Stop blaming Rodgers

It seems that since FOX came out with a stat a few weeks ago about how long it takes to get sacked it's become popular to blame Rodgers for taking too long. All of a sudden you see five guys chasing Rodgers out of the pocket, he runs and get's sacked after 4.5 seconds and people all yell RODGERS!!!!

Never mind the fact that with a three man rush all three are getting through seemingly untouched.

I feel that while this stat that FOX came up with is interesting, it's wrong. I was watching other games and looking at how much time quarterbacks with a real front line have and they were taking 4 and 5 seconds regularly. There was no auto-throw at 3.1 seconds. And when they had pressure it was from one guy, not the entire defensive front line.

I believe Rodgers is being pretty darn politically correct when he takes the blame for the Special Teams being totally inept and blaming himself for the defense having problems (do the Packers still have Barnett and Kampman?).

Yesterdays loss falls 100% on the 30th ranked Special Teams in my view.

BTW - Packers are 1 point favorites over Dallas next week.
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For some reason last Wednesday I received a ton of hits from either Google Images or a place called The Daileyhaha. I typically have about 300 readers a day now but had 1400 from all different ISP's on Wednesday.

I say this because as I was trying to figure out if I was having a SPAM attack (does not seem so) and I saw I was getting a few random hits from BING. One odd actual "search" question was:

Why are cows mooing loud.

I hope he found out. The blog, I fear was no help at all. Doing a little research cows moo at about 87 decibels but it depends on their age. I put that question in and am not sure how they found PEC.
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My Sunday Adventure.

In my Sunday adventure I went to church. Now this is probably no a big adventure to most of you but for me it was. I have some church in my past. My dad was a president of a church in Fort Atkinson and a very good friend of my parents was, who was a Reverend was fired from the Methodist Church for preaching PEACE during Nam. So since this happened during some sort of stage in my life the whole church thing soured on me. Oh, I'm spiritual but my personal belief is that you can still be a good human without having to going to church.

But Sunday, Caydence, Josh and Jenny's little girl, was being baptized so I was going to be churchafide. Never having observed a baptism before it was all new to me.

The star for the show was Caydence and all gathered around Josh the proud papa and Jenny (far left).

Of course Caydence was fascinated by the ceiling fans (she loves the one in our living room).



All was going smoothly with singing and prayers when all of a sudden out of the blew the Pastor** breaks out into song. I felt I was in "Church Musical" or something for a second. Do all Pastors sing? IS this something She had a wonderful voice

** Pastor is derived from the Latin word pastor which means shepherd. Lots on interesting things about Pastors and their profession. It seems there are a lot of x-pastors. It also seems "Pastor" is just a job title.

ANYWAY - the big time came and Caydie was being a very good girl. Here is the photo with the God Parents, Left Hand Louie (also know as Terry to normal people and he's actually not left handed at all) and Krisx (also know as Kris).

And the actual deal.

After this came the part that disturbed me for a few moments. The Pastor took Caydence and started walking down the aisle and everyone is ooooing and ahhing and, well, I figured I would never see her again as she was being whisked away to some secret religious organization to learn to be a ninja or something and she would come back in 18 years and say "Hello Grandfather I have missed you deeply" just before she kills some assassin who was behind me and was just about to kill me.

But I was wrong.

So then we went to J and J's house to celebrate and watch the Packers Special Teams SUCK!

But, I won't get into THAT! (my system had Tampa Bay covering the spread).

But again - I shall not mention that that shall not be mentioned. I actually mentioned this above as I wrote most of this last night when I was feeling sad.
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On to happier things.

I took this image when in Lake Tahoe. I'm thinking of making it into some big long canvas thingie.

OH!! - I'm going to have a "booth" at the COLUMBUS ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB VENDOR and CRAFT FAIR (also known as the CABCVCF) November 21st. I'll have more on this as I relearn the facts. Y'all come to see me ya hear?

My Saturday adventure.

My little wine tasting and art show Saturday was excellent. People seemed to appreciate my work and oddly many people said I was way to inexpensive (they also did not buy anything so . . . ). Well, one woman was sort of drunk or slow and I'm not sure she ever saw my art but did like the wine.

My feeling is that art should not be only for people that can afford it . . wait, that did not come out right!

I remember seeing a painting at a booth at East Town. I fell in love with it. this was in my beater car and broke all the time stage. But this painting called to me.

I purchased it for $140 (25 years ago, $276 in today's money) and man, that purchase REALLY hurt my financials. I think because of this I have problems charging the HUGE prices galleries charge. Sure, I could maybe make a lot more money but at the cost of shutting people out. Regular people who can not afford art deserve to have it also. Times are tough, perhaps having something you really like on your wall will cheer you up.

ANYWAY - I'm just trying to justify low prices. NOW - if I find a gallery in Door County that will show my stuff, that's a different story. Door County is my 2010 project. I've gone to Door every year of my life and know the place pretty well. Oh, it's on baby!! Door County is in my sights.

North Lake Tahoe
(should enlarge nicely)

BTW - if you click on the image and it's still small, right click on view Image and it will enlarge.

I envision this as a 24x6 image or 36x9 (6x1.5 would be silly), I don't know, I'm just making things to see what people like and don't like. I've been surprised at how many people are commenting on a Yellow Swallowtail Butterfly image.

Have a very nice Monday!

Rod