the max

Red Sox: Past: Williams/Pesky. Present: Pretty much the entire team Bruins: Past: Orr/Bourque. Present: well...

Decent/Good episode last night. Next week's interrogation should be fun. I always like it when they involve civilian women in Jack's torturing of suspects (yes, Audrey isn't a civilian, but she might as well be) just for the reaction that it gets. Navi going out like that was disappointing, much like Saunders' death last season in the anticlimatic way. The expectation that Jack is going to ice the perceived "big bad guy" only for him to get killed by a lesser character (Gael's wife/Behrooz) is a letdown.

Pizza is typically two bucks. Everything is fairly close, so drivetime isn't really an issue. Plus, my gal and I have odd eating habits, so we end up ordering the pizza at around 9ish, when there's no traffic. I think two bucks is more than fair given our surrounding area being so well populated. Restaurant tipping, I'm not as generous. After she and I have placed orders and everything, I add up everything in my head, decide what the tip would be if everything goes superbly and start counting down. The best tip I ever gave was a few weeks ago to a waitress that did everything well. I gave her six bucks on a 28 dollar bill. The worst was the $0.00 that I intentionally left on the tip line of the credit card bill at a Denny's. The girl was a moron, put in the wrong order for me (I ordered a cheeseburger and I got a chicken sandwich) and ignored us when she walked by our table four times. On the back of the bill, I wrote out tips for her. (1)Put in for what the customer ordered. (2)Do not ignore the customers., etc.etc.

Greenwell's a candy-ass. He's out of shape now, bald, and anybody who recognizes him in public gets a death glare from him until they walk away.

So once I start being called TM, I know that I've made it? *waits impatiently*

Checked out Phantom of the Opera (the play, not the movie). Got her a rather nice bracelet and earrings set, had flowers sent to her job and CANDY HEARTS~! She got me Napolean Dynamite, my new shoes (found here) and a few cheesy little valentines day things (candy, etc.) I got my mom Taxi: Season 1 and a Yankee Candle and she got me Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 2 and a big box of jelly beans. Hurrah. I've always treated it as xmas2.

McDonough/Remy

No guns at my high school. Knives were around a lot though. Never had any stabbings. Fights were pretty much a daily thing. It was either: (a) Upperclassman decides to fight a freshman for reasons only known to the upperclassman. Usually something that was built up to, built up to, built up to, BUILT UP TO...and then nothing happened. (b) Catfight between a jock's ex and his present whore. These were the best because they happened at lunchtime, so it was food and a show. © "Goth" fight. This usually happened when they disagreed over whose life was worse off...the one whose parents argued or the one whose parents wouldn't let him go out and drink on saturday. (d) Gang fight. I stayed away from these for two reasons (1) They were never announced, you only heard about them after they had happened and (2) They usually involved weapons and a mass amount of people stomping one or two people. I heard that one gangfight featured an attempted curbstomp, but it was unsuccessful. (e) Shoving match with a jock after gym class. This was the one fight that I got into. It usually happened after a gym class because you've just made the starting quarterback on the football team look like a fucking spaz in a game of floor hockey, or you guarded him well in basketball and he didn't get a point, etc.etc. Usually just the jock trying to act like a big guy after getting embarrassed. I happened to embarrass a forward on our school's basketball team at...basketball. He shoved me into a locker from behind so I punched him in the heart and shoved him into a bench in the locker room, causing him to comically tumble over backwards and hit his head. This "fight" led into a type-A fight, with nothing ever happening.

Sigh. At least spring training is getting closer.

Plus each episode always was summed up by one song that played over the credits. That'd be a lot of money in royalties. I'd buy it, but I'm not holding my breath waiting for it.

Now now, she's not going to make a skeptical out of her boxing career. (yes, only three people got that, but it was a funny interview)

Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 I really really like this band. Dropkick Murphys - Sing Loud, Sing Proud! My favorite cd of DKM. Tool - Undertow I am seemingly always listening to this cd. Love it.

Am I crazy or is Timlin missing?

Eagles are on the cover of Sports Illustrated this week... just saying...

Red Sox Jesus Damon - cf Edgar Renteria - ss Manny Ramirez - lf PAPI~! - dh Capt. Varitek - c Trot Nixon - rf Kevin Millar - 1b Bill Mueller - 3b Mark Bellhorn - 2b Staff: Curt Schilling David Wells Matt Clement Brandon Arroyo Wade Miller/Tim Wakefield

I hear this argument on ESPN radio all day long. To Belichick, he doesn't care about Owens. Owens is just another player. Belichick is perfectly capable of creating a scheme that makes him obsolete. As it is, just how good is Owens going to be? I heard today that some receiver on the Panthers suffered this same injury in the first few weeks of the season and he's still not cleared to play. If Owens really wants to make this a "look at me" thing about how he plays hurt and rushes back from injury, he's doing it against the wrong team. Think Rodney Harrison is going to go easy on Owens because he's recovering from a leg injury? Doubtful. He's going to be hit harder than normal. Plus, everyone's acting like Owens is somehow the missing link and that it's going to be like: Announcer: AND PLAYING IN THE SUPERBOWL AS A WIDE RECEIVER...TERRELL OWENS!!!!!! and then they cut to Belichick loading up a gun and preparing to take his own life. He's not stupid. Owens will be a decoy, and not a very good one.

More like a check minus.

Or just do what I did. Don't do the homework and claim that you left it at the beachhouse that you were staying at. Then, before every weekend, tell the professor that you're driving out to the beachhouse to get it. Repeat this until the end of the semester, where you just admit that you didn't do it. He'll give you a D if you do one worksheet. Done. Easy D.

Honestly, not even the first season started out this hot. And the first 12 episodes of season 1 are stand-alone. I think this season feels different because there's no plodding Palmer stuff. Don't get me wrong, Palmer is one of the strongest characters in the show's history (third behind Jack and Nina), but the Palmer thing never really got good until the end of the season. Now, the only slow parts are at CTU, which is never slow. Jack has been absolutely tremendous so far, and the rest of the cast has been excellent. I was kind of apprehensive before this season, but if this is going to keep up...well. This could give season 1 a run for its money as the best season thus far.

Can anyone else believe that we're only six hours in? SIX! WHAT ELSE CAN THEY DO?!

That was the greatest opening in the show's history.

PK, add in the "whattaplay by Bird!" at the end of that.

"Back to Foulke! Red Sox fans have longed to hear it, the Boston Red Sox are World Champions!"

Everytime Banky makes a prediction, the team he picks to win loses. Just a thought.

I miss the snow.