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streak for the cash for 12/19

I haven’t done this in like a month! Since then, I’ve managed a winning streak of 7, but my losing streak of 9 kind of trumps that. I finally managed to break my longest losing streak of all time about one game/match/whatever before I just decided I was done with Streakin’ for the Cash all together. I guess the thing I like about this is that even though I know there’s no way in hell I’m going to make myself eligible for the most wins this month and therefore winning a cool $2500, it still makes me come back every day. Good work, ESPN. 

Current Streak: W2 
Overall Picks: 252-224-12 (.529) Month Record: 28-27-0 (.509)

3 Goals or More: Hapoel Tel-Aviv scores 3.5 goals per match on average; they allow their opposing team to score 1.0 goals per match. Hamburg SV scores only scores an average of 0.5 goals a game, but Tel-Aviv’s ridiculous offense has the three goals covered. I think. And hope.

147 Points or More: The only reason I’m picking the over on this? Ricky “The Dreamboat” Rubio. Okay, so he’s not really a dreamboat, but more of a 19 year old man child who has the skills that can pay the bills. (Yeah, I just said that) And he probably also has enough skills to up the T’Wolves wins so far this season, but, you know, he’s playing Regal Barcelona instead. (How is that kid only averaging 5.1 points a game right now??)

Pittsburgh Penguins: Mainly because all of the other 7pm-ish games are too close for me to pick and the Penguins seem to be the safe one here. I probably won’t say that tonight. 

Phoenix Suns: Steve Nash rules. Half of Portland’s roster is injured. End of story.

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links for 2009-12-17

• Johnson family Christmas cards – a set on Flickr
  Dear Mom and Dad, thanks for not ever making us do this shit. While cute, it's also infinitely creepy to see a grown man dressed up like a toy soldier.

family night at the (not really a) bar

Tonight, mi familia and I had a date involving dropping off Christmas donations and hamburgers full of molten lava cheese, thanks to the fine folks at Matt’s Bar.

Jenni, Matt, Stephanie and I had adopted a family via The Aliveness Project. Since Jenni and Matt are somewhere in the Southern Caribbean right now, I volunteered to drop it off tonight. The General and I decided to take The Kid with and just give him a chance to see what happens when a ton of people get together to help others. He’s so damn hard to read sometimes, I have no idea what he really thought about the whole thing. Seeing a back room that’s stacked to the ceiling full of donated Christmas gifts is always a feel-good type of vision, so I hope he was able to at least take a little bit away from it.

Following the do-good portion of the evening, we decided to have dinner at Matt’s Bar. We figured taking a 12 year old to a bar was the appropriate thing to do after exposing him to charity, right? (FYI, it’s not really a bar. It’s a restaurant that has bar in the name.) Dinner was just like it always is at Matt’s — greasy and delicious.

And then, before he went to bed, I gave him ten minutes to write what he liked or didn’t like at Matt’s Bar. I present to you a 12 year old’s review on his dining experience tonight. (Keep in mind, he probably would have went on and on had I not limited his time.)

I liked the Juicy Lucy because it had the cheese inside like a volcano!!! The fries were kinda boring and flavorless. The cheese was AWESOMAZINGLY DELICOUS!!!!! I wonder what kind it was. I always forget how little amount of sprite is in the can. This often leads me to drinking it all right away. The restaurant was very nice and small. This was cool because it made me feel more comfortable and relaxed.

Clearly, you should all go visit. And, since it was his first time jumping on the Jucy (Juicy) Lucy bandwagon, so we took pictures.

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