That's just our starter today. I have quite a bit I could write about if I could only remember it all. Let's start with some of the most recent....

That Packers-Eagles game last night was awful. I know the weather wasn't the greatest, but come on, both teams just looked pathetic. Kudos to the Eagles for finally deciding to win a game that Green Bay apparently never had any interest in winning from the start. Realistically, about 99% of the blame deserves to go on Mike Sherman and Tom Rossely. I don't care who the QB is, a Pop Warner player could tell that Favre couldn't grip the ball last night with the combination of his cast and the rain. Why not put Doug Pederson in? Hell, Gilbert Brown could just as effectively hand off to Ahman Green and fumble every time he drops back to pass. Even without that bullheadedness, what was with the Packers' second-to-last offensive series. You know, the one where they quite effectively ran out the clock by not even making an attempt to get a first down, guaranteeing the Eagles a chance to march down the field and win the game - which they did. The Packers have this horrible history of deciding that their lead is enough and the don't need to run up the score... and then they lose. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

How about those Gophers? The Minnesota football team is 9-2 going into Iowa City this weekend. A win would give them a 10-2 record, and since the top 3 teams in the Big Ten play games against each other over the next two weeks (Purdue at Ohio State this Saturday and Ohio State at Michigan the following Saturday), the Gophers could potentially move up in the conference. In fact - and maybe I should wait until after this Saturday to say this - but with the help of an upset by either Northwestern over Michigan and/or Indiana over Purdue, the possibility still exists for the Gophers to head to Pasadena. Like I said, I'll wait until after this Saturday's game to start getting excited. Now if only they hadn't blown that huge lead against Michigan....

Our cold spat over the last week finally dropped most all of the leaves off the trees in the neighborhood. We have new neighbors from Texas living in the house just to the south of us, and up until late this afternoon, their yard was covered in leaves, but not anymore. Nope, now the neighbor is out there in his camouflage and clearing the yard with his electric leaf blower. Our neighborhood is being overrun. When we first moved into this house, the neighborhood mostly consisted of elderly residents who actually owned their homes. There are still a few actual homeowners in the area, but most of the houses are rental properties now. It started then to become totally white trash, and while it's still dominated by white trash, it's now becoming just plain trash.

Continuing on with my neighborhood, I think we have a My Two Dads situation down the street, but I can't confirm it yet. If I happen to be home at the time, I see mothers walking their kids to over to the grade school or back home all the time. Well, recently I've started noticing two men doing the same. I would think nothing of it normally, but these two have the same glasses, the same facial hair, and are quite similarly dressed. Oh, and there's only one child with the two of them. More as the situation develops.

I had to take a drug test again yesterday. I had barely walked in the door and clocked in when I was called into the office and handed the paperwork. Just a random drug test. I was only gone an hour, which surprised me, because there were a lot of people waiting in the waiting room. I have no idea what sorts of things they were waiting for, because most of them were there before me, yet I was done before them.

My one and only homework assignment of the semester for my class is due tomorrow night and I haven't even started it yet. In fact, I had completely forgotten about it until late this afternoon. I guess I know what I'm doing tomorrow.

I guess I hadn't mentioned yet that I came back out to my car last Tuesday while at the library and found I had received a parking ticket. Nothing better to do. My meter had run 15 minutes over at the library and I came out to find a parking ticket. Yes, technically I broke the law, but since the police in this town have nothing better to do, they had to come put a ticket on my car. And people think we need to legalize concealed weapons in this state? For what? To protect you from those evil scofflaws in this state who do things like park illegally or speed? This is Wisconsin, people! Nothing remotely illegal ever happens here!

Yay, today was pay day!

I also went around last Tuesday looking for a coat rack, but to no avail. How come nobody sells coat racks anymore? Okay, sorry, I'm not being fair here - Target has coat racks. The mall Target had one style of coat rack, while the eastside Target had 3 from which to choose. The two that the eastside one had that the mall didn't were sort of cheap and tacky looking. The one that they both had was at least acceptable, but the eastside store was sold out and I didn't feel like driving back to the mall. Even so, I still wasn't all that crazy about the acceptable coat rack. Don't people buy coat racks anymore? I guess most people just have closets now and have no need for coat racks. Come day I'll find my coat rack.

I was going to write more, but I'm sure nobody is really even going to read this much. I have stuff to do before "Gilmore Girls" anyway. We're going out to eat after that for my dad's birthday. Nighty night.