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!!!
Borders/Waldenbooks is teaming up with the nonprofit organization First Book to get books into the hands of children who may not normally get that opportunity. In addition book lovers, they are offering 10% off your total purchase.
I am linking to 2 coupons. The first I got in my email this morning offering 10% off your total purchase plus 10% of your purchase donated to First Book. This coupon says it is good “now through August 27th”.
The other is the coupon from the site stating the same program only it says it is only good August 26th and August 27th.
First Book looks like a really good organization. They have other opportunities to give books besides this promotion. In addition to a very thorough website they also have a blog.
Unfortunately this looks to be a promotion that is only available in the U.S. So book lovers, here is just another excuse to feed the addiction!
Has this been the longest week in the annals of recorded history? Or is it just me? I cannot believe it is only Wednesday. Of course it may be that I am just exhausted from staying up late and then having my dog, Razz, freaking out all night. From the amount of heavy breathing that was going on you would think that he was getting jiggy with it all night.