Hump Day

Well here we are once again, two days in and two more ahead of us after today, now all we have to do is get our butts up and over that noon time hump today and it will all be downhill after that as we progress towards another weekend.

This is one of those days that I have creative brain farts. For some consistent reason it always tends to happen in the middle of the work week.

These are the days that you struggle for any content or anything new to say that you haven't already repeated a dozen times over. Other than the baseball playoffs starting there is really nothing new to report.

On that note Pittsburgh Pirate Baseball fans, the post season officially begins tonight for us. We have a one game Wild Card Series against the Chicago Cubs (the 2nd and 3rd Best records in all of baseball) for a chance to take on the St. Louis Cardinal (Best Record in Baseball) in the National League Divisional Series. This is a one and done game tonight, winner advances and the losers are eliminated and start the off season. The Major League Post Season starts now (actually last night).

Well one good thing I can report, on WVAQ's 50% Fridays Ali Babas Restaurant is going to be the featured deal on October 16th. I have bought a number of the 50% Fridays deals through the years, it's a great way to cut your dining bill by 50% to some great local restaurants. Now that Elias and Aaron are back this is a great place to eat once again.

Have yourselves a great day.

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Sunday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit once again, up in the early AM after being the first to recover from a losing battle with that dreaded Sandman last night. I should say this morning, because it was after midnight before we actually got home from the Pirates Game yesterday. I'm up too early watching the movie Dodgeball on HBO and trying to stay awake from sleep deprivation and collecting my thoughts for the day.

We had a great time last night at the Pirates vs Padres game at PNC Park. The Pirates lost 2-1 and Morgantown native Jedd Gyroko singled in one of the Padres two runs. After the game we were treated to a nice fireworks display right outside of the stadium before getting back on the Gateway Clipper and heading back to our car. I told Michelle we need to do that more often, and it would be great if others would want to join us as we had a blast.Pictures are posted on Facebook.

Today is going to be a normal day of shopping, laundry and chores for us in the Hall household. They are having a baby shower for Sherri Toth this afternoon that Michelle has been invited to as well as bought a few things for, but that all depends on how the day shapes up. We did get home late last night and it all depends on when she gets up and we get out.

We won our first round game of Steelers trivia last night, now it is on to the semi-finals on August 30th. It's nice to see that we advanced past the first round, I wonder how we will do in the Semi-Finals and if we were good enough to advance to the Championship round. You'll have to tune in on August 30th to find out, but I will give you a small hint. =)

One thing I do need to do is start doing some video editing and put together our video blogs that I am going to publish each day to coincide with our cruise next month.

Have a great day.

It's a Pittsburgh Kind of Day

Here I am up early in the AM, the I have finally recovered from that dreaded loss to the Sandman last night and I'm up early watching Hoosiers on Cinemax.

This is the night that I think we are supposed to be on the Steelers Trivia show, it should be our first round game and it should be on KDKA after the 11:00 news. I've set my DVR up to record it but it's not showing up as the show. I hope I don;t have my dates messed up..lol

Tonight Michelle and I are traveling to Pittsburgh to watch the Pittsburgh Pirates play the San Diego Padres and their Second Baseman and Morgantown native Jedd Gyorko. This will be the first time I will have watched Jedd play professionally and I have watched him play in High School and a number of times in College. There will be fireworks after the game tonight, so it will be a late night for us before we return to Morgantown later tonight or early tomorrow morning.

The weather should be nice today, so I hope everyone has a great day.

Hump Day

Guess what day it is!!!! Woot Woot.

Yes it is hump day, the day of the week that when we go over the noon time hump, just on the other side of a photo flashback you can see the dawn of another fun filled weekend off in the distance.

Well I can't jinx the playoff run now, but the Pittsburgh Pirates are now OFFICIALLY in the 2013 Post season and have a winning record for the first time since Barry Bonds was skinny some 21 years ago. I almost forgot what it was like to get excited for October with the playoffs and the potential for the World Series. I'm just glad the Pirates have made it to the post season after 21 years of losing seasons.

Speaking of Baseball, my favorite HBO series East Bound and Down  which was supposed to end with the third season is now going to have a fourth and final season starting this Sunday. I'm kind of excited about it, but I'll probably have to record them all since they are all on too late for this old fart, although I have been under the weather the past few days and have went to bed even before the chickens.

Anyone notice the days are really starting to get shorter and the weather is getting colder? (sigh) I miss the spring time and summer, but I still like the fall. I just don't care for what comes after that.

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Hump Day Sports

Well we now have two days behind us, even though one of them was quite easy to get through. Now if you look over the noontime hump, just on the other side of a photo flashback, you can see the dawn of another weekend or a weeks vacation for me.

Well the College football polls for the second week are out and West Virginia has moved up to the #9 position in the AP Poll and we are #8 in the USAToday Coached Poll for this week. The second week of the Heisman Trophy voting is out, this is a poll among sportswriters on who they think will win the Heisman Trophy and has nothing to do with the actual Heisman voting, but Geno Smith is #2 in that poll. We have also moved to 31 in the Big XII Power ratings.

The Pittsburgh Pirates who were once as many as 18 games above .500 and looking like a playoff team, are now only 6 games above .500 and are 2 1/2 games behind in the wild card race. There are 28 games left in the season, if they win 13 of them they will break the 18 year drought of not being able to play .500 baseball. It's the longest futility streak in major sports. I'm still a Pirates fan this year, Josh did not get called up and his season in AAA is over.

Lifting and cardio day, and this may be my only day to lift this week as I'll use friday to get everything in order before we travel.

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Back at it

All good things must come to an end, and that includes weekends where we have had nice hot weather throughout. It's time to stick our noses back on the grindstone and get back to work so we can have fun on our weekends doing things we like to do.

How about those Pittsburgh Pirates? At the All-Star break they are now 11 games over .500, they have not been that far over .500 since they had a skinny Barry Bonds playing for them a very long time ago. We have been watching a lot of Pirates Baseball this season, they are a very exciting team to watch. They should break their record of the longest consecutive .500 season record in professional sports. They set the record last year, let's hope they can keep it going by breaking that streak and also winning the division.

Tonight is the All-Star games Home Run Derby and Pirate Andrew McCutchen who is leading the National League in hitting this season and putting up MVP type numbers is going to be participating in the Derby tonight. Let's go Cutch!!!!

My wife he Lobster is feeling a little better, we stayed inside for pretty much the who day yesterday and watched a movie and a little baseball.

Torn Lamrum and all, it's time to get back in the gym so

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