Click images for desktop size: "Ogres Become Kings" by J3 Designs I got a haircut yesterday.
Just another episode in my unending quest in for the perfect single digit priced hair cut.
This ones okay. My friend says its the best cheap haircut I've gotten in years . . . Even falling apart I look good.
I had to make 3 dozen fresh spring rolls for my friend to take to a work pot luck lunch today. They changed it from their normal Friday to today so that my friend wouldn't miss it. She'll be off the next six days. (We have no plans that I know of except for Saturday with USC vs Virginia!)
I started chopping at five, started putting them together at seven and finished at 11:30 p.m. I'm fastidious. I had to take the garbage and recycling out and then I got a welcome phone call from my puppy's Aunt and Uncle. She's got an important job interview today; in about 45 minutes!
Best hoping being done here for her there . . .
She called to wish me a happy birthday. Wrong date.
When I was like 6 or 7 I looked my birthday up in an almanac to see what other important things happened on the day. The only significant event on my birthday was the explosion or Krakotoa . . . That was a pretty big deal. They even made a movie about it: "Krakotoa, East of Java" except Krakotoa is actually South West
Click images for desktop size: "The Plight Of The Homeless" by Unknown of Java, which doesn't speak well for the movies accuracy, I guess. They did a TV remake in 2006. I managed to avoid that one.
For years the largest explosion on earth, bigger than an H-Bomb had always occurred on August the 28th 1883. Then somebody decided that that was wrong . . . and suddenly this event was bumped back a day . . . daylight savings time or leap year I guess.
Or, more likely, they needed to re-write history in order to leave the day totally clear for the entry commemorating my life.
Anybody who has ever watched me go through a stack of photos and pick one up and say, "Hey, who's this good looking guy?" Only to be told that the guy in the picture was me has good reason to wonder if I'm joking about re-writing history.
I'm still feeling the stoke of the upcoming football season.
I've registered for the contest predicting games. I hope they have a Roomba for a prize again. I need a new Roomba.
I still prefer the College game for excitement and beauty but the NFL still offers the world's finest athletes in destructive clashes. It has its own beauty and sense of wonder.
I'd never predict a college game. Look, USC lost to Stanford last year . . . but the NFL lacks the heart that young kids bring to the game. So in response to the question, "Who's going to win the Super Bowl?" I can only say, "I have no idea."
But the great thing about predictions in August is that only the cruelest person would remind you of them in December.
I can't see the New England Patriots not winning the AFC East. It won't be the excitement of last season. The other teams have improved and New England is older and beaten up but they have too much. The Buffalo Bills are thin but they've got the starters to make a serious run at a playoff spot. Buffalo is such a destroyed city that I hope they do make it.

The AFC North is a mess. This should be Cincinnati's year to take it but they're a huge mess on both sides of the ball and so desperate that they bought back Chris Henry after swearing they wouldn't. I love Carson Palmer and Chad Johnson but it still looks like its the Steeler's Division. Cleveland is too beaten up and just looks and feels disorganized. They still need to learn how to win the important games.

I think that this could be the year that
Click images for desktop size: "Game Time" by NFL Films Jacksonville upsets Indianapolis for the AFC South championship. Dungy is tired, Manning is coming off a serious surgery. The Colts did little to bolster their roster this season while Jacksonville proved that they've learned how to win. They could romp this year. I'd still pick the Colts for the Wild Card though.
The teams in the AFC West were a bad joke last year. They've done little to step up. You have to give it to San Diego by default.

The NFC East is interesting. Four desperate teams. With no D-Line left I can't see the Giants repeating, maybe not even making the playoffs. Jim Zorn is a fascist and totally unknown as a coach and the Redskins still need a QB. Philadelphia is angry. I don't think they've got the fire to win but could make the play offs. Which leaves the Cowboys. I don't like much about the Cowboys, including their signing of Tank Johnson and Pacman Jones. But at least they want to win. I think they will, if they don't blow up in the locker room.

The NFC North is as big a mess as the AFC West. No team made serious attempts to bolster their rosters this year. The Bears were a joke draft day. The Packers will spend the season recovering from the Brett Favre fiasco. The Vikings still have Jackson at QB and figure they did all they could the year before. So, for years its been chic to pick the Lions to breakout. I'm a slave to fashion. I'll go with Detroit.

The NFC South is easy. New Orleans. The Saints went and filled needs. Dru Brees has proven he's an elite talent. Reggie Bush should follow OJ Simpson and have his break through season now. It took Simpson three years and an impressive display in the All Star game to break loose. Reggie Bush has too much talent to not follow that trend.

There must be something about the West. The NFC West is nearly as big a joke as the AFC West. Seattle has no one to challenge them yet.

I wish it were as easy to pick a President as it is to pick football. Obama's choice of Biden as a VP leaves me with no confidence. This seems not like a choice for "experience". It sounds more like business a usual instead of any sort of change. I've heard of nothing yet to convince me he's for real and plenty that makes me distrust him. And the stuff I dislike about him doesn't come from the maggot McCain supporters but from his own camp.

Click images for desktop size: "Anime" by Unknown McCain is a lying jackass jackal. I almost want to see him elected to see how he finishes off destroying America. That is what he and his diseased cronies would surely do. His supporters deserve the carnage he'll surely leave behind.
I'm still searching for someone I want to vote for. The Libertarians keep grinding the same rhetoric of the past 20 years. The Green Party is invisible.
I just don't know.

The dogs want to take me for a walk. I have calls to make and motions of trying to make work to go through.
Much going on, none of it at all bad at all.