BIG NEWS!!

As of about 10 a.m this morning, Chrissy and I are engaged! Yaaayy!! Here's how it went:

Chrissy just got a new job, and her last day at the old place was 12/15. She doesn't start the new place until 12/28. So she was already planning to take some time off and spend some time in Jersey at her mom's place. I am going up to Jersey for Christmas weekend. Instead of taking two cars, we were meeting her mom & sister 1/2 way and I was handing off Chrissy & Buddy (the cat). Before we left the apartment, I suggested she use the facilities since she had a long ride. While she was in there, I put the ring, in the open case, into the cat carrier and closed the door. When she came out, I handed her the cat and asked her to put him in the carrier. She put the carrier on the couch, opened the door, took a step back and gasped. She asked, "Is that for me?" I said, "Yes." She gasped again and took another step back. I picked up the ring and held it out to her. Her face turned red and tears began swelling in her eyes. She was near hyperventilating/laughing/crying, so I waited until her breathing regulated and said, "Will you marry me?" She shrieked, took another step back and turned away with her face in her hands. After a few seconds of hysterics, she realized she hadn't answered, so she turned back around and said, "OH! Yes! YES!!"

So, as of now, the date is set for November 5, 2005! Yaaayyy!!

So much for that...

Guess the Redskins don't mean jack shit when it comes to the presidential election.

Redskins Loss Portends Kerry Victory

Yahoo! News - Does Redskins Loss Portend Kerry Victory?

Ok. The Skins have done their part. Let's keep the streak alive! I know, I said last week that I wanted the streak to be broken. But that was when the outcome of the game was still in doubt. I wanted to have my cake & eat it, too. Of course, I never did like that expression; if you don't have the cake, how can you eat it? You can't eat a cake that is in someone else's possession... Anyway, I only wanted the streak broken so both the Redskins and Kerry could win. Now I want the streak to stay intact since the Redskins already lost. GO KERRY!!

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Sports (Winning Tradition)

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Sports (Winning Tradition)

For the love of GOD, let this be a streak that is broken this year! I suppose I must say, though, that, given the choice, I'll have to say let the 'Skins lose this weekend. We're talking one game versus four years...

Superman!!

Warner Bros. Pictures Casts Brandon Routh as Superman
It's official! Brandon Routh (rhymes with "mouth," I think) will play Superman!! I have no clue whether this guy has the chops to BE the Man of Steel, but he certainly looks the part. Much more so than Josh "Hollywood Homicide" Hartnett. We shall see. I have faith in Bryan Singer's ability to bring a comic book to life on the big screen. :-)

TV

Well, I'm watching the series premiere of CSI: NY. So far, so good. Although, I just noticed a flaw in the first half. They take a picture of a woman at an unknown location. In the background, they have the height of two buildings and her height and triangulate her location. Only problem is that they use her height of 5'-9" to triangulate even though she's bent over blowing a kiss to whoever took the picture, which means she would have been shorter than 5'-9". Ah well. Suspension of disbelief, I guess.

I think I liked the season premiere of Smallville better. Clark (Kal-El, actually) actually flew! Despite the mandate of the creators at the beginning of the series of "No cape, No flight," he flew in tonight's episode. Also the arrival of Lois Lane. And an appearance by Margot Kidder. Interestingly enough, there was a good Clark/bad Clark fight scene very similar to that in Superman III which starred Annette O'Toole (who plays Martha Kent on Smallville) as Lana Lang.

Finally... and I have been avoiding this... What the F--- happened to the Skins this weekend? It was like I wasn't watching a Joe Gibbs-coached team. They looked great in the first quarter. After that, they fell apart! I just don't know. Hopefully, Gibbs can kick some sense into them by Monday night's game against the Cowboys. I don't hold out too much hope, though. Unfortunately, thay always seem to go to pieces against Dallas. We shall see. HAIL TO THE REDSKINS!!

Still a fan....

Grrrrrrr....

Yet again, another brilliant idea of mine (so modest) gets developed by others. From a recent news article about the war on spam by AOL and Microsoft, among others: "Several proposals by Microsoft and others would allow Internet providers to check that a message from joe@example.com actually comes from example.com's server computers. Messages that do not match up could be safely rejected as spam. The technology would be invisible to everyday users."

This is exactly what I have been saying for years about fighting spam.

Catching up

Ok, so it's been over two weeks since I posted. Part of the reason is that I was at the beach for a week! :-) Wildwood Crest, NJ. It was wonderful! Chrissy, her sister Noelle, our friend Eleanor and I spent five fabulous days and four fun-filled nights at the beautiful Commander by the Sea Motel! It was actually very nice. It's pretty much a no-frills motel, but clean and friendly. Beautiful weather and very relaxing. It was a shame to have to come back to work...

REDSKINS!!! Yaaayyy!!! Skins won the season opener! Gibbs is back, baby! I think we could have done better. Offense floundered a bit in the beginning of the 2nd 1/2. I was very impressed by Mark Brunell. I think he will be a great asset to the team. He brought a sense of on-field leadership that has been severely lacking with this team for a while. I hope Ramsey plays it smart and absorbs everything he can from Brunell. He could learn a lot.

NASCAR Chase for the Cup is on. It's like playoffs for NASCAR. I'm actually impressed with it. I was wary of the new points system at first. Now that I've seen it in action, I think I like it. It's made it pretty exciting for late in the season.

Think that's about it for now. Guess I didn't miss much...

Oliver Oliver Oliver Oliverrrrrrrr The Humanzee!

Oliver Oliver Oliver Oliverrrrrrrr The Humanzee!

Damn you, Elliot Siegel! I don't know where he found it, but Elliot (morning DJ on DC101) plays this music on occasion when he's trying to fill air time when he's doing something that he can't put on the air. I checked out the other things on the site and they're fairly boring, but Oliver is catchy as hell. Once I hear it or even think about it, it gets stuck in my head. (click on "Flash Animation")

Aye caramba

Well, it's been a while since I've had a chance to update my blog. As my family and many of my friends know, this is the reason why: on Sunday, August 8, I was traveling southbound on Route 2 in Glen Burnie. I was on my way home from getting my hair cut. I was stopped at the traffic light at Route 648 when I was rear-ended by a guy in a Silver Dodge pick-up truck. It's the first time I've been in a real auto accident. So I spent the next two days calling insurance companies, visiting doctors, staying home from work (so it hasn't been all bad), laying in bed with a heating pad and watching movies (ditto). After two days of staying home, I went back to work. However, since I have had to go to follow-up visits to my doctor, and 3 visits per week to the chiropractor/physical therapist, it's been a major pain. I've had to leave work early to fight traffic in a rental car in order to make it to the doctors.

I'm pretty much close to normal now. I've got my car back. Of course, I now have to fight with Enterprise Rent-a-Car and the insurance company (Geico) because I got my car back on Friday, was out of town on Saturday, Enterprise is closed on Sunday, and there were 3 accidents on the way home from work yesterday (so I missed my doctor's appointment, too). Therefore, I was unable to return the rental until today. Now Enterprise wants to charge me for the extra days. My view on this is that the only reason I have to put up with any of this is because their insured rear-ended me at... a... red... light.... If I can't make it to Enterprise for two weeks, well, that's just too friggin' bad. I refuse to pay money out of my pocket so that they can be convenienced.