Game Week

Coach with his Game face on, Know why? ..... Cause its GAME WEEK.... thats why!

Small dreams realized

Standing outside of the toilet bowl, just being appreciative of not being swirled around any more, and of not getting sucked down either!

Small Dreams

Maybe tomorrow I will be able to get out of the toilet bowl, or maybe I will get sucked down the plumbing. Or maybe I will just continue to swirl. Best possible scenario is that I get out. Even if I do, I will have the look of a guy who just got out of a swirly toilet bowl, but at least I would be able to begin the process of cleaning up. We can dream.

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I am a guy whose dreams are to be able to stand next to a toilet bowl all wet and nasty from just having been in it myself, and just feel grateful about being out. Its a small dream, but it is mine. That doesn't mean that after I bask in the gratitude of being out, that I wont go on to my very next dream of beginning the process of cleaning myself up from the ordeal while hoping that I dont get sucked back into it.

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Man, if I would not have drawn that short straw......

Fantasy Draft Weekend is almost here

This weekend is my fantasy draft weekend. Two leagues. I have an idea on a sleeper pick or two. It is a guy who has not done allot in his career so far, but I am expecting him to have a breakout season. Cannot divulge his name right now because I don't want to give it away, but I believe my planning for this upcoming weekend is strong. I don't want to start counting the money yet, but those dudes are in for a fantasy beat down. Of course maybe not. Fantasy is definitely a skill, but it is also luck. Guys can get hurt, guys can let you down. You can make stupid decisions and lose that way. Last season I was in the Superbowl and chose to start Matt Ryan who ended up getting 5 fantasy points that Sunday. I had Rivers on the bench who went off for about 40, and instead of winning the first place money I had to settle for second place dollars instead.

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Last year we had a run on Receivers earlier then they should have gone so you had to be ready to get one a little higher then you wanted to because they were just flying off the lists. You don't want to end up with Hank Basket as your top receiver even if it is fun to say biscuit in the Basket.

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Don't want to drink to much either, Its kind of like Vegas when you are betting, drinking is encouraged but you should be wise. After I get a few beverages in me I swear that this is the year Antwaan Randle El is going to just flat out breakout. the dude is athletic and dynamic and I like the way he plays but each year I try to get him on my team later and later in the draft. Dudes mess with me about it, but I cant help it, I swear he is going to break out but each year he ends up being a nice enough receiver but nothing to really get as fired up about as I do.

Meat Loaf and the Secret

Just a weird thing. I was thinking about Meat loaf, the food, not the band. I had not eaten any for quite some time. My mom used to make it occasionally, but she died almost two years ago. My Ex-wife used to make it once in awhile, but we divorced over a year ago. I was thinking to myself that I wanted some meatloaf because it has been so long since I had any, and the people I know that made it for me are no longer in the cooking for Bill business.

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I started thinking about what restaurants make it and realized that you rarely ever see it on the menu, anywhere. Seriously, this past week these thoughts were on my mind. Today I went to a bar I like to go to on Sundays. It is a Mans bar in the sense that it has Tons of T.V.s and hot bar tenders. Women are not excluded, but you never see single women in this bar. When they come, they are with their boyfriends. Anyways, although I had been there multiple times, this afternoon was the first time I noticed they had Meat Loaf, so I ordered it and it was exceptional. They have some kind of a food processor and mix onions into the loaf and then they put gravy on it. Simply outstanding Meat Loaf. My Mom and My ex wife never really did it that way. they always served it straight without the gravy and then you put some catsup on it. Not that this was better, although it probably was, just that it was different. but really it was like that book where you think about stuff and then it happens. I was seriously thinking about meatloaf this whole past week, missing it and having no clue about how you make it or where you could buy it, and then a place I have been to multiple times had it all along.

Hard Knocks

Man how I love "Hard Knocks."
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Carson Palmer telling his center that he was smelling the back of his hand and it was kind of rank, and asking the center to maybe clean up a little bit.
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Chad Ochocinco bitching at Carson in a fun way when Carson threw it to another receiver during a drill. Carson coming right back to him saying that Chad wasn't open. (they were working on routes and there were no defensive players at all)
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Tank Johnson building a bunk bed for his two daughters, and my goodness those little girls were cute. Reminds me of when I was painting the backboard for my daughters bed out in the garage and she was watching me and "helping" She was about three and a half and just as cute as Tanks little girls.
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Carson Palmer explaining how he is in his mid to late twenties ( he is 29 )

Alternate SI covers...

I found this clip art of alternate Tebow covers at http://www.gump4heisman.com/my_weblog/2009/08/the-gump-presents-alternate-tim-tebow-si-covers.html#more He has more but they are mean spirited, These I just find funny!

Bill contemplates Swirlys

Setbacks in life are supposed to teach you something. When you learn those lessons then you are set up to be able to solve the problem that led to the predicament. What if your setback is being put in a proverbial toiletbowl that just swirls you around?
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I get that I am in a swirly toiletbowl, and as much as I am trying to climb out, I have been unable to do so, yet at the same time I haven't gotten sucked down the plumbing either? Just going around and around trying to get out and being unsuccessful, but at the same time wondering when the swirling is going to end and the ride into the sewer begins?

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In Chess this would be a draw, only in chess once there is a draw then that is over also. Its more like purgatory, Not going down the plumbing but not being able to climb out either?

Its Green, No, Its Yellow, No its Green, no its....

An examples of how my two kids can drive you crazy, but in a cute way, sort of, until it gets annoying.
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My daughter thinks that the "green" Gatorade is actually yellow. This in and of itself is not that earth shattering. In fact it is kind of a yellow tinted green color, so in the sense that it is close between green and yellow it actually does become a little bit of a grey issue. No, when it gets aggravating is when she comments on it and clarifies for you that it is in fact yellow, and then my 9 year old son begs to differ and opines that NO, it's green. This certainly requires a rebuttal from my daughter that it's "yellow" which of course means my son cannot, and will not leave it alone and has to re-iterate that it's Green.

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They have no off button on this debate and they will bring anyone else in on this thing that they can. Granted, I do think it is Green and sometimes I egg it on a little bit, She even usually starts off on me about it, but even though I have made this mistake many times, it still amazes me that it just wont end, short of me making it clear that this debate absolutely has to stop because my soul is seeping out of my ears listening to this endless circular argument.

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So help me please tell me what you think? Is this green or yellow?

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Leadership, the documentary

Okay, Quick post here, and just more of a note than anything else. I posted something a while back about leadership, in which it was really more of just an opportunity to put a picture that someone had sent to me via e-mail with these four women wearing what a commenter afterwards called a "clithugger" bathing suit. The gist of the post was that this is a good thing for hot women to wear and that I am for hot women wearing close to nothing at all.

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Since then, I have noticed in my blog tracker that it is one of the most read posts, of all my posts and generally drives readers to my blog more so then anything else. I re-read it and decided that it doesn't suck, so I put it up as one of my favorites, and although I know that a lot of those hits come from people searching in their google for "tiny bathing suits" and then subsequently clicking on my link, I can also see that lots of those people come back. (okay, some of them do) I deem it a favorite of mine now, and as the actual title of my side bar is something like: "Bills Favorite posts so you can't really argue." I am putting a link to it over there in my side bar. -- The tracker I use monitors 21 thousand plus different blogs and mine is ranked 1586 as of today in terms of hits, which if my math is correct that is clearly indicating that out of those 21 thousand plus blogs, at least 19,400, give or take, never put up a picture of 4 hot women wearing clithugger bikinis.

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And I would also like to point out to spell checker that I am indeed aware that "clithugger" is not spelled correctly to you, but that is only because it is a new word that Denis made up for me... Maybe next year it will be in websters..

Michael Vick

Michael Vick has a job now. Good for him. The man has some skill, and just like produce, that skill will eventually expire.
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He made a big mistake and he paid for it. The Eagles had to decide if giving a convicted felon a job was in their best interest, and they decided it was. Their were other teams that were also in the market for his services and it turns out Vick had options. He will bring some distractions with him and even though the Humane Society has also brought him on board to their cause, The PETA folks will probably never let it go. Those Peta people are a bit over the top like that, but this is the way a free market should work.

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I will be interested in seeing how the Eagles use him. McNabb is the starter, and in my opinion, he is just better then Vick anyways, even the pre-incarcerated Vick. This current post incarcerated Michael Vick might have already lost some edge. I would bet however, that there will be some starting QB's in the league who are not as good as the Eagles back up. And I believe Vick wont be just a regular backup either. I see them getting him some snaps at wideout, running back and as a change of pace at QB as well.

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I just wish the Bucs would have had the gumption to get him down here in Tampa. They evidently did not think the reward was worth the risk even though no one on the Bucs roster would be able to keep Vick from eventually taking the QB job as the full time starter.

Hard knocks in the NFL

A year ago at about this time I did not have HBO and therefore couldn't watch "Hard Knocks in the NFL." I was living in Miami, and now look at me , just one year later I live in Tampa and have HBO! Just watched "Hard Knocks", and as Chad Ocho Cinco says: CHILD PLEASE...

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It is a small victory in life and its not like I couldn't have purchased HBO when I was living in Miami, it was just that at that place, Basic Cable came free and I liked free. Here in Tampa, My rent is 175 dollars less then it was in Miami, but it doesn't include free basic cable. With the cost of 45 bucks or so for basic, and another 30 bucks more to get HBO and Showtime and stuff, I just figured I was still saving about a hundred bucks overall and damnit, I am worth it.

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Anyhow, It is a good thing to have HBO and it is good to be able to watch Hard Knocks. Its more seasonal tailgating while we wait for this thing called football season to get rolling down the road. Eventually, The season will be barrelling down the highway at 95 miles an hour with rock and roll blaring from the stereo system. Watching Hard knocks is like being in first gear going up hill in a big rig. We are at least getting that thing moving now, whereas just a month ago the big rig was just sitting there in the driveway while we tried to act like we were enjoying the lawnmower that we were riding called baseball season.

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Seriously, a few days ago, the RedSox and the Yankees had a four game series, but the NFL played its first pre-season game in Canton. Want to guess which one had better ratings? Watching Baseball is nice. but football season is like a four month long drama with twists and turns. Its like getting a good book and when it is all over in Early February its like Finishing that book and you just go "Damn that was entertaining". Its always enjoyable, but in the end you want to keep on reading. The off season is like losing your library card and being banned from the bookstore.

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I love this time of year.

Tree houses and Tree trunks

If you chose to build yourself a tree house and were happy with the design and construction of this tree house It seems to me that the last thing you would be doing is using an AX and SAW on the tree trunk itself. Even if it is just to make what you think of as pretty designs in the trunk of the tree for the overall aesthetic beauty. The tree may be used to holding up the house and the nails and construction therein, but maybe your little carvings, for what amounts to nonsense is just a little to much.

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The Tree is busy holding up your pretty little treehouse, and although at this point the tree is only getting agravated at your carvings on its trunk, You are still messing with the support that ultimately holds your nice little treehouse.

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More then likely the trunk will withstand the so called "Art" you are designing within the trunk, but maybe that causes some kind of tree borne infection that ends up with the tree no longer supporting the nice little treehouse you have going for yourself. They say people in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks, but people living in Tree houses also should not be fucking with the underlying tree for what amounts to aesthetics.

Reality and theory

If you have a goal of running 26 miles in 3 hours and 30 minutes and you are at mile 20 after 3 hours, that means you have to clip off a 5 minute mile pace for the last six miles. You have to realize you have just run 20 miles at only an 9 minute clip, and presumably you are worn out. In theory, you could still make your goal, but in reality you are done. At this point in time you haven't technically failed but the writing is on the wall.

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I sometimes feel like this is the story of my life. I am doing the best I can but my best just isn't good enough. I keep thinking I can do better but my legs are tired, I am hacking up proverbial blood and gasping for air. Still, there are only six miles to go and I have those thirty minutes....

Punching or Punched?

If you were a boxer and had yourself a pretty good run, winning all your fights and in the process not even getting hit all that often, and then you found yourself in a knock down drag out where your opponent was just wailing all over you, I think the previous success would both help and hurt. On the one hand, your self image of yourself as a kick ass boxer that mostly doesn't get hit that much would be beneficial in your confidence that you could still overcome your opponent who has recently been beating the shit out of you for a few rounds, but that same new experience might also make it seem like such a shock that you feel a little stunned at first.

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Its hard going from the punchee to the punched, but after several rounds of getting your ass kicked and still coming out for the next round, eventually the being stunned part would turn into a numbness, and after awhile the punches you take somehow start seeming less forceful. Its the Rocky way of fighting by absorbing everything they throw at you and coming back for more.

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I keep getting punched but it doesnt seem to hurt as much anymore.

Plug for the book: Angela's Ashes

I have been reading " Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt and it is absolutely fascinating. This is Mr. McCourts telling of his childhood which was ridiculously, over the top poor. The things he dealt with as a kid are amazing. This book makes me put my life and minor little issues I have in perspective.
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- Seriously, one of my issues is my car. I sometimes feel like my car is somehow not good enough for me to drive. It is old, tired, and has that issue with the duct tape and the front bumper, and so I contemplate getting a new one, but dont have anything saved up to buy what I want in cash, and am hesitant to add to my monthly financial nut. So I just drive my old tired duct taped car around in minor shame and think to myself that I should just bite the bullet and get something new. This is one of my big financial problems. - and seriously, even though I dont really want to have a car payment, somehow if I had to, I would be able to deal with that so its my choice ultimately that I drive what I drive, even if I do somehow think its beneath me.

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McCourts problems were that he often went hungry, had only one set of clothes and his dad would blow money on pints of beer instead of bringing it home to his family. Oh yes , several of his younger siblings died from consumption as toddlers and babies. THOSE types of issues ... Issues like not having enough money to buy coal to heat the home in winter and using one bed for five people. Stuff like that. So yes, in comparison, the fact I have an older, high mileage convertible with duct tape holding my front bumper cover as a problem seems a little soft on my part. -

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Bucs Cheerleaders at my GYM

The Gym I work out at, is the same Gym that the Tampa Bay Buccaneer Cheerleaders use for their workouts. These are some fine looking young women with really excellent bodies, but what kills me is how they all wear the same workout clothes right down to the same sneakers ---except for this one blonde cheerleader. She had on a different top then the others. Hers was like one of those "Sports Bras." which if she were goldilocks, then that would be all the better to see her six pack abdominal muscles.
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She was working on her obliques which is how she probably got them in the first place, but it kind of reminded me of Bill Gates winning the lottery. Look--- Hot little young blonde girl who is also a cheerleader for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Its okay to mix in a steak once in awhile. But more power to you for your devotion to your entire body but especially those abdominal muscles!

Where were you Bill?

These last three weeks my kids were staying with me in my one bedroom apartment. They went back with their mother on Sunday though, and last night I slept in my bed. Talk about a small pleasure. Sleeping on a couch for the past three weeks was wearing me out. I had a blow up mattress that my son slept on (mostly, except towards the end when he decided he would rather sleep on the couch and I slept on the blow up mattress, my daughter slept in the regular bed)

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No more clutter either. Plus I was unable to watch my show (weeds) during that time period, because my daughter is on season two and I am on Season 5, so I was able to get caught up on that tonight! Plus, Sunday afternoon, after they left, I went to a bar and had some beers! all of this is good, except now I already miss my kids again.