930 Survival Football Pool - 2008

Originally posted by vansmack:
Now that everyone's been paid (seriously though, sparx, it's time to get a paypal account - you're the only check I've written since March), I recently (re)discovered that my winnings were in my paypal account. It's like an early Christmas with Monopoly money! Here's what I've purchased off ebay so far this week with my winnings:

(1) A t-shirt that I won't unveil on the masses until football Sunday. ($11)

(2) A 2GB RAM chip for my Dell Mini 9 ($22)

(3) A Wine Aerator ($25)

(4) An external DVD/CD-RW drive ($30)

(5) Replacement Stylus for smackette's Treo - I was wrongly accused of losing it, but hey ($6)

(6) Wireless Strat for Rock Band ($30)

my share of the $100-pool winnings was spent on - what else - concert tickets.

Originally posted by vansmack:
Here's what I've purchased off ebay so far this week with my winnings:

(3) A Wine Aerator ($25)

a wine aerator. . .why not just buy a decanter, or even better, plan ahead. :)

Well, you know better than anyone on this board, that I own a decanter. But plan ahead? Please. That's what the High Life is for.

If I only use it for the first glass while I decant the rest, it's totally worth it. You on the other hand, can wait for your first glass Mr. buy a decanter.

Originally posted by vansmack:
Well, you know better than anyone on this board, that I own a decanter. But plan ahead? Please. That's what the High Life is for.

If I only use it for the first glass while I decant the rest, it's totally worth it. You on the other hand, can wait for your first glass Mr. buy a decanter.

went to trefethen whilst you were on your pilgrimage, and they poured one glass of their 01 Cab through an aerator and another glass without- while the aerator certainly opened up the wine on the nose, it seemed to have lost a bit of the body and structure, especially through the finish. the unaerated one still remained closed on the nose, even with a vigorous amount of swirling, but did maintain a good bit more of the structure. of course, all of this could have been more a function of the wine itself (it was a rather cold day, so that may have played a role in it as well), rather than the technology being used. for the same price as their 01 Cab, a better use would be to go to Clos du Val and purchase one of their library Cabs.

i can't believe i just wrote all of that. . .

Originally posted by vansmack:
Now that everyone's been paid (seriously though, sparx, it's time to get a paypal account - you're the only check I've written since March),

Sorry to make you write letters and numbers. The horror! I have no desire to use paypal.

Thanks though for going the extra mile to send my check, I finally got it this past Friday.

I spent it on plywood. My 12 yr. old St. Bernard/German Shepherd mix Maddie loves her new ramp. Those concrete steps were gettin to her.

I have to add that when smackette saw all the packages start arriving from the Monopoly Money fire sale, she got in on the action.

It cost me a case of Cafe Du Monde, Regular blend.

Next time I ship everything to the office.

Bump.

Of course….

i was wondering when this was going to start, was thinking about it this weekend.

please keep us informed, commish.