Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre, believed the greatest ever to play the game by millions and of course, me, has retired after 17 years in the NFL ( Read more... )

If you didn't already know, the "My Pictures Slideshow" screensaver on Windows XP reads minds. During my computer's last idle period, the slideshow tossed up six consecutive images of the Boy.

I miss him so much.

You see, the Wife had some plane ticket deal set to expire by the end of the year, and this weekend worked out great for her and
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Guh ... I just got off the telephone with my oldest friend and realized that this congestion has me sounding like a dying surfer and has knocked my five senses down to two - so yay, I can see the mess in my apartment and yay, I can feel the ache throughout my body that much more acutely. So stupid, this sickness. On the upside, I do find myself ( Read more... )

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The Boy always draws attention on our Fridays together with his flirty, toothless grin and handsome, hand-knit headgear (thanks,
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Another game at Lambeau Field, another division opponent, another game the Packers should have won easily, another chapter in the history of the "heart-attack-Pack ( Read more... )

There, I beat everybody to the first stupid crab joke. Yes, I do love crabs, our splendid, scuttling crustacean cousins and no, I don't find double entendres involving crab lice clever or cute, not even if you spent all night coming up with them like the piss-drunk, feather-haired, fat-assed 49ers fan who wouldn't sit down that repeatedly bellowed ( Read more... )

I don't know of any team in professional sports that can frustrate their fans more in victory than the Green Bay Packers. They played just well enough against the hapless Detroit Lions that they never appeared headed toward defeat, and yet I still felt somehow embarassed as I watched the game. Brett Favre will have a tough time breaking Dan Marino' ( Read more... )