Silflay Hraka

As kehaar mentioned, I am beside myself. Basically, it is similar to an out of body experience. But, it has to be true, I mean I saw it. I think…..this season is all kind of hazy and foggy now – but could the Deacs really be this good? I guess I should just get over it and accept the fact the Wake Forest University Demon Deacons (enrollment size 4200) are 10-2 and headed to the ACC Championship game to face Georgia Tech.

And the first onslaught of accolades have arrived:

Wake put a bunch on the All-ACC teams.
1st team:
Offense: OL Steve Vallos, a complete haus on the line – started all 46 games of his carerr.
C Steve Justice – an athletic center, who will get looks from the NFL.

Defense: LB: John Abatte, who I met and is smaller than I am. I am sure some of you have heard the heart-wrenching story of the death of his brother. Just a fantastic family, and the Wake community has embraced them.
S: Josh Gattis out of Durham, who did not get scholarship offers from NC State or UNC. Both programs fell in love with Gattis’ high school teammate AJ Davis…..the Heels and Pack might want a re-do on that one.
K: Sam Swank: made 4 kicks of 50+ yards this year. Also, named Honorable Mention as a punter. FSU took Gary Cismesia over Swank. Yeah – FSU might want a re-do as well.

2nd team:
Offense: QB Riley Skinner. Redshirt freshman, who was the third string qb when the fall practice season started. It looks like he will never sit on the bench again.

Honoroble Mention: S Patrick Ghee, 4 year starter that graduated in 3.5 years.
DE Jyles Tucker (pure speed at that position and has given Wake a much needed boost in the pass rush.

And just today:
Skinner is the Rookie of the Year
and if any doubt:
Grobe is the Coach of the Year

Still a lot to play for. But these kids deserve this. Especially after being picked to finish last in the ACC Atlantic Division. This was suppossed to be a solid year 6 maybe 7 wins. Next year was the year Grobe and his staff were building towards. But, who’s complaining?

(Hey, did I mention that the men’s soccer team is in the Final 4, and the young basketball team is off to a 5-0 start?!!??!?)

Scotty M’s voice floated downstairs last night an hour or two after he had been put to bed. Something was missing. Something important.

“Bankie? Bankie, where are you?”

Bankie was on the floor in front of me. I picked it up and made my way to the stairs. SW cooed over the innate preciousness of her three-year-old talking to his security blanket. Appropriate, certainly, but I had other plans. Standing at the base of the stairs, I called back in a high falsetto.

“Cowin! Cowin, it’s me, Bankie! Where are you, Cowin?”

Silence. Dead silence.

“Cowin ! Where are you Cowin? I miss you so much!”

…..”Is that you, Daddy?”

“No Cowin! It’s me, Bankie! Why did you go away, Cowin?”

Sharp intake of breath from above. Scotty M. bursts into hysterics and retreats back to his bed. SW and I proceed up the stairs to calm him down and restore Bankie to its proper place in life, but we have trouble stifling our laughter on the way.

I’m at home on my four-hour delivery window for my new Rooms To Go furniture and things are going haywire so I thought I’d blog it. Blogging things that go haywire always seems to be a good thing.

Problem number one: I’m waiting on Rooms To Go to deliver my furniture and they don’t have a phone number at which they can currently reach me. Absentmindedly, I gave them my home phone number and my work number rather than my cell. I always do this to potential marketers. I don’t want them calling my cell, so I give them my home phone instead. Using Vonage, I just have my home phone number forwarded to my cell anyway. It allows me just a little more screening than I would have if someone just called my cell.

My plan on moving to Atlanta was to get the $99 dollar, all-inclusive Comcast cable, internet and voip services and to cancel my Vonage account. I got a new number through Comcast and have been meaning to forward that to my cell number. Knowing that Rooms To Go doesn’t have my cell, it’s imperative that I do so. Otherwise they’ll come and go and I’ll have no way of knowing unless run down six flights of stairs every ten minutes. Problem number two is that the elevators in my building aren’t working but we’ll get to that in a minute.

Anyway, I go online to the Comcast Digital Voice Center in order to set up my call forwarding. The dashboard doesn’t seem to have any way for me to do this. After looking through the help menu, I find that I can do this through my handset. I don’t have a handset which is why I need to forward the number in the first place. I call Comcast in order to have them forward the number and they can’t do it either. I have to use my handset.

I tell them to cancel my Digital Voice service right then and there. I’ll be transferring my new number to Vonage. For one, Vonage is cheaper and gives me exactly the features and functionality that I need. Screw the $99 dollar a month “introductory rate” package. It’s not worth it. On top of that, the Comcast technician that came to set up my service didn’t even know how to set it up so I could use my own cable gateway in place of the Comcast modem. I had no desire to use their modem and no desire to have it junking up my home but the guy had no clue if I could even use my own modem. My experience with Comcast thus far is that they are a very expensive joke. If you have Vonage, stick with it. If you don’t, switch to it. They may be losing money like crazy but I’ve never had a single, solitary issue with their product or their service. If other cable providers are like Comcast, there is no comparison between the services.

Problem number 2: the elevators in my building are not currently working. I live on the sixth floor. If and when Rooms To Go shows up, I have no way of knowing and they have no way of getting my new entertainment center, night stands and lamps to my apartment short of carrying them up six flights of stairs. I am guessing they don’t want to do that.

I’m also stressed because I feel I should be at work right now rather than sitting at home waiting on deliveries. I already had to take four hours a few weeks ago to deal with the miserable Comcast guy. I’ve also had two experiences with the Best Buy delivery people, but they gave me a two hour window and called ahead of time and they deliver on Sunday so no problems there. Good on Best Buy.

Now, on top of it all, I have a headache. I need lunch and a few aspirin and I have to hope that Comcast’s Digital Voicemail notification email will be enough to let me know the RTG people are here. Elevators should be fixed by now.

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I know you all missed me.

Gotti Grandson Arrested on Drug Charges

Perhaps only temporarily, though.

DB corruption issues have lead to all the comments being lost, as well as denying us the ability to post for a week. I’ve had to turn commenting off and rebuild the entire site in order to get posting back. Now that that’s done, I’ll see if I can restore commenting–though I strongly suspect that all the historical comments are gone for good even if I can bring back the functionality.

Update: No luck. Comments are now on indefinite hiatus. If anyone knows an easy fix for the “Building date-based archive ‘Monthly20061101000000′ failed: Build error in template ‘Date-Based Archive’: Error in <MTEntries> tag: Error in <MTIfCommentsActive> tag:” error, drop us a note.

If this boycott comes off, how long will it take US Air to seize the obvious marketing opportunity?

US Airways: Now 100% Muslim free!