the fallen

your smiling eyes have set

and left us with this seething stubborn sore,

lonely, sickly, and pale at day’s fete

in horizon’s void, vacantly star-eyed like a whore.

into the night we fall dying

our breath-- the permanent clouds in the sky

blotting tears of stars crying

as we lie side by side where we'll forever lie.

Unable to find a good picture for this one; could be because I don't know where it came from. Comment if you please.

:(

what to do, what to do...

1. get even?
2. ignore it.
3. get even and then some.

noted

4:57 PM - 5:27 PM EDT, which is 9:57PM - 10:27PM in the UK.

Nice to see you again. ;) How is your AOL Connection?

Enough is enough

Mrs. SAeS, do not visit this site anymore. I am maintaining a log of your visits for evidence.

espn sucks

watching monday night football. missed the beginning bc my mba team assignment ran to ~730. however, the announcing sucks. they had jamie foxx in the booth for 10-15 minutes talking about tom cruise through the plays. who cares?!? there is a game on, right? 10-6, baby, let the playoff march begin.

--brio

i am proud to be an unaffiliated american

yesterday was voting for primaries here. i was berated by a friend at lunch today for not voting; he went on to excoriate my lack of voter involvement. i responded that if i remember correctly, you can only vote in the primaries of the party you are affiliated with. oh yeah, i couldn't have voted anyway. of course, the retort was i still wouldn't have voted anyway. hmm... last time i checked, i served to protect your right to vote... i sound bitter, but i'm not, i just didn't understand why i was in the cross-hairs unless it was a vague attempt at humor.

on another note, i got a call from a good friend to let me know that one of my former best friends who i haven't spoken to since graduation just had his little brother die. the funeral was today. i'm going to call him tomorrow; we haven't spoken in 6 years.

keep thinking about that. no more writing for now.

--brio

Hail to the Redskins

0-4 in pre-season portends a good season, seriously, it does. ESPN ranked the Skins 14th in their power rankings putting the Eagles and the Cowboys above them. The Cowboys are the same damn team as last year, but with the Paris Hilton of football, T.O. Gimme a break, he's a good, but one receiver does not make a team. I'd take Santana Moss over him any day of the week. And the Eagles? I have no idea why they were ranked so high. Besides general lack of injury to key personnel (Portis, Springs will hopefully be okay), Brunell has to stay healthy.

Most valuable NFL franchises The five most valuable NFL franchises, according to a Forbes magazine survey:
1. Redskins, $1.423 billion
2. Patriots, $1.176 billion
3. Cowboys, $1.173 billion
4. Texans, $1.043 billion
5. Eagles, $1.024 billion

As with everything, the fact that we're #1 is nice, but the important thing is we beat the damn Cowboys.

Back on top in no time

Afghanistan's economy ranks near the bottom of the world's nation states. However, it is relatively easy to pay your taxes there. Anyway, the opium trade is booming again which will help boost GDP per capita. Money will pour into the country and raise the standard of living in the rural areas which are currently neglected. The downside, if you're a down-on-your-luck opium farmer, then you do have to worry about warlords taking your crops, taking your profits, or just taking your land away from you.

--brio

i am such a dork

because:
- i stayed up late last night because i became fascinated with big fat liar on disney channel.
- i got an rf adapter for my nintendo so my 4-5 month drought is over. i am now video-game accessible. also bought spartan (appears to be a simple blood and gore game like they used to be back in the 80's) and resident evil 4 (amazing graphics, appears to actually have a storyline).
- i continue to obsess that zelda will be released soon. please, please, please. i'm actually not a video-game junkie, even though it probably comes off that way after these two comments.
- i use big words in every day conversation. got an award for this in the army (not kidding, really did). i'm not trying to be ridiculous or come off as smart or anything, i just like having fun with the language (see, that is really dorky).

really cute. beansprout walked up to me in the middle of this post and said, "Daddy, you need to listen to me. I am beansprout, your daughter, [then she said something else, but I couldn't understand it]." It was funny.

--brio