Apparent Contradictions...

He is currently tied for third in the season long championship standing, but is still really early in the sesaon and 33 drivers are within 250 points of the lead.

Erin and I have been as sick as dogs with a nasty bug that took about three weeks to fully kick. I am just finishing 20 days of antibiotics and there are more to come.

We thought for about a week that we were going to have another child enter our family, but God did not will for this to happen for us yet.

Veronica has been really sick the last week. Crazy high fevers, numerous doctors visits, antibiotic changes, and some general quietness that is just uncommon for our house.

Finally, work has been really challenging and disheartening at times, because I have some projects that I just couldn't get the necessary participants to get on board so we could close them out, some projects have been close to finished only to have last minute setbacks that plague the possibility of keeping established deadlines, and some things that have been working are just dying because of damage to the hardware layer. All this work has come at the detriment of my family, health, rest, and in some ways sanity. A 15 hour day has been all too common during this time.

I know the next two weeks are going to be really tough at work as we still have some major initiatives that have hard deadlines to meet, but I should be more frequent in my posting and I still have several things to catch up on.

Kurt Warner on ESPN (Link)

Kurt Warner on National Post (Link)

Kurt Warner's First Things First Foundation (Link)

Just a little more to stew over as it relates to this great guy and what he is really all about.

I am talking about southerntalkus redneckis.  Sorry for the latin there, but I felt the need to make sure you know exactly what the illness is if you should so choose to talk about it with your doctor as I plan to do the next time we take Veronica to see hers.  At this time we are still not certain if it is a chronic illness or how acute it may become, but it definitely appears to be a largely regional illness at this time.  I have noticed it is worse after being around others also affected by the illness, especially those that are close friends and teachers.  And, I am finding the "I am an 8 year old and I trust everyone over my Mommy and Daddy" strain seems very hard to treat, although occasionally the symptoms have been beaten back with references to the over counter dictionarymajora root and its associated pronunciation guide.

As of this post I have found no research into a possible vaccine and I intend to immediately start a lobby group to get this issue on the national agenda.  I also encourage all of you to contact the pharmaceutical companies and ask them to devote billions of dollars to a treatment of this real illness and not to the creation of drugs prior to their being an illness (do you hear me "restless leg syndrome").  After that we need to insist that a multibillion dollar ad campaign be devoted to the public awareness of the drug and maybe even the disease.  We will tell everyone to ask your doctor for it by name and they will know exactly what it is because we will have lobbied for drug reps to order in pizza at all of the local medical offices and tie up the staff for hours to explain the benefits of this new miracle drug (sorry waiting room full of "sick" people, but this is just too important to be slowed by your mundane illnesses).  Of course all this research and public campaigning will have cost so much that the medicine will likely cost way to much for those without medical insurance to afford and it may even be so expensive that some insurance companies will raise their rates and yes some companies may no longer offer their employees health care benefits because of the rising cost to them, but who cares.  This is important and we have a solution to the whole problem in one tiny little pill.  There will be no need for us to actually teach the public objective truths, to call for real parental involvement, or to practice safe communication.  It is all there in our pill for a reasonable cost.

Will you please join me in my quest to save Veronica and all of the children like her before it is to late?  We must do something before Babel falls again (this time of our own creation)!  I need volunteers now.  PLEASE HELP!

Update:  It appears their are three new mutations of this illness already.  BostonianCHOWDAconfusiousness, Wisconsoncheeseheaddrawism, and Canadian"eeh"itis.  We must hurry.

Not being one to miss a chance to put my Noles out in front of the Gators, I was reminded of this story by one of the comments on the blog and I decided I should put it out their for public consumption.

Gatorade as a concept was not invented by the University of Florida.  There I said it.  It was possibly invented by a doctor at Florida State (I also doubt this based on some other research, but the bottom line is that it wasn't a Gator thing first).  There was a athletic drink called Seminole Firewater made a full 5 years before the Gatorade patent was applied for.  

The Independent Florida Alligator (Link)

Does any of this really matter?  Not much but it is fun to know that my Noles are always ahead of the curve so to speak and it is one more thing I can use to jab Gator fans with when we talk (maybe even spear them with, you know like one of those big arrowhead tipped, feather ladden spears).

I have no ill feeling towards the Steelers, I am just a big fan or Kurt Warner's and was hoping they were going to pull it out in the end.  I have always been a fan of guys that are more than merely athletes and he definitely fills that bill.  Below I am linking a video clip that gives you a little more insight into what I mean.  Kurt Warner on ESPN.com.

It was still a great game and I hope everyone who watched it enjoyed the show of incredible talent that they were treated to.  I definitely hope everyone one got to watch the game like Erin and I did,  with TIVO!  No commercials and the 30 second skip button takes you from the end of one play to the beginning of another almost perfectly.