Fisher Times-Post-Dispatch-Courier

Breaking down the computer now.  I may have access to the internet tonight, but if you need to contact me, it is best just to call me at this point.

What a fan-diddly-tastic college football season so far.  Highlights: the AppSt-Michigan upset, the complete meltdown of the top 25 two weeks ago, Stanford over USC, South Florida (of the City of Tampa) rolling off an undefeated (so far) season and crawling into the top 5, and, now, a third straight week of top 10 destruction, though the carnage was more limited today than in past weeks.

Losing today: 1 LSU, 2 Cal, 11 Missouri, 15 Cincinnati, 18 Illinois, 19 Wisconsin and 21 Overrated FSU.  Of those 7 teams, 4 were undefeated, and with UConn also losing, we are down to six undefeateds: Ohio State, Boston College, South Florida (of the City of Tampa), Kansas, Arizona State, and Hawaii.  That’s relative calm within the top 25, as most of the teams won, but having both the number one and two ranked teams lose on the same day is huge, and fits right in with this season’s theme.  Plus, Cal lost to unranked Oregon State, becoming the tenth top 10 team to lose to an unranked team this year. 

Crazy, crazy year.  Who’s ready for a South Florida (of the City of Tampa) vs. Boston College national championship game?

Oh, and Notre Dame lost again. 

Packing is made much easier when you don’t have to pack the stuff.  After sifting through storage boxes and storage containers and hangars and shelves and nooks and crannies and bags and cabinets, and sorting the stuff that came falling out, I’ve come up with three destinations for stuff.  The smallest piles have led to the tubs, which is where stuff-that-gets-packed goes.  The biggest piles leave the apartment straight out the door, across the hall, through another door, and into the big trash cans.  I admit it, I’ve been a bit of a pack-rat, but I’ve been ruthless these past few days in sending things to the circular file, and many, many, many cubic feet of packing space has been saved.  Finally, there are things that I can’t use, won’t use, or haven’t used, but are too good for the landfill.  Two big trash bags of clothing found their way to a donation center, and roughly eight large boxes of books landed at Goodwill.  That is a lot of stuff that won’t be going to Colorado - a lot.

Also subtract from that the bar stools and chair which should be sold tomorrow, and the space savings are really adding up.  I just hope it’ll be enough. 

If you didn’t know better, you’d think tonight’s Rockies-Diamondbacks NLDS game is being played in Philadelphia or the Bronx or Beirut.  Phoenix residents should be ashamed of the actions of the fans who’ve been throwing bottles onto the field after a controversial call causing the Rockies to have to abandon the field for several minutes.  Classy.

I won’t lay off criticizing Dan "Steinbrenner" Snyder’s spending habits, meddling, and quick trigger, but here are a couple of things the ‘Skins have done right over the past 7 years: first, drafting talented young quarterback Jason Campell and then not playing him while grizzled veterans played medocre football ahead of him.  Grizzled means experienced, and a smart young player not playing is watching and learning.  Says one sports writer: how did young Jason Campbell become this polished?  By not playing him during his bad-decision-making formative years and allowing him to mature under the tutelage of experienced older players, that’s how.

And now his time has come. 

The Boss said Torre probably wouldn’t be retained if the Yankees didn’t win the Divisional Series against Cleveland.

The Yankees didn’t win the Divisional Series against Cleveland.

Now the Yankees (GM Brian Cashman, actually) are saying that the decision will take some time to make.  Huh?

First - let’s not be branded a loud mouth……………….more of a loud mouth hypocrite, G.  Say it, do it.

Second - Braves fans can tell you how much fun it is going to the playoffs and never winning.  Bobby Cox is still around, and now the Braves aren’t even going to the playoffs any more.  The Yanks are on a downhill trend, so changes need to be made for them to avoid becoming the next perennial playoff loser to become a perennial team-that-misses-the-playoffs.

Finally - Torre has become (or is quickly becoming) baseball’s Marty Schottenheimer (Marty’s taken 13 teams to the playoffs and has won just 5 games, none since ‘93, making his playoff record 5-13 with no Super Bowl appearances).  Stellar managing ability during the regular season, but unable to seal the deal at the end of the year.  Maybe it’s just the collective inability of over-the-hill overpaid free agents that run out of gas in October, but until someone else is given the opportunity to motivate and manage that bunch, we’ll never know.

On second thought, I hate the Yankees.  Keep Torre, G. 

Today I received, in the mail, an envelope from the Colorado Supreme Court, stating that they have accepted the recommendation of the Board of Law Examiners that I be admitted to the practice of law in Colorado.  This means that, aside from paying more money for the license and taking the oath, there are NO potential stumbling blocks between me and being fully licensed.  (We knew that I had passed, but there was still the background check to be completed.  There is no "pending" status, so that is also behind us.)

On Thursday my excitement was reserved - just like knowing that you passed doesn’t relieve the anxiety until they tell you that you’ve passed, knowing that you’ll pass the character and fitness requirements doesn’t relieve the anxiety until they tell you that you’re of sufficient moral fiber to practice law.

Today, my excitement is unreserved.  Career is on track!  Next stop - jobville! 

The fridge is gone, and hopefully we can move the couch later today.  Couch is gone.  TV gone.

Oh, and an interesting link:

http://www.coloradosupremecourt.com/BLE/ExamResults.htm

There’s a PDF file there.  I was so hoping to be the only Fisher on that list, but to my dismay there was not a single Fisher listed.

There were two. 

(Due to a near-coronary incident, yes, this means I passed the bar!)

The great sell-off of stuff has begun.  Unfortunately, the first item to go is the one I have the hardest time letting go of: my bicycle!  And I think I may have sold myself short on what I could have gotten it for, but since I bought it so cheap, I couldn’t - in good conscience - sell it for more.  I got LOTS of interest on it.  TV and fridge and couch have interest, but I probably have to cut my asking price for the speakers.  I almost sold the stools, but the buyer lives too far away.  If I don’t sell the chair, I’m not going to cry, because it breaks down into small pieces.

I’ll wait to list the bed, ‘cause I think I’ll need that before moving.

And now I have to start running.  Can’t sit in front of the computer all day without getting a bit of cabin fever (during the warm months!) 

2 years of oven gunk is not a pretty sight.  Fortunately, oven cleaner works as advertised.  Yay, oven cleaner.