Football time!

The preseason games are finished and the teams are working on their final cuts for their rosters. We've had a glimpse of how the second and third strings might look so now it's time to see who's left.

Like most pre-seasons, this year's set of games were filled with many interesting moments and, unfortunately, all too many of them resulted in injuries on the field. Since so much of the pre-season play is geared toward fielding the second and third string players, it's hard to get a real sense of how the starters on each team will so, but we do still get a look at some of the starters and can get a feel for how the regular season could go. All the teams must have their final rosters locked down by 9 PM tonight.

For Baltimore fans, one of the biggest news stories of the pre-season was the selection of Justin Tucker over Billy Cundiff for the team's kicker position. While Cundiff did quite well in training camp, Tucker was better across the board and won the position. Cundiff was released over the weekend and promptly picked up by the Redskins.

Out of the 16 games in this last week of the pre-season, I picked 12 winners correctly, so I'm fairly happy. I'll wait for the final roster posting before attempting to finalize my picks for next week's games. Since both my husband and I will be participating in a pick-em league this season, we'll be paying close attention to all the games starting next week.

I Should Be Committed

No doubt, some of my friends would easily agree with that statement and happily offer to make the phone calls to Shep-Pratt or Spring Grove to get the ball rolling, but that's not the type of commitment I mean. I made a note on one of my sites that I had too many blogs and that too many of them were dying on the vine, so to speak. So, I chopped off the head of one, dumped most of the entries on another and will be actively contemplating the death of several others (or at least consider the combination of several in to one). Their time has come to be assimilated.

Spring cleaning mode has hit the bookshelves in my house - I'm using LibraryThing to catalog the books and decisions are being made as to which shall make the cut and which shall be banished to yard sales and thrift shops. Some of them may actually get added to the listings I keep up on PaperBackSwap, just in case someone there may be interested. I have an order to these things,  you see. First choice is to actually make money from them, so some of them will go along to our community yard sale tomorrow. Those that remain tomorrow night will be sorted into piles based on their ability to appeal to anyone and I'm thinking of adding a book sale list to my local website so that my neighbors can pick any that they may want for a nominal sum. Third choice then becomes listing them on PaperBackSwap and converting them into other books, though I'd rather not add a lot of additional books to the piles that already exist here. Final destination, mostly for the hard backs, will be the local thrift shop where the will become a tax write-off.

Back...

I had actually forgotten about this blog - not actually that surprising when I think about how many different sites I have...

Business isn't exactly booming, but it is getting better all the time. I've been busy updating the blogs on most of the other sites that I run to eliminate some of the headaches of blog spammers. As fas as I'm concerned, they should string up whoever wrote the software that allows these jerks to attempt to post to blogs without ever going through the main page of a site. In some cases of particularly persistent spammers, I've had to block them from accessing the site completely, which is a bit of a pain, but it is amusing to see the same IP addresses showing up in the error logs for the sites in question.