A New Poem (It's the Bomb, trust me)

Well in honor of Big Chief Red Metal's recent run-in with the law and his penchant for telling stories in the poetic style, I have constructed the following poem. Hopefully it will illustrate the hilarity (oh yes hil-ar-ity) of the whole bomb episode.

The time had come, oh yes it had
For all to leave, times had gotten bad

Well old Chief Red Metal stayed to help
"No problem Dale", he said with a yelp

He'd check the plant day after day
But one item eluded his vision's stray

When Consol had bought the place
Shock and Aw did fill their face

For in the Big Chief's office did they find
One big detail he had left behind

It was not a mess or ISO files on his desk
It was the fake bomb he made for that safety test

His pride and joy it was
But that darn Consol had called the fuzz

They came with lights and the sirens blared
They even shut down Route 2 to show they cared

Consol did not want their new plant blown apart
So they began their search for the owner of that car in the parking lot

All signs pointed back to the Chief
"It's a fake" he said but to no relief

They couldn't figure why he left it out
It's all Dean's fault he began to shout

It must have been that spider bite
That left him not thinking right

But he stayed right there he would not run
"I'll blow this place to kingdom come"

Oh wait, no it really was a fake
Being a prison bride he could not take

He got off for now, the police did not arrest
But I'm sure he'll land on the no-fly list

Ok, well this is just getting to be ridiculously long now, so I'll just revert back to the prose I'm more used to. Anyway I don't think he got arrested, but I suppose he is still at risk, and probably up for the no-fly list and what not. Oh man, I forgot I really wanted to come up with a rhyme for no-fly list . . . Well I changed the last line of the poem to reflect it now, but I'm too lazy to erase what I've already typed. Actually I'm not even sure that arrest and list rhyme, but that's the best I got. Hope you enjoyed it.

New Robin Hood

You'll always be the gladiator to me Russell Crowe, always.

Sampson's New Team

Sampson got on the Rays!!! Once a schedule and stuff comes out I'll be sure to let you know.



Also in honor of the new baseball season a little something to get you in the mood for baseball . . . or not.

It's Peanutbutter Jelly Time !!!! (better late than never)

Ooops, forgot the video. Well here you go.

Let's Go Bobcats!!!!!

Watching the Bobcats play G-Town in the Tourney. Up by 12 at the half, LET'S GO CATS!!!!

Changing Seasons

No not the weather - sports. I haven't been keeping up with the old blog too well lately *cough games*, but Sampson finished basketball at the end of January. He did very well, he even poured in 16 points one game, old dad has the video footage too. Last week we signed up for baseball. It should be pretty exciting this year as they keep scores and outs and what not. I think it is coaches pitch, which is essentially what they did during instructional league so that shouldn't be too bad. I'll have to get him out and work some of the rust off if it would ever not snow or rain. Well hopefully I'll do better keeping track of the new season. Oh also his team was undefeated in basketball, even though they didn't keep score for two full games, but that is mostly do to the fact they were blowing the other team out. I think he really enjoyed it. I can still take him though. At least in his room on the little rim he got for the back of his door at Christmas.

Sampson Trades Rooms for Magic Beans

Well not quite magic beans, but 2 packs of Marvel figures. Of course that is what Sophie thought he traded for, turns out Sampson thought the deal was Super Hero Squad bed sheets, a new paint job in the room AND the two marvel packs. Well that is what he started telling everyone else he traded the room for, so in all likelihood Sophie is going to have to throw in the stuff now too. The sweetheart part of the deal for him though is that he thinks he traded for a bigger room too. Unfortunately buddy you didn't, but after we started moving all of Peach's stuff into Sampson's old room and his stuff into Peach's old room, it did look like Peach's old room was bigger. Well I know for sure that the closet is smaller and that will be big for her later, trust me. Anyway the whole reason that came about is because I broke the piece of crap computer chair that we had in the kitchen. Sophie says I can have a nice big chair fully capable of supporting me if we can move the computer and stuff down stairs, but in order to do that we needed to move the doll house upstairs, which required a larger room for Peach, which means Sampson needed to switch rooms with her, which meant that Sophie needed to bargain with him to do it, which she did for 2 Marvel Packs. And apparently some other stuff, but really he could have asked for the kitchen sink and probably got it. So buddy someday you'll realize you gave up your room to your sister and there it is. Hope it works out, I know it will for me, I'm getting a new chair!!!

USA WINS!!!!

The US Hockey team just beat the Canadian team 5-3, in Canada even. Yeah, take that Canada, now that victory over our women's curling team isn't quite as sweet is it? That was the first time we had beat them since 1960, so you know I have been waiting for this opportunity for a while. Well not really, but it sure was convenient. Anyway Congrats U.S. Team and keep up the good work. I forgot it was on until there was 5 minutes left and the US let the Canadians score with 6 seconds left in a power play late in the third period. Then the goalie Miller saved about 20 shots in 2 minutes and one of the defensemen added an empty netter. Pretty awesome win for the US.

Jimmie "wins" 5th Championship

Well he hasn't yet, but judging by the first real race of the season HESCAR hasn't done anything to slow him down, plus they conveniently bend the rules for him so he can get back out front after late cautions when he is on pit road. Plus HESCAR left all the chase tracks the same, so it is only a matter of time before Jimmie gets number 5. I don't know if I can watch anymore of the season, I'm so disgusted right now.

New Dog

Well Peach is finally going to get herself a new dog. You see she has been begging and begging for a puppy ever since, well I think since she could talk pretty much. And at first we told her we would get one if she potty trained, but then we didn't want to get one when the weather was going to be bad. Then the timing just never really worked out until recently and one of Sophie's Mom's friends had some pups she was giving away. So since the price of free is always in my ballpark and the pup was a beagle mix we decided that we should go ahead and get one. Sophie and Peach went to look at them yesterday and Peach was in love. The only problem was she thought she was going to get to bring it home, but the pup isn't weened yet. Anyway I guess she threw the fit of all fits when she had to leave the puppy, but Sophie got her calmed down a little by promising her a DVD or something. Ghesh, you promise a kid a dog, then you got to bribe 'em on top of that. Can't wait until she is ready for a car or something then maybe we'll have to bribe her with a laptop or jewellery. Anyway here are some picks of our new dog Brownie. Named for the Browns of course. I can't tell who is more excited Sophie or Peach.

Quick Fact

Did you know India consumes about 46% of the total butter produced worldwide? Well that may have been before the USA got Peach, cause that girl likes her butter. Watch out India here we come.

Surviving Sophie

I imagine if our fish had a blog that is what the title of this post would be. Either that or 'The Adventures of Mac and Cheese' cause that is their names. Anyway last night I had just laid down in bed and Sophie started yelling for me to come into Peach's room because she needed help and the light was off in her room. So I came running in there and here Sophie had started to feed the fish and the lid had fallen off into the fish tank along with about half the can of fish food. So she is standing there trying to get the pump unplugged and I just imagine the fish are swimming in there going "Hallelujah". The fish tank was pretty well filled with food at this point and Sophie was in pure panic mode as she hustled the tank down stairs and did the fastest tank cleaning job she had ever done. As she was pulling the fish out of the tank with the little net it was impossible to not get some food in with them, so they were setting in the little temporary bowl with food still floating around. I wish I would have gotten a picture, but given the circumstances that it was already past midnight and Sophie's head was hurting a little it probably wouldn't have been a very good idea. Old Kirk could have ended up "sleeping with the fishes" if you know what I mean. Anyway Sophie cleaned all the rocks and stuff off as best she could and I cleaned the fish food lid off and the filter stone and carried the clean tank back up stairs. It was definitely something unexpected, but hey now it will be a while before the tank needs cleaned again . . . hopefully.

Happy New Year!!!

Well happy new year everyone. Hope 2010 is a great year for you!!!

Invite Friends To Play Cyber Nations

Invite Friends To Play Cyber Nations

if you want to play cyber nations use this linky. It helps me :D.

Bobcats Bowl Game - Live Event Blog

12:20 PM- I'm going to try and do something new and capture an event as it is unfolding. Right now it is about 40 minutes before the Bobcats get ready to take the field for hopefully their first ever Bowl win. I'm going to keep updating as time elapses. Should make for an interesting read, I hope. I see Bill Simmons do it for the Super Bowl one year. Right now Sophie is out picking up the pizza. Little Caesar's of course.

12:37 for the pregame I'm actually watching 'Overboard' with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. Funnier movie than I thought it would be.

12:57 - ok, ESPN has just switched coverage over to the game. I'll have try and catch the end of that overboard movie sometime. Still waiting on Sophie and Pizza.

12:58 - Sophie arrives - With Pizza :D

1:01- kick off and we are underway. stumble in the endzone for OU. O-H-I-O gets the ball first, let's go Bobcats

1:03 - Sophie gets the mail, Christmas letter from the Simmons' is in there. Well time to load up on pizza. Little Caesar's no less. Dang 3 and out for the 'Cats. Good punt 50 yarder. Crap I hope the Punter doesn't turn into the MVP for us.

1:06 - 'Cats hold the Herd to 3 and out. At least Brazill is playing this time.

1:10 - first little Caesar's commercial telling me there is going to be a special deal this weekend. Hope we got that. Whooo hoo 'Cats get the first first down of the game. An end around by Brazill.

1:15 - working on my 3rd piece of pizza.

~1:18 - Ohio drive stalled inside Marshall territory. Lot of positive yardage this drive.

1:19 - Ooooo Marshall Penalty. I hope they don't do a bunch of cheap shots like Central Michigan did. Also Sophie says she is full. Pizza very good after 2 full days of ham.

1:21 - Marshall gets a first down. Yuck

*an observation - I don't like the "little Caeser's" logo in the endzone. I mean it is in the middle of the field and all over the promos - we get it. The team names should have been in the endzone. That is all.

1:26 - 'Official' review of Marshall ball carrier. Peach is playing here new DS and screaming 'Fly'. Yeah. Now it is 4th and 1 good review. Apparently there is a female ref. thanks ESPN.

DANG 17 yard run Marshall

1:30 - Marshall scores, thanks to some horrid tackling from OU. Dang it. Sophie says there are just some things women shouldn't do and I have to agree, why would a woman even want to ref a football game. well 7-0 bad guys.

1:37 - crap another 3 and out for the bobcats. And Marshall scores on the punt. Ghesh.

1:39 - Little Caesar's has a coupon for 3.99 pizza for today and tomorrow only. Sophie is a little hot since she paid full price and was wearing her OU stuff.

1:41 - it may be time for another small piece of pizza.

1:44 - mercifully the first quarter is over. Oh crap personal foul penalty against the bobcats. Terrible call, but the Marshall guy seems to be in a lot of pain. Well maybe it wasn't a bad call. Oooo a play update presented by "Flomax", that just doesn't seem right.

1:49 - no it was a terrible call, he came up and tried to run into the offensive player who defended himself. Well let's see if the 'Cats can tackle this time. Another flag. catch interference i bet.

1:51- Yep catch interference. 15 yard penalty for that, seems a little excessive. They should have varying degrees of interference cause that would be a 5 yarder. Sophie is unimpressed with the announcers, one of which is also a woman who stated that the Bobcats haven't scored yet. Really?!? I guess that is why they have 0, who knew.

1:53 - apparently this game is a snooze fest as Sophie's mom managed to take a nap.

1:55 - Crap another penalty. pass interference on a horribly thrown ball. You know if the receiver has the run into the defender that is not the defenders fault. We need a turnover right here.

2:01 - Shoot another TD, from the hated Herd. 21-0.

2:08 - Turn over OU. Hey isn't there a tuck rule in college? If there was that woman ref probably wouldn't know it. Oh complaints of a phantom whistle that stopped OU players. TO Herd, run back . . . TD for the 'Cats . . . flag on the play . . .fingers crossed

2:10 - TOUCH DOWN OU!!!!!! whew we needed that. Holding on the offense penalty declined 21-7. Maybe a little momentum shift. Way to go Ballard.

2:14 - Sophie's mom wakes up to catch replay of Touch down.

2:22 - OU stops Marshall and the 4 on 4th and 1. WHOOO. That was dumb. Chance to get some more points before the half easy kick and they go for it by pitching the ball and Noah Keller comes up to make the stop. Man if OU can take the ball down here and get something before the half that would be a HUGE shift.

-New Allstate commercial with a dummy, funny stuff

2:26 - well Marshall blew the first play up and called a timeout. OU can run the clock out though as Marshall only has one timeout left. Also Sophie's Mom went back to sleep. Marshall shouldn't even call a timeout. How dumb. Just run it Frank and run the clock out or kneel, yep kneel. Duh. Well we'll have to try and mount a come back the second half.

2:29 - time to check on some laundry

2:47 - Well while I have time I check the old fantasy sports over at Yahoo.

2:50 - Here we go time for a come back, Oooo tackle behind the 20 by OU. Good way to start.

Wow Noah Keller had 11 tackles in the first half. Come on guys don't forget this is for the BELL!!!

2:53 - Oh nice tackle there. 3 and out for the Herd. Let's see if we can get one here from Brazill. . . nope, but well start near mid field.

2:54 - Big pass to Price . . . Here we go . . . O-H-I-O.

2:56 - 3rd and 11, Pryce picks it up but comes back doh! 4th and 1 . . . depends on the spot.

Stopped by less than an inch. Dang.

3:04 - Good Defense OU. Got 'em into 3rd and 12 and then got the sack. Then I think there was a crappy punt too. Sweet. 'So you're saying there's a chance'.

3:08 - Yep crappy punt, then a face mask, OU operating inside the Marshall 25. Little Caesar pizza may be catching up to me. Our yelling about a run inside the 10 wakes up Sophie's Mom.

3:10 - a timeout. Dang my stomach is aching. apparently peanut butter cookies are not a good chaser for bread sticks and then throw in some squirt.

3:12- I (Sophie) have to step in to tell you about the OU TOUCHDOWN because hubby is indisposed. Go Bobcats Go!!!

3:19- Oops Marshall was that supposed to be a punt...Go OHIO!!!

3:22 - Ohio FIELD GOAL!!! 21-17 come back Ohio stop Marshall.

3:29- Hubby's back we will see if he is bad luck guy.

3:31- end of the 3rd quarter.

3:33 - (Kirk) I guess the aching could have been from the chocolate orange slices I had too. Sampson had 5 pieces of pizza. Better get ready for your own belly ache son. Hans was supposed to be here too, but so far he is a 'no Show'.

3:35 - 20 yard pick-up on 2 and 25 . . .Nice bobcats nice, way to start the fourth. Oh yes First down.

3:37 - exciting 4 yard loss by the bobcats . . . But a flag on the play 15 yarder on Marshall . . . Another First Down!!!!! Almost a TD. the flanker pass goes incomplete, but Price was wide, wide open. Another timeout Ohio. Boy I hope we don't need those at the end of the game.

3:44 - Oh yes throw that flag lady! Late hit Marshall another pick up on 3rd down.

3:47 - 4th down, field goal try 29 yards . . . no good. Dang.

3:54 - Ohio stops Marshall on 3rd and short. Oh man that Brazill gets a lucky bounce to retain possession. He is exciting every time back there, whether he returns the ball or not, unfortunately. Hans called apparently he got busy and now is not going to make it. 7 minutes left and the Bobcats need a TD to take the lead now as they trail 21-17.

3:59 - Ohio has to punt the ball away and play defense now. Another Turnover would be real nice. Dang another 1st down Marshal.

4:03 - Another Marshall first Down - less than 3 minutes left now.

4:04 - Ohio has to use its last time out. 1:47 left. Only a flicker of hope remains now for the Bobcats. Sophie and her Mom agree that the Bobcats are done, but I'm holding out for history. What better way to win their first bowl then the come all the way back from down 21 to win.

Starting to wish I had watched the end of that 'overboard' movie. Wonder how that ended.

4:08 - 4th down Marshall. On the 21, 1:02 remaining. Good chance the Herd will go for it. Nope field goal . . . Oooooo Miss. Only his second miss all year.

Here we go 'Cats.

57 seconds left

Incomplete - that's ok it was a short pass anyway.

47 seconds - complete to Brazill out of bounds 4 yard gain. Brazill hurt a little

Interception!!! Game Over.

well Dang it. The bobcats come up just a little short on their first ever bowl bid. Man I was so hopeful. Well there is always next year. Hope you like the post anyway.

New Year's Music

In order to help people transition from Christmas to New Year's I've put a little "New Year's" music up. 10 Auld Lang Syne to help ring in '10. Happy New Year.

Eternal Couturiers Men's Page

Eternal Couturiers Men's Page

Check these out from my good buddy Casca. Lots of neat Religious Shirts just in time for the Christmas season.

Peach the Vet

Peach said today that she wanted to be a vet, but that if someone came in with a skunk pet that she would not look at it. Because "skunks could get their stink on you." So in the future if you are thinking about going the the Peach Helfen Home of Healthy Animals with your skunk you might want to rethink that because she isn't going to even check your skunk. Then you'll just have to go somewhere else anyway.

Bobcats Win!!!

Sampson won his first ever organized basketball contest. Yah! Overall the Bobcats played pretty well, you could tell the second year kids from the first year kids though. Our second year guys really carried the load this first game. Sampson did start contributing late in the second half as he scored his first ever basket and then later scored his second ever basket. So good job buddy and I got it all on tape er I made a digital recording of it anyway. See Sophie and the kids let me have my Christmas present a little early so that I could record his game. In HD no less. It is funny watching him play because I go over a lot of stuff with him and we even played at Maw's house yesterday working on rebounding, but when he got in the game and started playing it was like he forgot everything. Oh well, he has a game Thursday hopefully he remembers to REBOUND. We'll work on it. I think his stat line was something like 4 points, 1 assist, 2 rebounds, maybe a steal or two and at least one turn over. The final score was like 32 to 24 or so. I could check the tape again. I made him watch the game film already. Well I mean I wanted to see it hooked up to the TV anyway so we just went ahead and watched it. Good stuff.

Oh also the OU Bobcats are going for their first ever bowl win on December 26th around Noon Eastern or so against the Marshall Thundering Herd. This is also a rivalry game, so I wonder if they will put the "Bell" up for grabs. I mean the splendor and history of the Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl should probably be enough, but I mean why not throw it out there for a little extra. If you happen to be thinking about it on the 26th think some positive thoughts for the old Bobcats. Thanks.

"Bones" Jones - Future LH Champion

I watched Jon "Bones" Jones on the ultimate fighter finale last Saturday and just let me say I think he is very impressive as a fighter. He is in that light-heavy weight division that is severly stacked, and even though he "lost" I honestly think that in the next 4 years he will be the light-heavy weight champion. No pressure kid. But seriously he really handled Matt Hamil and I thought Hamil was pretty decent. He ended up getting DQ because of illegal elbows, but that was after he beat Hamil in the mount for about a minute straight. He is extremely long and throws very high impact unorthodox shots from crazy angles. Right now I don't see a good defensive strategy because he can out reach you and he has the more dangerous wrestling background of Greco-Roman which is tough in MMA because they like the clinch around the waist and most regular wrestlers like to grapple higher or lower. Honestly because of the crazy 84" reach I don't know how you get to this guy, I guess just shoot early and hope for the best cause if the fight stays standing I'll take "Bones" in the first. But I just wanted to call it on the old blog that by the end of 2014 "Bones" will probably be hoisting the belt. I see a good match between maybe him and Cantewell as he is a good up and comer too. Then maybe a Jardine, which would be interesting because of the two unorthodox styles. Next would be Evans or Griffin and then Machida or Rua whoever isn't champ and maybe a few other fights in there for good measure but within the next four years it will be difficult to keep him out of a title shot, just like it was difficult to keep out Machida.

Also during the finale Kimbo Slice finally looked like an MMA fighter. He was down to 112 lbs. which is pretty impressive considering he is all muscle and only weighed about 230 before. He said he wanted to try and fight at 205, which would probably be better for him than fighting heavy weight, but he is definitely improved. I think he could probably beat Seth now straight up, but the top of the 205 lbs. ranks would give him fits. Houston Alexander was a little disappointing, because he's got that knockout power, but I think he over-thought the fight by trying to key on the leg so much. I think he should have keep throwing the kicks, but he kept distance too much. The circling the whole first round was just way too much for me. If anything the first round could have been 9-9 because of the lack of action. But I thought in the end when it came down to a decision that Kimbo should have won because if nothing else he controlled the center of the ring.

If you'd like to meet Mr. Jones here you go - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsy8aT--bGU&feature=related