The 10 Gets A Shot

Quick Happy Birthday to Brandon today. The kid is getting old.

Speaking of birthdays, I managed to have one just the other day. Turned 40 - which is awfully depressing to type. Believe me. The whole day is a bit blurry, as you can imagine. Some of the folks at Wing Joint on Battleground were nice enough to throw a kind of get together to mark the occasion. I turned up just before 7 - half in the bag. Dave, the Glenn Beck apologist, was pretty hammered already. And then folks started buying me shots. I remember little after kick-off of the G Men/Cowboy game. But I did wanna thank everyone who came out. Throughout the night there were quite a number of well wishers.

I was gonna put up a silly, self-indulgent post about turning 40. But I never felt like it. So, I didn't.

A very odd trivia competition broke out last night at Wing Joint on Battleground. Our team made 3 fatal errors and, quite deservedly, lost. The first mistake involved risking too many points on an answer we weren't sure of. That was my fault. They asked what TLC reality star was born Katherine something or other. I immediately wrote down Kate Gosselin. And put the maximum points. It was some LA Ink girl - Katy something. Then we made a terrible error about what NKOTB member is on some program with Tom Selleck - Stacey wrote the wrong Wahlberg brother - the one who was never in NKOTB. I should have double checked the answer sheet. A very silly and needless mistake. After that, we still had a good chance to win on the last question. And then the 3rd mistake was made. We answered too fast and didn't talk out our answer. It involved who won the Grammy for best album in 2000. We put Steely Dan for Two Against Nature. And that album was released in 2000. And it did win best album. The problem was that it won the award at the 2001 award show. It's a shitty trick question. But we should have thought it through better anyway. At the award show in 2000, Santana won. Such are the vagaries of playing the silly and highly irrelevant team trivia.

This stupid election is quickly approaching. Only 6 more days to endure the endless and mindless TV ads. I'm very disappointed in Geilfuss. After starting his campaign website 2 weeks ago, he's basically quit campaigning. It's very distressing. I think he's only gonna get 2 votes - his own and Tyson's. And they're both likely to incorrectly spell Geilfuss's name on the write-in ballot. Especially Geilfuss himself...

Huge news in the sordid world of NFL football - it appears the super intense Mike Singletary has named the 10 the starter for Sunday's tilt in London against Denver. The only problem is that the 10 is no longer wearing #10. The 10 is wearing #1. It's very confusing for me. And the confusion is compounded by the fact that there is still a #10 with Baltimore. Marc Bulger changed his number after the 10 was released. It's a crime against nature in my mind - and, no doubt, mine alone. But the 10 is always gonna be the 10. It doesn't matter what number the 10 is wearing or if there is another Raven wearing the #10. That in no way has any bearing on the simple fact that the 10 is the 10 and will always be the 10.

Teen Angst