Bread

Look what I can dough!

And from scratch too. I felt I just kneaded to do something. I've always been good at just loafing around, life keeps getting breader and better.

The Lottery

"I'd rather be working for a paycheck
than waiting to win the lottery."

But if I can do both, than why not? I've been playing the Megamillions a lot recently. Probably too much. A couple of weeks ago, I was convinced I would win the 8 million dollar jackpot, so I put $5 into it. Nobody won so it rolled over to the next drawing. Today, some five or six rollovers later, maybe more, and $25 later, maybe more, the jackpot stands at 122 million dollars, and I still believe that I will be the next big winner.

The thing about the lottery is that you always truly expect to win. For just those last five minutes right before eleven o'clock, my mind races with the what-ifs and first-I'll-do-this, and every time it's something different. "I'll buy a house first," I'll think one night; "I'm going to travel," on another night. Once I thought I'd spread some money out to my family... once. Today I'm thinking, "I'll keep working - I won't tell anyone that I won - and then I'll quit in a huffy at the worst possible time." Revenge for what exactly I'm not quite sure, but right now, it just sounds nice.

The truth is, $122 million ... I have no idea what I would actually do if I actually won. I'd be happy, maybe even ecstatic, if I just won anything, even just $25. This makes me wonder why do it, if now-a-days it takes a couple of bucks for me to dream big. Maybe, but it also only takes a couple of bucks to win big... oh yeah!!

A Sports Weekend for the Ages

Barry Bonds tied the homerun record this weekend. Alex Rodriguez hit his 500th homerun, becoming the youngest ever to do so. Former Atlanta Brave Tom Glavine won his 300th game of his career, possibly the last to ever do so.. While we're at it...Frank Thomas hit his 505th homerun. Jim Thome hit his 490th. Some crazy guy thought he won a race, but it looks like he only had road rage. Oh... and Barry Bonds will surely hit another homerun, maybe even tonight... or tomorrow.

I watched SportsCenter this weekend. That's nothing unusual for me, but I guess this weekend was a pretty monumentous weekend for sports. As always, I was just waiting for the 30-second highlight reel of the Braves game... that is if they win, which I can tell by the constant scroller at the bottom of the screen, or going on-line. If they lose, I usually don't watch SportsCenter. Although I am glad I saw the bit on Glavine, the rest of that stuff, even Bonds, I don't really care about. I don't think I care at all. In fact, I'm just sick of hearing about it.

ESPN missed one of the biggest sports stories from the weekend though, and what I believe truly made it monumentous. I beat my personal best on the Yahoo game Super BounceOut, thank you very much. The old score had stood for four long years, untouched and untested, for though I had tried, I had not come even close. I thought I had past my prime; I thought my glory days were behind me. But ho! ...in one game, I racked up a mind-boggling 185,410 points, crushing my old record by nearly 20,000.

I'm not sure how great an accomplishment this is, but I guarantee that there is no asterick by this record. Anyways, there's not much as far as local competition in BounceOut, but I challenge the good people in blogland to top 185,410. I don't think it can be done.

Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty had a big fall...

And all the king's horses and all the king's men... went and got a camera.