How does a new father get ready for election night? By going to the grocery store and purchasing Similac and Sam Adams Winter Lager, of course! There must have been a lot of other parents making similar purchases, because the guy working the register didn’t bat an eye at the two items in my basket.
It may be a bit early for Winter Lager, but I love it so I bought it. However, at Blockbuster, there is already a Christmas movie section up. It’s November 1, give us a couple days to prepare!
The NFL is stupid. I’m doubly glad I’m not a gambler, because I would have no idea how to bet on games this season. Jacksonville beats the Chiefs and Colts, then looks awful against Houston. The Falcons look like a bad high school team against the Chiefs, then destroy Denver. Minnesota looked like a Super Bowl team, then decide to get rolled by the Giants, who got rolled by the Lions last week. Those same Lions go lose to a Dallas team that appeared to be coming apart at the seems. Parity, parity, parity. Does anyone outside Philly have that much faith in the Eagles? I didn’t think so. It’s stupid. Something needs to be done to get us back to the days when there were more 12-4 and 2-14 teams than 8-8 teams. It’s just not that exciting.
While we’re on the topic of stupidity and the NFL, did the Colts run a bunch of I-AA guys out on defense yesterday? I think Priest Holmes got at least ten yards on every carry before he was touched, and Chiefs receivers could run textbook patterns all day because they were never covered. I thought the Chiefs’ defense was atrocious against Carolina earlier this year. What the Colts did yesterday was almost criminal. That said, if Peyton doesn’t overthrow Harrison when it was tied 7-7 and Marvin had two steps on the Chiefs’ d-backs, it’s a different game. I bet Bill Simmons was pleased that Manning threw another late INT that cost his team a chance to tie or win the game with a successful on-side kick.
I’m a little late to the party, but we watched Desperate Housewives over the weekend. Consider me hooked. Eva Longoria would once have been called “D material”. Maybe she still is, I don’t know. I don’t keep up with these things anymore. Compliments to whoever brought Terri Hatcher back from the dead, too. We’ll see if I continue watching and get around one of my TV pet-peeves. I hate it when networks put good shows on Sunday nights. I’ve never been able to consistently watch something on Sundays. I remember four years ago seeing ads for this new show called Ed. I thought, “That looks great,” but the fact it was on Sundays meant I would probably never see it. Sure enough, I saw my first episode only after NBC moved it to Wednesdays. Now that I’ve got a kid and spend pretty much every night on the couch may change my ways, though.
With the election coming up tomorrow, expect some political discussion over the next 48 hours here. I’ll be sharing my election predictions tomorrow. I have put together a mix of political music that’s dominating my iTunes. I’ll share that playlist later today. And I will be taking copious notes tomorrow night and posting those Wednesday. It’s the MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND, so I think the extra coverage is warranted. If you’re sick of it all, or just not interested, check back on Thursday.
Baby’s first Halloween was a bit of a bust. Saturday night, we went to a kid-friendly party in full costume. M. never got her late afternoon/early evening nap in, and thus decided to cry for most of the two hours we were at the party. When she really got cranked up, we decided to flee rather than be the people with the kid that ruined the event for everyone. Naturally, as soon as we were out of the driveway and headed home, M. started smiling and laughing at S. Because of our abbreviated stay, there are fewer pics that we had hoped of all of us in costume. We’re going to take some more photos this week and I’ll add those into the album, but for now what pics we did take are available at the usual location. I’m pretty bummed we don’t have more pics of M. in her Little Stinker costume or of S. and I as Ariana and Craig, the Spartan Spirit cheerleaders, in action.
Sunday night, we were going to hang out at our place for a little while, greeting neighborhood kids with candy, then head to over to a gathering some friends were having. We waited for nearly an hour, but had no trick or treaters. Not a one. There was a neighborhood party in the afternoon so that must have sucked all the life out of the kids. As we were leaving our street at 6:30, we saw the first batch of kids heading towards our cul-de-sac. Sorry kids! We threw M. in her costume and made our way to the home of some friends who live just on the edge of the old, fancy neighborhoods and the inner city. There were literally busloads of kids from the inner city who came out to trick or treat in the more affluent neighborhoods. It was a little sad to see how many of them didn’t have costumes; they just had their jackets or sweatshirts on. Our hosts are rather well off and were giving out all kinds of candies, cookies, and bags of chips. Some of the kids would stare at them in disbelief when their bags filled up with all the goodies they were getting.
Hope all of you had safe and happy Halloweens. More to come later.
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