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...on to the ACC Championship Game
November 28, 2009Soccer Liner played and won like you're supposed to -- by beating the man in front of you, not flopping around on the field like 5-month-olds. I have much more respect for the Chickens than I have for Gimmick Tech.
As I've mentioned, I have nothing but disdain for Paul Johnson's cut blocking in the trenches as a pillar of his system. Man up already!
During the game, if Georgia Tech happens to get a big play or scores because of their cut blocking gimmicks, I'm going to shout, "Georgia Tech blocks like girls!"
I wrote this after the first game, and after an entire season, Clemson still can't stop the draw:
Middle Tennessee could have scored several more touchdowns if they would have ran QB draws on every play. Clemson couldn't stop them; they were getting 5-8 yards every time they ran a QB draw.
O Christmas Tree
November 27, 2009As is our tradition, we picked out and cut our Christmas tree at Davenport's Tree Farm after Thanksgiving lunch.
chasing a rabbit at Davenport's
Here's Mel looking for the perfect tree
Haden trying to saw the tree
Will trying to saw the tree
I had to finish it off for them, and when I did, the tree fell on Will.
We have our tree!
After all the pictures are posed, we see who does all the work.
It's up!
Playin' Possum
November 25, 2009The kids felled a dead tree in Kolby's back yard and an opossum came crawling out of it. It ran back up a nearby tree and they coaxed it back down and trapped it in a wheelbarrow for a little while.
It was not happy about all that.
Little Men
There are always little men hanging out around my house.
Time for a mission!
I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggonit, people like me
How can I conceal this?
Yo! Anybody got some ear buds?
Somebody's about to throw down on the soap tray
It's That Time!
November 24, 2009We're all excited around here about Christmas time. Here's our tradition: stuff our faces on Thanksgiving at lunch, then go to the tree farm to cut our Christmas tree. Friday, we'll decorate it while watching either one of the best Christmas movies of all time (Christmas Vacation & It's a Wonderful Life).
Where Have I Been?
November 23, 2009I must be late to the party. Where have I been, and why haven't I heard about this before?
The ClearType setting for Windows drastically improves the system-wide fonts and reduces eye strain, something that gets to me sometimes.
Here's how to do it:
From your desktop, right-click and go to Properties.
Select the Appearance tab and click on Effects.
Change the smoothing method from Standard to ClearType.
Here's the difference:
First Christmas Decoration
November 22, 2009The first Christmas decoration of the year for our house:
Atlantic Division Champions!
November 21, 2009
In the weakest division in one of the weakest conferences, I'd like to think Clemson wouldn't have any trouble winning it consistently. However, that hasn't been the case, and that's why I'm about to wet my pants in excitement since they've finally done it.
Clemson faces a rematch against the Gimmick Tech Yellow Jackets in the ACC Championship Game in Tampa, Florida the week after the Soccer Liner Chicken game.
Now that Clemson has wrapped up the Atlantic division, I have to get this off my chest:
I hate Georgia Tech's offensive system with a burning passion.
Why? ...because it's cheap and gimmicky, and their coach, His Royal Highness Paul Johnson, is an arrogant d-bag about his beloved system.
In my eyes, Gimmick Tech is in a no-win predicament even if Clemson loses to them in the ACC Championship Game. They are illegitimate posers no matter how many games they win. They don't deserve any respect because of how they play.
There's an author named Timothy Ferriss who is a National Chinese Kickboxing Champion. That sounds impressive, right? Well, in the tournament in which he became a champion, they weighed-in all their fighters the night before, and Mr. Ferriss practiced extreme dehydration methods to get into the lower weight classes, then rehydrated himself overnight for the "fight". During the bouts, all he had to do was push his much smaller opponents out of the ring to disqualify them. So he really didn't do any fighting, and he gets to call himself a kickboxing champion and sell a lot of books.
Gimmick Tech bends the rules in a similar way with their cut blocking in the trenches.
Without going into it too deeply, a cut block is when a player dives at the opposing player's knees to block them -- an extremely dangerous situation for the defensive player, since having 300 pounds straining the ligaments in their knee is not going to turn out well for the defender. So, instead of giving the defense a sporting chance to find the ball-carrier and make a tackle, what Georgia Tech and other cut blocking teams do is take a bunch of big guys who are short on talent and have them fling themselves at the defense's knees in an effort to distract them from tackling, or to deliver a devastating knee injury.
It's a crying shame that isn't against the rules, and, win or lose, Georgia Tech and HRH Paul Johnson deserve nothing but derision. When confronted with this, a lot of Gimmick Tech fans will laugh it off as whining, but answer this: Why should cut blocks in the trenches be legal when holding, blocking in the back, and pass interference are not?And even for those who don't want the rule thrown out because of
the injury concerns, take a look at it from a competition standpoint.
Why would
you give one side, the offense, such a devastating tool and leave the other, the
defense, without? Wouldn't a more effective way to tell who is better, who wins
and loses, to be to have the two linemen standing up and battling each other on
equal footing? Your best vs. My best. Isn't that what football is all
about?
Night Walk
November 20, 2009Mel is out of town shopping, so the boys and I went on a night walk.
quite a few people have their Christmas trees up already
Soccer Liner 2009
November 17, 2009
The 107th annual KFC bowl against the Soccer Liner Gamecocks will kickoff at noon.
Good. Early games usually negate home field advantage.
With Clemson about to win the Atlantic Division, I almost don't care if they lose to the Chickens. Almost.
Atlantic Division
November 15, 2009
Well, it looks like Clemson is heading to the ACC championship game... as long as they handle their business this Saturday against a Virginia team on a slide.
I'm not going to be able to make it to Tampa with them; I'm going to miss the biggest Clemson football game in 18 years.
Clearing Out
November 13, 2009They're clearing out most of the forest around the plant, and it seems a lot more open now after years of feeling like the plant was in the middle of the woods.
Well, I took a stroll around after work today and snapped some pictures.
Pee to help make your garden grow
I'm going to have to try this.
Rosemary Hooper, Wimpole estate's in-house master composter, said: "Most people can compost in some way in their own gardens.I wonder if my back yard is considered a public place in a legal sense. Surely not."Peeing on a compost heap activates the composting process, helps to produce a ready supply of lovely organic matter to add back to the garden.
"Adding a little pee just helps get it all going; it's totally safe and a bit of fun too." read more
Graceland
November 12, 2009Some pictures from our trip to Memphis in 2005
Mel at the Presleys' gravesite
Elvis
Jerry Lee Lewis's hands on Beale Steet
Golfing at Fort Benning
We played some golf during our down time at Fort Benning while waiting to be deployed
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