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Merry Christmas

Dec 25, 2007
merry christmas 07

From Brian, Christi & Stanley

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Blue 42. Blue 42. Hut. Hut. HIKE!

Dec 21, 2007
Here's a quick little post for those college football fans out there. John "The Source" Ponec hooked me up with the 2005 West Virginia Offensive Playbook. Don't ask me or him how he came about it, but he did. When people give football players crap for getting stuff handed to them while in college, I'm starting to go against them.

This playbook is 158 pages long. This is including the cover sheet and the goals for the season (1. Win - 2. Score). Ponec said that the Husker playbook for 2007 was 750+ pages. Click the football below to download the '05 Mountaineer playbook:

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Open Letter to I-80 Drivers

Dec 17, 2007
Dear fellow commuters,

It seems that we drive together every morning at the same time. I see the same "BUDZ BUG" vanity plate on the gray VW, the same bright yellow H3 Hummer and the same lady who's using her eyelash curler while swerving between the two right lanes every morning. So why, please tell me why, do we have to come to a stop EVERY SINGLE TIME THERE IS A CAR ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD?

Seriously. We've seen flashing lights on the tops of police cars before in our lives. We don't have to come to a screeching halt and try to read the details of the ticket they are receiving. JUST KEEP DRIVING! You don't know that person, and it's not going to matter if you slow down to see what they look like. It's not like you're going to meet up and catch eyes at the super market the next day. Move over a little bit, give the officer some room, and KEEP YOUR FOOT ON THE PEDAL TO THE RIGHT.

EVERY DAY THIS HAPPENS, AND EVERY DAY SOME PERSON STARTS THE CHAIN REACTION OF SLOWING EVERYONE ELSE'S DAY DOWN. STOP IT! KEEP DRIVING! SERIOUSLY. KEEP DRIVING!

Wait. Why do I smell toast? Uh oh...

having ... heart ... probl ...

unghhhhh ... 8ash;dflhj398;afsdf .........

(THUD)

Sincerely,
Brian,
Heaven
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Define Irony

Dec 12, 2007
i-ro-ny1 [ahy-ruh-nee, ahy-er-]
-noun, plural -nies.
  1. When the fire alarms start blaring at the Nebraska Safety Council, and absolutely no worker knows how to turn them off.
  2. When two fire trucks and one squad car arrive, and still no one knows how to turn off the noise.
  3. Having the "safety" of the 100 people compromised by standing outside in the 15° weather while they try to shut the alarms off.


So what was I doing at the Nebraska Safety Council last night? Well, let's just say that traffic officers on 24th aren't fond of you exceeding the posted speed limit ... even if they don't know the speed limit and they wrote down the wrong posted speed on my ticket!

Talking with a traffic supervisor, and later with my STOP class instructor, the prosecutor's office should have torn up my ticket on the spot for having incorrect information written down.

Well, let's just say that when I went in there, I must've talked to someone that was having a case of the Monday's. So a canceled class due to ice last Saturday, and a ticket I should have had dismissed, landed me outside in the cold last night wondering how "safe" the Nebraska Safety Council really is.

If anything, I found out that if I'm ever in a fire, I want to be in one on 120th and "L". I've never seen fire trucks arrive so fast in my life. It was under 2 minutes from the alarm sounding until they pulled up.
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Welcome to Nebraska ... Again

Dec 2, 2007
bo knows nebraska


His arrival as head coach in Nebraska was 4 years late, but I'll definitely be glad to talk about Coach Pelini in the future.
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The Ice Killed Our Tree

Dec 1, 2007
decapitated tree


Last night, Christi and I were joking about how these big winter weather warnings never happen. We figured that we would have no ice whatsoever when we woke up in the morning.

As everyone in the southeastern part of Nebraska figured out, the meteorologists deserved their paychecks this week. Stan woke me up around 4.00 a.m. to go outside, and every single blade of grass was frozen solid. The worst news was that we lost the top to one of our pine trees.

Christi joked that just two weeks in as homeowners, and we can't even keep our trees alive outside. Hopefully we do a little better with Stan.
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