I've lived in my current place for

.... about 14 months and today is about the 10th time they have turned off the water for an extended period to do construction work. At least they left a note on the door this time. On more than one occassion, I woke up and went into the bathroom to find that the water was off, without any warning or explanation. It's no fun when you have to pour a water bottle into a bowl in order to shave.

Today they left me a note saying the water would be turned off at 10, so I woke up early to take a shower while I still could. What does this have to do with you? Well, normally I wake up at the last possible moment, shower, and then go to work. But today, I am already up, I'm showered, and I don't have to be there to get Jeff his lunch for another couple of hours. So I'm going to do that thing where I make comments about people I work with in order to entertain Ed and Jeff and distract them from my mediocre job performance. (I'd really, really prefer to talk about sports or gambling but this is what you guys keep asking me for. You're welcome.)


* I won't even beat around the bush today. I'll just jump right into it with the Jorgen talk. (Frankly, I really just want to get it over with.) We had a chance to talk on Monday and I found our conversation fascinating. It wasn't like he had anything particularly interesting to say, I was just amazed by how highly he thinks of himself. He started by telling me that he disagreed with one of my recent blogs in which I asserted that 100% of poker players believe they are better than they actually are. Apparently, Jorgen feels that while he considers himself to be great at poker, he's actually even better than he thinks he is. I mentioned a few recent poker stories of my own, at which point Jorgen informed me that he would "Dominate" me on the poker table. I didn't disagree with him but when I invited him over to play on Tuesday night, he told me he couldn't because he had class on Wednesday morning. What a warrior. I guess it's easy to tell everyone how great you are at something if you never actually play.

We eventually began to talk about his and Amanda's future and my belief that it is inevitable that they end up living in Iowa. Jorgen said that they may one day end up there, when he is retired, which will somehow be when he is around the age of 45. I asked how he planned on being retired just 20 years from now and he informed me that it was because he would soon be making very large amounts of money. Jorgen feels that his "Potential" is limitless and that he will soon be doing very big things. He claimed that while naysayers like myself and Chris Bennett won't admit it, Jorgen has all the potential in the world. Come to think of it, Jorgen does have a lot of potential:

- The potential to.... pursue a 3rd undergraduate degree when he becomes frustrated with the two he already has.

- The potential to.... brag all summer about how much he knows about college football, then bet 20 dollars a game in the fall.

- The potential to.... live off Amanda for the next few months while he is working 2 days a week, like a true free loader.

- The potential to.... be the only guy I know who asks his girlfriend to hold his purse while he goes to the bathroom.

- The potential to.... be a high school history teacher in Iowa who meets a fate similar to the one Matthew Broderick's character in Election did.

- The potential to.... kill me after he reads this blog. (Wait a minute. No he doesn't. What could that kid possibly do to me? Forget that one.)

* Okay, that has to be enough Jorgen for one day. I want to talk about Jeff. Yesterday, I was having a casual conversation with Ed and the topic of my sister came up. I mentioned to Ed that I had talked to my sister earlier that day. She had texted me to say she was in a bar in Prague, of all places, and Carson Daly was there, which in my opinion was pretty strange. (How can he afford to go to Europe? Have you ever actually seen Last Call? Okay, me neither....) While Ed and I were talking, Jeff was sitting at his computer, pretending to do work, and listening in to our conversation. Apparently, in Jeff's mind, running into the host of a terrible NBC show no one watches in a bar in Europe is not that strange because he once saw Michael Jordan on a golf course in Ireland. Who asked him? This guy's a bigger wet blanket than Jorgen. Meanwhile, Ed was pretending that he didn't know who Carson Daly was. Well, I'm glad I brought it up....

* Speaking of Jeff, what do you think he would find more entertaining: A Baywatch marathon or an All-Williams sisters Wimbledon Final? (You probably didn't get that joke. Trust me - It's the funniest thing in today's blog by far.)

* I take back my "With Apologies to Matt Metcalf" blog from the other day. Yesterday he said that he can always tell what I'm going to bet because it's the same "Stupid" stuff he used to bet 4-5 years ago. I should mention that comment was provoked when he heard that I bet Clemson to win the BCS Championship this year, a bet he also made at the exact same number I did. So, he's still betting the same stupid stuff he was 4-5 years ago and he's making fun of ME? Back off, cuz.


Tim Wakefield is in a dome tonight. I would need Fezzik-like limits to get down as much as I want on the BoSox tonight:

Red Sox (Silver Bullet Special)

Indians

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At the time, I thought my last poll was a great idea but looking back it was really a mediocre one. Of course, Kelly Kapowski was the winner. I don't know what I was thinking. New poll today and I'm re-working the picture section. Enjoy. You gotta have Eli in that poll, right? He's the Super Bowl MVP. It's not like he completely sucks or anything. And as for Brett Favre.... any player who still has a locker is eligible.


Trivia Question For Tuesday - Let's keep it really easy today. What is the only school to produce the First Overall picks in the NFL and NBA Drafts in the same year and who were the players?

** Sunday's Answer - Mitch Richmond was drafted 5th overall by the Warriors in 1988. While there, he was one-third of the famed "Run TMC" alongside Tim Hardaway and Chris Mullin. Congrats to CG for nailing that one.


Thanks for reading and....




Enjoy the game.