2 2nd place roto finishes in last 5 years.
1 1st place Division A  finish
Lots of fun and friends ...
Paying it forward by donating prizes for the tourney

Personal best 239 point play - SK(E)TCHED
Personal best 661 game


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Anyone use "Visual Thesaurus"?

Is it worth the investment?

It looks very cool.

So I'm at a friend's house for a holiday dinner yesterday, and we're all gabbing and having a punny, wordy time ...

Someone asks me to pass the gravy boat .... and a thought instantly pops in my head ... and the thought then passes directly to my lips ...

"What happens if the gravy boat crashes into the iceberg lettuce?"

(much laughter ensued)

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Yes, you too can drink wine from a baby bottle ... at La Cave Des Fondus.

"While drinking alcohol in a container otherwise used for Similac may be a novelty in New York (at least in public), it has already been tried in that world capital of gastronomic sophistication, Paris. Paris, France.

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As some of you already know, I've been recruited to write for a Yankee-centric blog called "Bronx Banter", hosted on SportsNetNewYork's website.

My job is normally to provide a daily recap of links to various articles on the Yankees.

Yesterday, I got to add my story on my memories of Yankee Stadium (part of an on-going series of remembrances, ( Read more... )

Neal Hefti, composer of Batman TV series theme, dies.

"Oddly enough, his most famous tune is among his least musically interesting, even if it was somehow brilliantly apt: the jauntily arch and repetitive theme for the television series “Batman.” Mr. Hefti said that the show was so campy it took him weeks to come up with a suitable melody. It won ( Read more... )

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Firefighter revives unconscious cat.


"Al Machado rescued the cat from a burning apartment Tuesday, telling The Standard Times of New Bedford that he saw immediately that it needed air. Machado began performing mouth to mouth on the animal as he carried it outside.

Video shot at the scene shows Machado bent over, breathing into the cat's mouth several ( Read more... )