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I've managed to spend the quiet time over this Thanksgiving weekend doing some digital purging.  My Google reader account has under 300 unread articles, and my gmail account is down to less than 400.  But what I really need to do is spending some time doing some physical purging, and clean out all the old computer parts in my basement that I've amassed over the years.  There's really no use anymore for 30 pin 256 KB memory sticks, is there...?

I want to like The Chronicles of Spellborn, but the starting zone suffers from a serious lack of design when it comes to questing.  I've done five or six different quests, in different parts of chains, which have you kill the same three things--young wolves, young boars, and young bears.  I swear that all I've done is run around the woods whacking these things for 7 levels.  Couple that with the fact that the area is heavily populated, and the spawn rates are mediocre, and it makes for a less than ideal experience.

I busted out the mower for the first time today to cut back the weeds that are currently infesting the yard.  Once I cut everything back, I ran a metal rake over the entire front yard to pick up lotsa the creepy crawly weeds and do a poor man's dethatch.  I got my first blisters of the season, and it felt good to get out in the front yard and sweat a bit in the sun.  The front windows are open and the house is slowly warming up without the assistance of fossil fuels.  It's good to see spring getting underway in the sunny South; after this cold winter, I'm ready for a little warmth!

All I can say is lol...owned.  Give 'em hell Cubes!

I be raisin a mug o grog fer you today!

I knew DirecTV's HD switchover from MPEG2 to MPEG4 was coming, but I didn't expect it to happen so soon.  When I checked the listings this morning for the Sunday Ticket games I realized that none of them were listed in HD and I immediately knew what was going down.

I guess I need to call up Direct and have them swap out my old MPEG2 receiver for one of their new swanky receivers.  So I guess for the short term, I'll be forced to watch the Bucs in blurry SD.  Given how they're playing in the first quarter of today's game, I'm not missing much...

I was reading this blog post about the Bucs final cuts, and the combination of these two points made me shake my head:

• Obviously, in keeping rookie QB Josh Johnson, the Bucs have again decided to keep four quarterbacks, at least for now. Letting go of Johnson now would have exposed him to the rest of the league. Plus, practice squads won't be formed for a couple days.

• The Bucs will be particularly thin on the offensive line, where they kept just eight players. And that includes injured Davin Joseph (foot), who will miss at least several weeks after surgery. While he's out, the Bucs have just two offensive line backups: Anthony Davis and Dan Buenning.

I still don't understand Gruden's fascination with keeping four quarterbacks.  It seems like he knows that after Garcia, the rest are junk, so he'll just interchange them as they play depending on who looks the best moment.  I don't ever really remember that being successful.

And finally, good luck Michael Spurlock, you're still the man...

1. Female dog urine does not smell as pungent as male dog urine
2. The fabric covers on my couch can safely be placed in the washing machine and dryer

I didn't realize just how much I missed football until I watched the first score of the Gators' game today and cheered a bit when they punched it in.  Then I really got psyched, because I realized my one true love, Buccaneers football, kicks off next week!  That is, they should, barring a washout of New Orleans by Gustav...

Go Bucs!