The Good and the Bad

Ah, the ups and downs of a single day. Today we celebrated my son's 4th birthday. We had a party at a local place that has a big...... tree house is the description that comes to mind. It was a lot of fun, he and his friends all had a blast. At the end they were all tired, filled with cake and all is good... Well that is the good part. We then follow it up with the Kentucky-Florida game (wife went to Kentucky) well they lost, made a good showing but that doesn't count. Then I see the Texas Tech - Mizzu score, damn Tech got spanked. Now I end the day with Illinois laying another egg (oh the mistakes they made) and lose to an injured Michigan team. Oh the torture I am going to take next week at work. Luckily, I didn't talk it up, I may escape with only receiving a mild ration of crap. Now we got Ball State next week, man those MAC teams make me nervous. We need one more win to be bowl eligible. Then I will call it a successfull season.

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The Dream Took a Hit

Well, after two good games, the Illini laid an egg in Iowa. The worst thing was I had to watch most of the game from a car dealership while the wife tried to swing a deal on a car. Needless to say, neither ended well. Those car salesman always try and screw you on the trade in. Well, the Illni have to meet up with Michigan this Saturday on prime time TV. Time to regroup and get back to business.

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The Dream Lives on

After about 2.5 hours of chearing, yelling, cussing ( I had to keep that to a minimum with the kid around) the dream lives on: Illinois: 31 Wisconsin (5) : 26 Now as long as Juice and A. Benn are okay, it may still live on.

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Just Killing Time

I am sitting here waiting while my son is in a Kindermusik class.... and I discover that this place is a hotspot. I noticed that I haven't bloged in quite some time so I figured I would. After class the boy and I have to get home to watch the Illini take on Wisky. After last weeks win over Penn St, I actually have some hope that the Illini might be able to make a bowl game. This is dangerous thinking for any Illni fan. The wheels can come off at any moment and crush my dreams. R. Zook has done a nice job recruiting, some say too good, but now he has to coach them. I am somewhat confident that he may be able to do it. Had a good time with the Clan(archy) last night. I really do suck at Halo 3 but I have fun. I just wish I could figure out how to survive more than 20 seconds, that would be a real achievement. My fantasy team may have taken a huge hit this week. T. Henry fails another drug test...... just great and nothing on the waiver wire. I may be stuck with D. Williams for the remainder of the year. Or I can try and deal one of my WR (J. Walker, R. Wayne, or C. Johnson), however I don't think I am going to get too much for either of those guys right now, damn RBs are just too valuable. What is up with this fricken weather.... can you tell I am bored? It is early October in Michigan and it is going to be 87 degrees today. Not much fun taking the kid to the pumpkin patch in that type of weather.

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OMG......PS3

I just visted Ebay, out of curiosity, to see what the PS3 was going for:

$2,000.00 + !!!

Now $600 I could probably get the wife to bye into, maybe (I would probably have to stick oatmeal in the 360 and blame it on the kid) ........but two grand.  That is a nice plasma TV, plane tickets to Europe, a downpayment on a car (GM of course), 33 (and a third) XBOX 360 games.

I am sure some will pay it to get it for the holidays, just seems a little crazy to me. 

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