NFL Draft: Colts (predraft)

How about this:

Polian: We'll give you our 1st round draft pick, 3rd round draft pick, and Reggie Wayne.

Saints GM: Sounds great. We'll give you Reggie Bush and call the NFL to start inscribing COLTS on the Lombardi trophy.

NFL Draft: Reggie Bush

It's a colossal mistake to pick Mario Williams instead of Reggie Bush. Williams may be a decent player, but Bush is a star in the making: a great football player with charisma and the IT factor that you need on a team. This will go down as one of the biggest blunders ever.

Just to show I'm right, here's Chuck Klostrman explain it: The wrong guy. Here's an except (done in all caps to show how emphatic he is):

"REGGIE BUSH IS IMPOSSIBLE TO TACKLE. HE IS WAY, WAY BETTER THAN ALL OF THE OTHER DUDES WHO ARE ELIGIBLE TO BE DRAFTED. WHEN REGGIE BUSH IS RUNNING WITH THE FOOTBALL, THOSE ATTEMPTING TO KNOCK HIM TO THE GROUND CANNOT SEEM TO DO SO. THIS QUALITY IS ADVANTAGEOUS WITHIN THE GAME OF FOOTBALL, AS THAT IS PRETTY MUCH THE TOTALITY OF THE SPORT. "

Quick NFL Note

I don't really care what happens in the draft as long as a USC running back ends up with the Colts.

Mowing and mowing and mowing and...

I made my first attempt at mowing my yard on Saturday. Boy, did that wear me out! Maybe it was because my knee is sore and swollen from a previous incident or maybe it's because my workout routine consists of lifting the remote. The front yard went fine. The grass isn't growing was fast so I was basically just mulching some dead dandelions. The back was a different story. The grass is growing quite well, not to mention there's a nice incline coming up from a ditch. I have to admit, though, that it was nice exercise and it was a beautiful day to be outside. I just need to get used to manual labor!

Pictures

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Our First Anniversary

Rachel and I celebrated our first anniversary by going to Eddie Merlot's. The food was absolutely terrific. The steak is like eating candy, you just want more and more!

Easter Eggs

Just before Easter, we got a chance to see my nephew color his first Easter eggs.

Yes, that's my wife decorating eggs as well!

More on Purdue coaching

I was going to write a post about who I think should be the next Purdue women's basketball coach. However, it's always better to let the professionals do the writing. Here is an excellent article citing why Stephanie White should be the next coach. Couldn't have said it better myself.

Purdue's Next Coach

The Journal-Courier has a poll up to see who readers want as the new Women's basketball coach. Here's the link. I'll post my thoughts on who it should be later on. The picture at the right should give you a clue though.

Darkness Saving Time

Can someone explain daylight savings time to me? One reason that I had always heard was that daylight savings time gives us more hours of daylight during the evening. More daylight means we use our lights less, thus we conserve electricity. Here's what I don't understand though: What about that extra hour of darkness in the morning? I had been used to the sunrising before I left for work. I was much more awake in the morning and I didn't have to flip on every light in my house to make it to the kitchen. Now it's pitch black when I get up and I use every light to make my way down the hall in the morning. How does this make sense? I'm not a morning person in any sense of the term, so having a little natural sunlight was much more helpful to me at 6:30 a.m. than it is at 8:30 p.m. I don't really care if Indiana goes on daylight savings time, Eastern time, Central time, Pacific time or Greenwich-mean-time. However, I would like to know the official rationale for the change. I'm going to go get a Mt. Dew now. Would one of you be so kind to come shine a sun lamp through my window tomorrow? Thanks!

Here I am...live and in color!

Need to see what I look like? Well here I am.

Selling My Story

For years I've been asked why I don't have a blog. Let me explain why. There was a Seinfeld episode where Kramer sold his life story to Elaine's boss (See #148). Even though they were dull and odd stories (like being on his way to return a pair of pants and falling in the mud ruining the very pants he was returning), they were his dull and odd stories. Anyway, later in the episode, Kramer is at a party and has nothing to talk about. That's the way I feel. If I fill up an internet site with tales of inconsiderate coworkers, rude commuters, things my wife thinks I do that's odd, and the plethora of Purdue commentaries, I won't have anything else to talk about. However, I rarely go to parties and I tend to repeat stories anyway (most of which people have no interest in anyway). So, here I go. I may post daily or I may forget all about this tomorrow. Hopefully, though, this will give you, my loyal friends, a place to browse to when you find yourself with a few seconds to waste. As a friend of mine is fond of saying...Enjoy, won't you?