2007 Freaks and Geeks Champion

After a tight final, I managed to take the Championship in my Freaks and Geeks league, 176-143. That's 2 Championships in 3 years (2005 and 2007). Congrats to all and sorry Paladins, your team peaked way too early (he was 11-0 before he lost a game and ended up 12-2 and in 4th place in the end).

Stormbringer 2007 Champion Yahoo Freaks and Geeks

Yeah, yeah, yeah...

Well, the holidays pretty much took me away from keeping up on my blog, so I will try to catch up on the highlights for now.

In Pinmasters, we, Outcasts, ended up on 6th place for the first half of the season. Our rivals, Split Happens is in 9th and th Shanks are in 14th out of 17 places. We done good...

I lost last week in my FF Paladins league so and mired in the Final 4 finish. At least I made it there! 12 team leagues are tough... In my Freaks and Geeks league I am in the final and have a strong chance to win the title as the number 1 seed got knocked off last week in a total upset! Right now I am predicted to win 150-118. We'll see...

The holidays are upon us like I said earlier so I would like to extend a very warm happy holidays and a joyous and safe new year to everyone!

I finally broke down and sold my flying V and am going to sell my ESP LTD soon (NOT the Phoenix) so I could buy -- this (artist rendition - not the actual guitar)... The 'Fender' Stormbringer.



I have the majority of the parts planned and/or on their way. The specs are:
Body: stratocaster, flamed maple cap on swamp ash, body contours, finished in bengal burst
Neck: canary fretboard on canary neck, reverse CBS headstock, no fret markers, skull and crossbones at the 12th
Pickups: EMG SA active pickups in black
Tremelo: Gotoh Wilkinson in black
Tuners: Schaller mini locking tuners in black

I can't wait!

November 25-30, 2007

Personal: Just curious if anyone ever reads this? I am always on the look out for people I have know in the past, so if you come across this blog, shoot me an email...

Fantasy Football: Brought out my "Whoopin' Stick"… I devastated the only remaining undefeated team in my Freaks and Geeks league (he has Brady and Moss). Going into his Sunday night New England game I was up over 140 points (not totally out of the realm of possibilities - especially in light of how well those two have played this year - but a tough call none the less). When all was said and done, I won 243.60 - 162.19 to keep me solidly in 2nd place as well as winning my 3rd Viagra High Score award. Wee haw!

In my Paladin league I also won to keep my team #1 going into the playoffs with a 10-2 record so far.

On a side note - it's pretty F'd up that Sean Taylor (Redskins Safety) was killed. He was a good young star. RIP...

Pinmasters Bowling: Sadness in our league. We found out that
Gary Alan Hutcheson, the Pro Shop guy passed away after an accident over the weekend. He was a very nice guy and will be missed a great deal. It'll put a very somber mood over the lanes on Tuesday. Rest well Gary…

Well, it was a very quiet night at the lanes… We played the league President and Vice Presidents team. Started real well, winning the first game by a decent margin. But as it would be, they stormed back to kill us in game 2 and then we barely lost game 3, which had us end up losing 3-4. The only real consolation is the fact that our rivalries lost as well, so while we didn't gain any ground on them, we didn't lose any either. Only 3 weeks left for this half of the season. Right now we are in 7th place.

Professionally Speaking: Got my EC Tech Pros site starting to happen (http://www.ectechpros.com/) and slowly take shape.

Bitches and Gripes: Man am I tired of Christmas already! They started playing TV commercials and holiday music in stores about 3 weeks ago. In fact, we saw that the Grinch was on the weekend before Thanksgiving. What the hell is all that about? At what point do we decide it's too early. We have totally lost the meaning of Christmas, or any holiday for that matter...