Adventure of A Jawa

It has finally stopped raining. Last night around 6pm it turned to a light sprinkle. I took the chance not knowing if it would stay that way and went jogging. By the time I was finished jogging it completely stopped. And to this point it has not rained. Although now it looks like it could start again. That is fine as long as it stops by tomorrow afternoon. Already got a bike ride in today.

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And on another topic. Up until now I did not mind the time difference (Plus 13 to Eastern US), but it is annoying now. With it being football season and 80% of the games being during the day Eastern Time it ends up being AM for me. Therefore, if I want to watch football I have to stay up all night. Not easy to do when you have to work the next day.

It is going to make it a long couple of months for me.

It’s been a while since I last posted. Not much to post about. I live a very un-exciting life.

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36 Movies/TV Shows watched this month. Knocked out a lot of movies I had in Queue to watch which helped to boost the numbers.

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It’s now July which means a Month and a half till football season. New England Patriots are looking very good this season. I can’t wait to watch them. Hope I can somehow get them over here. Need to look to see if NFL.com shows them like MLB.com does for baseball.

Boston Red Sox are doing well, but they still got a lot they can do to improve the second half of the season. Then make a solid push at the word series title.

This past week I learned a valuable lesson about the “Meal, Ready-to-Eat, or MRE (pronounced “M-R-E”)”.

80% of them taste horrible. The other 20% tasted ok the first two/three meals but then they started to taste the same. The meals that have meat; “Chicken/beef/etc…” don’t taste like meat at all. Not even close. I LOVE chicken in every way. You can ask my wife. But the chicken in the MRE’s… GROSS…

The only thing good in them are the snacks/drink mixes. I enjoyed many of those during the past week instead of the meals.

It’s a lesson for next time the base has an “exercise”. Make sure I have TONS of food for the week in my room.

For some reason the base decides that during an “exercise” all chow hall facilities are closed and everything but the bank n post office is off limits to those in the “exercise”. So pretty much you work for 12 hours and are confined to your room for 12 hours. That part is not bad, its food I have issues with… Man’s got to eat…

But that is all in the past and with any luck it’ll be 4 months or so before the next one.

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Kudos to my RED SOX. Trailing 6-2 going into the bottom of the 8^th inning; they scored 5 runs to take the lead and held on the BEAT the EVIL EMPIRE. 7-6

Let’s hope the next 18 games are as good as this one. 2 more this weekend in Boston then next weekend 3 in New York.

And here comes another attempt to BLOG….

I have yet to successfully achieve this goal in many years since I first purchased jawa-slave.com. It has gone through many attempts of it and many difference site looks. Maybe this is the time for it to happen? *ROFL* I have no faith in myself. I think the biggest challenge is I do not do much outside the normal work/Physical Training/ gaming to have much to say.

None the Less; I shall put forth a diligent effort…

As for a quick “Here I am” update…

I am now stationed in South Korea. Arrived here 6 April 2007 and my tour length is a year. After here I am currently scheduled for a follow-on to F.E. Warren AFB in WY.

We live in dorm’s here which are pleasant but not great. Thankfully we don’t have to share rooms, just the bathroom n shower with a suite mate.

Should get my internet hooked up this coming Wednesday which will make life a lot easier. Right now I am outside military hotel on base in a gazebo type setup and I can get wireless internet from the hotel.

We are Plus 13 hours ahead of Eastern Time which is weird and taking time to get use to. That basically blows for my sports watching. Most Red Sox games are 715 PM which is the follow day 815AM. At least MLB.com archives the games so I can watch them when I get home on the internet.

Well, that is about all for now; Till Next Time

Two links added to my link section. Now you can all see how bad I am at fantasy sports and how much time I waste on my XBOX 360.

My xbox 360 Gamer Profile

My Fantasy Sports Profile

There are two big football games this weekend for any Boston College Eagle and New England Patriot follower.
 

First off we have (16) Boston Coll. vs. (22) Wake Forest
 

As of when I type this 73% of College Pick’em users predict Boston Coll. will win the game.
 

Nice odds; not that that means anything when the pigskin flies.
 

Atlantic Coast Conference Standings

Atlantic                        Conf     All
Boston College (16)      3-1       7-1
Wake Forest (22)         3-1       7-1
Maryland                      3-1       6-2
Clemson (19)                4-2       7-2
North Carolina State     2-3       3-5
Florida State                 2-4       4-4
 

Our Remaining Schedule:

Sat, Nov 4 at (22) Wake Forest 7:00 pm
Sat, Nov 11 Duke 7:00 pm
Sat, Nov 18 Maryland TBA
Thu, Nov 23 at Miami (FL) 7:30 pm
 

If Boston College wants to represent the Atlantic division in the ACC championship game and have a chance at the automatic BCS bid; we have to beat the remaining four teams on the schedule since they are all conference games. WF and Maryland will hold the toughest test but each game will not be easy.
 

And how important will the last second lose to NC State turn out to be? If we run the table and finished 11-1 it will sting DEEP.    
If we held on to win and not let that miraculous play take place it could have been for a chance to play in the national championship game. OUCH…
 

And the other game… 
 

Indianapolis Colts (7-0-0, 1st AFC South)
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New England Patriots (6-1-0, 1st AFC East)
 

57% of Pro Pick’em users predict Indianapolis will win the game.
 

Arguably two of the best teams this year in the AFC and Arguably the two best QB’s of this generation and probably who has ever played.  Go to any sports site: espn.com, sportsillustrated.cnn.com, sports.yahoo.com and you can see the hype and fanfare. 
 

From my expert opinion it will come to two things. 
 

A. Ball control for the Patriots: We know the Colt’s offense can score, but if their offense is not on the field they can’t. If we can grind the game out with our two headed monster rushing attack and control the clock we will win.
B. Payton Manning vs. Patriots Defense: We know it’s unlikely the patriots can have the ball for the entire 60 minutes of the game, so when “Choke Artist Payton” has the ball, can the Patriots defense stop him enough. 
 

If the Patriots can pull off those two points; the Patriots will win without a doubt.
If they can’t; it’ll come down to one of two options: 
Who has the ball last
Which Defense makes the timely stop

As Predicted it was a good weekend of football. Three for Three in picks. *Albeit Barely*

Fight Irish have some luck on their side. In a game they should have lost they pulled out a remarkable win. They scored with 62 seconds left to pull out the 20-17 win. Sometimes things go your way and other times they go against you.

BC Eagles took it to Florida St. for three quarters, and then held on for the win. BC seems to be playing close to the fire and was lucky this time not to get burned. Florida ST had a chance to win it at the end but came up short. NC State had the same chance, although more of a reach, yet they pulled it out and gave BC it’s only blemish. BC needs to play the full 4 quarters and finish the games.New England dominated Buffalo 28-6.