Saturday Randomness

Posted by Darren

October 20, 2007

My Brother-in-Law Greg (the mason in my family who has been doing the work on my house) stopped by this morning to get his tools and stuff because he is finished here…YAY. We aren’t totally finished with the project but he’s done with the part he needs to get done. I have another contractor coming this week I hope to put in the new roof on top of the steps that Greg just built. I am so glad to be nearing the end of this headache!! I’ll post pictures soon.

Terri and I watched the Transformers movie last night and I have to say it was freakin’ awesome. We don’t get to the movies at all really so we have to wait until movies come out on DVD and even then we rarely watch movies but a co-worker of mine copied the movie for me so we watched it last night. I was a little worried about it because I grew up watching the cartoon and was hoping this movie wasn’t a complete waste of time but it’s the best movie I’ve seen in a long time. They didn’t ruin my memories of the cartoon at all.

So I asked for questions the other day and I did get one….

Erika asked if I have any silly superstitious things that I do during playoff games?

I used to but I don’t really anymore. In the past, when watching a playoff game, I had to watch the game from a certain seat on the couch. If they ended up losing two games in a row, I would consider that seat tainted and move to a different seat. If they won the game after I switched seats, I wouldn’t switch back until they lost again. When the Devils were going for the cup in 2003, I had started wearing an old Devils hat that I bought before they won the cup in 2000 and made sure to wear it only on game days. They won the cup again that Spring and that hat has been put away until I need it again in the future. All those superstitions are behind me, or at least I thought until the other night when I happened to watch the Sox game from a different seat on the coach! I think you can guess where I will be sitting during Game 6 tonight!!

Since I mentioned the Sox, I will share with you a joke that Laura shared with me this week…

On the first day of school a first grade teacher explains to her class that she is a Yankees fan. She asks her students to raise their hands if they, too, are Yankees fans. Wanting to impress their teacher, everyone in the class raises their hand except one little girl. The teacher looks at the girl with surprise and says, “Janie, why didn’t you raise your hand?” “Because I’m not a Yankees fan,” she replied.The teacher, still shocked, asked, “Well, if you are not a Yankees fan, then who are you a fan of?” “I am a Red Sox fan, and proud of it,” Janie replied. The teacher could not believe her ears. “Janie, why pray tell are you a Red Sox fan?” “Because my mom is a Red Sox fan, and my dad is Red Sox fan, so I’m a Red Sox fan too!” “Well,” said the teacher in a obviously annoyed tone, “that is no reason for you to be a Red Sox fan. You don’t have to be just like your parents all of the time. What if your mom were an idiot and your dad were a moron, what would you be then?” “Then,” Janie smiled, “I’d be a Yankees fan.”

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