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GREETINGS on a Thursday night as I watch the final moments of the NFL season-opener featuring my Washington Redskins up against the Super Bowl Champion New York Giants. Up next John McCain gives his long-awaited acceptance speech as the Republican National Convention comes to a close.

TOMORROW on the big blog be sure to check out my special report on how Hurricane Ike actually got its name. We’ve never had an ‘Ike’ before. Why is that ?  Then stick around for another fresh new ‘Friday Night Blogroll Review’ featuring my favourite blog entries of this past week.

If you were looking for the ‘Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame’ earlier tonight then look no further. After 31 editions over the past 31 weeks it’s taking a well-deserved break. That’s right. The most successful weekly series here on this blog (by far) is now on temporary hiatus. Look for it to return at a later date.

That’s all for tonight. I’ll see you tomorrow – or the next day – or whenever. Until then REMEMBER THIS !

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My NFL Weekend Game Picks

I’m picking the underlined teams to WIN !

THU 7:00 PM EDT
Redskins At Giants – UPSET SPECIAL OF THE WEEK !

SUN 1:00 PM EDT
Lions At Falcons
Bengals At Ravens
Seahawks At Bills
Jets At Dolphins
Chiefs At Patriots
Buccaneers At Saints
Rams At Eagles
Texans At Steelers
Jaguars At Titans

SUN 4:15 PM EDT
Cowboys At Browns
Panthers At Chargers
Cardinals At 49ers

SUN 8:15 PM EDT
Bears At Colts

MON 7:00 PM EDT
Vikings At Packers

MON 10:15 PM EDT
Broncos At Raiders

Care to differ ?  Post your picks !

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Blatant Promotion

I’m currently watching the 2ND night of the Republican National Convention. I tried watching it on MSNBC (my favourite cable news network), but there was too much commentary on there so I flipped it over to C-SPAN and now I’m getting the real deal – the convention uninterrupted – with intermission videos and all. I’ll stick with C-SPAN for the duration of the party. President Bush, Fred Thompson, and Joe Lieberman will be speaking later tonight. I’m looking forward to it. They just showed ‘Bush 41’ and ‘Barb’ at the convention LIVE and in-person. That was cool !

TOMORROW on the big blog I’ll be presenting my weekly NFL game picks for this upcoming season-opening weekend. Normally I’ll be doing it on Saturday nights between now and the end of December, but since the season officially kicks-off this Thursday night on NBC-TV I need to do it early this week. Be sure to check that out tomorrow night. You won’t regret it pal.

Have a peaceful and quiet Tuesday night everyone, and REMEMBER THIS !

CHANGE THAT SIGN !

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Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

1.  Category 1 Hurricane Gustav made landfall earlier this afternoon in southwestern Haiti very near that country’s capitol city. I am forecasting it to eventually intensify into an extremely dangerous Category 4 Hurricane threatening the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida on Labor Day Monday and Tuesday. If you live anywhere between New Orleans and Panama City Beach then I would start preparing now. Don’t panic. Prepare.

2.  I ate a MASSIVE Lunch at this place late this morning. As usual it was a ton of great food – hot and plentiful – with excellent customer service. If you don’t know the Beef’s then you just don’t know what’s good for Lunch !

3.  I’ll be driving well over 800 miles from this Thursday morning through this Sunday afternoon. That’s the most driving that I’ll be doing in nearly 18 months – since March 2007 when I drove to and from north of Atlanta Georgia !  Back then I was paying between $2.40 and $2.70 per gallon of gas.

4.  I’m constantly watching cable television on my sparkling new desktop computer system. My favourite part of it all – pausing LIVE TV and then resuming it when I feel like it. I now know this – A 30-minute TV show recorded on my hard drive takes up 1.87 GB of space. That’s nearly one-fourth of one percent (0.25%) of my entire hard drive !

5.  I didn’t watch the Olympics at all. I got caught up on previously-recorded television shows on VHS and DVD. In addition to my 3 VHS VCRs (‘Andrew’, ‘Barney’, and ‘Charley’) I also have my DVD recorder (‘Danny’) as well as my new HP computer (‘Eddie’). I know. I’m weird. Who isn’t ?