Tuesday thoughts

A couple of things on my mind this morning...

Michael Vick

So news came out yesterday that Vick is likely going to plead guilty to some lesser charge so that he can serve less jail time and hopefully salvage his NFL career. 

First thing - if he is allowed to continue playing in the NFL after this, I will lose a tremendous amount of respect for the league.  If he wants to play da foozball after all of this, he should have to go to Canada to do it.  Nuff said.

Second - I really am getting fed up with this plea bargain nonsense.  From what we know, Vick is the big dog (no pun intended) in this dogfighting, gambling investigation.  The other plea bargains have been so the prosecution can have more evidence against Vick.  SO WHY DOES HE GET A PLEA BARGAIN??!!!  Why do they charge people with a serious crime only to lessen it if the person pleads guilty so much??  I really don't get it.  Is this JUSTICE??

 

Gary is RIGHT

Over the past year or so, I've developed a bit of an addiction to coffee.  As in I get headaches if I don't drink coffee in the morning.  I joked with Gary recently that if I quit drinking coffee, I'd probably have to start smoking to cope.  :)

Anyway, a couple of years ago, Gary posted an entry on his blog about how much he liked to drink coffee and how awesome Peets coffee was.  Since I discovered my coffee addiction, I've been going to places like Starbucks fairly regularly.  I heard some commercials on the radio about an online coffee store, which made me think of Gary's blog post.  The first thing I did was feel pretty darn good about myself for remembering a blog post from two years ago (which I had to go out and find this morning).  Apparently my memory isn't fading as fast as my hair.  The second thing I did was start to research some places to order coffee online.

So I IM'd Gary to ask him if he still ordered coffee online.  His first question was, "Did you get a press pot".  (After doing a wikipedia search for "Press Pot" :)) I said "no"and that I was just looking into it.  He said he would order me some coffee when he placed his next order, but that I should get a press pot.  So I did.  Went to the grocery store later and ground up some coffee.  Tried the press pot.  Pretty darn good stuff!

Yesterday, Gary brought me the bag of Peet's coffee that he ordered for me.  Made a pot this morning.  I just finished drinking it.  Gary, YOU WERE RIGHT!!  Man, that was an awesome cup of Joe.  Heck, I think I'll call it a cup of Joseph because coffee that good needs to be called by it's proper name!  Thanks man.  You da too!

(Now if only I can get him to come around on the whole ORM and inline query thing.  Inside joke.  I won't bore you with the details.)