(Picture taken from the Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey)
As you can see I have edited this portion out of the earlier prizes post (which still exists in the post below this one). That way I have kept your comments, links etc. and new visitors can continue to join the challenge if they wish!
As I announced yesterday, Jeff and Pat were the big contest winners. Here are their prizes:
(For Jeff)
(For Pat)
They won’t get these until this afternoon. What say we open them up and see what they’ve won! Shall we? Lets!
Pat and Jeff, you are forbidden beyond this point until after you have claimed your prizes.
Ready? I feel like it is Christmas! As Ty Pennington would say, “Let’s Do It!!!!”
I know that you all have been anxiously awaiting the results of Friday’s inaugural Stainless Steel Droppings Pointless Contest!!! (all 6 or 7 of you who entered, anyway!)
And so, without further ado….drumroll please….the winners are:
Continue reading And the Winner’s are….plus, Tuesday Treats!
Well…almost!!! With less than two weeks to go before the start of the football season [bows down in thanks] we had our live draft for the fantasy football team last night.
After taking a year off to rest and recuperate from the inherent annoyances of fantasy football I was dragged back kicking and screaming into the league. Last night 12 of us, including my friend Jeff, got together at various locations across the U.S. to do our draft. James was gracious enough to bring over his laptops and that in conjunction with my PC and Jeff’s laptop meant that we had 4 computers going at the same time in my small computer room….which you’ve seen if you read Friday’s post! James was actually our saviour for the evening! Storms caused a massive city-wide internet crash about two thirds of the way through our draft and thankfully James had his Sprint wireless or we would’ve had to do our last several rounds by phone. James also brought over some fantastic BBQ and beer. Thank you James!!!
I’m fairly happy with my lineup for the season (starters):
QB: Tom Brady from the NE Patriots
RB: Tiki Barber from the NY Giants
RB: Corey Dillon from the NE Patriots
WR: Plaxico Burress from the Pitt. Steelers
WR: Eddie Kennison from the KC Chiefs
TE: Alge Crumpler from the Atl Falcons
K: Josh Brown from the Seattle Seahawks’
Def: Pittsburg Steelers
Hopefully it will be a good season
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For you readers out there, the winners of the 2006 Hugo Awards have been announced.
Congrats to:
for winning the Best Dramatic Presentation: Long Form
In addition to the Hugos, The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer was awarded to John Scalzi for his book:
Old Man’s War is incidentally a book that I started this weekend and am loving so far.
The nominations for the 2006 Quill Awards are up as well if you are interested. These are ones that you can vote on, go here to see the list of nominees in each category and to vote.
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And last but not least it was my brother-in-law Mike’s birthday on Friday and we got together yesterday to celebrate the beginning of his last year in the 20’s. Happy belated Birthday, Mike! You are a terrific edition to the family. On a side note Mike and I beat the women folk twice in Trivial Pursuit Pop Culture yesterday…a game that included my rendition of the old song “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”. Good times!
Happy Monday everyone!!!
Inspired by Quixotic’s recent post which was in turn inspired by the On My Desk site I decided to feature my creative/entertainment area as today’s Friday Favorite. I know, I know…you feel like you’re getting ripped off, cheated, bamboozled. Well you’re probably right about that but I promise you that in the process you’ll not only see aesthetically pleasing pictures but will be exposed to some art as well.
In addition to the pictures you can see there are several bold links in this post that will open up additional, more detailed pics. Give them a click!
Before getting to the “place where the magic happens” as I have called the computer room (in jest of course) I wanted to update you visually on the bookshelf project. I painted it recently but have to put a coat of finish on it. I like how it turned out so much, however, that I have been slowly filling up each nook with books and things over the past week and can no longer resist showing it off. You may remember that my father and I built this over 4th of July weekend and Mike helped us install it. At that time it looked like this:
Pretty nice, but incomplete. Well, without further ado I bring you the (almost) finished product: