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The best part of work is not:

Working 6am to 2pm
Using my college degree to drive a forklift
Getting 30 minutes to eat lunch

Oh no, the best part is that some of the other forklift drivers there think that I am Bill Paxton’s little brother.

I’m going to the mountains for a weekend vacation with friends and Jen. I’ll have pictures next week.

But this is too awesome and I don’t trust that anyone reads the little link thing I have on the sidebar.  I hadn’t seen or heard of this before, but now I’m trying to figure out who I can kill for $15,000.

Helmet signed by 35 Super Bowl MVPs

It’s official.  The best player in GT history is leaving.  It’s certainly not surprising, but I was holding out a little hope that his HS quarterback was right and that he would stay for one more year.  Of course that would’ve been a horrible decision, but I can dream.

May we always remember The Spiderman Catch and when an 18 year old kid single-handidly beat Clemson.

Also official, the Falcons have a new coach.  I’m excited enough.  Mora had to go, and there were no big name coaches out there to grab.  We sure didn’t need to drop $4.8M per year on a coach’s first NFL job in 5 years, but whatever.  His offensive schemes rely a lot on setting up mismatches (something that Norwood, Vick and Crumpler should do very well in) so as long as he signs up a worthy defensive coordinator things certainly won’t get worse.
Of course he’s not a world beater who is going to make the Falcons a Super Bowl contender in one year.  I’m just hoping to see a little offensive spark for once.

Finally, I’m reading a new book now.  I got “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” for Christmas last year and never read it so I figured now was as good a time as ever.  I read “For One More Day” about a week ago and liked it enough to try out Albom’s older book as well.  If this one is at all similar I should be done in a couple days.

Oh yeah, I start driving a forklift tomorrow as well, so that should be fun.

I’ve never been a cook, but Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain was a really great read.

It’s pretty much just his memoirs of growing up loving food and the journeys that led to.  There is a lot of sex and drug use and general bad behavior.  He certainly does away with the naive idea I had of chefs being all Emeril-like.

I had already grown to enjoy Bourdain thanks to his show on the Travel Channel and that definitely added to my enjoyment of the book as I was able to read the entire book in his voice with his odd little inflections.  Also, his book is filled with cookbooks and culinary history books he read while he was learning (despite his antics, he became a VERY good chef).  I scribbled down a few of them and hope to pick a few up as I keep learning myself how to cook.

Also, yeah, a lot has happened lately.  Bobby Petrino.  Calvin Johnson.  David Pollack possibly playing football again.  I’ll get to all of those later though.  I’m watching SEC speed at it’s finest as Florida takes it to tOSU.

And call it “Your editorial is retarded.” My first entry would be thanks to Charlie Roeber of Cumming, GA who graced the AJC OpEd page with his brilliant description of the Falcons’ problem. While talking about how all the blame is going to the coaches and none to the players (which, in and of itself, is absolutely ridiculous) he drops this gem:

But coaches can’t teach professional football players to block or catch passes, nor should they.

Oh really, Charlie? Is that so? Because I believe that the Falcons former offensive line coach and current consultant Alex Gibbs made his name by perfecting the cut blocking scheme and then teaching it to his undersized linemen in Denver and Atlanta. You are an idiot who wants to see Matt Schaub play because you hate black people.

You think that Schauby looked soooo good in the game against Philly. The game where they were playing the local high school all-star team because they didn’t care about anything except keeping the heavy hitters healthy enough to beat New York the next week. He rarely had to make a single throw under pressure while being rushed by a 275 pound defensive line and was throwing against 5’9″ cornerbacks. And, despite these conditions, he still sailed a ball 12 feet high over a leaping Micheal Jenkins and right into the lone Eagle starter still on the field.

Go back to your double-wide with your twelve gauge and play target practice with your tonsils.

Here’s a sampling of what I got for Christmas.

Wine carousel

Holds up to 4 bottles, although the Greg Norman Estates bottles don’t fit in for some reason.
Knives and other cookware

Ok, I have to explain this some. The knife block is kinda hokey, but very cool. It’s called the Kapoosh, and it’s basically 1000 very small rods, almost like a stiffer version of those things on a koosh ball. Here’s a review of it from Gadgetscope. It holds anything you want it to, in any order you want. Pretty cool.

Also, I got some standard pots and pans stuff, spatulas, spoons and a wok.

Spices, oils and vinegars

Pillows for both couches and a throw blanket

Wall art

These still need to be hung up obviously.

Graduation pictures

The Wire Season 2

Final Fantasy III for Nintendo DS

Even Vince Young got a gift with a new stand for his bowl

And that boy shall have the rosiest red cheeks this side of a Hallmark card.

Whatever, he killed it in the Gator Bowl. It’s obvious that the answer to the three options proposed in this previous post is a mixture of 2 and 3. I don’t know why Gailey was unable to pull himself away from Reggie Ball, I’m sure he wsa trying to show loyalty to both Reggie and his recruits, but it obviously hurt the team.

We should’ve ended the season 11-2 and be in the Orange Bowl. We had 2 of our best defensive performances spoiled by a horrible offense. That same offense with a different QB just went for 486 yards and 35 points. If not for a flukey pooch kickoff that WVU recovered, Chris Dunlap getting knocked off his route right before Bennett threw to him, or a HORRIBLE block in the back penalty (think man, think) GT could’ve come away with a win in this game. God, those 21 points in 7 minutes our defense gave up sucked though.

It’s ok though. Tashard proved he’s going to be a stud. Bennett did the same. The defense will always be the defense. And, as of Thanksgiving break, Calvin is still leaning towards returning. If all those come true it could be the beginning of a very good new era of GT football.