NEW GUY has decided that the office needs a college football pool each week. Since he doesn’t want to play for real money we’ve agreed to go with $5 per week to get in. I keep pushing for him to charge real money and keep out the riff raff, but so far it’s falling on deaf ears. My picks are in bold.
1) Texas-El Paso versus San Diego State
2) South Carolina versus Mississippi State
3) Florida State versus Miami
4) California versus Tennessee
5) Virginia Tech versus Northeastern
6) Army versus Arkansas State
7) Memphis versus Mississippi
Arkansas versus Southern Cal
9) Hawaii versus Alabama
10) Ohio State versus Northern Illinois
11) Navy versus East Carolina
12) LSU versus LA-Lafayette
The logic behind the schools that were picked is all kinds of fucked up and political. Let’s not get into that here and settle for the knowledge that this has been his mission in life today.
I guess getting mad and yelling at people is bad for you. But so is keeping it all bottled up inside. Next thing you know they declare drinking and driving to be an unsafe combination. Thankfully nobody has ever done a study to determine the effects of mixing Jack Daniels and break fluid.
After moving the kids across hell’s half acre to get them in decent schools it turns out that 22% of Virginia schools aren’t worth a crap. Hell for this we could have just home schooled the little mouth breathing booger eaters. With all the talk of how great schools are out here you would have never suspected that so many were this bad.
On a personal note, I’m a mass of pain today. In the middle of the night with a cramp in my left calf that was so bad I considered rolling out of bed hard enough to bang my head into the dresser to knock me out and get rid of the pain. It locked up a couple of times during my morning run and is still hurting. Plus, I forgot to bring my glasses to the office when I finally got around to coming in (I fear I may finally be getting old) and now have a headache that feels like gorillas are using jackhammers in my head. Lucky me.
