Sinful satisfaction

Have you ever eaten something that just makes your taste buds bow down and worship your brain because of a choice it made. When you take a mouthwatering bite of something that is just pure satisfaction?

yesterday Michelle Hayley and I took Michelle's Dad's car to washing ton PA to drop it off to her sister so she could return it for us. We stopped for dinner at Ponderosa Steakhouse in Washington to eat dinner. Right beside it was the slice of heaven.

Krispy Kreme has a store there, where you can see the donuts being made, through the rising of that yeast that makes them so good to the mouthwatering sugar waterfall that each donut gets a chance to bask in before it comes off the hot belt and is ready to be served.

I had my first chance yesterday to have one that was coming off the hot belt. Now I have had donuts before, but I have never had a Krispy Kreme donut right as it just came off of the hot belt. Once you bit in it was pure succulent pleasure, almost tasteful to a point where this should be a sin.

If you ever see a Krispy Kreme store, stop and get one of their donuts coming off the hot belt. Boxing them does not do these things justice.

Michelle is back

My sweetie arrived home from her nice week long vacation at Myrtle beach this past week. She stayed here with me last night as we had a little catching up to do and talking about how her vacation went.

They had one unfortunate night when the washing machine had broken earlier in the day and the repair man forgot to turn the water off. Michelle explained that the living room a floor below had this big bubble of water coming down the wall behind the wall paper before it burst.

Sometime today we're going to meet her Sister Danielle in Washington PA to take Michelle's Niece and her Dad's car back. Danielle is going to do us a favor and run it back to East Liverpool for us today.

I guess things return back to normal for her tomorrow as she returns to work after a nice relaxing break.

Michael Phelps

Congratulations to US swimmer Michael Phelps as he won his Seventh Gold Medal of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, tying him with 1972 Seven Time Gold medal Winner Mark Spitz for the most Gold medals by any Olympian in any single Olympic.

Phelps also had six Gold Medals from the 2004 games, plus these seven give him a total of Thirteen (13) Gold Medals in his Olympic history, shattering the previous mark of nine gold medals held by US Swimmer Mark Spitz, US Track and Field Star Carl Lewis, Finnish Track Star Paavo Nurmi and Russian Gymnast Larysa Latynina.

Phelps has one more chance to cash in for an unprecedented eighth Gold Medal when he tries to win Gold in the 4x100m medley relay, an event the US has never failed to win the Gold medal in.

Congrats Michael Phelps, you make us proud to be Americans.

2008 Fantasy Football Draft

last night we assembled one last time for the year, or at least until next softball season, and drafted our 2008-9 Fantasy Football Draft.

I ended up in first place last year, but faltered in the Championship game with my worst game of the season against Gunter, who had also beat me in NASCAR a month earlier.

This year however I'm ready to play, when Yahoo assigned waiver priority (based on strength of team) I was given last priority (based on the strongest draft). Last year my two running backs were the first two players selected in this seasons draft, however I was not able to retain either of them. Overall my team shows strength and should be pretty competitive. I even drafted two former Mountaineers late in the draft with Steve Slaton and Owen Schmidt.

It is the earliest we have drafted, but Scott Barr came in for the draft from out of town, that's why we did it.

Big Ole Hairy Friday

It's once again that time of the week when we cease the labors fro the week and take time out to enjoy the fruits of our labors. It is once again the start of yet another weekend.

If you are looking for a little free entertainment tonight, this is the last in the 2008 Family Night Under the Stars series, they will be playing Mr. Beans Holiday.

I on the other hand will be drafting officially closing out the Summer Softball season as we get together one last time as a team and draft our Fantasy Football League Draft. We'll be drafting tonight at Chewy's, something tells me I won't have the team that I had last year as both of my running backs are ranked #1 and #2 this season.

You'll notice getting around town will be a little more difficult as the WVU students are coming back to town as classes start this coming Monday. WVU will have it's traditional Fall Fest 2008 with headliner and former American Idol contestant Chris Daughtry. What a way for the kids to kick off a school year.

Tomorrow is the Traditional Chicken Wing Cook off at the old Mountaineer Mall. Take a little time and go out and enjoy some the wing cook off competition of some of Morgantown's best restaurants. the best wings however will not be competing in this years competition as Nick and Terri's wont be in this years cook off.

Have a great weekend.

Update on Josh Judy

I think my old team mate may be ready to advance to the next level next season. As the minors start to wind down in A for the season, I decided to take a nice gander at Josh's stats for the season.

he's got a 3.54 ERA, which isn't that bad. he's averaging about 1.1 Strikeouts per inning which is pretty impressive. However his current record is 12 wins and 1 loss. That's 12-1 on the year and will draw some major attention from the upper clubs.

I'm crossing my fingers and waiting for him to make his Major League debut.

The season is now officially over

Wow, talk about a season that needed to just end, it was this years softball season. We just didn't play very well this season and really had a sub par year.

I did miss my sweetheart as she is at Myrtle Beach and this was the only game that she missed this season. However she didn't miss much as we lost 16-3 to close out the season.

I've brought in my equipment for the season, so maybe if I get a chance I'll go and watch a playoff game or two if I can, since we are not playing in them again this season.

Let's suit up one last time this year

Another softball season has come, and after tonight will have gone. It's been a less than stellar year for us, but I wouldn't trade the memories for anything. Win or lose, I play with the best group of guys you could ever want to associate with, we're just not that successful on the field this season.

After the game tonight I'll bring my bats in and put them in storage until next spring when I will once again dust them off and get ready for another season. We'll just regroup and do it again next year, hopefully it will be like teams of old again.

Anyone ready for some football?

Olympics

Once every four years, athletes are given a chance to become legends on what is a world stage. A true chance at being not only a World, but an Olympic Champion is a dream that many athletes dream of. It's probably a similar dream that anyone who has ever suited up in an Olympic event has probably dreamed about at one time or another.

The Medal Count constantly changes, you can keep up with it HERE. Just remember that Beijing China is like 12 hours ahead of us in time difference. I had an open invitation to attend them a few years ago from a friend of mine who lives in Beijing.

I have watched a good bit of the games this weekend, both live and tape delayed (when I wasn't napping). Yesterday morning I watched what was the largest watched sporting event ever in the History of television when China and the USA Men's basketball team met in China. The USA won 101-70, but you have to remember this was the most popular sport, against the worlds best players in the worlds largest Country. There was an estimate that 500 Million watched this game in China alone. If EVERYONE in the US watched the Super Bowl, that would still only be 300 Million viewers.

Take some time and enjoy this marvelous event or keep up with it HERE.

Weekend so far

My sweetheart is away, so yesterday I went and visited Trish for a nice cookout and bonfire at her place. Layla is walking around in her walker now, so watch out Trish, it's hell on wheels.

Got a nice little chance to BS with her dad Frank for a while and Bryan showed up later once we got the bonfire started.

I stayed around until roughly 10:00, I know that's late for someone like be to be out at night, and made it home and went to bed pretty early. Michelle on the other hand was in bed before I got home and she is on vacation at Myrtle Beach.

Today is Amy's baby shower. She registered at Target and it looks like there is a decent response so far. Hopefully everything goes good for this, I heard she invited 116 people for the baby shower.

Michelle almost there

I got a call from Michelle last night from Columbia, South Carolina. They were taking a nice relaxing dinner at Hooters, how ironic is it my girlfriend is at Hooters and I'm home, before they decided to stop for the night and rest before their last leg of the trip.

This morning they were up and ready to head to their place in Myrtle Beach for the week.

I hope they have a great time, I've tried to ask Michelle to write a BLOG on her MySpace page about her vacation.

I know that Her and Hayley are wanting to see sunrises and sunsets.

A nice Comcast offer

I heard about this this morning at work.

Free Wii with Triple Play

Big Ole Hairy Friday

Yes, it is once again that time when we cease our labors for the week and take time out to enjoy the fruits of our labors, it is the start of yet another weekend!!!!

Last night I drove Michelle to her Dad's in East Liverpool Ohio to borrow his car so she and Hayley can go to Myrtle Beach for a weeks vacation with the rest of her family. Wish her a safe, relaxing and happy trip.

For you movie buffs, Water Horse is the movie showing at Hazel Ruby McQuain Park this evening in the next to the last movie under the stars evening of the year. The series will conclude for the season next week.

I'm going to be Michelleless for the next two weekends. =( First time since we started dating we won't be together on the weekend. I'll gladly sacrifice my time with her so she and Hayley can be at Myrtle Beach. Myrtle Beach Hmmmm. Sucks to be anyone but them....LOL

I did manage to take Michelle and Hayley to Primanti Brothers last night. One place I love to go and eat every time I go to Pittsburgh.

Have a great weekend.

Happy Birthday Randy Lee Hamrick Jr

If you happen to see Randy, aka Bubby, make sure you wish him a very Happy Birthday.

MIDWEEK!!!

Alright, we're getting closer to the weekend as we are now at hump day. How about a few random tidbits.

* This will be the first weekend I have been Michelleless in about 20-21 weeks. Don't feel bad for her, she'll be with her family on vacation for a little over a week. This is where she will be staying at Myrtle Beach. She'll be grabbing a tan as we're slaving away at work. She and Hayley will be having a blast I guess. Sucks to be anyone but them.

* We played softball again last night. I'll just say we have one game remaining this season before we put this miserable season to rest and start planning on 2009. Some of us are doing a Fantasy Football League again this year, so we'll all be in touch until the Holidays start rolling around and I get the itch for more softball.

* Michelle received some good news today, she just needs to finalize everything before I blog it. It's professionally related.

* Anyone who may want to play Paintball this weekend, MVP Park is running their second BOPARC special of the year.

* Have a great hump day.

And we go down again

Wow, what a softball season we have had this year. We managed to pull defeat from the jaws of victory and lost a 6-5 decision to a team of 9 players in a game that was originally ruled a forfeit but the final two guys showed up right as the Umps were calling it a forfeit.

They had enough, so we figured we would just go ahead and play.

For a team that used to be almost unbeatable just a few short years ago, we have went to not really being able to beat anyone with such a futile offense.

Two games left on the season, we're at least going to go out and have fun.

End of a Great Weekend

Wow what a weekend Michelle, Hayley and myself had. There was nothing planned, but we managed to have a ball just doing different things.

I'm getting pretty good with the Wii and Hayley and I pretty much rocked on Guitar Hero Saturday evening. I did well, but she was the one kicking it's butt big time.

Once again I had a very memorable weekend and now it is back to the grindstone, even thought I went in a few hours yesterday because I have a Dr's appointment later today that I will need to take off for. I went in and worked a couple hours, that way I don't have to burn any personal time and can let it build up.

Have a great day.

WEEEE, Wee One and Wii

I guess yesterday was kind of a WE day. As in Me, Michelle and Hayley going out and going three geocaches. One of which was actually quite tricky, there was a combination lock on the Geocache, that was in plain site for everyone to see, but you had to use your hints (and google (Thanks for an open connection at the cache)) to come up with the three digit combination. This is our second Mystery cache, the first one was one where we had to get the coordinates from two other caches where they were written on the inside lid of the cache. IOW, you had to go find the other two caches to find the third.

After our first of three caches, we were close to Trish's place so we stopped in the see Layla, aka We One, and say hello to Trish. We started walking around a little bit so Michelle could get some berries, but they were already going bad. Something tells me we will be going berry picking in the very near future somewhere.

After we finished the caches we all went out to eat at the Chinese Restaurant at the Old Mall. If you ever want to get on Hayley's good side, think Chinese Food.

After that we all came back here for a fun filled evening of Bowling, Tennis, Boxing and Guitar Hero on the Wii.

What a great day!!!!!




Once you choose hope, anything's possible.--Christopher Reeve

Bought a Wii

I finally broke down and decided to enter the 21st century in at home gaming. I have finally broke down and bought a Nintendo Wii last night. The game console comes with five games Bowling, Boxing, Baseball, golf and Tennis. Needless to say that I need a lot of practice in all of them, Michelle knocked me out in boxing after I was talking all kinds of trash. I did get the first knockdown, but she knocked me out in the first round.

I have to say, this game console is different than any other console I have had, you actually need a break from some of the games. We were both exhausted after boxing.

Bowling was a lot of fun and so was golf. Baseball felt like ...well baseball. The one time I did tee off on one it was the same motions I would use when really getting a solid base hit.

I think we are going to love this, I just have to learn to knock her ass out instead of getting knocked out. Practice, Practice, Practice.

You know this Blog's title for today.

Yes everyone, it is once again that time of the week when we cease our labors for the week and take time out to enjoy the fruits of our labors. It's the end of the workweek and yet another Big Ole Hairy Friday and the start of yet another weekend.

Tonight down at hazel Ruby McQuain Park the movie under the stars returns with the movie BeeMovie at dusk tonight. So if you are looking for a little cheap and free entertainment and something to do on a Friday evening, here is your opportunity to sit back and enjoy a free movie.

Is it August 1st already? Wow has this summer just seemed to fly by. It seemed like only yesterday that the school year was over with and we were starting softball. Football season officially starts practice tomorrow if I have my dates right for the local High School kids.

Has anyone thought about Christmas 2008 yet? I know it's a little early, but this is the time I started talking to everyone last year. Maybe everyone can get together one morning for breakfast or something someplace and start to plan this out. Do we want the same location, do we want it for one night or two, who's staying, etc. etc. etc. Yes it is five months away, but everyone together for a few minuted can give us some kind of a game plan and people plenty of time to prepare.

How about the Pirates, last week they traded Xavier Nady and yesterday they traded Jason Bay. What did they get? A bunch of no name prospects and they have cemented their record for most losing seasons in a row by any professional sports franchise. Good job Morons.

Have a great Friday.