I am a Consumer Whore

I went running this morning. I used a treadmill and I didn't last very long, due to being incredibly out of shape, but the run was still enough to leave my brain flooded with endorphins for a few hours in the morning and early afternoon. I also noticed that it was exceptionally warm out today, so I decided that I would go out and get lunch while wearing a T-shirt without a jacket. When you can go get lunch without a jacket on December 31st, you go get lunch without a jacket.

I've been watching a lot of Footba'al lately, so I've soaked up hours of good, wholesome, American advertising. With my runner's high in full effect and an empty stomach, I knew that I was in the ideal condition to do my American duty. I was going to stimulate the economy by doing what the commercials told me to do.

And so I bought a Taco Bell Touchdown $5 Buck Box.

Congratulations, Don

When Don Treadwell stepped in as interim head coach for Michigan State while Mark Dantonio was in the hospital, there was a lot of speculation about how his success could lead him to a non-interim (outterim?) head coaching position in the future. The future is now (and nary a hula hoop in sight). I am happy for Don. He'll be coaching at his alma mater, a school that won its conference championship this year (yeah, it's the MAC championship, but it's still a championship), and I think MSU's success against Wisconsin this season is a sign that he can do the job.

I was talking to someone (I forget whom) earlier this year about the possibility of Treadwell leaving and his feeling (I believe it was a he) was that the loss of a coordinator would be a real test of the strength of MSU's football program. I agreed. The team reaches bowl games consistently. It recruits respectably and develops those recruits beyond their expected potential. If MSU can stay at that level after Treadwell's departure, it will prove that the program is strong. If the team falters, well, hopefully we'll find a way to get it together again without another Williams-Smith Era of Excruciatingly Bad Football.

The President is behind the times

Blogger has apparently supported jump links for over a year and I just found out about it today. D'oh. I've gone back and updated all of my lengthier posts to use them, so there shouldn't be any more garbage like this cluttering up the main page.

Also, I took advantage of another feature that Blogger added months ago and checked my blog stats today. I now have conclusive evidence that I am not the only person who has visited my blog. The page hit count is pathetically low, but it is nevertheless greater than I expected. Perhaps people were looking for a San Diego Flute Guild blog and guessed poorly.

Casting my vote

If they aren't willing to use "East" and "West," the Big Twelve Ten should call their divisions "Big Two" and "Little Eight."

Foortbrawwgh 2010

I have resolved to watch at least a quarter of every bowl game this year. I highly doubt that I will be able to meet that resolution, given that I intend to go visit people at some point in the next two weeks rather than spending all of my time on the couch, but I will do my best.

This post will be updated with impressions of each game.

Spider/Centipede Log

Keeping score.

• 2010-12-15: 2 spiders.
• 2010-12-16: 1 spider.
• 2010-12-17: 2 spiders.
• 2010-12-28: 1 silverfish (a new challenger approaches).
• 2011-01-01: 1 spider so big that I thought it was a small centipede when I first saw it.
• 2011-01-05: 1 spider.
• 2011-01-06: 1 centipede.
• 2011-01-09: 1 spider. The really frustrating thing is that I have no idea what they're eating, so I can't control them by cutting off their food supply. It seems like I just have more centipedes and spiders.
• 2011-01-11: 2 spiders.
• 2011-01-12: 4 spiders. I got a call from the producers of some show on A&E, asking if I wanted to do a guest spot.
• 2011-01-13: 2 spiders. Have you ever used the toilet and gotten up to discover that there was a spider sitting on the underside of the lid? I have now. They look like they could be fiddlebacks, too...
• 2011-01-18: 2 spiders.
• 2011-01-20: 1 spider.
• 2011-01-22: 1 silverfish.

Holiday Fear

Let's get to the point.

I sometimes use tvguide.com to see what's on TV.

What the hell is that?