said. He added that one of his strengths is the ability to relate to common folks.

“I worked in a factory for 10 years; I was a construction worker. I think that’s important stuff,” he said. “I worked the trenches. I dug the ditches. I know what that part of life is about, also.”

“I should be the sheriff because I can and do work with communities well,” Dupuis said. “I have experience within these communities and larger communities, and that includes Carlton County.”

Obviously I know the guy, and yes, am voting for Wally Dupuis for sherriff on Tuesday.

Deer Hunters, be safe

In just over 6 hours, Minnesota's firearms deer hunting season begins, Just making this post to tell people to be safe... I don't hunt, I only fish. Be safe though, dont' be like our vice president.

UMD Men taking on the Goofs

As the UMD women head south to play the Goofer women, the UMD men are hosting the Goofers at the DECC this weekend. UMD men are dinged up already and with deer hunting opener this weekend, there may be a lot of Goofer fans up here...ewwwww.

McAfee Virus Scan

I was emailed this deal from McAfree VirusScan and am able to let everyone go check it out and maybe order if you like. They've combined their virus protection, firewall, and spyware checker into one product so you don't need to make 3 software purchases anymore! Click on the McAfee banner to check it out!

2006 Mid Term Election

Don't forget, no matter who you vote for, *IF* you don't vote you can't complain. So go vote Tuesday, or shut the hell up after the election.

20 Good Years on NBC

This show, 20 good years, so far is a good sitcom on NBC. John Lithgow and Jeffrey Tambor make the show funny, but please, keep their shirts on. Heather Burns that plays Lithgow's daughter though, she's not bad at all.

Brr, it's Winter time

Brr, damn it's cold today.

News Tribune reminder of 1991 Halloween

The Duluth News Tribune printed the article in Monday's paper taking everyone back to their memories of the 1991 Halloween snowstorm that left 3+ feet of SNOW on a large portion of the state of Minnesota. That was snowy/slushy mess for trick or treaters

The Vikings stink

The Vikings lost bad....31-7 to New England. Their 7 points were from a punt return, NOT the offense, which is terrible. They need to get a quarterback whose arm is strong enough to throw down field.

Duluth webcam sites

There are some streaming webcam sites of Duluth online, some of the ones I know about are posted below.

The Allete one today is great, with 30mph+ winds it's capturing the huge waves hitting the shore. You can go view this webcam by clicking HERE.

There's a webcam called Tower Cam, by WDIO Channels 10/13 (the local ABC affiliate) you can view pictures of the lake and highways etc by clicking HERE.

The Great Lakes Aquarium has a webcam view of Lake Superior and the Aerial Lift Bridge viewable by clicking HERE On this one, a lot of times you can watch people walking along the lake, or jogging sometimes. The road goes behind the DECC Arena/Auditorium by the ticket office and Vista Fleet offices.

I found this last one by accident... it's the University of Minnesota Duluth's library webcam. YOu can choose to see just a still image, or the live feed of people just walking around, mingling, or hurrying to class. THAT webcam link is HERE

Can ya tell I was bored? ;)

MMMMM Meatloaf

Today I'm cooking a large meatloaf :) 3 lbs of hamburger, with shredded onion & carrot, 1 slice of breadcrumbs 1 beaten egg, and some ketchup (HEINZ ONLY) in the meat and mixed by hand.

My preference for meatloaf SAUCE is a sweet sauce. I mix brown sugar and pineapple juice and ketchup together and microwave it for 45 seconds to dissolve the brown sugar completely and it's damn good. The sauce doesn't go on until the last 15 minutes though, because of the sugar and ketchup, you don't want it to burn.

I cook the whole thing at 350 degrees for around 45-50 minutes before adding the sauce to the top for 10 to 15 minutes. I don't mess around with meat thermometers normally because the temperature 350 for 45 minutes or so usually is perfect. With the meatloaf will either be baked potatoes sometimes, or like today, mashed potatoes, and ALWAYS corn with meatloaf :) YUM

Daylight Saving Time

Don't forget to turn BACK your clock(s) an hour tonight, as Daylight Saving Time ends. In the Spring you turn it ahead, in the fall we turn it back.. or as they say "Spring Forward, Fall Back."

Free laptop computer?

This is a hypersweep FREE DRAWING for a laptop computer! It's simple to enter and you don't have to join anything to enter!

New eBay consignment items

This week I've got 4 new consignment items listed on eBay for a customer of mine. They are, a .29 carat brilliant cut diamond; a matching Sapphire/Diamond chip Necklace/Earrings set; an Italian 14k Gold bracelet; AND a Sterling Silver Bracelet with a nice Turquoise stone.

You can click on any of the descriptions blogged about to go see the item :) They're all nice pieces of jewelry.

EA Sports NHL 07 is fun

Yesterday at Wal-Mart, I bought EA Sports NHL 07 for X-box (no, not 360.. can't afford that yet.) So far after playing 5 games (20 minute periods, MEDIUM hard skill level) I've done decent, but learning the controls for a game I've played for a long time now took a couple games. Normally I use the finger pad for controls and not the little joystick. In this version you have to use the joystick control to move your player(s.) At first I even tried PASSING the way they designed it, with the right joystick but that was a little nuts. I changed preferences to pass with the red B button like I'm used to and am winning at Medium with little or no problem. I'm sure it'll get a little more difficult. I might have to try the game in the next highest difficulty level next.



I bought my copy of the game, on a whim when I walked by it at Wal-Mart. You can buy it and other games at the banner above from a company called Chips & Bits.

K-Fed on wrestling is stupid

K-Fed sucks, and him on WWE RAW two weeks in a row is stupid.The guy marries someone almost as white trash as himself and becomes a celebrity, no matter how much the majority of us can't stand the guy.

Pro Wrestling gets enough press without bringing this moron in.

Clickable ads, Election time

While you're on here reading some of this stuff, which really is mostly random, click a google ad or two (after each of the first 3 posts on each page.) There some nice companies that advertise via google and help keep blogs like this one and others running. Google gives a (very) small amount of money to someone who earns clicks. While I dont' do this to earn money, god knows it's not a large amount anyway.. $3.00 in the 2+ months I've been blogging.. it's good way to know people are actually reading if they happen to click on the ads once in a while.

It's almost election time.. only 2 weeks from tomorrow we'll be voting up here for Governor, City Councilor, Carlton County Sherriff, State Attorney General and more.

I for one, know that I'm voting for Mike Hatch for Governor, Lori Swanson for Attorney General (she was Hatch's assistant A.G.), and Wally Dupuis(pronounced DuPwee) for Carlton County Sherriff to name a few. While one blog entry doesnt' make for someone winning elections, I just wanted to remind someone who reads that it's almost 'mid-term' election time, and to go vote on election day, no matter the party or candidates you're choosing.

Little People Big World

This show on TLC (The Learning Channel), Little People Big World is great. It's about a "little person" (me? being p.c.?) couple with 4 kids, only 1 of who is "little." Their WEBSITE gives a lot more information about their show than I can give in a blog entry. Their show got renewed so there's a bunch of new episodes showing this winter.

Random Pictures

Before today's women's hockey game I was bored so I decided to take my digital camera down by the lake:

The Aerial Lift Bridge(I know, there's pictures all over the net of it):


UNDER the lift bridge:


A brave seagull, the only one that didn't fly away as I walked up towards it:


I took more but this is a start. Don't forget, you can right click on a photo and select 'view image' to see it larger. If you want to use the picture, save it yourself, don't use my hosting of it and eat bandwidth. Thanks!

Cloquet Wal-Mart's customer service SUCKS

Last night, after coming home from the UMD women's hockey game I stopped at Wal-Mart to buy a few things. They had 4 'lanes' open and a ton of people trying to get checked out. I got in one line at 9:45 as did 3 other people behind me, one was a lady with a large cart full of groceries. As soon as it was MY turn to get my stuff checked out, it turned 10 pm.

The "cashier"(whatever Wal-Mart calls the girls they hire) tells the lady with all the groceries, "umm, excuse me, this lane is closed." She checks my stuff that was already on the belt, I pay, and she just walks away from the now 5 people in her line. So after waiting over 15 minutes to get to the front of a line, she now has to get to the back of one of the other lines and wait all over again.

At the least, I go to Wal-Mart twice a week. 99% of the time I go there I use the self-checkout lanes, but they close those things before 9 pm so I had to go through a lane with a person "working." Maybe the word person should be in italics also?

Grandmasters of Wrestling dvd

I was looking around a store the other day and found these Grandmaster of Wrestling dvd's that had the Iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkoff, Classy Freddie Blassy, and other stuff on it and had to make the purchase, since I've been a wrestling fan forever.

The dvd is great, though it's only an hour long.

Classy Freddie Blassy sings a song he made popular (I guess) 30 years ago on the Dr Dimento show (they mention Dr. Dimento a bunch) called 'Pencil Necked Geek.'

Nikolai Volkoff wrestles Bam Bam Bigelow, who everyone knows for the flames tattooed on his fat bald head.

The Iron Sheik is the highlight of the video, he does a weight strength exercise with some heavy bars, then wrestles against The Great Maccabe for something they called The Maccabian Title I believe.

Anyway, I bought 6 of the DVD's and have listed 5 on of them on eBay for people to buy. I've seen the dvd on eBay before but not as cheap. CLICK HERE to see the DVD listing and make the purchase. It's only $4.75 including shipping/handling if you live in the US.

Aerosmith & Motley Crue Target Center

WOW.. Aerosmith and Motley Crue are getting together for a concert tour...and its' coming to Minneapolis at Target Center December 7th. It would be a great concert to go to but the only way I'm going is if I win tickets, because Target Center isn't the best place to listen to concerts. The acoustics aren't that complementary to rock concerts. It does sound like a great time.

My Fishing Pals website

If you're from Minnesota, like a lot of the people who've found this blog, AND you fish or hunt, come visit MyFishingPals.com



This website, made for those of us in Minnesota to have a place to talk and message with other people intersted in fishing mostly, is great. The message boards are always filled with good information about fishing. You don't neccessarily have to be fishing IN Minnesota to learn something from the site.

There's also a great photo gallery where you can send 'Webdude,' the site creator your pictures from fishing and get them posted for the world to see :)

Still raining

Well, it's *STILL* raining out today... oh boy... I think I'd rather have snow than rain now.. the rain makes it look miserable and drab.

I actually ate a whole f'ing box of the mike & ike's in one night last night BURP. Tomorrow I'll actually get more beanie babies listed.. today I just decided to wait a day rather than list more. At least that's my plan as of right now :)

Beanie Babies

Ok, the Beanie Baby listings continue, though today being Monday I didn't exactly feel like listing a ton, so I got 4 listings on ;)

You can CLICK HERE to see the Beanie Babies that are listed today. I'll have more to list during the week and then I'll finally be done with the majority of them :)

MMMM Mike & Ike Jolly Joes

I took a short trip through the Dollar store to see what they had this week that might be profitable to buy for $1.00 and resell for a $2 or more on eBay. I didn't find anything of value, but I always go in there once a month or sometimes twice, to buy bubble mailers when I have stuff to ship. They sell the small ones 3/$1 so that's a better price than Wal-Mart's price.

Anyway, when I was in there and didn't find anything, other than a 1 hour pro wrestling dvd that I bought for myself(and yes, watched immediately after I got home) I was going to the checkout and noticed... I haven't had these in 4 years, Mike & Ike Jolly Joes (The grape flavor candy... MMMMMMMMMM)

YUM I bought 2 of the 1 lb boxes, and the best thing is.. they're still FRESH rather than all dried out and stale. I wished they'd had the Hot Tamales also, but I'm not complaining. :) Growing up around hockey rinks I kind of grew up with Hot Tamales, and Jolly Rancher Stix. Cinnamon candy kicks ass also.

It's Monday.......

Monday isn't neccessarily a GOOD day is it... today's a boring bland grey rainy fall day in Minnesota. Have to go to the post office sometime but other than that it'll be a really boring day which is good after 3 straight days watching hockey.

WWE Raw tonight was TAPED yesterday, blah, so going to wrestling websites is out, since most will have spoilers(results) posted to make the show no fun to watch.

15 days until Halloween... last year I handed candy out to 75 separate kids... the largest Halloween I can remember ever. Hopefully this year the weather cooperates again, and I stay out of the Halloween candy beforehand.

I'm thinking about creating a 4th blog, this one for my business stuff on eBay. I'll advertise what I've got to list for consignment as well as a way to advertise myself as a consignment seller. That's my current plan but who knows. As late Fall, early Winter approach the eBay consignment business usually picks up and I get extra busy, which is **NOT** a problem.

Gotta get working on Beanie Babies again tonight since there's still a bunch to be listed before I do the one big listing of all that didn't sell.

Hockey, and other stuff

Spent nearly 6 hours watching hockey tonight, between the UMD men's and women's hockey games, and gonna spend another 2 and half hour or so tomorrow again. Both teams won today/tonight so, GO DOGS!

Got home just in time to see the last 20 NASCAR laps...Dale Jr finished 4th and Jeff Gordon's engine quit just before I got home. Kasey Khane won the race in Charlotte.

Nice sunny day today after a couple days of snow and rain :) The temperature wasn't bad at all and the snow's melted.... for now.

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More cold windy rainy snowy

The wind's kicked up tonight now and I decided to take a couple pictures in the dark just for the hell of it. Only one turned out but it's a good one for a night time picture with only the camera flash. You can right click the picture and choose 'view image' to see it full sized.

Cold windy "blustery?"

While I'm not someone that uses a bunch of "cool" weather channel type words to describe the weather, I would assume that today is a blustery day to say the least. Dictionary.com defines blustery as "to roar and be tumultuous, as wind" so I guess that's definitely what today and what is forecasted as tomorrow is like. Luckily we never got the 8 inches of snow they had first predicted, and maybe only received half an inch at best(or worst?)

26 Hours from now the UMD men's hockey season starts against U-Mass Lowell so it's that time of year again. The women (see the umd women's blog in my profile) play the North Dakota 'fighting' Sioux Saturday and Sunday afternoon's of course.

The Vikings are off this weekend, and so is Notre Dame so there's not that much good football to watch. Ok.. the Vikings aren't fun to watch right now but still I'd watch at least hte beginning. I'll miss watching the Nascar race while at the women's hockey game but that's what happens during hockey season.

Kerry Rodd returns to Northland radio airwaves!

Kerry Rodd's making his return to the Northland airwaves Friday morning at 6 am with a NEW show on Cloquet's radio station WKLK (AM 1230 and FM 96.5) His no compete clause finally ends and we can hear the best area broadcaster again. There's been funny commercials on the air about the show's coming, but he can't talk on them so it's even funnier.

Today there's a funny commercial talking about a character from Scanlon who was part of the station's past for Friday's show so we'll see what happens Friday morning.

Kerry's also got a Saturday morning show advertised from 7-9 with Tracy Lundeen who he's done plenty of radio with over the years.

8 inches of **SNOW**

The weather forecast is calling for 8 inches of snow here by Thursday sometime. YUCK.. This is the most snow this early I'm sure since the 1991 Halloween snowstorm. That halloween snowstorm is legendary for northern Minnesota. Hopefully it doesn't snow *THAT* much, but it does tend to melt the first snow every year. It's definitely going to feel like hockey season though this weekend with the cold weather.

Literati

I've gotten myself hooked on playing Literati on yahoo again.. mostly play at night when there's nothing else to do. Literati is Yahoo's taken on SCRABBLE, but without a set number of each letter and with a little different board than SCRABBLE ever had. The game is great and last night I re-achieved my 1800 rating :)
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A couple new items to promote

THIS blog entry, I just want to promote a couple new things I've found, including a totally FREE email service called breakthrough.com that has an anti spam in-box for you.


Another great site is 'nicecards.com' where you send E-greeting (or online greeting cards) cards. There's always been these sites where you send them to your friends email addresses of course. THIS site only does PG rated cards by the way.

Click on the banners to go to the sites, if you find them interesting, they're free to join of course.

WWE Family Reunion

The Family Reunion show wasn't too bad, especially when they made the main event Undertaker vs John Cena. Obviously they weren't going to FINISH that match and it had the expected run-ins at the end, but still it was the Undertaker on RAW live. They're setting the 'stories' for the Cyber Sunday PPV coming November 5th.

I added a search box to this blog at the bottom of the page, it should be working already since google's already got this blog in it's search engine. I like finding little "toys" online for websites and stuff.

Jr got wrecked, 3 hours of Wrestling tonight

Dale Jr got wrecked with the race almost over when Jimmie Johnson got spun by Brian Vickers, so he basically got ripped off at the end of the race, where he could have made up huge points in the chase for the cup.

WWE Raw Family Reunion is tonight.... "huge" 3 hour show with all the stars from over the years and the 3 "brands." They've been hyping this show for a few weeks now so they better make a great show.

Watched the WWE 'Smackdown' ppv on Paltalk last night. It wasn't that bad.. but I don't normally watch Smackdown since there's always other stuff to do Friday nights. They really didn't accomplish much with that show, at least to me.

I've got a nice page that lists a bunch of pro wrestling websites. Go here and you can find a bunch of links to pro wrestling news sites.

Don't forget to click on a google ad or two if you like reading my 'Random Thoughts' since the google ads support the blogs (this and my umd women's hockey blog.)

OK, maybe not?

Soon as I mention the VIkings playing like crap, they come back and score 2 quick touchdowns. It reminds me of the Notre Dame game that I posted about a couple weeks ago when they made a huge comeback. They just kicked a field goal to lead 19-17 but there's close to 3 minutes left and Detroit has the ball.

Thank god there's NASCAR, cause the VIKINGS SUCK!

The Vikings yet again, have no offense and after 3 quarters are losing 17-3. NOW I've finally turned the channel to watch ONLY the NASCAR race. Talladega is a great track that's been repaved and is even faster than ever. Dale JR's right up front with Kyle Busch leading the race back and forth now.

I'm sure I'll check the football score again before the 4th quarter ends, but I'll mostly stick to NASCAR today :) Good thing the VIkings are off next week, maybe they can figure out how to move the ball.

Who names their kid ESPN!?!?!?!!

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What the hell? Who names their kid after the sports network ESPN??? that's just dumb, no matter how much you like the network.

Peanut Butter Jelly Time

This occurred on Thursday night on Ksexradio's Temptation show with Lorrainiac and Cuzzfucker. This was part of someone's bet against them during their fantasy football week

Subway's new dogfood & cheese

Subway changed their Steak & Cheese sub to a cubed type of steak and it looks like DOGFOOD now. The meat is cubed and looks like the stuff you feed your dog. The old version of steak & cheese actually tasted better AND looked better as well. My old favorite sub has now become one I won't order anymore unless I totally space out and forget. I'll go back to eating their meatball subs with parmesan and mozzarella cheeses. For whatever reason, Subway's also now stopped using the garlic spread for the toasted subs, and that stuff was good.

So far today looks like a good day for the high school football game. The temperature isn't bad though there's near 30 mph wind gusts. Should be the 2nd win of the season for Cloquet playing against Eveleth Gilbert.

Notre Dame plays Stanford at Notre Dame Stadium Saturday and shouldn't have too much trouble with them, but that'll be decided at game time.

UMD Men beat Lakehead University 8-1

The UMD men beat Lakehead University, from Thunder Bay, Ontario (Canada for those of you who are geographically challenged) 8-1 tonight. A bunch of UMD Freshmen players actually scored goals in their first game, albeit an exhibition game in which statistics were only for show rather than collegiate records. The men's season opens for real next Friday/Saturday. For women's hockey, see the UMD Women's hockey blog on my profile.

Car I don't own comes back to haunt me

This week I got a letter in the mail from the DMV about a car I don't own anymore and haven't for a few years. It was a piece of junk that wouldn't start when the engine was warm and I gave it to a used car dealer to dispose of.. for free. He decided to turn around and sell it to a person who wanted to give it to his grandson. They get in an argument, the grandpa takes the license plates off the car, and he (the grandson) writes the state asking for information on who the grandpa bought the vehicle from. The grandpa I assume, never reigstered the vehicle through the state after he bought it, so it comes back to me as owner, which is fricken NUTS.

Twins down 5-2 now

Well, the game WAS tied 2-2 until Torii Hunter decided to dive after a line drive with 2 outs and a man on. He created an in the park homerun for Oakland, and now Oakland scored a run in the 9th. So much for this playoff season, the best defense in baseball had an incredibly stupid 2 games of defense. Oakland hasn't done that much IN the game, and they're still up by 3 runs.

Twins game almost ready

The Twins game is almost on... After yesterday's game, the Twins need to beat Oakland by a few runs at least to have confidence to win 1 game in Oakland as well, and bring the series BACK to the Metrodome for Johan to pitch game 5. If BOOF loses the game today the Twins are basically out of the playoffs; only needing to lose 1 more to be eliminated.

Tomorrow night the men's hockey season starts!

Rainy Tuesday

The Twins didn't play very well today, making a couple defense mistakes AND not hitting worth anything until it was too late. They wasted a good game pitched by Johan Santana. Tomorrow They're supposed to pitch Boof Bonser, though I'd much rather see them pitch Brad Radke at home when a win is needed. Maybe they'll change it before tomorrow, but they had announced Bonser before.

We've got a large weather system coming through tonight, that's supposed to bring thunderstorms etc to us tonight :) I think the whole state is involved in the weather warning this time.

UMD Men start the season Thursday night so that means the hockey season is in full swing, with the men and women's team's seasons going.

I hate ladybugs!!!

Since yesterday and today, the weather warmed up, and now there are fucking LADYBUGS everywhere outside..and a few inside that I've mutulated with a flyswatter. I'm thinking of (yuck) hanging a strip of fly tape up to see if that catches them and elimintes them from my INSIDE world. Outside I can deal with them, inside.. no thanks!

Twins win central division

Thanks to Detroit faultering, AND to Kansas City beating them today, the TWINS are the Central Division champs. They'll play Oakland Tuesday at Noon AT THE DOME! Detroit losing means they have to go to New York and open their playoffs with the Yankees. The Twins playing at home first almost guarantees to me that Brad Radke will start game 2 of the playofs.

This sure makes life a little better after the Vikings miserable game once again. After my previous Viking post, they did manage to finally score a touchdown, but why wait to play offense until the other team is too far ahead???

Joe Mauer wins the batting championship, Justin Morneau has a great chance as winning the AL MVP award, and Johan Santana is a sure thing to be the Cy Young award winner for the 2nd time in 3 years.

Bring ON Oakland!

Vikings offense is inept, at best

This football game is terrible. The Vikings are down 17-6 now, and haven't scored a touchdown on offense in OVER 3 games. Brad Johnson has thrown interceptions on 2 straight possessions, and Chester Taylor can't run the ball for anything. I think I mentioned this before, but it's time for Mewelde Moore to get his job back as starting running back. He's obviously healthy again so put HIM in the game to move the ball.

Maybe it's the coach Brad Childress, who's offensive strategy is to let the other team win games.

On a good note, Dale Jr's having a great race in Kansas and in second place right now, which he needs to move up a little in the NASCAR standings.

Hooked on Mythbusters

I was going to do a short post earlier, but since midnight I've been watching mythbusters. The show is great, especially the efforts they'll go through to try every variable involved in their myth, and then the variables above and beyond that are needed to accomplish actually making the myth happen. The last episode before I fall asleep is about a snowplow's force of air going in an opposite direction of a vehicle can make it flip. Obviously this isn't going to happen since we've all driven opposite of a snowplow.. at least those of us from the cold climates.

Vikings play at Buffalo so this *should* be a Vikings win, and the best time to play there before the snow starts flying in Buffalo. I just hope the Vikings offense decides to finally start scoring.

News Tribune's website now sucks

The Duluth News Tribune changed their website this week, including making people log in to read stuff, and they've made it harder to navigate and FIND stuff. Trying to find the high school football scores sucked, requiring a person to look in circles for the football scores, rather than the way it used to be.

While the registration is free, the paper only lets a person go back about 1 week now, and then you have to PAY $2.99 to read an article.

I just had to randomly bitch about that for now :)

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Boredom makes a person play video games

The last 2 afternoon I've been bored, I actually played an old X-box Madden NFL football game(04) and today I actually put SIM GOLF into the computer and played that for 2 hours. I want to get Civ IV for the computer, but right now it's priced at $50 so I have to wait a few weeks. The CIV series has been lots of fun from the very first version.

Tonight is about watching the Twins play Chicago, and watching WWE Smackdown on tv. This is one of the last episodes of Smackdown I'll see until the college hockey season is over, since most Friday nights are spent watching hockey :).

The baseball playoffs start Tuesday so hopefully the boredom is gone at that point as well.

Car cleaning; fishing season about done; Crazy Bitch

This time of year is always a good time for my car. This is the time when I decide the summer fishing season has come to an end and it's time to clean the car for one of two times each year. I did the whole bit again, Armor-All wipes and washing windows inside. Without Windex wipes and Armor-All wipes, I'm not sure I would have ever started cleaning the car. They take all the work out of the job, you just wipe the surfaces down and you're done, rather than spraying the stuff the old way then wiping it, then having to wash the windows again cause you got Armor-All on the glass. There's no leather surfaces in the car but plenty of soft vinyl.

The fabric seat on the drivers side, one side a seam has split, so I have to find someone to repair that soon before it decides to do more. The Sunfire turned 70,000 this summer.. so I've put on almost 30k miles in 4 years and a few months. A lot of that was enhanced by driving back and forth to Duluth 5+ days a week to work for 5 months total (different jobs, different years.)

Ok.. this song is on way too often.. Crazy Bitch plays at least 2 or 3 times a day and it's getting old fast now.

Just a short test post

I'm just posting a quick little post to see if I'm doing something wrong or if the blog is still posting correctly, while saying it's at 0% after I did a small template change. THIS post can be ignored if so desired :)

Stock market, cool weather, etc

I got 10 shares of Pepsi stock a while back when I finally finished my 2 year college degree and I've become addicted again to going to the NYSE website and looking at the stock. If I had a 'nest egg,' I know for sure that I'd be a kind of person to (as they say) 'play the market.' To me it's sort of the same as watching athletes statistics when you watch games during the season. The only difference is this can actually involve your own pocket, unless you like to bet on sports, which I don't. In the past 2 days pepsi stock has jumped almost $2.00/share. It must be all the Mountain Dew Livewire I drink, or the Ripples chips, or the Doritos now and then.

On another website, there's a conversation about doctor's, pills, and people getting sick. I for one haven't been sick in more time than I can remember, and haven't had a medical prescription since like 4th grade pennicilin(sp) for strep throat.

The weather is definitely fall-like, cool and a little breezey but nothing wrong with that. The sun's shining so a person really can't complain. It will be SNOWING in a month or so, so complaining might make it snow sooner.

ECW on SCI FI

The ECW on Sci-Fi channel tonight was their best show they've done since starting up on Sci Fi. Hardcore Holly vs RVD was a kick ass match even with the 12 inch long gash Holly got in his back from the table. The 15 minutes working AFTER that were really good action, taking me back to the old ECW days.

The Big Show/Sandman match also was good, considering Sandman isn't the best wrestler, but when weapons and ECW hardcore is the match, he has a kick ass style. I missed the first 10 minutes or so while flipping back and forth to the Twins game. BTW the Twins will probably have to win out to win the division but that doesn't matter THAT much since they'll play the Yankees, who they played well against this year, as wild card.

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Almost time for summer fishing season to end (meaning time to clean out the car also), it's getting to be too windy and probably time to not fish until the water turns solid as someone says (aka Ice Fishing.) I've never tried it but I might this year with some people from My FIshing Pals website.

College hockey withdrawl finally ending

The season starts Saturday, finally. UMD Women playing the Minnnesota Whitecaps in an exhibition game and the Men start a week later against Lakehead University from Thunder Bay, Ontario. Summer is great, with fishing and warm weather, but nothing can compete with hockey season starting as the best time of the year. (Opening fishing week is close......)

Not all Mondays suck (though many do)

Trying this post in bold. I like the text color and the white bold was too bright the other dayToday's Monday.. so far it's not a normal Monday since it doesn't seem to suck as much as other Mondays. Then again I still have to go to the post office and ship 1 beanie baby that's been paid for. I have more to ship but they have to be paid for still, plus I have more to list tonight and a couple other nights this week.

Watching the TNA Wrestling ppv last night was different. I rarely watch TNA Impact (their Spike tv show) and watching the PPV was weird. I didn't recognize about 1/4 of the wrestlers, but some I knew of course. The worst thing with TNA I believe is that Jeff Jarrett is still their champion. He's old and seems to play the kind of game that HHH (Paul Levesque) has been accused of for years in the WWE/WWF, and holding guys back for his own spotlight. Jeff Jarrett was old and boring back in his WCW days, sticking to the same old gimmick of hitting people over the head with a fake guitar.. wtf!

This is nuts, there's an area code in Houston Texas of 281, and the area code here in Northern Minnesota is 218. In Houston they also have the prefix 879 like here, and we're getting a ton of calls meant to be to a photography company in Houston because either the people dialing are transposing the number 281 into 218, or the company fucked up their business cards. Whichever it is, it's annoying as hell. I've googled and reverse lookup'd the other number and it's not found so the next step soon will be to call te idiots and tell them we're sick of getting their calls. I'm glad I don't have a land line MYSELF, and it's only my Aunt's phoneline, but it's still annoying.

Mythbusters

I decided while watching it tonight to make an entry about this show. It's a great show on discovery channel. While there's other good shows, this one outranks most to me. It's midnight and a 2 hour episode about movie myths is on.

I've seen them test some myths I'd wonder about (shooting guns in water for one), but one that was on an hour ago was whether or not buttered toast lands buter side up or down. It's all funny so you can't help but like the show, whether the tests seem like something that seems obviously plausable or not.

As the title of this blog states, this is definitely a RANDOM THOUGHT ;)

Vikings Offense is becoming offensive.

The Vikings offense is becoming pathetic. They have a great defense but can't figure out how to play offense. They don't hold the ball, keep possession, and thus wear their defense out because they spend too much time on the field. Brad Johnson is still good enough to carry the team, but they have to let Mewelde Moore run the ball more than Chester Taylor. Taylor doesn't get enough yards and gets stopped behind the line of scrimmage too often to give the offense short yardage.

The only thing I really noticed Brad Johnson do bad was his last play of the game.. 4th and 3 and he goes for a huge play instead of making the first down and moving towards a game tying field goal.

Watching the NWA/TNA wrestling ppv on Paltalk right now, not a bad PPV though I don't regularily watch NWA/TNA since their tv show is only an hour long and they tape 3 shows in one night and show one per week before their PPV.

Black & Blue division

The title says it all, if you're a FOOTBALL fan. Minnesota Vikings vs Chicago Bears is the big matchup today. GO VIKINGS! Playing in the Dome I think the Vikings will pull off a win, but they need to make the offense roll more while playing the same tight defense they have the first 2 weeks of the season.

Packers play Detroit and I don't expect them to pick up a win in Detroit. I just hope that by the time the Vikings play Green Bay, that the Packers have won a game, I (or any other Vikings fan) dont' want their first chance at a win to come against the Purple.