Quick Hits Galore, Spaghetti-Oh, My!, And Week 4 Fantasy Football Thoughts
Yeah, yeah, yeah…the product review is going to have to wait.
So sue me. Just don’t wish a torn knee ligament (or three) on me.
Quick-hitters:
- Did you know that “aluminum” is spelled and pronounced “aluminium” in Britain?
Krunk pointed that out to me today, but I already knew that, thanks to Eddie Izzard :P.
(Tangent: Why wasn’t the movie Speed called La Vitesse?)
- One of these days, I’m going to figure out what’s wrong with my sister’s fried-again computer.
Not today, though. me <– opens a can of Coke Zero.
- My current rebate-o-meter reads over $3,000 in rebates owed. This figure went up over $700 today alone.
(I should mention that the only reason why this figure jumped so high was because of an error in my rebate Excel spreadsheet. You remember The Simpsons episode where Homer tried to gain weight, and kept getting his gut caught on the towel rack, throwing off his scale’s reading? My miscalculation reminded me of this episode.)
At the rate I’m going, I’m probably going to have to buy myself a free after rebate Christmas gift. Nothing says “Merry Christmas” like Norton Antivirus 2008, right?
- How would one spell out the sound a buzzer makes (you know, like what you hear at the end of a basketball game)?
I could really use that.
- Don’t you hate it when you check out of an store, only to find (moments later) another item you wanted to buy? For reasons other than S&H–not that S&H doesn’t matter–this hurts a heck of a lot more online than at a brick-and-mortar.
- I had some leftover spaghetti sauce that was sitting in my fridge for a couple of days, so I decided to make some baked pasta. I had some round Spaghetti-O-like pasta that I bought from Trader Joe’s (that store is evil, by the way), so I boiled that up, heated the sauce, threw everything into a glass baking dish, topped it with some CoJack cheese–it’s all I had–and threw the whole shebang in the oven until the cheese melted.
Man, that’s some good stuff; it was definitely a heck of a lot better than anything that came out of a can! I added a mixed greens salad and a glass of cranberry juice, and damn, I could go for another helping right now!
- I’m too tired to give my loyal readers my Week 4 NFL thoughts, but here are my Week 4 Fantasy Football rants and raves (mostly the former):
1) Stupid Brian Westbrook. Stupid Rudi Johnson. Stupid Donovan McNabb.
2) I lost in three of my four leagues last week (see #1), and I really lucked out in the BargainShare FFBL league, thanks to a last-minute scratch of Lawrence Maroney. I was up by a mere three points, going into the Monday Night Football game! Hey, I’ll take wins any way I can get them.
Unfortunately, in that league, both of my starting RBs–Rudi Johnson and Travis Henry–are hurt.
I’m screwed.
To recap: I’m now 1-3, 1-3 (in the LT league, and I could very well be 0-4), 2-2, and 3-1 in the BargainShare league.
Fun fact: my sister and I are both 3-1 in the BargainShare league. One GM and his son are each 0-4.
(I hope he doesn’t read this :P)
3) I face LaDainian Tomlinson in two leagues next week, and I have him in one league (though that team is 1-3). It should be pretty obvious which way I will be rooting.
4) Have I ever mentioned how much I hate Fantasy Football?
Until next time!
Btw, I brought up aluminum and aluminium not because of everyone of the difference, but the fact that some stupid people decided to change aluminum to aluminium because elements tend to have the -ium suffix and not the -um suffix.
Btw, it’s not just Britain that uses aluminium. Basically any other country other than USA calls it aluminium. Then again, half the world was under British control for one time or another.
No product review?! Why I hope you get a torn– oh, oh, okay.
No fair talking about delicious food and not posting pictures. (Surely a rebate-monkey such as yourself must have at least a couple digital cameras lying about…)
“NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANT!”
JM2C
Hank,
Did you just call me a rebate-monkey?
And yeah, I do have a camera. However, it’s quite a bit of work to snap a pic, resize it, and upload it!
me <– lazy
[…] The problem with being a rebate-monkey is that you, sometimes, have to deal with rebate centers and their HORRIBLE customer service. […]
Yeah, but it’s cool — it’s a hip term for a bargain-master, just like programmers are sometimes called “code monkeys.”
Laziness, huh? Okay, good answer.