I wish I could find a larger version of this picture somewhere… but does everyone else laugh when they see how gay Strahan looks in his nfl.com picture? They show this on tv, too, when they highlight him…

All of my hard work in the city of New London, WI has finally paid off. They named a park after me:

Now, I am just as surprised as you are. Especially after I found out they pre-dated it back to 1959. PFEIFER PARK! Who knew I was going to be such a hit??

This past weekend, Neill and I went down to Chicago for the Chicago Marathon. No no, sillies, we weren’t running in it. We were volunteering, which basically consisted of standing by a cop during the race and doing “crowd-control.” If I wasn’t there, I’m pretty sure utter chaos would have ensued.

Anyway, I knew we were going to be down there, so I gave my friend, Matty Vag, a call and asked if we could see him. He manages a restaurant down there called Bistro 110. Matt couldn’t get off of work, but invited us to come have dinner down there, so we did. I wish we had brought our camera to take a picture of the meal, because my description won’t do it justice.

Neill and I had the same basic dinner.

1. French Onion Soup
2. Steak Aux Poive et Gallette de Pomme de Terre
3. Some crazy dessert with this chocolate cake with a toffee coating, these little cream puff-type things that had ice cream in the middle instead of cream, and then some Creme Brulee.
4. A few drinks, ranging from bloody marys to beer to mixed cocktails.

The soup was awesome–lots of cheese and not watered down like some restaurants do. The steak was crusted in this pepper stuff and was an awesome cut–a little too much pepper for my liking, but it was still good. It also came with this potato that Matt said they cut into 150 tiny slices, then throw a ton of butter and garlic into it and bake it. It was awesome–like nothing I’ve ever had before. Then the dessert, even though we were full, was a special surprise from Matt–I guess it’s not something they normally serve. Quite tasty though.

Something else we didn’t get that sounded good were this pumpkin soup. Real basic recipe. Pumpkin, stick of butter, salt and pepper. Served in an actual mini-pumpkin. Neat presentation idea.

So, I definately recommend that everyone stop down to Bistro 110 if you are in Chicago. Great restaurant with great service as well. Thanks for having us, Vag!

Someday, when Erica gets married, she has already picked out her wedding dress and wanted me to share the picture with all of you.

Yeah. It’s made of 1,500 cream puffs. Mmmmm….

Now, I’m a big sports fan. And maybe it’s the traditionalist in me, but I’m not sure I would ever let my husband do this…

Parents name baby after ESPN, Joe Montana
But D’Iberville baby isn’t alone — 3 were named after network last year

BILOXI, Miss. - Leann Real promised her husband, an avid sports fan, that if they ever had a son he’d get to pick the name. ESPN Montana Real was born this week at Biloxi Regional Medical Center.

Rusty Real, of D’Iberville, chose ESPN (pronounced Espen) after the sports network and Montana after football legend Joe Montana.

Baby ESPN isn’t alone.
Three others were cited in a 2005 report on tivocommunity.com about the network’s 25th anniversary. They are Espn Malachi McCall in Pampa, Texas; Espn Curiel in Corpus Christi, Texas; and Espn Blondeel in Michigan.

“We were the talk of the hospital,” Rusty Real said. “The nurses kept asking my wife if she was really going to let her husband name him ESPN. She said, ‘Oh, yes.’”

That’s REAL messed up…

On the top of my gmail account, there are different links that always pop up, and oddly enough, one of them is always the “Ask Yahoo” feature. For those of you not familiar with it, Yahoo! basically has a page where you can submit all the questions that have ever puzzled your mind. Like what exactly IS Victoria’s Secret? Can a cow really be tipped? Is there a McDonalds in every country? Does Tripp have ever spit glands?

Anyway, one today was what was the first thing every sold on ebay… interesting…

Dear Yahoo!:
What was the first thing ever sold on eBay?
Ken
Detroit, Michigan

Dear Ken:
Once upon a time, many wondered if a company like eBay would even work. Since then, the online auction house has silenced the doubters. While it’s technically a rival of ours, we can’t help but admire its inventory — everything from fake vomit to Lamborghinis is just a click away. Ah, but of all those millions of sales, which was the very first?

EBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995. Though he’s now a billionaire (of course), Pierre started AuctionWeb (as it was then known) as a simple “side hobby.” In late ‘95, Pierre made history when he sold eBay’s first item — a broken laser pointer he had originally bought as a cat toy.

Amazingly, the buyer paid $14.00 for the kaput pointer. We imagine it was about this time Pierre realized he was on the cusp of creating something great.

It’s true that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But if it is broke, maybe you should forget about the repairs and just sell it.

So now you know…

Well, Mike McCarthy is finally clearing house of all the morons on the Packers. First he got rid of that crappy punter that Sherman thought was good, BJ Sander, and now, after losing the Philly game for us, the Packers finally released Ahmad Carroll today. Looks like Ahmad won’t be doing this much anymore….

The funniest part of this so far today was a poll on jsonline.com asking if you agreed with the decision to cut Carroll. As of tonight, around 9pm, here’s what the results looked like…

Yes (90.4%)
No (9.6%)

Total votes: 6,067

HA! Talk about fans sticking together…

Well, we’ve hit the midseason point for Club G’s Fall season, and we limped in with a 3-3 record. I’m not sure how we were at this point last fall, but if I remember correctly, we got our asses handed to us more times than not last fall. This fall, I feel we’re hanging with our competition a little better, but just not closing out games. Well, except of course, that 5-25 whomping we took last Wednesday. They were just good.

Here are the stats thusfar…

I bolded each the leader in each category, as you can see. A few things I noticed…

Brian’s goal this fall was to have 50 RBIs. With 10 games in the season, that’s obviously 5 RBIs a game. Which, when he has 9 RBI games, is a logical goal. Except when I make the last out of the inning and he has to hit solo homeruns. Sorry, Brian.

In past seasons, we’ve always had one person that dominates taking walks–Jenny Vicenik usually has about 10 by mid-season. This year, we have 3 people tied with taking walks–and they are all GUYS. That can’t be good. We miss you, Jen!

Mike is having a quietly solid season. While he has left the homerun hitting up to Brian, he has started to dominate in the double game. Maybe those wouldn’t be doubles though if he had a less chubby teammate “running” in front of him. (yes, VD supports that statement)

Go VD for leading the team in singles and leading the girls in average!

I struggled with whether to put Tripp on this list, as I usually only put on people who play more than one game. But, I didn’t want to disrespect your bloop double to right field.

Yeah. I lead the team in triples. I’m that pathetically slow.

Anyone have any ideas how we can win out the season?

So, I was dinking around the internet today when I came across a blog of a dude that sounds like he might be funny (mainly because he wrote a book called “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell“). I took a look at his website, www.tuckermax.com, and he basically sounds like Aaron Karo, but he’s much more profane.

Regardless, I found this post that I got a good laugh out of, and I thought I’d share… (I did the censoring…)

The funniest email ever
I get a lot of weird email/messages/correspondence, but this one truly made me lose it:

“This Coors Light Cooler Box sucks! This f’n piece of s just broke all over my couch while I was trolling this site and watching the Pistons beating the s out of the Pacers. Now I have swimmers dick from sitting on a cold towel. Does anyone else have problems with it? Did I get a lemon? Because I like the idea of a disposable cooler that comes with shitty beer on the cheap.”

I cannot stop laughing at this. I am sitting in my living room with my two roommates, who have known me for ten years, staring at me because I am laughing as hard as they have ever seen me laugh. There is so much comedy here:

1. Why does the dude have a cooler in his living room? Why not just use the fridge? Where does he live that he has to walk that far the fridge? Does he not have a fridge? Does he not have electricity? What the f?

2. Why is the cooler ON his sofa? Why not on the floor?

3. Is it that hard to just buy a normal cooler? The styrofoam ones are like $3.

4. Why does he keep sitting on the wet spot? Why not move? Does he not have any other furniture? Is he just THAT determined to stay in that one spot, regardless of the consequences to his balls?

5. Why is the whole sofa wet? Did it bust open like a New Orleans levee, immediately flooding the sofa, or was this a slow process? How did it soak through the sofa without him feeling it until the entire thing was drenched? How do you not notice a wet sofa?

6. Can you picture his reaction when it broke on his lap? Jumping up and screaming curse words, cold water spilling everywhere, screaming about how cheap the cooler is that CAME WITH THE BEER! Priceless.

7. Seriously, how is this a shock? How does it come as some absurd and unreal shock to him that this PLASTIC LINED CARDBOARD cooler that CAME WITH THE BEER is going to be sub par?

8. I love how he throws in that thing about wanting this to be real, “Did I get a lemon?” Does he have such high hopes pinned on this product that he is willing to give it another shot? Yes sir, you did a lemon. Most of their cardboard-plasticoat fabricated beer boxes are built like brick shit-houses. In fact, in South America they pack ‘em full of dry ice and transport organs in them.

9. So what happens if it is a lemon? His faith in the consumer products of crappy beer companies is shot? He becomes a jaded Heineken drinker? It’s this same mentality that causes people to get their hearts broken by sea monkeys when they’re kids, and the Carleton Sheets real estate course when they’re adults. “THESE SEA MONKEYS LOOK LIKE BRINE SHRIMP!!! HOLY SHIT!!! SOMEONE SWITCHED THE REAL SEA MONKEYS WITH BRINE SHRIMP!!!”.

10. I mean, come on…look at the level of discourse this guy is at. I don’t know, I guess when you grow up with these rednecks, this s is just that much funnier. I mean, the seriousness with which he approaches this subject kills me.

11. Who drinks Coors voluntarily?