Monthly Archives: September 2010

Quote of the Day

Don’t tell me I can’t do something. I will devote my entire life to it, until I prove you wrong. Yeah, I’m looking at you Shutterfly. And I WILL find that missing photobook.

Audrey: I love your tenacity
me: it’s really just spite

Seriously. I’ve called all the post offices in Western Mass. UPS has their Mail Innovations “investigating” the situation. I don’t know what Mail Innovations is (presumably they’re something like Vocal Adrenaline), but you will not win Shutterfly. You won’t.

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Weight Loss Week Two: Smothercating People Is Not Exercise

Not every walk has to be on the treadmill.

Weight Lost This Week: +1 lb.
Weight Loss Still to Go: 5.2 lbs.

So I gained a pound this week, but I’m really not surprised considering I ate about 200 slices of apple pie, 400 oatmeal cookies and 27 bagels (trying to cut back on the carbs) on Sunday alone. Labor Day weekend really took a toll on my weight loss, but it’s just more motivation for next week right? Right?

Here’s the breakdown:

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Coach K Shoots Down Russian Attempts to Rewrite Olympic History

Photo courtesy of news.bbc.co.uk

Tomorrow is the 38th anniversary of the day when communists took everything away from Americans in terms of athletic dominance and superiority. That’s right, it’s the anniversary of the ill-fated 1972 USA-USSR Olympic basketball game, where the final seconds were controversially replayed and the outcome was in the Soviet Union’s favor. In my family, we call that a Get-Back Goal, and we stopped letting my cousin Trevor have them when he was five.

Anyway, Coach K, in his position as coach of the USA Basketball team, decided he wasn’t going to let Russia get away with this nonsense, and he rightly called out Russian coach David Blatt after Blatt tried to say that the USSR was the “rightful winner” of those Munich games.

“It’ll be a negative from the way the U.S. looks at it forever, and should be,” said Coach K in an ESPN article today. “And it’ll be in some ways a positive for those who believe in fairy tales.”

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