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Finally got around to paying some bills today.  It looks like Xcel Energy took into account that I over paid my last bill by…um, let’s see. $250?  So the only charges I seem to have to pay is just random fees for just having an account.  Let’s hope this is correct. I really love online bill pay, because if they didn’t have it I don’t know if I would ever find the motivation to buy a stamp.  With the internet, so many postal items are becoming obsolete.  In these days, I argue that the Post Office is only good for delivering packages…granted they don’t do it as well as UPS, but it is the only thing they are good for.  On the other hand, of course, getting a letter in the mail is something extra special.

Went to my brother’s engagenment party camp-out thing.  I was a bum most of the time.  I don’t know what my problem was, maybe it was the age difference or just the fact that I was missing homecoming.  I don’t feel bothered missing homecoming except I did miss some friends.  Pretty much everyone at the camp-out that night was either married or engaged or whatever, so naturally they talked about things that uninterested me. I was put off the next day when my brother refused to help me to take 30 seconds of his time to take a photograph for me for a school project.  I worried about my homework, and felt I wouldn’t get any of it done if I didn’t go back to Winona.  So I left early in the day so I could grab my tripod (I almost wrote iPod, hah).   It sort of bugged me on the ride back that they weren’t willing to help me when I needed it.  A push of a button was all that mattered.  I was frustrated until I got to hang out with my buddies.  The night turned out great.  Fell asleep watching Beetlejuice unfortunately.  I haven’t seen the movie in its entirety in so long.
The Pack are on tonight, hopefully it will be a good game.  I am contemplating driving to Rochester to buy my buddy Jake a shot after or during the game.  I will have to see how much energy I have later.

One focus I want to make my blog is probably sports. To me, sports is synonymous with the phrase “Football”. Okay, I’m only bullshitting. I have been getting into sports much more these past few years than I ever have. I wound up subscribing to Sports Illustrated all of a sudden. American football is an entertaining sport. I had a conversation with a random towney bar patron. It was during the time of the Euro Cup I was wearing my Germany team-soccer jersey when he shouted at me and told me the Netherlands would win it all. We got into the mechanics and entertainment between soccer and football. By George, he was right. Not that the Netherlands would win, but that American football is a far more interesting sport than soccer. He boiled it down to that fact that the strategy and play is predetermined before the ball is even snapped. Sure there is some strategy to soccer, but falls way short of the team-effort of an American football team. I would entertain this thought a bit longer, but I am sure some friends of mine would whole-heartedly disagree with me.

Right now I am looking forward to the NFL regular season. The Green Bay Packers are looking questionable, and not because Brett Favre isn’t under center. The defense is really in trouble. I had previously wrote in disgust that they tried “bribing” Favreback in retirement, but it turned out that things weren’t being handled that way. Speaking of Favre, I actually read an interesting quote on the front of USAToday, refering to Hilary Clinton.

“Sometimes dealing with the Clintons is like dealing with Brett Favre, They’re very good players and they’ve got a great record, but sometimes you’re not sure what they really want.” - Leon Panetta, Clinton’s former White House chief of staff

Funny.  I will have to make a post about politics later!