Soon to have an Xbox 360?
Over the years I have had my fair share of consoles. I’ve owned all the last generation consoles, and not all at the same time. My first PS2 died, so I traded in for an Xbox. Then visa versa. I also owned a Gamecube for awhile. Then while I had my Xbox and Gamecube, I bought into the PSP and traded all my gear to build up my PS2/PSP library. Then I sold the PSP and all my games to start off with a Nintendo DS and gradually moved into a Wii.
Now, I’m looking to add to the Wii and get an Xbox 360. I might be getting one through an awards program at work. I’ve been earning points for various achievements of excellence as well nominations from my co-workers. These points might be used for an Xbox 360 Arcade system. I’ll then be needing to buy some stuff to go with it (hard drive, Live card, MS points, controller, some games). So, since I’m married with two kids, work in this economy, and have Christmas coming, I decided to see what the online community would contribute. Sure its a shot in the dark, but I’ve donated a dollar or two to similar requests looking to fix their car, buy video games, open heart surgery, etc. The link to my Paypal account is here.
You looking to get services for money? How about web hosting? I can provide that. Name your price for 100Mb of hosting. Cash? Xbox 360 gear?
Or, you can click my Google Ad on the side over there —>.
Finally Some Fantasy Football Wins
Over the last decade, I have had some successful runs at Fantasy Football, mainly our office ones. I have won 4 championships through work. Including a three year run of domination. I mainly been playing fantasy leagues on Yahoo under my old name fast_eddie_mac and current qwikstreet.The first couple years of the league were easy. Half of the league barely looked at their teams after the draft, and the rest that looked had no idea on what they were doing. These last three years have been a little more difficult. The coaching talent is beefier and more knowledgeable of the whole league and who can do what.
This year I was hoping for some satisfaction and not an early bailout in the first round of the playoffs. In the two leagues I was in this year I started off with some great draft rounds. My work league I was fourth and another league I first. Awesome! Time to make some great picks. Lets see what I picked.
Tom Brady (out for the season)
Nate Burelson (out for the season)
Jeff Garcia (sucked down to third string)
Joey Galloway (still hasn’t played)
Kevin Curtis (still hasn’t played)
In both leagues I have suffered 0-2 starts until this weekend when I finally picked up a win in both leagues on the Monday night game. Thank you LT and Lavernuis Cole. This weekend I go up against undefeated first place teams in both leagues. Yeah me.
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Bowers Chile Festival is a wet time
Thanks to Hurricane Hannah, our plans for the weekend are all screwed up. No disc golf at noon, no kid’s first soccer game of the season, and no morning trip out to Bowers for the Bowers Chile Festival. Oh wait, screw the rain, I WANT SOME HOT SHIT!!!
Rain didn’t steer us away from driving a few miles into the countryside to attend the annual Bowers Chile Festival. Apparently, the rain didn’t scare off other fans of the pepper. Rain was coming down in buckets and it was a cold rain. However, the sauces, salsa, pretzels, nuts, vinegar, and more kept us warm and toasty inside. I should of brought more money than I did. The only thing I didn’t walk away with was a hot sauce for my desk at work. I did try my fair share but was too wet to decide the one I want. Plus, the sample chip/pretzels were getting soggy and stale and I couldn’t get the full taste.
I did get mustard, habanero pickles, a few types of peppers for cooking, BBQ sauce, and jalepano relish. The best thing I ate was mushrooms stuffed with crab. The hot peppers stuffed with crab was good too. I even had a salsa that was grey colored and was off the charts that the vendor used to rank his other flavors. He just said it was stupid hot, and man was it ever. There was also a sauce I tried where I had to sign a health waiver. I haven’t had to sign a waiver like that since I bought grain alcohol in college. That sauce was worse off than stupid hot. It was insane.It’s called Anhilation by Torchbearer, which doesn’t look like they carry it on their site.
I was soaked by the end but it didn’t matter to me.
Bats In My Basement
The other morning, I went about my morning routine as usual. I went downstairs to make some coffee and then into the basement to turn on the water for the bathroom. (We have to shut the hot water off due to a leaky faucet.) As I was starting to come back upstairs from the basement, one of our fly paper traps was swinging from side to side. So, I had to take a closer look and saw something other than a few dead flies.
What I saw was a bat stuck to the backside of the trap. I will admit, it fuckin’ freaked me out. Call me a wuss, but I had a bat in my basement. It’s wings were wrapped around the box shaped trap and the head was inside the box. It attempted to eat its way free. My wife was overly concerned with the bat and fished it out of the garbage. I told her there was not much we could do for it. It probably will never fly again because of the glue and a tear it one of the wings.
Of course, she didn’t listen. She ended up calling the Lehigh Valley Zoo to find out what can be done. She ended up peeling its wings off the trap and placed it in a box. She cut up fruit and fed the creature. My co-workers were making fun of me because I was about to have a new pet. Luckily, that is not the case…