Well, I checked on yon car today, they said I’m looking at $400 of repairs! Dadgoneit! Eh, but tax time is coming, and hopefully the IRS will be sending a big fat refund check my way. 😀

BTW, my picks for Wild Card Weekend:

Week 17: 10-6 (3rd straight week of this!? Dang!)
Season to Date: 85-53 (.616)

Tennessee at Baltimore (I’m likely to get killed, being in TN, for this pick)
Carolina at Dallas
Denver at Indianapolis
Seattle at Green Bay

More detail is available here

And that’s the way the cookie crumbles tonight…

Well, another regular season is closing this weekend, and what a season it has been I must say, one of the most competetive in years. It’s a pleasure to have been watching, and getting annoyed as some of my picks were going down the tubes, but hey, who said anything was supposed to happen a certain way? That’s what makes the NFL so good!

Week 16: 10-6 (same as week 15)
Season: 75-47 (.615)

Buffalo at New England
Philadelphia at Washington
Seattle at San Francisco
Chicago at Kansas City
Dallas at New Orleans
Jacksonville at Atlanta
St. Louis at Detroit
Cleveland at Cincinnati
Indianapolis at Houston
NY Jets at Miami
Tampa Bay at Tennessee
Carolina at NY Giants
Minnesota at Arizona
Denver at Green Bay
Oakland at San Diego (don’t know why I’m going with the Chargers, just have a gut feeling)
Pittsburgh at Baltimore

Who knows what’ll happen!

I say again, if anyone wants to give me an easy, cheap, free christmas present, I said, comment replies! Dammit!

🙂

A special welcome to the hilarity for dzinkin and jw_justice, two of the greatest from the good ol’ days of ATGS.

My friend Samantha from work brought by some canned food for me to help alleviate the financial strain tonight, she’s such a nice gal and a great co-worker. 🙂

What am I gonna do for Christmas, seeming as how I can’t be with my family, I’ll be thinking of them in mind and heart, and will give all of them a phone call. I know the love me, and I love them, and that’s more important than any present.

BTW, I’m gonna wear my santa cap to work tomorrow so people can really start calling me St. Nick 🙂

I wonder if the cardholders think I’m the grinch when I run updates on their accounts and the system closes them out, hmmm, maybe someone will make that obvious connection soon enough… I can just hear the song being sung in the background of this situation now… “You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch.”

In case I don’t get to post again before Thursday, a Merry Christmas to everyone out there, and you all are the greatest out here in ‘net land.

You all can give me one present: comment replies, I want them now! I hardly ever get any! 😛

I didn’t want to do an edit on the previous entry, so I’ll just give a quick shoutout to 2 new users on my friends list… welcome to and old friend, jasona1 and to that opinonated man, brakusjs

My NFL picks today are lacking, 9-6 with the Monday game pending. I could end up matching last week if Green Bay wins against the Ste-roaiders… I mean, the Raiders.

BTW, if you didn’t see the end of the New Orleans-Jacksonville game, where were you? To quote Brian Griffin… “Un-friggin-believeable!”

Edit
Week 15: 10-6
Season to Date: 65-41 (.613)

Also, I had errantly forgot to bold Washington, but they lost, so I could have changed it…. but I can’t be dishonest 😀

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Atlanta at Tampa Bay
Kansas City at Minnesota
New England at NY Jets
New Orleans at Jacksonville
Washington at Chicago
Baltimore at Cleveland
Miami at Buffalo
Tennessee at Houston
Detroit at Carolina
NY Giants at Dallas
Cincinnati at St. Louis
San Diego at Pittsburgh
San Francisco at Philadelphia
Arizona at Seattle
Denver at Indianapolis
Green Bay at Oakland

Well, I thought I was getting ahead, until this car that I got decided to tank on me. Had a compression test done on it and it turns out that #3 cylinder was only operating at 50% capacity. They said I would only get off with minor engine rebuilding. Boo! Bloody mechanics wanting $$$, that’s all it is.

By the way, SNOW!!!! Finally I get some snow here in Tennessee, about 1″-2″ outside, and it looks beautiful. To quote Tweety, “This is what I get for dweaming of a white twistmas!”

NFL picks coming tonight, ciao!

Here go my picks for the UNFL… the Unpredictable National Football League 😀

Week 14: 9-7
Season to Date and Lifetime: 55-35 (.611) [hmm, dropped a bit)

Minnesota at Chicago
Atlanta at Indianapolis
San Francisco at Cinncinnati
Detroit at Kansas City
Houston at Tampa Bay
Seattle at St. Louis
Jacksonville at New England
Buffalo at Tennessee
Pittsburgh at New York Jets
Cleveland at Denver
Baltimore at Oakland
Dallas at Washington
Carolina at Arizona
Green Bay at San Diego
New York Giants at New Orleans
Philadelphia at Miami

I know this will sound like whining on my part, but it must be said.

I was over at the chatroom on Golden-Road.net this morning, and someone (who will not be named here) suggested that in the Lucky Seven game, that it was a “forced loss”. Fast foward a few seconds later, and I just submit my opinion and say “I do not think they can force a loss, that could be considered rigging the outcome”. Well, I didn’t think nothing of my comment, but then I was told two disturbing lines, again, names withheld, one basically said “I’m about the put nicholas on ignore”, and another said “You don’t understand what we’re talking about, so shush”.

Well, I don’t usually make these kinds of posts to any forum, be it journal, message board forum or chatroom, but I just wonder why these so called “fans” over on that board really do besides complain about a show. I am seriously considering never going there again, and I probably would be better off not going there again, no offense to the moderators, who have done nothing wrong whatsoever, but I just take issues with some of these so called “fans”, not on a personal basis, but just for a matter of respect for someone who has a dissenting opinion of what they think of a TV show.