10/24/2004

TEN RANDOM THOUGHTS #8

  1. Why does anybody connected with NASCAR ever get in an airplane?
  2. “I’m [insert name here], and I approved this message” has gotten old more quickly than any “tee hee, aren’t I clever” catchphrase since “Is that your final answer?”.
  3. Hasty’s Law of Inexplicably Inapplicable Voltage states: Whatever size battery you need will be the one size you don’t have in the house.
  4. Has anybody ever had their mind changed about anything by an Internet debate?
  5. There are not enough lime-flavored things. There should be more.
  6. Which is worse right now: Being a Penn State fan and watching your beloved coach slowly suck all the life out of the dynasty he created be refusing to acknowledge what everybody on the face of the planet already knows (namely, that if he coaches even one more season there will be a big smoking hole where Penn State football used to be), or being a Florida fan and watching one of your athletic director’s buddies drive the program into the ground in less time than it takes to get through law school? And is being a Baylor fan worse than either of those?
  7. Speaking of odious catchphrases, no, I will not “kick it up a notch.”
  8. People with newborns in the house have a real hard time coming up with lists of ten bulleted points without at least one of those points referring to the actual child.
  9. So since Serena sleeps more or less through the night and hardly makes a noise unless somebody is changing her clothes, we’re in for some epic fussiness and noisemaking later on, aren’t we?
  10. They’re building an Arby’s three blocks away from us but dang it, they’re not building it fast enough.
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5 Comments

  1. Your Hawkeyes did win a nice, tight baseball game over Penn State yesterday, MH.

    Comment by Paul — 10/24/2004 @ 10:06 pm

  2. 9. You should have a couple of months until the kid develops a personality around 3-4 months.
    It wasn’t until five months that Cole started staring at us as if we were the worst people in the world when we put him down in his chair — then shrieked.

    Comment by Zygote — 10/25/2004 @ 10:49 am

  3. My youngest son was basically the same. Slept through the night real young and was real agreeable when awake. He used to amuse himself for long stretches…it got to the point that we pick him up out of sheer guilt! Of course now he’s a little devil at the age of seven…

    Comment by Jon — 10/25/2004 @ 4:03 pm

  4. I really don’t get Paterno any more. One of the things he did to save his career (and the program) during his early tenure as head coach was to recognize that his current juniors/seniors weren’t cutting it, and switch to a nearly all young lineup to move forward.

    For several games now, it has appeared that he might do it, then he backs off. Why the hell isn’t Morelli playing QB? Yeah, Robinson gives us a better chance to win, but who the heck cares now? We need a better chance to win NEXT YEAR and the YEAR AFTER THAT. And Mills is just a complete waste at this point.

    And don’t get me started about the offensive line. How much worse could a bunch of freshmen and sophomores possibly be than this bunch of losers?

    At least we have more freshmen playing on defense now, and I don’t think the improved performance of that side is a coincidence.

    Comment by M1EK — 10/26/2004 @ 10:12 am

  5. Hey Mark,

    Congrats on the little one! She’s a cutie!

    What about being a UTEP fan, knowing the drunkard Mike Price is your coach? Or being a Bamer fan and having to say, “If Saint Brodie weren’t hurt we’d be undefeated.” Or being a Bamer fan and nowing your coach is untouchable for two more seasons.

    God I love hating them.

    Comment by Kenny — 10/27/2004 @ 9:19 pm

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