28 Oct 2009
I'm starting to feel burned out from going to classes. I've had all "A"s in every Mechanical Engineering class I've taken so far.
That streak will almost certainly be broken this semester... I've just been too overwhelmed. After this semester, I'll have five classes left.
The degree will be worth it, though (I hope). I've always told myself I'd make a big purchase to reward myself after graduation. I'm thinking Hi Def flat screen, but I don't know. Somehow even that seems like an insignificant reward for the sacrifice I've been making for the past two years. That $3000 GI Bill check I just received makes me feel a little bit better.
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Johnson's offense in the NFL?
Johnson said he thinks his spread-option offense would work in the NFL, and for many of the same reasons it's worked for him in college.
"The system is like any other system," Johnson said. "If you do it right, you're going to have some success. If you don't, you won't."
Johnson said he doesn't think any NFL team would have the courage to run it, but he imagined the success it could have.
"How hard would it be for NFL teams to get ready if 15 weeks out of the year, you play the conventional, everybody-looks-the-same [offense]?" Johnson asked.
It could help an owner's bottom line. Instead of trying to sign a $100-million-plus quarterback like Peyton Manning, Johnson said you could afford three or four players for the price of one.
In other words, your system is cheap and gimmicky.
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24 Oct 2009
I thought Will's game was at 7:00, but I was wrong; it started at 6:00. He arrived 15 minutes late and the team was already playing.
Sorry buddy!
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24 Oct 2009
Well, it looks like it'll be a Gimmick Tech / Clemson rematch in the ACC Championship Game.
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23 Oct 2009
Here's a tip for the Uptown Greenwood Development Corporation and GwdToday.com: If you're going to pimp an event that contains the slogan "Say Boo to Drugs", then make sure one of the attractions at the event is not a heart-clogging eating contest.
The intent of the watch isn't to replace using your BlackBerry to view messages. Rather, it's for those occassions when your BlackBerry is tucked away - while in a meeting, while driving, or while you're out for a bike ride and you feel it vibrating in your camelback. When you get that impulse to stop what you're doing and pull out your BlackBerry, now you can quickly glance over at your inPulse and decide if you need to pull out your BlackBerry to address that message now or if it can wait fifteen minutes you're free. Read more...
In addition to that, this watch looks like a guaranteed babe magnet. Get the watch, and you will have to fight the ladies off with a stick.
Come join us as we celebrate the human-animal bond. The day's events include a Humane Society of Greenwood Alumni Parade, a Flea-less Market, Children's Activities, Raffles, Pet Portraits, a D.J., Face Painting, and much more! You can walk as an individual, as a pack (two or more participants), or a Tail-Waggin' Team (five or more participants).
All walkers will receive a free dog bandana, "Grand Ruth's Darling" children's book, and a Humane Society of Greenwood car decal (while supplies last, early online registration recommended).
All dogs who walk must have proof of rabies vaccination at registration to receive the free dog bandana. All dogs MUST have a bandana to participate. If your dog was adopted from us, he or she will be given a special "alumni" bandana to wear!
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Let's do the same thing to Miami.
By the way, if you don't watch many ACC games on Raycom, you're missing a lot of funny, off-the-wall, Doc Walker adjectives and metaphors. I've heard him refer to Clemson players as bulldogs on rabies a couple of times.
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‘‘Really, I can’t say right now that a fresh start was what I needed,’’ Adams said. ‘‘Really, I am just privileged to be a Bear. It is going to be a new start for me, and I am excited. Hopefully, I go out and play Sunday.’’
‘‘I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity, and for picking me in the draft,’’ said Adams, who had no idea the Bucs were talking trade. ‘‘This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I am just glad to be a Bear.’’
15 Oct 2009
I just finished Cold Mountain. Great book, five stars.
I'm almost done with The Lost Symbol -- I might finish it tonight.
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Why would you purposefully kick it to that dude?
I read a comment somewhere that when Clemson's on offense, they should just snap the ball and turn around and kick it to Spiller. Hey, it has to work better than the crap I've seen on offense the last couple of games.
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14 Oct 2009
I learned recently that South Carolina has a Compulsory School Attendance law. I guess I always knew there was a law, but I didn't think it was actually enforced until Haden missed a couple of days for illness, and we received this little gem of a brochure from District 50 in the mail:
This brochure is foolish to the maximum degree.
There was a letter from Pinecrest accompanying this brochure that more or less threatened legal action if Haden missed more unexcused days. Note that since Haden was sick, his absences are excused.
However, if I want to take my kids on vacation for a week during the school year, or keep them out for any other reason, that is my prerogative. It is nobody's business outside of my household.
This law is the equivalent of mandating that everyone have a job -- which is lunacy and an unfathomable interference in the personal lives of citizens.
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13 Oct 2009
We spent the weekend on the side of a mountain in Pigeon Forge, TN... didn't see any bears.
a dog Haden found in the apple orchard at Carver's Applehouse Restaurant in Cosby, TN
coffee break
on the bumper cars
shootin' some pool at the house
the first adult roller coaster the boys ever rode
Tigers middle linebacker Brandon Maye can't explain the defense's second-quarter breakdown against Maryland, and Maye has an alibi -- he can't remember.
Maye suffered a concussion on the third play of the game and says he went blank until halftime, returning to the game in the third quarter.
The Terps scored 17 points in the second quarter with Maye absent. read more...
...must have been a different type of concussion than Tebow's
3 Oct 2009
Clemson has THREE Elite 11 quarterbacks, and the coaches can't figure out how to use them.
Pathetic.
We're going to be awful without this guy next year:
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I went on a little Tour de Greenwood on my bike today.
Captain Crusty's is closed 'til Tuesday
an alley in uptown Greenwood
Granny's old house; lots of memories here
Mathews Lodge 358
Mathews Plant, my old stomping groundHere's a picture of us receiving our combat patches at Camp Anaconda in Iraq in November 2004.
You ever wondered why we soldiers wear the patch of the American flag backwards on our uniforms?The full-color U.S. flag cloth replica is worn so that the star field faces forward, or to the flag’s own right. When worn in this manner, the flag is facing to the observer’s right, and gives the effect of the flag flying in the breeze as the wearer moves forward. The appropriate replica for the right shoulder sleeve is identified as the reverse side flag.
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Shinseki announced that on Friday, Oct. 2, VA’s 57 regional benefits offices will begin providing on-the-spot emergency payments up to $3,000 to students who have applied for their education benefits but who have not yet received a government payment.
Citing the distance many Veterans would have to travel to apply in person at a VA benefits office, Shinseki announced Veterans can also apply online at www.va.gov, starting Oct. 2. The online application will guide Veterans through the process to supply needed information. Shinseki noted that online applicants will receive their emergency payments through the mail after processing. read more
1 Oct 2009
I'm peeved about a trend I've noticed at BiLo on 25 North. They never have enough people bagging groceries; sometimes they don't even have anybody bagging. This leaves us (the customer) standing there awkwardly with the cashier like, "what am I supposed to be doing?" Does BiLo really expect customers to put groceries in the bags?
I'm in there spending money in their business. It's their role to provide every service possible to me, not the other way around. So, because of this, I avoid that BiLo as much as possible. Heck, at Food Lion, you don't even have to take your stuff out of your cart -- they do that for you.
I don't care how snobbish this sounds, I am not a bag boy.
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