Read this first.

So what would you do? Return the CD, even though you had already managed to extract the audio, or just let it be?

Talk about being a homer... I've got the home team winning every game this week save one... Denver over Kansas City.

Hopefully I'll do better than my dismal 8-6 from last week.

Update:12-2! In the words of the immortal Ric Flair... "Whoooooo!"

10-4 last week. Won the office pool week for the first time in two years. We'll see if I can continue that this week. So here we go...

• Atlanta d. Tampa Bay *
• Oakland d. Buffalo
• Tennessee d. Washington
• Indianapolis d. Cincy
• Miami d. New England **
• New Orleans d. Pittsburgh ***
• Carolina d. Arizona
• Dallas d. Giants
• Denver d. San Diego
• Kansas City d. Jets
• San Francisco d. St. Louis
• Jacksonville d. Philly
• Cleveland d. Baltimore ****
• Green Bay d. Chicago *****

* If I lose this week because of this game, I'm going to be kicking myself all week, but it's time to Vick to get a big win at home.

** Probably the hardest game to pick this week. Both these teams were undefeated last week, now one of them is going to lose two in a row.

*** Assuming the Superdome is still standing after Lili is done with it...

**** I'll always root for the Browns over the Ravens.

***** Hopefully Glenn's new meds will kick in so he can play Monday night. Considering how crafty Packer fans can be in picking up away game tickets, I'm predicting a 50-50 crowd split in Champaign, so might very well be a neutral site game. Favre won't pick apart the Bear's defense as much as I'd like to see, and it's going to be another close game, 17-14.

Yay! 10-4 this week, and I won the week in our pool! I'm also now just one point off the overall lead for the end-of-season prize.

Geez... Who saw the beatdown coming that Denver took last night? And the Lions over N'awlins?

But this week, it's

<Chris Berman Voice>

Packers! Bears! Monnnnday Night Football!

</Chris Berman Voice>

Let the trash talking begin!

A few weird games this week that will probably come back and bite me in the butt. 12-2 last week, we'll see if that hold up...

• Buffalo d. Chicago
• New Orleans d. Detroit
• Green Bay d. Carolina *
• Kansas City d. Miami **
• St. Louis d. Dallas
• Philly d. Houston ***
• Pittsburgh d. Cleveland ****
• Jacksonville d. NY Jets
• NY Giants d. Arizona
• Tampa Bay d. Cincy
• Oakland d. Tennessee
• San Diego d. New England *****
• Seattle d. Minnesota ******

* Can't pick against the Pack at home. We'll see if the Panthers are for real or not...

** Miami's good, but are they 4-0 good? I think not.

*** I've got Philly for my defense in my fantasy league. They'll be racking up some big points on Sunday!

**** Here's one of my flyers. Hopefully the Steelers will have regrouped after the bye week and can pick up their first win at home.

***** Here's the game I hate. With my luck, The Pats are going to end up crushing the Bolts. Hopefully the Brees will blow Tom Brady back into reality...

****** Here's the other game I'm not sure about. Moss is going to start, but is he going to play?

Heh heh...

Well okay, not really, but man I hate sitting there watching games while they fritter away a two+ touchdown lead in the fourth quarter and have to rely on an interception with time running out to save the sinking ship.

Why do they always have so many problems in Detroit? The only game I can remember where the won easily is back in '96 when I (and about 30,000 other Cheeseheads - It was like Lambeau Field East!) drove to Pontiac for the game where Desmond Howard was a machine on returns.

At least Da Bearsss lost...

Quick question...

I've been looking at that cool Sony-Ericsson phone that Apple has been showing in their Bluetooth/iSync information

The funny thing is, I can't find this phone with any of my local cell providers.

Can I purchase this phone elsewhere, and then get it hooked up with my provider (Verizon) or am I stuck with just what they have to offer?

I've discovered a new hobby... Geocaching.

If you've never heard of it, basically, someone hides a "treasure" somewhere on the planet (usually something like a Rubbermaid container with a few little trinkets inside, like McToys, and a logbook) and notes the coordinates of the container with a GPSr. The coordinates are then posted to the Geocaching website where abyone can look them up and go searching for the container.

Once (if) you find it, you sign the logbook, take one of the trinkets, and leave something behind for the next person to find.

It's a fun way to get outdoors and still keep a bit of geekiness going as well.

My daughter absolutely loves it. She has a blast going through the container after we find it and picking out a prize to keep.

If it weren't for those damn ticks though...

So what is a sport? I look at the winter olympics and only see a few "real" sports:

• Cross country skiing (probably Alpine as well, but not freestyle)
• Speed skating
• Hockey
• Bobsledding, luge and skeleton are sports for the first five seconds until they board their sled. Then it's just a video game as they steer.

We had this debate at work and one thing that we mostly agreed on was that if it is judged, then it's not a sport. So long, figure skating...

And curling is as much of a sport as bowling...

So now the Russians are complaining that the judging was biased and that their skater should get a gold as well. Sigh.
Whether or not you think the Canadian pair should have gotten a medal or not, the IOC opened a Pandora's Box by giving them a gold. Now every country that has a beef will expect the same treatment.