RIP Quasi

Quasi, our deformed pleco, died overnight. He's been sick for over a week. Not 'ich' sick, but "lets move from the old folks home to the hospice" sick. RIP sir, and may you swim straight forever in whatever pseudo-heaven your soulless self has gone to in the sky.

Don't Forget!

Don't forget, tonight is the Psych Musical on USA!

Why are you online?? The Psych musical is about to start on the USA Network! Whoot-whoot!

Peter O'Toole

Actor Peter O'Toole has died at age 81. RIP

Sounds Right

Audrey Totter

Audrey Totter, a Hollywood femme fatale I just watched in "The Set-Up" last week,has passed away at age 95. RIP beautiful.

Snow

I just finished shoveling, with some "help" from Junie. It's a bit too many square feet of snow to clear for a fat guy with a shovel, but I persist, firm in the hope that someday one of my progeny will amount to something and lend me a hand.

Congrats!

Congratulations to Jolenne K on graduating from college today!

China has landed an unmanned probe on the moon. I . . . am not pleased.

Hot Dog!

To my great shock, it appears that I learned something in Criminal Law and the final went well!  I think that, barring the professor being on the take, I aced 32 of the 45 problems, bombed one, and listed 12 under "maybe" - but I'd go to Potawatomi on the odds of those "maybe's" being largely "correct" answers. This portion of the exam is only 1/3rd of the Final - the other 2/3rd's coming from two 2000 word take home essays I had to hand in to receive today's exam - so the possibility still exists that I stunk it up. But if I did, I stunk it up less than I feared four hours ago.

YaYa helps out Junie on the computer - and a toy right out of my youth!

I remember toys like this from when I was little!

Eliminated

Thanks to Rob Gronkowski turning all "Boo Hoo Brittle Betty" on me this weekend, the Bay View Slapjacks were eliminated from the consolation tournament of my fantasy league. I finish the year 6-8 (6-7 in the regular season).

Quote of the Day

“The better we become, the less conscious we are of our goodness. If anyone admits to being a saint, he is close to being a devil. Jean Jacques Rousseau believed that of all men, he was the most perfect, but he had so many cracks in his soul that he abandoned his children after their birth. The more saintly we become, the less conscious we are of being holy. A child is cute so long as he does not know that he is cute. As soon as he thinks he is, he turns into a brat. True goodness is unconscious.” Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

Yowsers

Smiley may never box, and God willing he avoids street fights, but let me tell you *that boy can PUNCH!* I was working on the bag when he put on his gloves. He stepped in and barraged it with some combinations, then ripped into it with hooks that would rattle any ribcage. Mein Gott, he's got some power for his age.

Some pictures of our Christmas Tree

Random Photos

Junie and Smiley at TJ's party

St Nick's 2013

St Nick's 2013

They're Definitely Back

This is the My Little Pony aisle  at Toys R Us. I'd say the characters are having a resurgence, to say teh least. 

Remember!

Remember, St Nick comes tonight!

Nelson Mandela

RIP Nelson Mandela, a giant of our time :(

BREAKING NEWS: The Brewers have traded Nori Aoki to the Royals for 24 year old lefty Will Smith. Aoki was the lone Brewer on my fantasy team, and a good one at that. I'll miss ya!

Christmas Card Time!

Addresses, addresses, I need your addresses! Please...my new phone has no addresses saved from the old one. If you normally get a team slap xmas card, then please private message me your address. If you don't normally, and would like to start receiving the coveted "most awesome family ever" xmas card, then PM your address as well!!! Basically, you don't send your address, you could be crying over the loss later :) Lisa 

Marquette and Immunization

F'ing round and round with Marquette regarding my immunization records. They're long gone and my pediatrician is dead, so I had the bloodwork done to prove they'd taken place. Apparently, not good enough for Marquette, or at least complete enough, so round 2 of bloodwork awaits. They also claim that the bloodwork shows I need some booster, like I'm a g-damn five year old. I should have claimed some bogus religious exemption.

A Night of Boxing

Just watched Sergey Kovalev KO Ishmayal Sillakh 52 seconds into the second round . . . wow, that was impressive. Kovalev packs a thunderous punch for a light heavyweight.

update: I just finished watching the main event, the Adonis Stevenson/Tony Bellew fight. Stevenson has freaky power, it's true; but to my eyes (and I'm just a fan, not an expert) he seems very one dimensional in the ring. If he matches up against Kovalev - and from Stevenson's comments, Adonis is ducking that fight - I'd bet on Kovalev.

My Thoughts

RE: the (mild) hue and cry that we should remember the driver of the car too, not just Paul Walker, when talking about the fatal crash:  if you want to be remembered when you die, *DO SOMETHING WORTH REMEMBERING*. If I die the same day a pop star dies, good luck finding my obit. I'm cool with that, in large part because I hope to one day be the somebody that overshadows Joe Blow's passing.