Will Brett Fall to the Madden Curse?

hmmmmm - something went terribly wrong last night in the Favre meeting - a cut and dried meeting and press conference did not go as planned. this is going to get interesting.
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Ever year since 2000 EA Sports comes out with that years version of Madden Football, the best Computer Simulation game on the market.

And every year in late January they decide who will be on the cover of the game box.

And almost every year something catastrophic happens to that years cover boy where somehow something messes everything up for the upcoming year.

2000 - Barry Sanders - retires one week before training camp.
2001 - Eddie George - Career year, but key bone head turnover leads to playoff loss.
2002 - Daunte Culpepper - season ending knee injury after sub par year
2003 - Marshal Faulk - Ankle injury - never again rushed for 1000 yards
2004 - Michael Vick - Broken leg . . and THEN it got bad LOL
2005 - Ray Lewis - 1st year ever to not get an interception
2006 - Donovan McNabb - Hernia injury 1st game
2007 - Shuan Alexander - broken foot in 2006, only rushed 716 yards
2008 - Brett Favre ??????????????????

Of course some of those are a little out there but something always happened.
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In other Packer news - does Aaron Rogers hold any kind of record? How about consecutive games as a #1 backup quarterback without ever starting (45).
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I was looking at the Beer Advocate and noticed they had rated some Madison stores on their ability to stock Craft/Micro Brewed beers. This whole Microbrew beer thing is rather unique and exciting. I'm reading a book called Radical Brewing which talks about the phenomenon of Microbrewing.

Beer USED to taste good but with WWII the big boys started to make weaker/lighter beer to save money. Thus - Miller and Bud and so forth started making their light colored swill for the masses. It's all there was so we got used to it.

Making your own beer was very hard as yeast and malt only came in train load sizes and Hops?? not to be found unless you grew your own. But a few people started to make beer that tasted GOOD - NOT in the normal style. And one by one others got in the act. Their beer was not the light pale tasteless junk Americans were being forced to drink. The more people tried their friends beer the more people started to wake up.

ANYWAY - back on topic, I was surprised to see Jennifer Street Market as rated A- for stocking craft beers. Also Steve's Liqueur, Riley's Wines Of The World and of course both Woodmans.

I tried a new beer last night. Flying Monkey Amber Ale.

I have drank . . .I've drunkin . . . I drinked? a fair number of beers in my life but always from a bottle or can. This is like drinking wine from a bottle or can. Gets the job done but you really don't "taste" the beer.

I had never considered "tasting" beer but now that I have discovered micro craft beers it's a whole new world. A world where beer is in a glass and I don't chug and swallow trying to stay away from a gag reflex.

I now have two favorite beers. Ale Asylum Mad Town Nut Brown and Flying Monkey Amber Ale.

DJ and I stopped at the Ale Asylum Brew Pub in Madison and talked to the Brewmaster. We both got some nice vibes from the place and I love Mad Town Nut Brown. I'm going to have to get the liqueur stores in Columbus to start stocking Ale Asylum.

Flying Monkey is from Kanses and is a light Ale that is really tasty without being aggressive.

Speaking of Flying Monkeys.

A few years ago a coworker of mine went to the zoo with her kid and stopped off at the office and gave toys to her fellow workers. I was given a flying monkey stuffed toy thingy. You put your fingers in little sockets and you stretch him like a sling shot and he would fly across the room. Upon landing he would make a jungle screaming sound.

So I took it home to see how my pets would like it. I knew Blake (Cardigan Corgi) would tear it apart with glee but what about the cats, they love chasing things.

So that night when both were awake I got it out of my backpack and both were curious. What was that thing I had with four legs - looks like some sort of new animal friend. Both were watching me and from the couch I inserted my fingers, drew it back and flew it across the living room where it hit the window with a SMACK and started screaming jungle noises and jerking about.

WELL! Milo, our 3 year old large, strong muscled outdoor tiger cat TRIPLES in size instantly and is totally freaked out. I swear he thinks I just through a tiny kitten against the window. For hours he is on edge and refuses to go near the window, hunkered down in attack mode all puffed out. Even when I show him what it was he is traumatized for the rest of the night.

Sierra the kitten is OK, sniffs it and is fine. But Milo jumps at every jerky movement in the house. Ice cubes fall into the tray in the refrig and he leaps for shelter. He refuses to go near the window for the duration of awake hours.

I guess he didn't like it.
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Here is your smokin Johnny Depp shot of the day!

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Garden.

I now have three Monarch Caterpillars crawling around and I THINK I saw some eggs from SOMETHING on the Milkweed. Not sure if they are butterfly eggs but I'll look again to see if they develop into what I have seen photos of.

Also lots of toad turds on leaves with little green toads sleeping in the daytime. And a new chipmunk hole.
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Work work work

talk to ya later
Rod