Fame or Shame Week 15

Still waiting on a few picks but here we go

	W15
Serge	Ravens
Craig O	Ravens
Randy	Ravens
Nick G	Seahawks
Jake	Lions
Bosko	Seahawks
Mauri	Ravens
Craig T	Patriots
Joe G	Ravens
Sergio
Bill R
Stephanie	Patriots
Steph T	Seahawks
Old Man	Packers
Rob L	Packers
Claudia	Ravens
Jason R	Seahawks
Mike T	Ravens
Spank

Fame or Shame Week 14 Results

With 3 weeks left in the regular season to go the race is still pretty tight at the top.
However, remember that we still have the playoffs to go as well - so even if you think you are out of it your fortune could be won or lost based on how badly you pick the playoffs.
Last year the Superbowl determined the winner of the league I was in!

Joe with a 31 point downswing put his life into a difficult spot heading into these last few weeks.

W14	Score	Points	Total
Packers	W43-37	16	308	Serge
Packers	W43-37	16	290	Craig O
Lions	W34-17	27	290	Randy
49ers	L13-24	(11)	273	Nick G
Vikings	W30-24	16	264	Jake
Broncos	W24-17	17	256	Bosko
Cowboys	W41-28	23	254	Mauri
Packers	W43-37	16	248	Craig T
Saints	L10-41	(31)	245	Joe G
Dolphins	L13-24	(11)	240	Sergio
Giants	W36-7	39	230	Bill R
Packers	W43-37	16	193	Stephanie
Packers	W43-37	16	185	Steph T
49ers	L13-24	(11)	172	Old Man
Packers	W43-37	16	148	Rob L
Packers	W43-37	16	142	Claudia
			141	Jason R
Texans	W27-13		115	Mike T
Packers	W43-37	16	83	Spank
			65	Carnell
			59	Bill M
			12	Jason D
			7	Tony V

Fame or Shame Week 14

Missing one or two picks - get em in while the gettin is good.
Lots of diversity this week.

W14	Score	Points	Total
Packers			292	Serge
49ers			284	Nick G
Saints			276	Joe G
Packers			274	Craig O
Lions			263	Randy
Dolphins			251	Sergio
Vikings			248	Jake
Broncos			239	Bosko
Packers			232	Craig T
Cowboys	W41-28	23	231	Mauri
Giants			191	Bill R
49ers			183	Old Man
Packers			177	Stephanie
Packers			169	Steph T
			141	Jason R
Packers			132	Rob L
Packers			126	Claudia
Texans			115	Mike T
Packers			67	Spank
			65	Carnell
			59	Bill M
			12	Jason D
			7	Tony V

666

So, my timing was horrible but such is life sometimes.
My last post was my 666th and I really wanted to do something special for it - alas that cannot happen.

I thought about just lying and saying this one was, but I'd know the truth and it would haunt me until my dying days.
I also thought about going back and deleting an old one so this would then technically show up as the 666th but didn't feel that was a valid way to go through it.

Today is my wife's baby shower.  We will have family and friends over and receive gifts and love and play the "what poop is in the diaper" game and a good time will be held by all, but the reality is I'm burnt out on everything and just want this little grrouch spawn to enter the world already.

This past year has been such a whirlwind. It has all been exciting with the wedding, honeymoon and now the pending child but shit man, nobody tells how that in order to get there you have to do all this other little shit that will tax your willpower, patience and pocket book.  The baby shower is the last in line and it's amazing how much money you spend just to get some people together so they can buy you shit you need for the baby.  You could probably skip the baby shower, save your money and just buy the shit yourself.
Shit shit shit.
My life is going to be covered in shit in the near future so I'm using the word a lot.

I've got most of my xmas shopping done.  I'm down to just some minor things left to buy and all will be good.

After the baby shower is done today I am meeting up with Nick for some poker.  I hear there might be a side of Rob and Lightning as well.  I'm excited to get a little card time in and catch up and then hit the sports book to place some action on tomorrows games.

My wife has off on Sunday so I'm going to try to convince her that it is in our best interest for me to go out and play poker all day.  I'd love to hit up the MGM for their football promo's early in the day and then head over to Caesars for their grand re-opening promos to end the night.  I'm not sure how much I'll actually get in but I suppose as long as I am out for a few hours I'll be pretty content.

My latest stock purchase has come and gone and I still just can't seem to pull the trigger on selling.  The stock has gone over $64 now and continues to gain on a weekly basis at this point. I think I'm just going to leave it in there and see what happens for a while longer.  I currently have a couple of buy-ins in my possession so all I have to do is run hot tonight and tomorrow and the whole situation will have resolved itself.

I've been watching Hulu at work on my phone - and after watching the Cowboys game on my wife's new phone (Note 4) I really want to upgrade to the larger screen.
I want a new phone, I want a new phone, I want a new phone.
However, I feel it is best to hold off as our money is best used elsewhere right now.
But.... I want.....

want

precious

Fame or Shame Week 13 Results

I'm going to start by saying thanks because if it wasn't for a weird chain of events that started within the last hour before kickoff and me being too busy at work to actually look up information I wouldn't have my throne back (probably temporarily).

What started it was 3 different people who I thought were all going with the Colts all got ahold of me at the last minute saying they wanted to change their team to something else.
This led me to pseudo panic and I changed my team to whoever was playing the Raiders.  I figure'd that if people were making last minute changes then something bad happened like Luck cut himself shaving during breakfast and was going to have a bad game.

So, I owe you all a beer.

For next year I'm trying to find a good online site to run the league so everyone can submit their votes. Ideally I'd like one that allows points for biggest margin of victory as well but I might have to just manually calculate it afterwards.

W13	Score	Points	Total
Rams	W52-0	62	292	Serge
Colts	W49-27	32	284	Nick G
Lions	W34-17	27	276	Joe G
texans	W45-21	34	274	Craig O
Colts	W49-27	32	263	Randy
Packers	W26-21	15	251	Sergio
Bengals	W14-13	11	248	Jake
Colts	W49-27	32	239	Bosko
colts	W49-27	32	232	Craig T
Dolphins	W16-13	13	231	Mauri
Dophins	W16-13	13	191	Bill R
Colts	W49-27	32	183	Old Man
ravens	L33-34	(1)	177	Stephanie
colts	W49-27	32	169	Steph T
Colts	W49-27	32	141	Jason R
Colts	W49-27	32	132	Rob L
Dolphins	W16-13	13	126	Claudia
Bengals	W14-13	11	115	Mike T
Colts	W49-27	32	67	Spank
			65	Carnell
			59	Bill M
			12	Jason D
			7	Tony V

Fame or Shame Week 13

I'm still missing a lot of picks from y'all

Just woke up and heading to work so I'll update this hopefully when I get my lunch break.

Email/text/whatever.

I will check the time stamp to make sure they were submitted on time :)
If I just forgot yours, gently remind me as I have had a long week.

Nick G	Colts
Joe G	Lions
Craig O
Jake
Sergio
Randy	Colts
Serge	Colts
Mauri	Dolphins
Bosko	Colts
Craig T
Bill R	Dophins
Stephanie
Old Man	Colts
Steph T
Claudia	Dolphins
Jason R
Mike T	Bengals
Rob L	Colts
Carnell
Bill M
Spank	Colts
Jason D
Tony V

Edit #3 - added more people or last minute changes via text/email after i left for work
Craig o houston
Craig t colts
Sergio packers
Jake bengals
Serge rams
Bill r - dolphins
Steph T - colts
Stephanie - ravens

My Life is Not A Porn Script

A few weeks back I was out picking up dinner and upon leaving the establishment I was approached by a man and his wife who started to talk and I immediately said that I didn't have any money on me.
While walking the man was speaking and said that he wasn't looking for any money or a handout he was just asking for....

And I cut him off and said that I didn't have any.
Then he finished by saying he just was looking for someone to give his wife a ride home because it was cold outside and they had their 4 month old baby with them and they didn't want the baby to catch cold.

Indeed there was a 4 month old child with them and indeed it was bloody chilly that evening.

I thought briefly about it and decided that I couldn't let the child suffer because the parents were fucking idiots.

After deciding that I was willing to be trusting and that I wasn't going to be stabbed and left for dead somewhere I helped the lady load up the stroller and get into the car where I proceeded to drive her about 15-20 minutes out of my way so that she could get her baby home.

On the way we had basic small time conversation which mostly centered around how shitty her life was and how useless her hubby is. They needed $300 by tomorrow to pay the rent or were evicted, they have no food at home, they blah blah blah. When we arrived at the final destination I got the stroller out of the trunk.

Here is where the problem occurred.
Not once did she reach over to the driver's seat to rub on my junk.
Not once did she try to undo my zipper and give me road head.
I didn't even get an invite up to her apartment so that she could repay in kindness with a hummer or a toss.
Nothing.

I went out of my way and did this great deed and I received no type of compensation for my services, oral or otherwise.
I'm a nice guy. Trusting, too trusting and as such my life is not and never will be like a porno movie.
Everything I know is a lie.

Small Withdraws

As a sort of continuation to my last post based on the comments that I received.

In my head, up until just recently, it has been an All-or-Nothing proposition.

The whole reason why is that just appears to be the way I work, I dive head first into everything and sort out the rest after the fact.

Recently, much like had been suggested by Rob and Lightning I have been leaning towards just removing a portion and playing on that knowing that I could always dip back into the cookie jar if the need arose.

Rob also asked if I had more than just what I was considering withdrawing and without really touching upon a "how much" type of answer, the answer is yes.

However, actual amounts (right now) don't actually matter because when I started contributing to my companies stock program it was really only done as a way to save money up for bigger purchase times.

Things like xmas, vacations and other things of that ilk.  This is money that I currently do not consider to be a part of my retirement (that's what my 401k is for) but instead is just sitting around waiting for me to use it on something.

The nice thing about our stock program is that the company takes your money out per paycheck over the course of 6 months and then makes a purchase for your account, making this purchase at a 15% discount of the closing price on the day of the purchase.

So, a lot of people have used this as a forced savings with a bonus.

Since stock is bought on November 30th a lot of us poor slobs like to sell on December 1st and take our 15% bonus and use that to buy gifts.  

So here I sit, broken hearted, paid to shit but only farted.

At this point I am just waiting for the newest deposit to hit the account so that I can make my withdraw and start putting some hours into the green felt again.

The main reason why I am waiting is because of tax implications.  The newest deposit will cost me the least amount of gain to claim while the oldest deposit that I have in there was a stock purchase valued in the lower $30/share range which has almost doubled in price.  

My next time playing will probably be during Nicks next big Vegas trip, which I do believe also coincides with Lightning coming out as well.  This way I can start getting my feet with with the comfort of friendly conversation which always helps mask the fact that I"ll probably be nitting it up quite a bit over my first bunch of sessions.

Now to get my boy ready for school so I can enjoy some quiet time before I have to head into work.