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In spirit of Smooty's new profile picture, I changed mine, and then found this beauty that was too good not to post.

I'm feeling better, and with a 3 day weekend I hope to stock up the new wine fridge I got for christmas with plenty of 22s of Ruby Ale and Arrogant Bastard Ale. hhhmmmmm, beeeerrrr.

long time no post

Wow, has it really been almost 2 weeks since any of us posted? Damn.

Well how about a quick recap.

Christmas was good. I didn't get much, which is okay because I already bought myself the 360 this year and really didn't want anything but time to play it.

I got sick. Real sick and missed a few days of work. As much fun as sleeping til 2 or 3 every day is, when you wake up covered in sweat, it's no fun. But after 45+ hours of sleep in 3 days, insomnia set in and I finally got to play some Saints Row on the 360, so got that Christmas wish after all.

The one cool thing my parents got us was a new hot tub cover. That was great...and then after 3 days of getting the hot tub up and going for new years eve, something broke, water hit the heating element, a loud bang, and all that effort was for nothing as the fucker sits in my backyard full of luke warm water, probably cooled to a nice 40 degrees or so right now.

Willie turned 30 and came home to visit. Magnums of champagne taste good. Happy birthday you old fucker.

I finally won a week in pick-em football and got my $20 entry fee back. But I didn't win it all, and so the $30 I coughed up by dropping from 1st to 4th in our fantasy league, the $15 I lost in survivor pick em, $10 in bowl pics, and $19 or so that I plunked down for the KLOG pool is all gone. I did win $50 on a Hawks game after a game winning 50+ yard field goal made my winning score come up at the moose lodge. And I won 2 free pizzas in the Daily News weekly pool, so overall, I think I came out just barely ahead. I still have an outside chance for some money in the Superbowl on Hewey's board. That will swing my end of year betting frenzy to either a barely negative close, or a very positive finish.

Anyone want to put money on march maddness? Anyone think the Cougs can hold on to their new shiny top 25 ranking and make it to the dance? Washington State Men's Basketball Earns National Ranking Fuck that would be outstanding. The second half of the game versus UCLA last month was the first time I had watched more than 5 minutes of Cougar basketball since my junior year in 1998.

And on that same cougar related topic, Washington State's Butch T. Cougar Named Capital One Mascot of the Year

And last but no least, Nate had a chance at the final KLOG week pick em on all the bowl pics. And lost the tiebreaker costing him about $176. That could have bought a whole lot of pudding.