It's Just around the Corner!

Ok everybody. Christmas is just around the corner, so email me your Dear Santa letters so that I can start buying presents. OLBilby@gmail.com. :)

HOO-RAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's not a certainty yet, but I'm pretty sure that I'm going to win 5 dollars from Lissa next Fall. We had a little bet going that the totally fantastic television show Men In Trees wouldn't make it to a second season. I bet that it would, but Lissa has little faith and/or bad taste in television since she doesn't think it will do all that well, but whichever. My reasoning behind the bet was because the show is soooo friggin' awesome, due to its comedic romantic plotlines, which I love, but Lissa thought it would fail because it was a Friday night show and that in itself would make it unpopular. However, Men In Trees is moving to THURSDAY nights beginning November 30. This mean that--and I'm sad to say--they will probably be cancelling Six Degrees, another show that I was watching and liked relatively well, but not nearly as much as the show that will replace it; I'm not too dissappointed about it, especially because the line up will be Ugly Betty (one of my new favorite shows), Grey's Anatomy (another one of my favorites) and then of course, Men In Trees. What a fantastic night Thursdays will be :). But yeah...be prepared to pay up Lissa...cause a year from now, I guarantee that you'll owe me 5 dollars. HOO-RAH!!!

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Army Strong

Army has changed their advertising campaign. I don't like it. I remember reading about the proposed change earlier this year. I didn't like it then either. Now that I've seen how they actually plan to convey their new incredibly succint message . . . I like it even less. The ads that are running go something like this;

Learning to stand up for yourself? That's strong. Learning to stand up for your country? That's Army Strong!

I remember the Army jingle from when I was growing up "Be all that you can be . . . in the ARMY!!!" It was cute, it was catchy, it was--if i remember correctly--iconic. Then sometime during my highschool years they changed it to "The Army of One". While I thought the ads were pretty good, I still missed the jingle.

Now, not only is there no jingle, but the slogan is . . . not even a slogan. Army Strong? Who else pictures some neanderthal thumping their chest and declaring, "Army! Strong!"? Now I am reminded of the excellent Buffy episode "Beer Good!", for which the tv spots probably went something like this; "Learning to have a one night stand? That's good! Learning to have a one night stand and not moon over the guy like an idiot and drag down the beginning of the season? That's Beer Good!"

I lost my train of thought.

Mark Your Calendars!

Last night was a red letter day for me! For the first time since Roy was born 7 months ago, Russ changed a poopy diaper!

Welcome Our New Speaker of the House

No sulking on my end, although I will say that I feel that it was not so much that the democrats deserved to win, but that the republicans richly deserved to lose.

Let the circus begin, since our prospective new speaker has been promising all sorts of investigations and hearings:


Photo stolen shamelessly from HotAir

Maybe when the republicans remember why they were put in the majority in the first place - democrat over-spending, corruption, immigration, high taxes, bloated and intrusive government - republicans will win again.

Like it was some kind of secret . . .

Neil Patrick Harris has officially come out of the closet following recent 
speculation regarding his sexual preference.  Why Doogie?  Why?
http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1554852,00.html 

on a side note, Opera browsers do not like blogger.

Random Comments

The trick-or-treaters that came to our door cracked me up. In particular, since I just hold out the bowl and let the kids pick what they'll take, I found it instructive to note how many pieces of candy each kid took. Girls almost universally took just one piece, said thanks, and left. Boys, when faced with choice - instead of being handed a piece or two of candy - broke down into two groups. The polite ones who said thanks, thrust their chubby fists into the bowl and took off with a couple of pieces, and the imps that thrust both fists into the bowl and would have grabbed all they could carry if I hadn't made them narrow down their selection.

And Roseanne Barr was on My Name Is Earl last night, and I have to say, she's much more attractive as an old lady than I remembered.



Oooh, and I found a write-in candidate for the Allen/Webb race. If you aren't voting for either of them, write in Meryl Yourish.