Friday, 20 September 2002: Oh, c'mon. Don't tell me you didn't see this one coming a mile away. Yes, that's right, another "Darwinism Missed Me" winner today. Sorry, I should say "winners" - plural. It's been a while after all.

This award goes to a man from Alsip, Illinois named William Ligue and his son who, because he is underage, remains unidentified. But, seriously, though, don't you think we have enough information just in his father's name and hometown that we can't find out his son's name? It's not as though he's a Jones or an Anderson. Well, anyway, these two boneheads are the guys that jumped out of the stands at yesterday's White Sox - Royals game at Comiskey Park here in Chicago and attacked Royals' first base coach Tom Gamboa. So far as we can all tell, there was no provocation whatsoever. They just ran on the field and started clubbing the hell out of him. Luckily they were restrained by players when the Royals dugout emptied on to the field. They were both arrested and charged with aggravated battery this morning by Chicago Police. Here's a look at them both...

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Ooohh, isn't daddy tough looking, kids? Look at all those cool tats. I wanna be just like him when I grow up. Seriously, though, doesn't he look like a tool? This was how they both looked when they ran out on the field. They were both topless. Is daddy spitting at the cameraman? Whadda dipshit. And look at the picture of his son. Talk about your Deer-in-Headlight Syndrome. I can just imagine him saying to his dad, "I'm scared, paw, hep me. Dey gonna make me bend over and squeal like a stuck pig ag'in like Uncle Rufus did?"

In a perfect world, the police would've just stood by and let the players have at these two for about half an hour. Then the real fans would get their shots in because these two caused such a delay (albeit an entertaining one) in an already long game. Then, if I were the officers putting these two boneheads in my squad car, I think I'd intentionally forget to lower their heads when seating them. Oh, there is so much fun that could be had with these two. The possiblities are endless...

Thursday, 19 September 2002: I swear I can't catch a break in our Fantasy Football league. First, my star running back Ahman Green of the Packers goes out with a banged up knee. Then, on Monday or Tuesday, the Titans announce that their star running back Eddie George (my #2 guy) is out with foot problems. Granted, both may be back by this weekend, I'm still sweating because I only have one other running back on my team. So, if both wind up gone, I would normally be screwed. Well, my backup back Antowain Smith of the Patriots is now gone as well with other leg problems. He is likely to be back in time, but I'm sweating nonetheless. I had to ditch my reserve tight end Billy Miller so I could fit in one more running back as a backup. So I picked up Rondell Mealey of the Packers who is serving as Green's replacement. Ideally, I will receive a payoff remniscient of last year's replacement of the Colt's Edgerrin James by Dominic Rhodes who wound up being a great back. Wish me luck (and health).

Wednesday, 18 September 2002: Well, I passed my first EMT test tonight. Passed it with a 90%. That's pretty good especially since I need an average of 80% on all the exams to qualify me to tackle the state certification exam in December. We shall see.

Katie's pretty happy lately. She just found out recently that Women's Entertainment (The WE Network) is going to start carrying reruns of two of her favorite shows that have recently gone off the air. Within the next week or two, WE will be airing reruns of Felicity (ideally in episode order) and also Two Guys & A Girl (in order too, hopefully). I can handle the Two Guys reruns and I'm sure I'll get sucked into the Felicity reruns just because of how heavily addicted Katie was to the show. For those of you who are interested, Two Guys & A Girl will air Monday thru Friday at 5:30 p.m. Central Time beginning on September 30. For those of you in other time zones, just figure out when it's airing for yourselves or go to WE's website linked above (hey, I'm in the Central Timezone and, therefore, the world revolves around me). Felicity will play follow up at 6 p.m. also beginning on 9/30. The good thing is that they're not scheduling these shows to compete with any original primetime network offerings which is really smart on WE's part. Check both of these shows out. They were both pretty good shows that really got shafted by scheduling. Two Guys kept getting moved around by ABC who couldn't decide on a permanent home for it while Felicity had some serious Wednesday night competition from the other networks.

Tuesday, 17 September 2002: I sometimes find it amazing what some people consider "collectible." I've read stories about people who have collections ranging from normal stuff like CDs, DVDs, baseball cards, and the like all the way over to such oddities as fingernail clippings from Elvis Presley (those are the true fanatics). Well, get a load of this one... in an attempt to alleviate some of its creditor debt, Enron (do you really need to be reminded what Enron is?) has decided to hold auctions of much of its high-tech equipment including laptop and desktop computers, 50" plasma screen monitors (which retail new for over $7K), etc. But the kicker item in this auction is the big silver "Crooked E" sign that used to sit outside one of its offices in Houston. No, unfortunately we're not talking the big, full-color sign that you always saw in news reports. But, this would be the next best thing, I guess. What do you do with something like that? Is that really something that you'd proudly display in your house? Show it off to your friends? Impress a girl on your first date? That's just weird. But, hey, if you can find a buyer, why the hell not, right?

In other oddly twisted news, Delta Airlines nearly sent an entire family to the grave from shock. You see, a family in Mexico paid $8,000 to have the body of their dead father flown from the U.S. to his birthplace of Apatzingan in the Mexican state of Michoacan. When his body arrived, family members opened the casket only to discover the body of a dead African-American man with a cigar and a picture of the World Trade Center Towers. Apparently, the body of their father went on a brief world tour to Greece and Delta has absolutely no identification of the other body whatsoever. You know what? If I were transporting a dead body, I'd sure as hell like to know who it is. I really think that whoever is in charge over there in Delta should be forced to keep this body in his office until such date that it is identified and can be delivered to its proper destination. That'll learn 'em.

Oh, and yes, I did pick up our copy of Monsters, Inc. this morning on DVD. A must have.

Sunday, 15 September 2002: As happy as I am that the Bears won yet another game, and by one heckuva close score yet again, I just gotta say that I would really love to see the Bears just blow it open early on in the game. Yes, I will admit that the close games make them really fun. But the heart pounding is getting to be a little much. I just wanna see the Bears take a big lead early and keep it throughout the game even if only once this season. C'mon guys. I'm too young for a heart attack.