Weekend Update - December 3rd
Weekend Update
Crud, it’s December already. Where did the year go to?
Visitors
We had the second best month for visitor traffic in November. October was so skewed by that hoard of Germans that rushed in for a few days and then left. I think that October was an outlier month, nice to boost the averages but nothing to sustain the blog’s traffic growth.
We had 487 visitors in November. That was nice.
We also had another good week for foreign visitors. We had visitors from Canada [6], Taiwan [3], Indonesia [2], France [4], Singapore, Japan [8], Korea [2], China [2], Australia [4], Malaysia, Iran, Romania, Netherlands [2], Vietnam, Mexico, Lithuania, and Hong Kong. I think this is the first week where we have had visitors from Lithuania and Vietnam.
Personally, I think the Iranian visitor was lost. The blog doesn’t feature much Iranian specific content and I know the Woman of the Moment is not up to Iranian standards of dress.
We also had our usual crop of curious visitors. We had one reader who stopped by for forty minutes and viewed fourteen pages. Fascinating. Another visitor was here for twenty six minutes. We had one more reader who was here for seventeen minutes, one for fourteen minutes, and one for eleven minutes.
There were only two lookers this past week. One covered fourteen pages in four minutes; obviously he or she knew what to look for I guess. The other looker covered eight pages in six minutes which is semi-borderline but I will count it in the category.
I do appreciate all of you who took time to stop by the blog and see what was scribbled for you.
Woman of the Moment
Now is as good a place as any for Oksana Mazurovsky.
College Football
All in all, it was a good week for me and college football. Our Utes are going to a post season bowl game. Navy beat Army this week and won the Commander in Chief’s Trophy and will be going to a post season bowl game.
Excellent
The University of Utah Utes football team has accepted an invitation to play against Tulsa in the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth, Texas, on December 23rd.
Utah [7-5 season, 5-3 Mountain West Conference] is making its fourth straight bowl appearance. Utah has won its last five bowl games, dating back to a 17-16 win over Fresno State in the 1999 Las Vegas Bowl. Other bowl wins during that span for the Utes included a 10-6 win over USC in the 2001 Las Vegas Bowl, a 17-0 shutout of Southern Mississippi in the 2003 Liberty Bowl, a 35-7 victory over Pittsburgh in the 2005 Fiesta Bowl (2004 season) and last year's 38-10 drubbing of Georgia Tech in the Emerald Bowl.
The Utes are 8-4 all-time in their bowl history and have made one previous postseason appearance in the state of Texas--the 1939 Sun Bowl, when Utah recorded a 26-0 win over New Mexico in its first-ever bowl appearance.
Utah and Tulsa have played three times but never in a bowl game. Tulsa has a 2-1 series advantage, including a 21-13 win at home in their last meeting in 1997, a year after Utah's 45-19 victory on its home field.
The Armed Forces Bowl, formerly known as the Fort Worth Bowl, is sponsored by Bell Helicopter. This is the fourth year it will be played.
Navy can hook an anchor to that Commander-in-Chief's Trophy.
With a pair of rushing touchdowns, and a defense that produced two scores, the Midshipmen sent their seniors out with another win over Army and a career sweep of the service academies.
Navy captured the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy, awarded annually to the winner of the football competition between the three major service academies, for the fourth straight year. The win also made Navy's senior class the first in team history to finish 8-0 – a clean sweep, hoist that broom to the mast, against Army and Air Force. This was a win that would be savored from the gridiron to "Old Ironsides."
Next for the Midshipmen is the Meineke Bowl against an opponent from the Atlantic Coast Conference on Dec. 30.
I never attended the Naval Academy but I did serve as an officer in the United States Navy. Once you serve with the Forces, you almost automatically adopt your service’s academy and team in the service academy contests. When my ship was operating in the waters of South Vietnam during that war, our officers placed bets on the game with Army officers from the units we were supporting with our ship’s guns.
For the record, I did watch the glorious Army – Navy game at a local sports bar. It is not my favorite sports bar but it is within walking distance so I did not have to worry about drinking and driving on my way home after the game was over.
It was only a short four block walk. Going there is all down hill so that meant the walk home was all up hill. I perhaps should have had one or two less beers while I watched the game. I think I should have drunk the light beer but that has such a vile taste to it. Heineken’s doesn’t make a light beer and I don’t think Guinness does either. That should tell me something about light beer.
I also watched a little of the USC – UCLA football game. My brother went to USC so I am a vicarious USC fan of sorts.
[Full and Fair Disclosure] I copied this from a Utah press release and ESPN.com. I got a little lazy plus I’m not very good at writing about sports.
My Friend Vivian
Vivian and I exchanged post Thanksgiving emails and concluded we both probably over ate just a bit. Vivian was a more ambitious cooker than me when measured against the volume of food that she prepared. I get score or calorie points for cooking a whole turkey with stuffing.
We agreed to meet in mid-December for lunch. I think we agreed on a date and time although Vivian may have been looking at a November calendar date. Naturally, I will reconfirm the lunch with Vivian.
Cinema
I wonder who was the non-creative genius who greenlighted the upcoming Rocky film.
Does the world need another Rocky film?
I think not.
The franchise was extremely narrow and limited to begin with. I doubt that there is anything new that can be added to what has gone before. Rocky comes out of retirement for one last fight is hardly a compelling plot line.
I went to the Internet Movie Database and discovered that the film was written, directed, and stars Sylvester Stallone. That makes this a vanity film for almost certain. The last Ricky film, in 1990, grossed about USD$41 million in the United States.
Are there that many fans who will pay close to USD$10 for a repeat of the 1990 film. Why not rent ROCKY V for a few bucks and watch the same plot line from the comfort of your own home? It’s certainly cheaper and less embarrassing if you want to turn it off half way through the film instead of walking out of the cinema and asking for your money back.
Time Warner Cable Update
I got a call from an airhead TWC representative on Friday morning.
She asked how I was and, big guess as to how I felt. I said lousy because my TWC had failed on last Tuesday and that I wasn’t scheduled for a service call until next Tuesday afternoon. I told her that my plans to spend the weekend watching [American] football went down the toilet with the cable failure and that I was waiting to hear from Direct TV [satellite television services] about using them.
I think this must have upset her somewhat. She became flustered and said she was going to speak to her supervisor as soon as she hung up with me and ask him or her to call dispatch and see about getting me an earlier service call. She said she would call me back in thirty minutes.
As I write this blurb, I am at the two day and five hour mark of waiting for the return phone call from Friday morning.
Of course, I missed my Saturday samurai drama. It was supposed to be an important show with the civil war in Japan about to start over again. I’m guessing that the historical timeline for the show must be around 1600 more or less.
I will miss another show tonight. It is the last episode of a cheesy Japanese soap drama about a couple of lawyers in a small Tokyo law firm. I have enjoyed it. I haven’t written about it because it doesn’t offer any useful insights into Japanese culture and society.
I do enjoy watching the bumbling, brand new lawyer who is in love with an older woman lawyer in the firm. He seems to have a remarkable ability to get drunk when he has a drink after work with the older woman and then have the older woman bring him home to his cramped little flat. I wonder if these two will connect and live happily ever after or not.
I won’t know because of Time Warner Cable’s failure
Pop Quiz Hot Shots: How can you tell when a TWC representative is lying?
You can see their lips move or hear them breathing.
El Gringo
I went to El Gringo for my Sunday late lunch – early dinner as usual. It was warm [73F – 22C] here today so I was wearing my shorts and a sweat shirt and enjoying what we call Winter.
My lunch – dinner was the Pollo Negro Salad. It was spicy as always. I think my mouth will be burning for a couple more hours. If I didn’t care so much about what I eat, I might have gone to Coldstone Creamery for one their three scoop mounds of blended rich ice cream as a way of cooling my mouth off. Aside from the gazillion calories, it would have been loaded with sugar and carbohydrates that would have driven my blood sugar count right off of the charts.
It was busy again today at El Gringo.
I wonder if my blog comments have had any affect on the customer traffic there. It could also be because I go there around 3:00 PM and this is when Whitney doesn’t have a busser [high school student] to clean the tables. Whitney had to clean up from a big family party of about a dozen with a handful of small children so there was a fair mess.
Whitney told me that she was going to New York City to visit a friend for four days and, naturally, one of the days is a Sunday. I suppose that I have two options open to me now. First, I can go to El Gringo on Sunday afternoon and see how it is there and take my chances with a new, temporary person. Whitney knows what I drink and how I like my salad [no corn]. Second, I can go to Fatburger and have a Kingburger with cheese and a fat fries to go and come home and have my lunch – dinner meal.
Fortunately, next weekend Whitney will be there so that is all good for me. The weekend she is gone is the weekend I am supposed to have lunch with Vivian so I could have lunch with Vivian on Sunday and not have to face the new, temporary person at El Gringo.
In any event, I have two weeks to make up my mind.
That was my weekend gentle readers. I hope you had great weekends also.
Be well and stay happy.
Crud, it’s December already. Where did the year go to?
Visitors
We had the second best month for visitor traffic in November. October was so skewed by that hoard of Germans that rushed in for a few days and then left. I think that October was an outlier month, nice to boost the averages but nothing to sustain the blog’s traffic growth.
We had 487 visitors in November. That was nice.
We also had another good week for foreign visitors. We had visitors from Canada [6], Taiwan [3], Indonesia [2], France [4], Singapore, Japan [8], Korea [2], China [2], Australia [4], Malaysia, Iran, Romania, Netherlands [2], Vietnam, Mexico, Lithuania, and Hong Kong. I think this is the first week where we have had visitors from Lithuania and Vietnam.
Personally, I think the Iranian visitor was lost. The blog doesn’t feature much Iranian specific content and I know the Woman of the Moment is not up to Iranian standards of dress.
We also had our usual crop of curious visitors. We had one reader who stopped by for forty minutes and viewed fourteen pages. Fascinating. Another visitor was here for twenty six minutes. We had one more reader who was here for seventeen minutes, one for fourteen minutes, and one for eleven minutes.
There were only two lookers this past week. One covered fourteen pages in four minutes; obviously he or she knew what to look for I guess. The other looker covered eight pages in six minutes which is semi-borderline but I will count it in the category.
I do appreciate all of you who took time to stop by the blog and see what was scribbled for you.
Woman of the Moment
Now is as good a place as any for Oksana Mazurovsky.
College Football
All in all, it was a good week for me and college football. Our Utes are going to a post season bowl game. Navy beat Army this week and won the Commander in Chief’s Trophy and will be going to a post season bowl game.
Excellent
The University of Utah Utes football team has accepted an invitation to play against Tulsa in the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth, Texas, on December 23rd.
Utah [7-5 season, 5-3 Mountain West Conference] is making its fourth straight bowl appearance. Utah has won its last five bowl games, dating back to a 17-16 win over Fresno State in the 1999 Las Vegas Bowl. Other bowl wins during that span for the Utes included a 10-6 win over USC in the 2001 Las Vegas Bowl, a 17-0 shutout of Southern Mississippi in the 2003 Liberty Bowl, a 35-7 victory over Pittsburgh in the 2005 Fiesta Bowl (2004 season) and last year's 38-10 drubbing of Georgia Tech in the Emerald Bowl.
The Utes are 8-4 all-time in their bowl history and have made one previous postseason appearance in the state of Texas--the 1939 Sun Bowl, when Utah recorded a 26-0 win over New Mexico in its first-ever bowl appearance.
Utah and Tulsa have played three times but never in a bowl game. Tulsa has a 2-1 series advantage, including a 21-13 win at home in their last meeting in 1997, a year after Utah's 45-19 victory on its home field.
The Armed Forces Bowl, formerly known as the Fort Worth Bowl, is sponsored by Bell Helicopter. This is the fourth year it will be played.
Navy can hook an anchor to that Commander-in-Chief's Trophy.
With a pair of rushing touchdowns, and a defense that produced two scores, the Midshipmen sent their seniors out with another win over Army and a career sweep of the service academies.
Navy captured the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy, awarded annually to the winner of the football competition between the three major service academies, for the fourth straight year. The win also made Navy's senior class the first in team history to finish 8-0 – a clean sweep, hoist that broom to the mast, against Army and Air Force. This was a win that would be savored from the gridiron to "Old Ironsides."
Next for the Midshipmen is the Meineke Bowl against an opponent from the Atlantic Coast Conference on Dec. 30.
I never attended the Naval Academy but I did serve as an officer in the United States Navy. Once you serve with the Forces, you almost automatically adopt your service’s academy and team in the service academy contests. When my ship was operating in the waters of South Vietnam during that war, our officers placed bets on the game with Army officers from the units we were supporting with our ship’s guns.
For the record, I did watch the glorious Army – Navy game at a local sports bar. It is not my favorite sports bar but it is within walking distance so I did not have to worry about drinking and driving on my way home after the game was over.
It was only a short four block walk. Going there is all down hill so that meant the walk home was all up hill. I perhaps should have had one or two less beers while I watched the game. I think I should have drunk the light beer but that has such a vile taste to it. Heineken’s doesn’t make a light beer and I don’t think Guinness does either. That should tell me something about light beer.
I also watched a little of the USC – UCLA football game. My brother went to USC so I am a vicarious USC fan of sorts.
[Full and Fair Disclosure] I copied this from a Utah press release and ESPN.com. I got a little lazy plus I’m not very good at writing about sports.
My Friend Vivian
Vivian and I exchanged post Thanksgiving emails and concluded we both probably over ate just a bit. Vivian was a more ambitious cooker than me when measured against the volume of food that she prepared. I get score or calorie points for cooking a whole turkey with stuffing.
We agreed to meet in mid-December for lunch. I think we agreed on a date and time although Vivian may have been looking at a November calendar date. Naturally, I will reconfirm the lunch with Vivian.
Cinema
I wonder who was the non-creative genius who greenlighted the upcoming Rocky film.
Does the world need another Rocky film?
I think not.
The franchise was extremely narrow and limited to begin with. I doubt that there is anything new that can be added to what has gone before. Rocky comes out of retirement for one last fight is hardly a compelling plot line.
I went to the Internet Movie Database and discovered that the film was written, directed, and stars Sylvester Stallone. That makes this a vanity film for almost certain. The last Ricky film, in 1990, grossed about USD$41 million in the United States.
Are there that many fans who will pay close to USD$10 for a repeat of the 1990 film. Why not rent ROCKY V for a few bucks and watch the same plot line from the comfort of your own home? It’s certainly cheaper and less embarrassing if you want to turn it off half way through the film instead of walking out of the cinema and asking for your money back.
Time Warner Cable Update
I got a call from an airhead TWC representative on Friday morning.
She asked how I was and, big guess as to how I felt. I said lousy because my TWC had failed on last Tuesday and that I wasn’t scheduled for a service call until next Tuesday afternoon. I told her that my plans to spend the weekend watching [American] football went down the toilet with the cable failure and that I was waiting to hear from Direct TV [satellite television services] about using them.
I think this must have upset her somewhat. She became flustered and said she was going to speak to her supervisor as soon as she hung up with me and ask him or her to call dispatch and see about getting me an earlier service call. She said she would call me back in thirty minutes.
As I write this blurb, I am at the two day and five hour mark of waiting for the return phone call from Friday morning.
Of course, I missed my Saturday samurai drama. It was supposed to be an important show with the civil war in Japan about to start over again. I’m guessing that the historical timeline for the show must be around 1600 more or less.
I will miss another show tonight. It is the last episode of a cheesy Japanese soap drama about a couple of lawyers in a small Tokyo law firm. I have enjoyed it. I haven’t written about it because it doesn’t offer any useful insights into Japanese culture and society.
I do enjoy watching the bumbling, brand new lawyer who is in love with an older woman lawyer in the firm. He seems to have a remarkable ability to get drunk when he has a drink after work with the older woman and then have the older woman bring him home to his cramped little flat. I wonder if these two will connect and live happily ever after or not.
I won’t know because of Time Warner Cable’s failure
Pop Quiz Hot Shots: How can you tell when a TWC representative is lying?
You can see their lips move or hear them breathing.
El Gringo
I went to El Gringo for my Sunday late lunch – early dinner as usual. It was warm [73F – 22C] here today so I was wearing my shorts and a sweat shirt and enjoying what we call Winter.
My lunch – dinner was the Pollo Negro Salad. It was spicy as always. I think my mouth will be burning for a couple more hours. If I didn’t care so much about what I eat, I might have gone to Coldstone Creamery for one their three scoop mounds of blended rich ice cream as a way of cooling my mouth off. Aside from the gazillion calories, it would have been loaded with sugar and carbohydrates that would have driven my blood sugar count right off of the charts.
It was busy again today at El Gringo.
I wonder if my blog comments have had any affect on the customer traffic there. It could also be because I go there around 3:00 PM and this is when Whitney doesn’t have a busser [high school student] to clean the tables. Whitney had to clean up from a big family party of about a dozen with a handful of small children so there was a fair mess.
Whitney told me that she was going to New York City to visit a friend for four days and, naturally, one of the days is a Sunday. I suppose that I have two options open to me now. First, I can go to El Gringo on Sunday afternoon and see how it is there and take my chances with a new, temporary person. Whitney knows what I drink and how I like my salad [no corn]. Second, I can go to Fatburger and have a Kingburger with cheese and a fat fries to go and come home and have my lunch – dinner meal.
Fortunately, next weekend Whitney will be there so that is all good for me. The weekend she is gone is the weekend I am supposed to have lunch with Vivian so I could have lunch with Vivian on Sunday and not have to face the new, temporary person at El Gringo.
In any event, I have two weeks to make up my mind.
That was my weekend gentle readers. I hope you had great weekends also.
Be well and stay happy.
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