Ghost of BiB

I agree. Plus, all in all I watch VERY little TV, and outside of certain sporting events, I simply don't care what's on. If it's watchable, I'll watch it. TIVO is just another luxury expense I don't need. I pay enough for the DTV and Sunday Ticket. When I'm around the house, I usually have one of the 800 series music channels on. I don't think I should have to invest in more recurrent expenses to make up for programming inconsistency. And, as was mentioned were I to have TIVOed, I'D HAVE TIVOED THE JAGS CAMP!!!

The majority of western people wouldn't know the difference between a Pakistani and a Syrian. I don't think Chicot was implying that Arabs don't blow things up. It IS a true statement that the current crop was not arab, and is probably a reporting and discussion fault that this is centering on "Arabs". That's why I used the description of Middle-East/West Asian/N. African. It's still profiling, but a wider brush. There will come a time when blue eyed blondes are blowing things up (actually, it's already happened a lot - anyone remember Bader-Meinhoff?) but until it becomes a real problem, one has to play the percentages.

Please don't name her "Drew". Congrats. They DO make wing flavored formula now, don't they?

As good a shot of MM looking as coach-like as is possible. I still have bad flashes of the deer in the headlights look that Williams had 80% of the time.

Politics. It's what's for dinner. FWIW, I was personally very much against the Balkans business. A TV war, for no purpose that anyone could figure out (in terms of National Interest) that from day one was never prosecuted as a war. (The Pentagon was given guidance that there would be NO American casualties). In terms of modern day relevancy, it was the equivalent of attacking the Sunni in support of the Shia. Pick a side, bomb, capitalize politically. It's blown over, water under the bridge now - but I still wonder WTF was accomplished. And don't start yelling genocide. That's not what that was about. Serbs and Albanians have been at it for a thousand years. So, we side with the Muslims and GUESS WHAT??? The same gunrunners and drug smugglers we "saved" provide some of the Taliban's primary opium smuggling and human traffic routes up into Western Europe. Way cool.

Used to be. sort of.

I don't think it was any more than noticing a shiny thing.

Who are you, and what do you think you're going to do with that Retatta? EWWWW...disgusting! Never mind.

So, now they pick up the game at the end of the third quarter. Why bother?

The highpoint (as I was turning it off) was a bunch of guys standing around doing nothing while an assistant coach pushed a garbage can around. The homer commentators were remarking that you didn't want to run these big guys around in the heat. If they are going to pull this crap, they shouldn't issue programming guidance.

Instead of the listed football game.

I hadn't had a chance to see it yet, turned on NFL Com, and though it's listed as NFL pre-season football, there is a live feed from the Jaguars training camp. No Bills game.

Made from rich corinthian leather.

I could get my intern to start researching it, but as I recall CTM started the short bus fritatta movement. It subsequently went through several evolutions (though there wasn't any intelligent design to speak of) and ended up Retatta, whereby Chef claimed discovery and copyright.

Looks like a side dish for a Retatta.

Actually, though AD is the inspiration, the credit for Retatta belongs to Chef, along with the Copyright.

Rachel can't touch it. She does "Thirty Minute Meals".

Because the Bush PR people need to all be fired. They have the worst marketing skills of any administration since television.

Because everyone on the planet reads TBD PPP as their only reliable news source? Anyone found the little blonde girl yet? I need an update.

BUT I WANT IT!! Sorry, hard to throw a tantrum on a message board.

I think everyone needs to Google commodity markets, and get a grip. The people buying the oil have a lot more influence than the people selling it, right now. If this "war is about oil", we would have had it in 1972.

I still want my card.

Funny, no one that knows him does.

Honestly, joking aside I'm glad for you. Nothing is going to outpower the motivation of what you want. You initially asked what might be a stress reliever. Well, sorry - you are making major life style changes in a rapid period of time and you are going to feel a lot of stress. Maybe the best stress reliever will be reminding yourself of your goal? Hobbies aren't going to cut it. When the urges hit, remind yourself that you have already gone 15 days. What's another 15 minutes? 15 minutes will turn into another 15 days. If you slip, don't beat yourself up. Just start over again. If you really want it, you'll do it - and it sounds like you have done well so far.

That a challenge??? Don't worry, after a fifth of gin and a handful of valium I probably couldn't go after my avatar.