New Ben Album a week away

I just stumbled on the Ben Folds site and remembered that I had forgoten that his new album comes out next week. It has been a long ass time since he has had new stuff! I will be at the concert in St. Louis in October.

Today

In Boston for a New Balance Dealers Summit.  Some interesting stuff but they are better at designing than at public speaking.  We are staying at this totally swank hotel.  They leave a cookie on your pillow when they turn down the bed at night.  

It's pretty sweet and the view is good too.  

Gotta run.  Freaking out a little about flying out of Logan International Airport on September 11th but it is prob. the safest day to fly of the year.  

Tom Brady and Dallas Clark

SOOO... I must say that I lucked out in my matchup versus Packer this week.

Tom Brady and Dallas Clark BOTH got hurt early in their gmes.

Obviously the Tom Brady thing is HUGE for basically everybody in every fantasy football league since it will not only put him out for the entire season (probably), but will also impact Randy Moss' touches.

HOWEVER... my yahoo league with you guys looks pretty sad right now. When I find some time I'm going to have to overhaul my team.

bleck.

How was YOUR week in fantasy sports?

The begining of Football season

Another year of football is upon us an it is arguably the best time of the year. I would say that it beats Christmas morning. Until i tuned into the game that occurred on Thursday night I had forgotten this fact. And that game sucked. But you turn it on and the field is so green and the violence so gratuitous that I almost weeped. Pile on top that fantasy football comes in the mix and it couldn't get a whole lot better...... but wait. While watching the game any food, no matter how gross or unhealthy, becomes acceptable. I don't know who I am going to cheer for this year. Surely the rams won't win 8 games. The Packers can't win either. Any ideas? Until later boys.

A big day here at the PPP

A couple of things:

-Andrew is right. I still think this is a great idea. A way to just share things we think are interesting or funny via youtube clips or something. We can talk fantasy football (sorry, Eric), politics... blah blah blah.

-I find Andrew's title really sad actually, even though I understand that he's simply missing an 'e' in there somewhere (Let's play a game... which E is he missing!!?)

-Andrew also asked that I point out any of my other blogs that are worth sharing. Well... I've been hearing about this secret government project called The Phoenix Initiative. Stuff appears to be happening over there all that time.

-I've also got a blog entitled Do It For Abe. Hard to explain, but I've been referencing a statue of Abraham Lincoln with my kids at Urbana High School. And so everything I tell them to do is put through the prism of Lincoln.

-Anyway, just so everybody knows... I plan on donating to Obama tonight. Last night's RNC was disgusting... literally. I received an email from Shira this morning saying basically the same thing and that she's going to Michigan to help out for a weekend or something in October. If you've got $5 to give... give it now! He's raised $8 Million since Gov. Palin's speech and it would be great to get him to $10 Million before McCain's speech.

-ALSO... over at www.benfolds.com... shit is happening. I LOVE LOVE the new single "You Don't Know Me" (You can hear it over there). In addition to the new album, BF5 is reuiniting for one show. They're going to play Messner "front to back" for charity. How awesome is that?

I think I'll probably be posting one or two important political stories of the day, since I spend most of my time reading that shit anyway. This clip is too awesome and from the Daily Show... seriously... it's worth a watch. (For some reason Blogger isn't accepting the Comedy Central media viewer, but here's the direct link.

Let's get those posts flowing!

PPP v. 2.0

I could never get her before

OK all. Here I am. Earlier today I revived my personal blog ironbeagle.blogspot.com In talking with nick I realized this blog was just sitting out there and how much we had under-utilized it potential. I think my plan is coming together. Use the pit blog as my personality blog and then post my sporting endeavorers on ironbeagle. Much in the same way you all could post here about general life things and then have separate blogs for your specialty areas. Like Lucas could have a separate blog about teaching music, Bert could have one about science, Nick could have one about Leslie and Eric could have one about being somewhere where we are not.

If you find that you cannot post here, do not despair. I lost probably 18 months of potential posting by not contacting the world by not talking to Nick and getting on board. Join me in this. Do it.

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