Getting some sleep before my graduation tomorrow! Only three more months before I become a Wolverine on paper in addition to all of the other ways.
retractable adamantium claws, huh?
MGoPoint tally.
Are you sure you haven't had a few beers? Maybe a 24 pack? I'm just sitting back in my living room and watching some good old American Pie.
Shooting rats down by the city dump. After that, probably some wicked jazz guitar.
Got an Oberon on the desk and the Rolling Stones on the turntable. Pretty excellent night.
Broke a bone in my foot sliding into 2nd playing beer league softball, so I'm hobbling around the house reminiscing of glorious times when I could slide into bases without the fear of breaking a bone. God damnit.
I turned 40 this year, and I realized there are two things I'm afraid to do that were never a problem: jump as high as I can, and climb on my roof.
You laugh, young lads, but it happens...
I have been running since I was in middle school over 15 years ago. In that time I have picked up marathon running, almost qualifying for Boston, and running a 24 hour race. In all that time I have yet to pick up a major injury, just minor shin splints, muscle pulls, and cramps. However, on wednesday I rolled my ankle coming down the steps of the BTB cantina. I visited UHS and my doctor believes I have a partial tear in a ligament. So now I am in a boot and with my ankle wrapped... There goes my plans to run the Minneapolis marathon with my sister.
I started running a bit recently to get in shape. It's been a couple months since I started.
I purchases a handheld GPS this week and decided to use the stop watch function on my run yesterday (mistake).
Result: 1.07 miles in 11:03
That put me squarely into the "wow, I'm really old and out of shape" mood...
Comparing that to my 1.5 mile time of 7:30 from nearly 20 years ago is depressing... Beer please!
I was in grad school at the time and had been struck with the inspiration to train for a marathon. I left my apartment and ran for what seemed like 30-40 minutes. I came back to check the clock. 8 minutes. That's all my fat ass could handle. It was also great to realize that not only was I out of shape, I was clearly an idiot as well, thinking so much time had lapsed.
I thought I was running closer to 1.5 miles in 11 mins...
I guess it's possible that my new Garmin was off by .5 mile.... or not... another beer please!
I run with the Nike+ system. Even though it is not a garmin it is fairly accurate if you perform the calibration option on a track. I have gotten it accurate to +/- 0.1 miles.
Good luck training. Running is a great sport and activity.
I run with the Nike+ system. Even though it is not a garmin it is fairly accurate if you perform the calibration option on a track. I have gotten it accurate to +/- 0.1 miles.
Good luck training. Running is a great sport and activity.
including some bell's two hearted. now i'm on the phone with my fiancee. she may be a little upset if she knew i was typing on mgoblog while i was listening to the many great details of her day...
No Oberon, no Two Hearted for me. Cue the tiny violin.
Long time fan of Oberon, but just tried Two Hearted for the first tme yesterday. Pleasant hints (not so subtle) of grapefruit. I think I'm going to grab some for my son's first birthday party tomorrow.
Your wife would let you bring beer to your son's b-day party? Wow. No way in hell that would ever happen at my house.
what do I know? But unless he's bottle feeding the one year old said beer, I can't see any reasonable objection. It's still a party.
I tried using that line with my wife, too, when I suggested beer (for the adults) at our child's birthday party a few years ago. Almost ended up sleeping on the couch.
One of these days, you'll be married. Then you will understand.
This worked out OK in the end: Oh yeah, then there's this: OK, your wife wins.
I just received preapproval for beer at birthday parties for hypothetical children.
Not if you avoid the tricycle engines. A marriage really can be just two people.
13 years and counting . . .
Her response was "Hell Yea! I'll be fuckin drinking too!"
This is really bringing into perspective how young my parents and their friends were when they started having kids... all my birthday parties EVER were definitely just excuses for my dad to throw ragers. "My kid's 1st birthday man, let's get HAMMERED IN THE CHUCK E. CHEESE BALLPIT!" (There is photographic evidence of this... how did I survive to 20???)
Including my sweet 16, where my aunt got so drunk she started dancing ON THE BAR (the fact that there WAS a bar should be a clue) and then tripped over a hedge and rolled around on her back like a drunk, flipped over turtle until my mom picked her up. Around this time, other parents started picking up their kids and WERE NOT amused.
And since I ended up a relatively normal kid (valedictorian of my HS and going to UM no less), this should be used as an example that nothing bad will happen to Jr. if you happen to knock back a few at his birthday.
There would be one of two positive outcomes:
1) You get beer at the party
2) You sleep on the couch and can drink beer all night.
As you probably know, the power flows matrilineally.
My wife's mom is Irish.
Hence, the party is still going and I am about to get in trouble for not having a beer in my hand, so I gotta go to the cooler.
Wanted to go out but the weather sucks, so the wife and I are watching Revolutionary Road.
Spooky. I did the same thing. Man if that ain't the feel good hit of the summer, especially when you have an 8-year old...
Yeah,I saw it at the theater and afterwards I wanted to punch the guy in the ticket booth and get my money back but I had already ripped out my eyeballs
Getting ready to ref the quarterfinals of state cup for boys soccer over in saginaw.
My sister is playing on the girls' side of that tournament.
Just getting frustrated watching the tigers. They honestly have to be one of the most inconsistent teams in the mlb
They are one of the ten best teams in baseball right now. What more do you want?
"One of the ten best" means theyre in the top third of the league... thats not much of an accomplishment, especially when you have the 5th largest payroll in the league.
To answer your question, i'd just like some consistency.
They've won or split 7 of their last 8 series. I just don't really know how you can say that's not consistent. If anything you should be encouraged because they've done it without any production from their preseason 2 and 3 starters.
Its how bad they look when they lose. Their run differential is only +4 even though were 6 above .500 because we just randomly lay huge eggs. It just seems they're inconsistent because they go on hot streaks (win/splitting 6 of the last 8 series) and then they tank a couple series in a row (i.e getting swept at minnesota earlier in the year after sweeping LAA).
Also, the hitting definitely has to get more consistent imo. Billingsley is a solid pitcher but not the kinda guy that should be throwing 7 innings and only giving up 1 run on a sac fly.
You don't really understand baseball. It's okay to have a bad game here or there. The Tigers are 6 games over .500 and it's May. This is what you want. Every team, minus the rays this year, go on streaks.
And you don't understand how to read and comprehend. Having a bad game here or there is fine; absolutely tanking games and hitting like a D-2 softball lineup for weeks at a time is not ok. we've played a relatively easy schedule thus far and we're still 2 games back (probably) after today.
We haven't scored a run outside of the first inning in this series yet and the dodgers aren't exactly starting cy young candidates, not to mention their bullpen is awful. If you don't think this team's hitting issues ,along with the lack of starting pitching, are serious problems then you are delusional.
It's ok to be critical at times as a fan. Being a complete homer isn't such a great thing.
I wasn't surprised to find that their schedule is ranked 11th so far in the majors. As DfW said, you're going to have off games in baseball....it's just the way it is.
LOST Sunday! The biggest TV final ever. Be there!!
got better things to do........
Like...
Mowing the lawn. Having my hair done. Cleaning out the gutters. Watching The Notebook.
Those can all be done before 8. You are just making things up because you really don't have anything to do on a Sunday night.
The Notebook multiple times to soak in the details.
Me too. Except with Lost. In it's entirety.
scratch my eyes out.
Or, apparently, watch The Notebook.