Final Weekend in baseball

It is finally here. The final weekend of the baseball season. The cubs have home field for the playoffs and dempster is starting game 1.

Eddie vedder recently released his cubs song - "Al the Way" It is very good. You should listen. If you can't listen then here are the lyrics:

Don't let anyone say that it's just a game
For I've seen other teams and it's never the same
When you're born in Chicago you're blessed and you're healed
The first time you walk into Wrigley Field
Our heroes wear pinstripes
Heroes in blue
Give us the chance to feel like heroes too
Forever we'll win and if we should lose
We know someday we'll go all the way
Yeah
Someday we'll go all the way

We are one with the Cubs
With the Cubs we're in love
Yeah, hold our head high as the underdogs
We are not fair-weather but foul-weather fans
We're like brothers in arms in the streets and the stands
There's magic in the ivy and the old scoreboard
The same one I stared at as a kid keeping score
In a world full of greed, I could never want more
Than someday we'll go all the way
Yeah
Someday we'll go all the way
Someday we'll go all the way
Yeah
Someday we'll go all the way
Someday we'll go all the way

And here's to the men and the legends we've known
Teaching us faith and giving us hope
United we stand and united we'll fall
Down to our knees the day we win it all

Ernie Banks said "Oh, let's play two"
Or did he mean 200 years
In the same ball park
Our diamond, our jewel
The home of our joy and our tears
Keeping traditions and wishes made new
A place where our grandfathers, fathers they grew
A spiritual feeling if I ever knew
And if you ain't been I am sorry for you
And when the day comes with that last winning run
And I'm crying and covered in beer
I'll look to the sky and know I was right
To think someday we'll go all the way
Yeah
Someday we'll go all the way
Someday we'll go all the way
Yeah
Someday we'll go all the way
Someday we'll go all the way
Yeah
Someday we'll go all the way
Someday we'll go all the way
Yeah
Someday we'll go all the way
Someday we'll go all the way


Here's hoping the cubs go all the way this year!

GO CUBS!

Another Cubs Victory

The cubs beat the Mets again last night for their 96th win. 4 games left (+1 if needed, and it won't be)
I'm excited for the post season.

The cowboys are 2-2 now, and host Bowling Green this week. We better win or it will be a horrible season (it might be anyway) We are moving toward needing a new coach.

CUBS WIN DIVISION

The cubs won the central division today by beating st louis 5-4.

Go Cubs!

Messed up date

Apparently blogger is having date problems. My last post was on the 19th not the 18th...

Talk like a pirate day.

Avast!

Take out ye Hornpipes and smartly play a tune for it be talk like a pirate day!

Arrrrrr!

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html

Cubs magic number is 2

Oh so close to clinching the division. I hope they can do it on the last home stand against the cardinals.

Today was a great comeback win scoring 4 in the 9th to tie, and then 1 in the 12th to win.

LETS GO CUBS!

The Bacon Equation T = (N x (Th + C)) x (1000 / P)

So in coming across a new bacon product I discovered the bacon equation for microwave bacon. This will help you determine your cooking time using the WowBacon.

T = time in seconds
P = microwave power in watts
N = number of bacon strips
C = Crispy factor (0-6)
Th = Bacon Thickness factor; thin = 30; thick = 45

T = (N x (Th + C)) x (1000 / P)

Lets try some sample problems.

Jane wants to cook 5 strips of thick bacon to medium crispness. She has a 1000 watt microwave and a Wowbacon. How long should she cook her bacon for in minutes?

T = (5 x (45 + 3)) x (1000 / 1000)
T = (5 x 48) x 1
T = 240 x 1
T = 240

Answer: She should cook her bacon for 4 minutes.

Now you try one:

Paul loves bacon. He wants 3 strips of thin cut bacon just barely crispy. He owns a powerful 1300 watt microwave. How long should he cook his bacon?


NOTE: The WowBacon microwave bacon cooker also catches all the grease in a cup which you can put a popsicle stick in and put in the freezer to make bacon pops.

No-No Zambrano!

Carlos Zambrano just pitched a no hitter for the cubs against the Astros at Wrigley North (Milwaukee)

Cubs magic number for the division is now 7 with 15 to play.

Cubs Magic Number ...

With 16 games to play the Cubs magic number to make the playoffs is now 8. The magic number to win the division is now 11.

Pokes lose, cubs finally win

Wyoming looked horrible today on offense and lost to Air Force 23-3.

The cubs finally won a game at least.

Cubs slumping, and Big Z hurt

The cubs have hit their low point of the season having lost 5 in a row now, and Zambrano has "rotator cuff tendinitis" Thankfully with the lead the cubs have they should be able to still get into the post season while resting Z. We need him in the playoffs.

It is time for the cubs to regroup, and step up and play like they have most of the season.

Cowboys 1-0

Well Ohio kept it a lot closer than I wanted, but Wyoming still won 21-20 over the bobcats to start the year 1-0.

Air Force is up next.

Cubs keep winning

The cubs keep on winning. Today the cubs beat philly again 3-2. the cubbies have won 7 in a row now, and are a MLB best 85-50.

I'm excited for football tomorrow too.

The MTN is on DirecTV

This morning while I slept at 4:00 am local time DirecTV began broadcasting the MTN (Mountain West Sports Network) on channel 616. It is available on the Sports pack. Select regions have it included in the basic package. I am in a region to receive it on the regular package.

However this morning when I woke up early to watch the new channel I was not getting it. When I go home for lunch I will try resetting my receiver, and if that doesn't work then I will be calling DirecTV.

I called at lunch time and spent an hour on the phone with them and no lick. They finally transfered me and said they are having a problem, and I should call back in a few hours.

After work I called back into the system and told the computer system I'm getting an error to call extension 721, or something similar. the computer re-sent my programming signal and in 20 seconds I had the channel, and didn't have to speak to a customer service rep.

A New Job ... IT Manager

I am now officially the new IT Manager for the City of Laramie.

I signed my paperwork today.

My Interview and school starting ...

Well it was very apparent today that School has started again. There are a lot more cars and people around.

I completed my Interview today for the IT Manager position. I thought that I did well, but it is out of my hands now. I hope they hire the best person for the job, and that that person happens to be me.

One funny thing in the interview they asked a series of 'technical' questions. I of course knew the answers to all of them, because I had written those question for previous interviews.

No more ESPN Gameplan

Well I canceled my ESPN gameplan just now. With Wyoming games being available on the MTN I no longer need gameplan. I'll watch more MWC football instead.

The money saved will be spent entirely on hot wings for watching games on saturdays. and since I can fry my own hotwings for not to much, I will be eating a whole lot of hot wings.

You may recall my hot wing recipe from this post. Hot Wings

New Video Board

Here is a picture of the new video board in action at the war.

Countdown to the MTN

Only 1 week until I will start to get the MTN on Directv. then 3 more days and football will start. This will be the first year ever that I finally get to watch every Wyoming football game. I will have to buy the Tennessee game on PPV, but I get all the rest with my DTV setup.

Meanwhile the cubs are still winning a ton of games, and have a nice lead in the division right now. Only about 6 weeks of baseball left, hopefully they'll finish strong.

My interview for the IT Manager position is on Monday at 10:00 am. I'm hopeful that I get offered the job.

Cubs doubleheader

The cubs have a doubleheader today at Atlanta. They took the first game easily. Then won the second. Cubs are playing very well.