Toom witha Vu

Awhile back I had a rant about some of the things that annoyed me about Blogsome . I didnt mention the posting photos problem . Last night I tried to post a photo and wasted an hour fiddling. Even after following suggestions in the faq my photo wouldnt post . So its Blogger here I come. I will leave this blog here for a short while. I have set up the Toom at this linkToom witha Vu

Week 12 picks brought me back to reality….9 and 7
Season to date 101 and 59

Atlanta@Carolina

Bills@Miami

Cinci@Steelers
the tigers are for real and something aint right about the Steelers

Dallas@Giants

Pack@Chicago
I learned my lesson about not pickin da Bears

Houston@Baltimore

Jags@Cleveland
Leftowich’s broken ankle=Jags broken dreams

Vikings@Detroit
not sure about this cuz sometimes a new coach means a win

Tampa Bay@ Saints

Titans@Indy
No comment

Arizona@Niners
Lets call this The Futility Bowl

‘Skins@Rams

Denver@Chiefs
It will be close.

Jets@Pats

Raiders@Chargers

Seattle@Philly

I like to read other blogs (so who doesnt?) Some I find well written in fact I should say most. When I first started a blog I was amazed at the writing talent in the blog world particularly the personal blogs.Some that come to mind that I read semi regularly are Straight White Guy,Messy Christian,The Meatriarchy,Marathonman and How to Save the World Today I read something by Marathonman that was really cool. He is reading A Christmas Carol to his children.In this day and age where literacy seems to take a backseat to video games, iPods, Rap and the rube toob I was really touched that a father would do that.

Something I never knew till recently about Charles Dickens was that his novels were published in serial form monthly or weekly in magazines in Britain and the States. The man was astounded when visiting the U.S. to find out how popular he was there. Dickens was sympathetic to the plight of the English poor and I think his writings helped spur legislation that eventually alleviated their poverty.His sympathy however didnt extend to the French poor as witness his portrayals of Madame Defarge ,Vengenance and the tricoteuse harridans watching the guillotine’s bloody work in A Tale of Two Cities.

Its been some time since I have thought about Dickens so thanks Marathonman.

Jack and Gilles went up the Hill…………. Couldnt finish the rhyme. Omg a winter election! What could be more Canadian than that. After Christmas I’ll dig out the snowshoes and the sled to be ready to get to the polling station. Anyhow the tired and corrupt Liberal Party needs time in the wilderness , a long time . Maybe the NDP and the CPC will have fresh and new ideas for this great country.

The History Channel Canadian edition really sucks. The other night it ran Mulholland Falls. Lame lame. The movie ended up being an excuse for Ann Medina to have a rant about the LAPD as if it mattered.

Finished reading the Dark Valley.To me the most striking thing in reading Piers Brendon’s book was his chapter on the British and French appeasment of the Fascists. Today as back then the same people in the elites and the chattering classes are promoting appeasment of the Islamonazis just as their forefathers did Hitler and Mussolini. Its sad that nothing has been learned from that time that the road of appeasment leads to war.
Brendon pointed out that Spanish Civil War wasnt as cut and dried a democracy versus fascism stuggle that some left wingers remember. The Republican cause was sabotaged from the start by the anarchists and the communists,groups that spent a lot of time fighting each other instead of Franco.
In his chapters on Stalin’s crimes Brendon covers no new ground . He does state that the abject condition of the Old Bolsheviks at the show trials during the Great Terror wasnt brought about by sophisticated and mysterious brainwashing techniques as speculated by socialists in the West. It was merely old fashioned methods used by the”NKVD boys” who Stalin said bragged that they could make Marx confess to being a Capitalist.
Other chapters deal with FDR’s struggle to banish the Great Depression in his country using Keynesian economic theory, the rise and rampage of Japanese militarism ,the struggle in China between Mao and ths Chinese Nationalists.
In my opinion an excellent accounting of the darkest decade of the twentieth century.

Was Dick Pound misquoted? Was what he really said that 30 % of the dopes are in the NHL? I could believe that seen as how the players refuse to wear face shields .

Connie Black wants to be a Canadian citizen again. This just in case his US trials goes wrong and he gets sentenced to 20 years in Leavenworth which as a Canadian he can serve in our Club Fed. Actually Leavenworth would be good for him because Chuck Coulson would aquaint him with the biblical bit about the camel and the eye of a needle.

Whaaaaaaaaaaat? “Man pulls truck with penis” Obviously he doesnt have a steady girl or boy or ewe. Should tow truck drivers be concerned? Does CAA cover this?

Paul Hellyer believes in UFOs and here I thought the guy was dead . Well just his brain. Good ol Paul is the guy when he was defence minister integrated our armed services so that army navy and airforce would wear the same uniforms which btw were supplied by the company that supplied Servicemaster

Scientists have too much time on there hands. Why else would they do a study on why girls all look prettier at closing time. Read my lips I T S D a BO O Z E stupid.

Just about to have the pre game meal . Sounds professional eh?

Well the snow came down overnight but not quite as much as forecasted but enough to use the snow thrower. By the look of the sky more is on the way.

The Skip just called and it looks like I will be curling this Thursday.Its an early game ,7pm, which I like. Now if I can just get the feel for the ice…………

After my little semi rant about Blogsome lo and behold if I didnt look farther and find some solutions to the timestamp and the comments problems. Every thing is russian rowboat now.

I hear the wind howling and from the north too so that means snow a coming.

TheGirl is taking a break from sewing and is on her computer at the moment. She likes to make something for Christmas for each one of her five kids. She has always done this. I think that to her it means more because maternal love goes into each piece of work. Its not the same as grabbing something off a shelf . I like her way.
Something else I like is her working her way up to 3 miles a day on the treadmill with some weight training resumed. Why ? It can only help in her recovery from breast cancer.

Sunny this morning and minus12. The water at the beach was frozen out from shore for about 30 feet brrrrr.Right at the moment I look across the bay to the west and see the snow front approaching.The weather report says 13 to 15 cm of snow which is not much but all the same I will be busy tomorrow because of it.

Time slips by and I miss some important dates sometimes.Yesterday was one of them.On Nov 22/63 I was working as a clerk in a small grocery store.The owners wife came in and told us that the president of Mexico and a Texas offical had been shot . I still remember thinking oh well thats Mexico. Sometime later a customer told us that President Kennedy had been shot and killed.I still recall the shock and fear and the feeling of loss thatI felt on hearing the news. I thought for sure that the Communists were responsible seeing how this happened a year after the Cuban Missile Crisis.The rest of the weekend we all spent with eyes glued to the tvs watching the trauma to our friends and neighbours to the south.Not till the terrorist attacks of 09/11 would I feel again such fear.Like 09/11 Kennedy’s murder changed the course of US history and by default world history.

Gotta get to predicting earyl this week .Last week 10 and 6.To date 92 and 52 .Here goes.

Carolina@Buffalo

Atlanta@ Detroit
there seems to be some unhappiness on both teams so I will pick the Vick

Denver@Dallas
This one is difficult . Dallas has a good home record tho.

Ravens@Cinci
Cinci impressed me last week

Chicago@ Tampa Bay
I know its the da Bears but………..

Cleveland@Vikings

Pats@Chiefs

Chargers@Redskins
the Skins are deadly at home

Niners@Titans

Rams@Houston
home must have some meaning even for the Texans
Upset here.

Jags@Arizona

Miami@Oakland

Green Bay@Philly
My team is worse than I thought.

Giants@Seattle

Saints@Jets
this one will be close

Steelers@Indy
Ordinairly this would be a tough one but after watching the Steelers crap performance against a piss poor Ravens team.Manning will mow these turkeys.

Sixty one posts later and what do I think of Blogsome? I give it a Its OK. Going by Blogsome’s homepage there doesnt seem to be a lot of people using it. I dont find the forum much help I havent found a tutorial about quick tags and anything I have learned is by trial and error. I like the Wordpress themes. I dont like having to piss around with the timestamp each time I post. For now I’m sticking here . Just for now.

First the Argos swoon and then GM anounces high noon for its plants.The thing that really disturbed me about the Argos was their resemblance to past infamous Argo teams that always found a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.Pinball is going to have to play hardball with some of his crew if he wants to have a contender in 06.To console myself I switched to the Colts Bengals shootout. That was entertaining. Palmer impressed me. Manning was his astute self. The only fly in the ointment was the defenses of both teams. But again they faced powerhouse offenses directed by two great qbs.
I’ve been a GM car and truck buyer for 20 years.I have had good luck with their products in that time.I have also driven Japanese made vehicles and found the workmanship mostly superior to GM products.So what? I think some of that has a part in GM ’s problems. The worst thing is their messing with their brands such as the Cavalier and the Sunfire. Here were two big sellers that were replaced by the Cobalt and the Pursuit.These cars are possibly better but why change the brand Why not have kept the Cavalier and Sunfire name. I dont see Honda rebranding the popular Civic each time it improves it or Toyota doing the same with the Corolla.If brand loyalty means nothing to GM then maybe their customers will treat GM the same way.Finally putting most of your eggs in the suv basket was begging for trouble.
One other thing . Hargrove is blaming all GM’s woes on the imports and not mind you on the excessive wages of his union members.That chutzpah for you. He should really be blaming the stupidity that is running thru GM’s upper management.To say he didnt see the cuts coming is probably selective memory . There have been rumblings and rumours in the past year about GM’s health.

Two days later and the view from the Toom is green grass and snow gone.November can be a month of everything in weather and thats why it isnt my favourite month.My favourite month is September . What is yours?

Almost through reading the Dark Valley. Its taken awhile mainly becauseI read it while doing my treadmill thingy. When I finish it the next book will be Dampier,Pirate of Exquisite Mind. I may do a review of Dark Valley only because I have found what I consider to be some interesting paralells to the early 2000s.

Last week 10 and 4 .To date 82 and 44

Arizona@Rams

Carolina@ Chicago
Probably a mistake to go aginst daBears at home.

Detroit@Dallas

Jags@ Titans
The Jags are on the way up .The Titans are marking time.

Miami@Cleveland
I think the weather will be a factor.

Saints @New England

Oakland @ Redskins

Philly@Giants
Im sticking with the Giants inspite of their Vikings debacle

Steelers@ Ravens
Baltimore doesnt have a real qb but right now neither do the Steelers .However the Steelers have the Bus ,the Duce and Mr.Ward.

Tampa Bay@Atlanta

Seattle@ Niners

Buffalo@Chargers

Colts@Cinci
This will be a test for Payton’s gang if the weather is a factor.Good teams win regardless.

Jets@Denver
I will be glad to see the season over for Herm’s sake.

Kansas City@Houston

Vikings@Green Bay
This will tell me if my team has its act together.

The view fom the toom today is white as in snow ,blowing snow whirling snow ,drifting snow. The weather guy had it right. Anyway I got to use the snowblower and try out my new mittens. The forecast for the coming week is a mixed bag of snow, rain and sun.

This is not a political blog and I am trying to keep that stuff to a minimum but this I cant resist.
Martin says ” a holiday election may offend religious groups”. What a foolish thing to say.

Is he ever desperate!! When it comes to clinging to power he sounds like a whore . The guy has no shame. Again I ask the question : Why is he so full of fear ? What is he hiding while in power? Its time for Harper and Layton to find this out.

The wind howled and gusted all night and at the time of this post its still blowing at 40 to 50 kmph. Fortunately the leaves are gone so that the trees have a better chance of staying upright. I checked around the property and saw no damage. With a forecast for snow in the evening I started the snowblower up for the first time since last March,the little beast went after just five pulls. Clap,clap. I put the lawnmower cum mulcher way yesterday.Lawnmower away one day snow blower out the next day ….Canada eh.

Reading some tech blogs put me wise to a devilish piece of scumware called a rootkit. Sony used it in connection with its music cds. If you played their cd ona player other than your computer you would be ok . If you went to play it in a computer you had to download a player from Sony to play the cd. The player was a rootkit and Sony said nothing. Of course it wasnt too long before some nerd figured things out and spread the word . So what you say? The sweet thing about a rootkit is that its easily hacked in such away as to compromise and expose every file on a computer and at the same time turn it into a “zombie”. The other sweet thing is that there is no easy fix to get rid of it. In fact if ones not careful in trying to the infected computer would become a doorstop. Sony has had to recall 5 million cds and whats worse is that its estimated that thousands of networks have been compromised including those of the military. Right now no a/v or adaware software can detect a rootkit. All this makes me wonder about the future of personal computing.

The Leafs- Rangers game was great . I sure do like the way hockey is played now.End to end rushes great passing lots of scoring chances or scoring. Its like hockey has been unwrapped and the beauty and speed of the game is now evident. Lucky fans.All that said in case of the Leafs Ferguson made a blunder in not getting rid of Berg and Antropov before the season began .Those two are noticably slow.McCabe has sure matured and adapted well to the new style and he has honed his point shot in to a deadly missle .Kaberle is the ideal guy to be paired with him and he also is benefiting from the crack down on the mugging that once passed for hockey.If the unhappy Allison can be traded for another fleet footed defenseman. which the Leafs need to take the heat off the McCabe- Kaberle duo the Leafs fortunes should rise higher.

Snow on the ground this morning. Last year this didnt happen till Nov.24 By afternoon it had melted away and turned into sporadic rain.

Hah the old bribe them with their own money trick.Those Liberals are sure desperate to hang on to power. My question is why ? Have they got good reason to be fearful of being on the outside? What big can of worms are they hiding?

Watched a movie awhile back titled Irreversible.French film with English subtitles.I missed some of the first of the movie and it took me a bit to realize the story was being told in reverse order. Once the movie was over I understood why it was done that way. Having missed the first 15 minutes or so I went online and read viewers reviews at Imdb and I was able to get the gist of what I missed.The controversy surrounding this movie was the violence of a brutal revenge beating in a gay S&M club and a long (10 minutes) rape of the female lead scene shot by a fixed camera . I thought the scene was authentic in that reports of rape tell of the victim being subjected to hours of violence. Violent and disgusting it certainly was and it wasnt shot in the phoney Hollywood style seen in North America. After the scene was over the rest of the movie showed what led up to it and when the movie reached the end which was really the beginning I felt a sense of loss knowing what was going to happen to these people. A sense I wouldnt have had if the story had been shot in the usual order.Probably what the director intended.I dont think the violence was gratuitous, in the way it is in slasher flics,it was the engine driving the plot. Out of ten I would give Irreversible a six.
Apparently this movie has roots in the new horror genre that has come out of Asia in recent years and is seldom shown in North America. The Grudge is one example Audition is another.

Looks like JimBobby Sez is finished since there have been no entries to his blog in two months. JimBobby purported to be a hillbilly Canadian commenting on the political scene with a pox on both the Right and the Left. He eventually staked a position on the Left and then seemed to lose his inspiration.
R.I.P JimBobby.

Quiet weekend. Saturday was more leaf mulching . That should be last of it . The building is as ready for winter as it can be. “Ready for winter” now there is a Canadian phrase.Sunday the winds got up again to mini gale force . I heard the folks in Muskoka were without power again. The power didnt go off here.I kept the remote busy scanning the NFL games.The Giants surprised me with their poor play against the Vikings.My team finally got some breaks and surprised the hell out of Atlanta.The game I really enjoyed was the Browns vs Steelers. It was good ole smash mouth football. I like that team of Cowhers. Nothin fancy just stick it to em football .

Got the flu shot today. A first. Got to use my health card ..Another first.

The weather was great today so much so that me and TheGirl decorated the balcony with garlands and lights. Other years this is a job for a cold sunny day sometime in December. Boys o boys were gettin a lot smarter since we got more advanced in our maturity. With that job done I guess I should be thinking about christmas shopping.Thats all it will be . Motivation doesnt come till the snow comes.

Some blogger has compiled stats on the types of blogs and the readership e.g. hits He found that the vast multitude of blogs are personal,humorous ,tech oriented ,sports etc. and have no readership or very limited readership. I didnt find that surprising. Political blogs, punditry blogs, journalist blogs are in a minority but have high hits. No surprise there. WhatI did find surprising was that the guy went to all this trouble to find out something that everyone in the blogosphere knows.

November the eleventh.Remembrance and thanksgiving.Remembrance of all the young men and women who willingly left family and friends to fight against the evil men who had seized the states of Japan and Germany. Thanksgiving for having such citizens in Canada when they were badly needed.

Last week 10 and 4 .Season 72 and 40

Arizona@Detroit
Even the Lions can beat these guys

Ravens@Jaguars
Jags are on a bit of a roll

Houston@Colts
nuff said

Chiefs @Buffalo
Tough pick this with Holmes out.

Vikings@Giants
This should be a no brainer.

Pats@Miami
Brady was steaming after last weeks fiasco.

Niners@Chicago
Are daBears for real? Yep againts the 49ers.

Denver@Oakland
I like them Broncos.

Jets@Carolina
Its the hometeam

Packers@Atlanta
I am having a hard time to recall such a disasterous
for the Pack since before Lombardi

Rams@Seattle
When in doubt …..you know the rest

Redskins@Tampa Bay
See the above.

Cleveland@Steelers
Should be no trouble for Ben and the lads

Dallas@Philly
Sure Owens is a scorer but his divisive childish
behaviour negates his on field prowess. The Eagles can do it without him.

While reading The Dark Valley I came across a line that stated that Hitler’s Nazis began the tradition of the Olympic torch run because they believed that since the Aryans founded the ancient Olympic Games their decendants ,the Germans’ should as proud Aryans carry a torch from Olympia to Berlin in acknowledgement of this fact. So today we have a tradition carried on that was begun by the second most evil empire to ever scourge mankind.Interesting. The same book mentions the NewYork Times ,The Guardian and the Daily Mail sucking up to Hitler ,Stalin and Mussolini. Apparently todays sucking up to Evil is nothing new for those media outlets.

Tomorrow is Remberance Day and in its observance every year I hear nothing of the craven appeasment by the western democracies particularly those in Europe that brought about World War ll.Has the lesson been learned ? Only by the United States and for having learned that lesson the Americans are vilfied by the new Euro appeasers and their own homegrown ones.

Watching Jack Layton on Canada AM this morning reminded me of Churchill’s quip about another socialist “a sheep in sheep’s clothing”. Brenda Stronach’s quip on CBC tv about Harper and viagra stuck in his throat has me wondering if she knows from personal experience about something getting stuck in the throat .

I googled Tomb with a View.There is over a million entries for that.I didnt know that it was also a title to a play and here I thought it was just a play on words. All that said I changed the spelling.

High winds here again . I hope the ships out on the Lakes are ok. The winds always bring back memories of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Freezing rain is forecast for this area but so far nothing just rain.The weatherstick is just slightly below level and the noon temp is 5C ,the morning temp was 3C. Only thing to do is hunker down.

TheGirl is making christmas cake today . Actually she cut up all the ingredients mixed them and will let it all soak in a mixture of orange brand and corn syrup.Tomorrow will be the baking day. Woooeee I love homemade cake!!!

I kinda like the the layout of the new theme . Its a keeper.

The view from the tomb this morning was heavy frost. I didnt mind that cuz the sun came out and has stayed sunny all day.I thought the building owner would be here today to inspect the wind damage, maybe tomorrow.

I read sometimes blogs by some folks that badmouth their employer.Fair enough, but doing that on company time at work. Whats with that??. A lack of ethics? No integrity? Hell if you dont like your job change it. Hell move out to Alberta where high paying jobs are going begging.

I see the game of apres vous Gaston is on in Ottawa. Layton wants Harper to do it and Harper wants Layton to do it. Let Gilles do it.No wonder Martin can barely conceal his contempt.

The French president didnt look very much like a leader on tv.He is going to crackdown on the Muslim gangs sortof. He must do better if he recalls his country’s history.

We bought a dvd player you know the new ones that play an alphabet soup of discs. This handles cds and most importantly jpegs. Now I have no reason to procrastinate burning our digital pics to some cds. Darn. While on the tech subject I bought a 256 megabyte thumb drive recently. What handy little machine that is. Some snowy afternoons this winter will see me move all my music files to the new XP box using it. So anyone in the family wanting something by the Off brothers Rachmanin and Rimsky-Korsak need only say the word.
I do love tech gadgets. If I had the bucks to buy all the lastest I would. Its probably a good thing I dont have.I think the ultimate would be to own your own MRI machine.

The gales of November came early. Some wind here off the Georgian Bay . There was slight damage done to the building but luckily no trees came down on the property.
The electrical went out four times after supper. Finally we shut our computers down in disgust and went to bed. The wind was still sounding like a freight train going by and it it didnt calm down till around 4AM
This morning I drove around the town and noticed some shingles lifted and the odd dead tree down.

Another Saturday night and we are off to the Stockey again .This time its “Suds”. I dont think that refers to beer. Maybe a review of the revue will happen.

Son David was at the cottage and having not seen him in a bit we had a visit. He had some news for us, he told us that he had just left his job of four months because he couldnt allow his integrity to be violated. I am very proud of him and I told him that. I dont worry about him because he is very well connected in the business and political world. Thats enough bragging.

Still havent got a flu shot and to compound things I missed the clinic at the hospital today because it closed at one and I thought closing was at three.(senior moment?) I’ve never had a flu shot . I caught the flu about 7 years ago and it was bad but I recovered and I think thats why I havent been sick since.This year I thought I might be tempting fate hence the need for a shot. I get outside a lot in the winter and TheGirl and I avoid crowded venues and that may also have something to do with our immunity ,that and vitamins.

Surprisingly it didnt feel strange to be back on the ice altho I had to remember that it was slippery and to watch the footing Judging the rock speed while brushing came back after one end. Hitting the broom took about two ends and judging the weight was hit and miss all game. All in all it was not too shabby from being away for four years. Oh ya it was fun and the competitive juices were flowing.

Last week 10 and 4 To date 62 and 36

Atlanta@Miami
I still like Vick’s boys.

Carolina@Tampa Bay
Chucky will have whipped them Bucs into shape after
last weekends keel-haul

Detroit@Vikings
No Culpepper =No chance

Houston @Jaguars
Them Jags aint no pussies this year.

Cinci@Baltimore
This ones a gamble pick.

Oakland@Kansas City
The Chiefs are good at home

Chargers@Jets.
Too bad for Herm but fate has been cruel to his team
this year

Tennesee @Cleveland
This is the chance to make the dog pound happy

Chicago@Saints
The Saints are near to home so I say upset here.

Giants@Niners
Everybody pans the Niners well almost everybody

Seattle @Arizona
Rumoured that Warner will start still not enough

Steelers@Green Bay
I sure feel bad about my team.

Eagles@Washington
If Eli can exploite their defense McNabb can too

Colts@Pats
This is the test for Manning and the defense .It will be
close

Sparing at the curling club tonight. Dont know how I’ll do since I havent curled in 4 years . Oh well its probably just like riding a bicycle —–you dont forget.

I was a bit busy around here with maintenace chores and also some computer tweakingand that cut into my posting times. The hockey game didnt go well our lads were tired from the game on Saturday night and also the Bradford team is a Major AA midget team and our kids are MinorBB midget they gave it a valiant try but size and speed and skill told the story.Why are they playing against AA competition ? Its because there is not enough BB teams around this area.

Yesterday we went to Tim’s and gave out candy to all the little and big trick or treaters so Tim and Barb could take their little guys out.Their neighbourhood sees quite a few children altho this year the head count was down from 250 last year to 175.There were lots of angels and princesses as well as ninja turtles one Batman ,ogres and demons and witches. All in all it was fun handing out the treats.

Got home in time to catch some of the Monday night football and the last period of the Leafs game.

Wont get to see the NFL games cuz me and TheGirl are off to the arena to watch grandson Aaron and his team play. Aaron plays chippy and gets caught more than he should retaliating.I tease him and tell him that if he is gonna spend the game in the penalty box no sense us going to watch him play.

Love the mulching lawnmower.It sure gets rid of the leaves ,I might just have to sell the rakes next yard sale season.

Just looked at the clock …close to game time.

TheGirl and I very much enjoyed the Roy Orbison tribute show.Mike Sullivan was right on as Roy. His voice was near perfect.A few songs he sang surprised me that they were written by Orbison. One was Love Hurts . I have that one by Nazareth who I thought were the writers of it. The Stockey was full and the audience had fun.We talked with Sullivan after the show and he told us how much he was impresssed by the Stockey Centre and also by the Georgian Bay.

Shucks a previouis engagement made me miss the Leafs game and the Argo game. It was nice to see that lad win the million bucks tho.

Half the season coming up.I missed the week 1 picks so my record after 7 weeks of picks is 52 and 32. Here we go again:

Buffalo@NE
The Pats should get a streak going with this one.

Arizona@Dallas
The Boys boss theBoys!

Chicago@Detroit
daBears smell on the road.

Cleveland@Houston
The Texans have to win one at home sooner or
later. Eyes of Texas are upon you.

Green Bay@Cinci
The Pack has too many injuries.

Jags@ Rams
Pick the home team .No reason

Vikings@Carolina
What real team have the Vikes beat lately?

Oakland@Tennesee
I shouldnt pick the Raiders but I got this gut feeling
see.

Redskins @Giants
Their defense will give Eli fits.

KC@Chargers
This one could be a shootout

Miami@Saints
I’m a sentimental slob this week so I take the under
dogs.Some.

Philly@Denver
The Broncs were robbed last week so they will be
Pissed off and waiting

Tampa Bay@the49ers
I aint that sentmental.

Ravens@Steelers
If Big Ben plays it will be no contest.

I wasnt even close. Wow 54 mill! I do better with the Super7 .I dont win big but I dont lose very often .Ah well someday.

I notice lately that some of the blogs I visit have a picture of Washington over the caption: my blog is worth $________. This just proves the vanity of some bloggers I guess .Is blogging an ultimate vanity?

Me and TheGirl are off to see a tribute to Roy Orbison tonight at the Stockey. Full review later. Maybe.

Nice that the White Sox won. How about that a pair of Sox in the last two years.

Better get thinking about the week 8 picks.