“Summer’s going fast, nights growing colder…”
dining and cuisine, engagement/wedding/marriage, everyday glory, family and friends, football, games, geekery, news and info, office antics, science and technology, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot...?! September 14th, 2009Nothing like having The Leash start going off at 0800… just as you’re getting ready to head to the office. It was alerting me to a problem with an off-site server. Yay. We contacted the appropriate people – who seemed to be having issues of their own – and they handled it. Eventually. Welcome to Monday.
Yesterday was a good day. It was also chock full o’ stuff. Mark and Alex – a member of the SUU Ballroom Dance Team who came up to assist in the dance lessons – came up about 2:30. First, they worked with SaraRules and Steve for the Father/Daughter dance, then it they spent time with SaraRules and me for our first dance. It was more fun and less fearsome than I had expected. (And, we fortunately we have three weeks to practice…)
After that, SaraRules, Alex, Mark and I headed over to the in-laws-to-be for dinner: Bratwurst and football. Excellent combination. More on football in a minute. After dinner, Steve transferred the video of our dance practice to DVD for us – we need to have some kind of reference for practice, after all.
Football Update
Yesterday was the Ravens’ season opener at home.
Kansas City Chiefs at Baltimore Ravens |
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24 – 38 | |
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They tried to give me heart failure in the second and third quarters… and I wasn’t even watching the game, per se. In this market, CBS broadcast the Minnesota-Cleveland game, so I had to “watch” the GameCenter on NFL.com. Granted, it was nice to see the Vikings hand the Browns a beatdown, but I would have rather seen the Ravens play. Because, let’s face it: Who wouldn’t want to see Ray Lewis break a little something off like this in real time…
…or watch as QB Joe Flacco goes and dials in 303 yards passing and 4 yards rushing, as the Ravens put up a total of 501 yards of total offense!? Crazy. How does that make you feel, Ray?
Yeah, I thought so.
Elsewhere around the league:
Miami Dolphins at Atlanta Falcons |
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7 – 19 | |
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Oh, well.. at least there are 16 more games in the season. |
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Philadelphia Eagles at Carolina Panthers |
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38 – 10 |
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Ditto. |
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Denver Broncos at Cincinnati Bengals |
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12 – 7 | |
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Sorry, |
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Minnesota Vikings at Cleveland Browns |
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34 – 20 | |
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Congrats, Congrats Commiserations, |
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Namaste.
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September 14th, 2009 at 2:55 PM
I’m trying not to get my hopes up about the Ravens’ season, but things are certainly kicking off well…