Category: Musings

A friend of mine just told me about the Movember Foundation and recruited me for his Movember team, “MN Moustache Madmen”. I’m not sure how well that title applies to me now, but within the next 2+ weeks, it will: I’ll be growing out my facial hair intentionally to try to raise some donations, which will go towards the fight against cancer of the butts and nuts (a.k.a., prostate and testicular cancer).

So here’s my page if you want to make a donation or at least see how my upper lip is faring against the extra weight. (I’ll be posting pics there and on Myspace.) Since I’m starting from scratch now, I still have time to decide what style of facial hair I want to grow. I’m avoiding the porn ‘stache like the Plague, but if anyone has other suggestions, I’m sure plenty of butts and nuts out there would appreciate it.

Just wanted to give everyone a heads-up on the new link at the bottom of the right column, “Site Meter”. I had a narcissistic urge to find out how popular I am (or at least how popular this blog is), so I’m using it as a web counter—in return, it’ll give me every statistic I could want: how many people visit the site, what time they visit, where they visit from, what they’re wearing when they visit… okay, maybe not every stat I could want, but close enough.

Fear not, faithful readers (all three of you as far as I know… but hopefully that’ll change). The service is free and may provide me with a little extra incentive (i.e., an occasional guilt trip) to write more often and satisfy your need for Shawn-created blog entries. Happy reading!

I didn’t watch the World Series this year, so while I know the Yankees won, I’m not sure if there was a repeat performance of this sequence:

“You just won the World Series, what are you going to do next?”

“I’m going to Disney World!”

I really hope people get paid to say that because it’d be just sad if part of an athlete’s dream would be to win a championship and then immediately jump on a plane so he could spend the next week at a commercially-overblown theme park. Personally, I think a more likely response would be something like this:

“I’m going home to have sex with my supermodel girlfriend!” or

“I’m gonna get drunk and plow my car into an embankment!” or

“I’m putting my steroids in the fridge so I can use them next season!”

Although now that I think about it, if you rent a car in Orlando and your hotel room at Disney has a bed and a refrigerator…

“I’m going to Disney World!”