Stuck in the middle with Favre

As a Vikings fan yesterday was one really long day. At first I just hoped it was all wrong and that the rumors were just not true. But, this is Brett Favre, of course they were true. Even though my TV was on ESPN all day following the saga I still wasn’t sure until I saw JD Booty run out to the practice field wearing #9. Shortly after that Favre was out there in a red #4 and it all became official. This signing has officially put me into a sort of limbo as a fan as I find myself both defending and attacking the signing.

On the one hand amongst my fellow Vikings faithful I choose to express distaste with the signing. The reasoning is simple, I don’t think Favre makes us that much better, if at all. I was beginning to hope for Rosenfels to achieve a caretaker like level with the offense and let the rest of our pieces get us to the playoffs. And it seemed like that was entirely possible. The defense remains a strength, Adrian Peterson is still the best RB in the league and the receiving corps is a bit improved with playmaker Percy Harvin now in the slot. So why sign Favre at all? He tanked down the stretch last season and threw the most INTs in the league. There is no reason to bring in a QB with a hero complex when all we need is a distributor.

Then there is the stance I take with rivals and outside observers that says this Viking team is still poised to make a run. I still express my reservations with the signing but I don’t think it makes us worse. We are still certainly a playoff team so I have to defend that belief with fans looking in that claim we wont win the division and that Favre actually makes us worse. I saw the Vikings as a 10-6 team with Sage, in my opinion Favre makes us no worse than that given the schedule. Maybe he gets us a win or two along the way. We aren’t NFC favorites or anything but should be the favorites in the North.

So, here I am excited for football and completely conflicted.

Life without roommates (shh, no one will read this either)

In May I finally moved into my own place for the first time. That put an end to 28 years of suffering the presence of others. Family, friends, fraternity brothers, random Haitians, there was even a few of those hit or miss Craigslist finds.

But, now I am finally free. I may never go back. It’s seriously great, I never get upset about other peoples crap being in the way or finding dirty dishes constantly filling the sink. Well, that’s not true, only now the dirty dishes are mine and I swear I will get to them tomorrow.

It’s just very peaceful, even if I haven’t spent a night alone in weeks. To anyone considering getting their own place, do it. The only drawback I could think of is that since the area I live in is quite expensive I had to sacrifice location a bit to afford a place of my own. However, I would not trade being over a mile from the metro and living alone to be closer and having a roommate.

Second first post

My first post ever I wrote in December 05. It was winter and all of my roommates were out of town for the holidays. At the time I was working from home and with everyone I knew basically out of town I was bored out of my mind. For about three weeks if I was not working out or going to the grocery store I was not leaving the house. It was my first real winter since I was 4 after all and I really did not like the cold. Still, it was rather pathetic to sit in my basement for days at a time watching TV and not changing my clothes. I’ve gotten better with the winter since then but I still don’t like the cold. Anyway, in all that boredom and lack of interaction with the outside world I decided to start writing a blog if only to give me something to do. From Dec. 05 until Jan 07 I wrote on and off, sometimes once or twice a week, and for a while I was writing everyday thanks to a very boring assignment at work. About three weeks ago now I shut down my old blog because someone found something I wrote, attributed it to them and took offense. It was not about them but all things being the same it signaled to me that I needed a fresh start and to cut some ties from the previous blog. So, here I am, writing again and refreshed. The truth is whether or not someone would have had a problem with what I wrote or not at that time I was not inspired to write anything. I feel like right now I may have things to offer and things to say. I may not, but here it is whether I am ready or not. My second first post.