The 2008-2009 Basketball Season Begins

Yes, people, it’s officially underway.  The Duke Blue Devils opened tonight against Presbyterian Blue Hose.  I heard a lot of “The Blue Hose?  Seriously?” tonight.  Apparently it’s a Scottish warrior.  What the heck, the Blue Devils were French fighter pilots, but still.  More on the game in a minute. I liked work today.  I did […]

Cobb and the Pet Carrier

Amanda finally got to see Iron Man tonight.  Nick Warkentien called and asked if we wanted to watch it with them tonight.  She still wasn’t feeling good, but she said if they didn’t mind coming over here for it she’d be fine with it.  So they picked up the movie and some Chinese food and […]

The Budget2

Not too exciting a day today.  There was lots of work to be done, particularly for a Monday.  I suppose there will be plenty to do tomorrow too. I went over a budget.  Amanda and I make a decent amount of money over what we pay in bills and the like monthly, but we’re thinking […]

$700 Billion

The bailout bill, a $700 billion package to fix the financial crisis, didn’t pass the House today.  $700 billion.  Let’s write that out.  $700,000,000,000.00.  That’s a lot of freaking zeroes.  Democrats are blaming Republicans for putting ideology before the interests of the country and Republicans are blaming Democrats because Nancy Pelosi made a partisan speech […]

The TV Season is Upon Us

Summer officially ended today, and with the end of summer we welcome the TV season.  Yes, new TV episodes started airing the last couple weeks, but it’s started in full as of tonight.  We started off the night with Big Bang Theory, which found Leonard and Penny dating, but Penny unsure if she’s smart enough […]