Has it really been so long since I last posted? Seems like forever. Guess I've been busy. You know it is football season.

Dawgs win again. (And I think my picture taking is getting much better.)

In the car the other day it dawned on me that "False Humility" is a redundant statement.

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The nailbiting 17-15 victory over Spurrier's South Carolina yesterday was really quite an exciting game. I really enjoy being in a stadium full of fans being put through an emotional wringer.

New this season, Sanford Stadium has a whole new set of electronic boards, including the gigantic screen in the west end zone, as visible above. The screens are cool, yeah, but they are being used almost exclusively for advertising. They even took out the clock so that they could have more advertising room. (No clock in the entire stadium now. That's bullshit.) The information boards are practically useless. Only rarely do they give us stats for the game, replays, or even scores from other games. Instead, they spend all of their time giving us adverts for Coke, SunTrust, Kodak or useless prompts showing us CGI American flags to salute or telling us to "Make Some Noise." Good job, UGA; thanks for spending a fortune on signs that discourage us from looking at them. What a brain trust you have.

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Labor Day. Really. I get the day off. (Chuckle.)

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Go Dawgs! We crushed the reigning king of the WAC, Boise State, 48-13.

Next week we will give Redskin failure Spurrier his comeuppance! (Oh, yes, we will beat his Cocks!)

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The Dawgs kick off tomorrow at 5:30 PM. (I thought that was important enough to make the blog.)

On another note: why the hell is everyone in America endorsing donating money to the Red Cross? Has everyone forgotten the lessons of 911 already? The Red Cross received millions because of that, and then they kept what they wanted and diverted a large portion of donations gifted for 911 victims and New York natives to other causes. Do you think that they money that you are giving the Red Cross to help the New Orleans natives is really ending up there?

I heard on CNN that Diddy, Nick Cage, Celene Dione, Hillary Duff and more are giving millions (that's right, millions: who says that the Gilded Age ended over a century ago?) to the Red Cross. Let those rich bastard throw their money away if they want to, they have enough, but why am I hearing about it? Did their press agents release the news so that I would be motivated to give what I could? (Social pressure from celebrities? Wow!) Or did they just want me to know what great people they were for giving so much to those who have so little?

Maybe I'm really damn cynical, but that doesn't mean that I'm wrong.

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Ah ha! Site basics are complete tonight with the addition of the media/flash page. Should the page actually work as designed (I'm sure it won't, it never does), I'll finally have all the planned pages at Wriphe.com up to full speed. Now I can move on to other projects. Of course I'll keep this site updated, as at least 3 of my planned projects should have artistic merit.

Endorsement: Morrowind. Very engrossing. (I still hate Xbox. I'm playing the PC version. I know it came out forever ago, but that shouldn't stand in the way of good gaming, should it? Maybe one day I'll even play Half-Life.)

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I have to leave town for the weekend to take care of the best poodle in history, but before I go, I've stopped to complete the contact page. Now that's dedication! That leaves only the "media/flash" page in need of heavy work. Hopefully I'll get to it next week.

On another note, a friend called this morning to complain that I water down my typically salty language too much on this blog in an attempt to "prevent offending anyone." Gosh darn it, that's just not the frickin' case.

He also thought I should include a disclaimer about the costume pic I included back on the 15th. I think that everyone who knows me knows that isn't my body, but I don't see why I should include a disclaimer when perhaps I can convince others. Everyone has to have an avatar for their porn site BBS postings, right?

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Finally, I put content on the Bio pages. It took 3 versions of this site, but now my adoring public will have some scant knowledge about the evil genius behind this site. Not that they really care. (Rule #1: no one cares about your site.)

On a much more interesting note, I just sold a set of Crossbows and Catapults on eBay for $100.00. As much as I'm going to miss those l'il plastic vikings, the cash sure helps to cushion the blow. A lot.

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I've discovered that the trick about quitting your job so that you'll have more time to work on your own projects (the "great American novel," a new boat, or -- as in my case -- a comic book) is that everyone that you know says, "hey, you don't have a job, why don't you come give me a hand doing >insert diversion task here< for little or no money. In my case, the activity of my social life is inversely proportional to my economic income.

On a very related note, I took to watching T.J. Hooker seasons 1 & 2 on DVD this week. Hooker represents the golden years (cue tv host Tom Massie: "GoooOOOOOoooold!") of Shatner television. The character of Hooker is somewhere between Dirty Harry and Joe Friday; a television recycling of the high-water points of previous TV cops into a confusing mess of ideology and practice. Hooker is a walking cliche: a "tough-as-nails" ex-soldier turned cop who left his cushy detective desk job to return to the mean streets of the unnamed "L.C." city as a beat cop with a rogue streak and a rookie partner. Confusingly, these beat cops spend more time solving major crimes (snipers, stalkers, gun runners, and other common television crime cases) than the plain-clothes detectives of the uncommonly mundane named "Academy Precinct." Shatner pulls it off with aplomb. If you've not seen it yet, get to it, cadet!

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I have spent the last 8 hours working on listing things on ebay. Now, if I was to make $10 per hour, then that's $80 I'd need from the sales in order to justify the time spent. WIll I make good? Only time will tell.

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