Tony’s Journal

This pretty much sums it up.

Sigh.

The Redskins have drafted 17 players in the last three years. Only four of them start. This is the central reason why the Redskins are never appreciably better from year to year, why nothing changes and everything stays the same, which is to say, 6-10. It’s only April, but does anyone else have the feeling that we already know what’s going to happen to the Redskins in November?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/28/AR2005042801827.html

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My lack of stuff to write about won’t stop me from writing.

I haven’t wirtten much lately, but here’s a synopsis of every work day, really:

• wake up, stagger to shower, shave, prepare for work, snag food on way out the door
• get to work at 9 on the dot, thereby avoiding stern looks from the Man of Action
• work work work work
• Man of Action microwaves salmon and parades its aroma down the hall, taunting me and waving it around in my doorway
• work work
• lunch at Mitch’s
• work work work
• 3PM coffee in my office
• work work
• gym, possibly with Billy and/or Rob
• go home, eat, watch TV, waste time, go to bed

So yeah, it’s not too exciting.

I have found that the way I can pummel allergies is to take an Alavert in the morning and another Alavert and 2 Benadryl downers at night.

Also Grey Goose helps.

We went to the spring football game a couple of weeks ago, and I had been ordered to take pictures for a couple of people, so here they are.

That morning, I also ran a 5K. This was the first time I had run a 5K outdoors and also the first time I had run in any kind of actual race. Melissa asked me to do it the night before, when we were at Bo, and I agreed. The next morning I was outside in soccer shorts at 7:45 am, 39 degrees, 20 mph winds, cursing myself. My number was 218 and I think they wrote a letter on there that indicated that I was female. But I ran and ran, and I kept up with K-Serg the entire way, as he was my unaware pacecar. I guess my final time was about 24 minutes, but I’m not sure because the race results are traveling to the web via slow-moving barge.

Oh, here’s an interesting story for those of you who have expressed an interest in going to the NCSU@Temple football game on September 10. The game might not happen. Seems Temple is the Division I-A Village Bicycle, and about three of her suitors have showed up at the same time, are furious, want to know who the other guys are, how long this has been going on, give me back my Whitesnake t-shirt you three-timing whore of a university, and try not to schedule any more simultaneous games on the way to the parking lot.

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So there has been a news story lately about these 2 cousins in my home state, Pennsylvania, who were forbidden from getting married in PA because there are apparently laws against yokel-joke-style marriages there. So they went to Maryland, where that sort of thing is allowed.

I don’t know which state looks worse.

What’s funny is that there are many states that ban marriage between first cousins, and one of them is West Virginia. All those jokes, and they actually forbid cousins marrying. I guess that’s why John Denver used to sing about West Virginia being almost heaven. As a matter of fact, NC actually allows first cousins marrying as long as they’re not “double first cousins,” which I assume is what happens when two brothers from one family marry two sisters from a different family, so their kids wouldn’t be allowed to marry here.

They could always go to Maryland though.

In other news, there was apparently some sort of sports occurrence last night regarding a team I hate. I am unclear on the details. Whatever happened, I can not bring myself to hate Roy. He seems like a good guy.

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