10/4/07--You're probably wondering if I even do a journal anymore

I've always tried to be honest with you, the reader.  Where the hell have I been?  Why haven't I written?  Has some tragedy befallen me that would keep me from writing?

Uh...no.  Honestly, I think I've had a combination writer's block//general malaise that has come over me.  It is certainly not for a lack of things to write about.  I mean, c'mon:

The stinkin Fighting Irish haven't won a game....yet!
Britney is going to lose her children.  What's up with that???
I have a teenage daughter---'nuff said.
Hockey season is beginning.
The Cubs made the playoffs!!  Heck, the Cubs won their division!!
My son seems to have made his college decision....for now at least.  Next month, who knows?

And yet, the visit to the computer to write an entry becomes more a chore than an act of love, from me---to you---the reader.

Maybe its the new fall t.v. season, who knows?

Anyway, Notre Dame's football team is HORRIBLE.  We're essentially playing freshmen, sophmores, and a couple of cruddy senior players that Ty Willingham left behind.  Thanks Ty!  (Expletive deleted)

How bad a mother does Britney Spears have to be that a judge (even in California) would decide that KEVIN FEDERLINE is a better parent?  Hey, just because you can have a kid doesn't mean you should raise one.  Hey Brit--think REHAB and PARENTING CLASSES.

Hockey season began last night in the NHL and, as I write this, my Florida Panther are just about to drop the puck on the new season.  Hopefully the playoffs are a realistic goal for the Panthers this season, who actually invested some $$$ for a change and haven't made the playoffs since....hmm....the Truman administration.

I have a teenage daughter.  Ya know, I'm noticing all these gray hairs that I didn't have before.  Oh, sure, people warned me.  But nobody mentioned anything about the whole being a slob thing.  Her room is worse than MINE used to be when I was a teenager!
(No, really....Mom, I'm not kidding!)  Any of her little buddies dropping by the old blog for a visit---feel free to bring this up to her.  Really....I won't mind.

The Cubs win their division!!  Okay, so it was touch and go for a little while, but at least we're not the freakin Mets.  Holy cow, what a collapse.  Natually we couldn't seal the deal in south Florida, as the lowly Marlins managed to sweep us--which of course prompted lots of stories about the "Bartman incident" and the like.  99 years.   That's how long its been for the Cubs and a World Series win.  The Marlins have won 2 World Series in 10 years.  You would think that the Cubs would have bumbled and stumbled their way to ONE World Series somewhere in the last millinieum, but no!  But I digress.

Andy might be moving to the Garden State.  New Jersey.  Home of Francis Albert Sinatra....the Soprano's....Bruce Springsteen....Bon Jovi....Charlie Weis....and....

Andy Poe-Bowdren?

Might be.  As of today, Andy seems set on Stevens Institute of Technology....located in beautiful downtown Hoboken, NJ.   For now at least.   A month from now?  A week?

Eh....who knows.

Later,
Jeff