Are we having fun yet?

I know, I know... I keep changing my template and setup, and should probably stop. This time, there's a sneakier reason... I saw the little "Blogger Beta" thing, and just couldn't help myself. So here we are, dear old friends...

Anyway, I said I would update it, and I was really trying to get to it. The business continues, sadly, which is good and bad, and doesn't look to be letting up soon. I spent the last three weeks generating new hire content for work, and all of last week training that content at one of our call center sites. I spent a week in Florida, and really didn't get out of the call center or the hotel all that much.

But, I did get to watch some baseball. My Cardinals seem like they've shaken off the funk from the last part of the season. Everyone favors the Mets, but let's look at how the "favored" team is doing so far. The Mets have lost their strongest two pitchers, their bullpen was already non-existant, and the bats were there, but not in full force, against the Dodgers. The Yankees were favored to win it all, and after a game 1 hiccup, the Tigers handled them like a pee-wee team. So, I'm thinking the Cards have enough to make it through the Mets. Unfortunately, I don't think they have enough to make it through the AL.

Football... sigh. Bledsoe still sucks, and can't bring a team from behind for the win. He makes stupid decisions and throws passes a 3rd string backup rookie stepping in for the starting role wouldn't do. Just pathetic. The Bears are my hot pick; they're not just hurting teams, they're crushing them. They remind me a lot of the 1998 Rams. They just have one problem... Rex Grossman, while playing so well, is the center of the team. If he gets hurt, and that is so amazingly likely... the offense falls apart. They'll be back where they were before, unable to get over the hump because the offense was a one-trick, "run the ball" pony. The Defense looks amazing, but it hasn't gotten them there yet.

It's been an interesting season, thus far. The Manning boys need to start winning games without falling behind by 10 or more points. This is just silly. The Ravens look interesting, but they're winning in the clutch too much to go all the way. For the AFC, it's really kind of up in the air this year. SD looks good, but lost to the Ravens. The Dolphins are garbage. The Patriots have a chance to go to the Super Bowl again, just because of how weak their competition is.

The "Media" sucks, more specifically, the news structures. I could care less about the left or right slant... I get all of my politics from the Daily Show and Colbert Report anyway, fake news is more accurate than wrong news. But the somewhat tragic death of Yankee's relief pitcher Lidle is a sure sign that someone needs to start brow-beating some of these ass-hats. Instead of asking a pilot what happened, they just started guessing, crying terrorists, when in fact, this was all pilot error.

I'm still working on my endless quest creating a little LEGO village. I'm thinking that I might make this a themed sort of deal, and I can sell my wife on this if I make it "Christmasy," and use it as some sort of Xmas villiage. I've gotten two houses built so far, but I'm out of a lot of the crucial parts that I need to make this work. I suppose I really need to post pictures so you know what I'm doing.

Sigh...