The Stupidest Angel

Finished reading "The Stupidest Angel" by Christopher Moore, one of my favorite authors. This book was, as usual, hilarious. If you've never read any of his books, you should try him on for size.

Braylon Edwards

On Braylon Edwards:

1. Everybody is human. Most people break the law in some way.
2. Sometimes people get angry and hit other people, been that way since the dawn of time
3. Drops passes. In the NFL, if you are a receiver, you can't drop consistently. You catch consistently. Period. Duh!

During the debacle that was Romeo Crennel's tenure, I stated that with better coaching, Edwards could catch the ball. I saw improvement when Eric Mangini came in. One of the tenets of a wide receiver (not Romeo catching a cheeseburger, Edwards) is to catch and run. Unfortunately, Braylon could not outrun his own stupidity. In the end, this was a good trade for both teams. To Braylon, all the best, have fun, break the law, punch people you know, be human. Just catch the damn ball!!!

P.S. To our knowledge, no coaches or wide receivers were actually hurt during this post, although we tried.

Sherrybaby

Watched a movie called "Sherrybaby" from netflix last night. Definitely not main stream, more like "Less Than Zero" or "21 Grams". Gritty. We both liked it for different reasons. Maggie Gyllenhaal was good.

Toshiba laptop fun

Started looking at a Toshiba laptop for a friend of mine. It boots up and goes to the desktop just fine except that the mouse and keyboard are unresponsive. I plugged in a mouse to the USB port and no change. I restarted (the on/off key works) and booted into safe with the same results. For those of you playing at home I'd like to point out that during boot time the keyboard seems to work (F8). Hmmmm! Who doesn't like a puzzle? Stay tuned, I'll get to the bottom of this. Toshiba laptop fun #2

The Emijj's web site

Put up a web site for The Emijj yesterday. I registered the domain a couple days before that. It's not a finished product yet, small steps, right?

La Bodega

Finally made it to La Bodega in Tremont today. I ordered the sun dried tomato chicken wrap(#61) and Mary tried the roast beef(#62) as a wrap. The food was ready in about ten minutes and came wrapped in foil and butcher paper. We both preferred the chicken over the roast beef but we both like roast beef a little more cooked. However, that said, the beef tender and not stringy. The potato salad was good too. We look forward to exploring more of this menu. Their web site is here.

Windows 7 Launch Party

Sometime back, Microsoft sent me an invitation to host a window 7 launch party. I participated in their beta testing program for windows 7 and they must have felt obligated to extend me this courtesy. So I responded but on Wednesday got the email denying me my right to be a host. I knew the odds were steep but thought, what the hell. It's a good thing they didn't ask me for the list of people attending because we were going to round up all the bobble heads and other inanimate "people" we could find! We may still have one, haven't decided yet. My main attraction was the free edition of windows 7 ultimate anyway.