Rooftops and Great Predictions

If you have been reading this for a while you will remember a post a month or two ago detailing how and why I have both satellite and cable TV at my house. Well both 2005 and the regular football season have come to an end so I decided it was time to get rid of the satellite TV. This requires me to ship the equipment back to the Dish Network (I should get paid to mention them) as I do not own the dish or the receiver. So as I mentioned before this will entail a winter roof top expedition to disassemble the dish that sits on the very peak of my cape style home..

Yesterday was the day of the expedition. Now if you know me you may be thinking that this is going to turn into a humorous story about how I and the dish came tumbling off the roof after slipping on the roof top ice. How I am now sporting a cast on my left arm (it is always the left side of my body for some reason) or possibly how H. sacrificed life and limb to catch me as I nearly fell to my death. Ahh but none of that came to be as H. and I successfully disassembled the dish with no loss of life or limb. Sorry sad blog reader there is no carnage to report today.

As a matter of fact there is not much to report unless you are interested that both H. and I have been fighting sinus infections for about 3 weeks. We both seem to be on the mend now but the infections have had a way of making you think you are better only to return again in a day or two.

There are some major changes coming at work with a possible change of plant ownership coming in the next several months. No word on how that will effect the employees or more importantly how it will effect me. I am looking around at what my other options might be so if you are looking for a Plant Engineer or Ops Manager to work at your power plant that is within a 45 minute commute from my house please leave a comment with your contact information. Now that would make a good post if that actually resulted in a job lead!

How about them Pats!! Do you really think either Denver or the Colts are looking forward to seeing these guys next week? They may not look as polished as they have in years past but they still know how to get the job done. There is no team that knows how to win in the post season as well as the Patriots. That is an NFL record 10 straight post season victories and Brady remains undefeated in the post season.

That reminds me of something important:

During the 2000-2001 football season Tom Brady filled in for Drew Bledsoe after Drew went down with a serious injury (punctured lung). Tom took a team that was strugling and put together an impressive win streak. After only a few victories with Brady at the helm, a good friend of mine and coworker wrote on the "white board" in our lunch room at work:

"Tom Brady is the next Joe Montana"

Now this may not seem that amazing because this comparison has been made many times since Brady now has three Superbowl rings and continues to lead the Pats to victory against all odds. But this was written after only a few of those victories, before any Superbowls, before anybody else was saying it. My friend was officially the first person to jump on the Brady band wagaon. He infact was driving.

The tragedy is that my friend never got to see how correct he was as we lost him to a tragic car accident in Febuary of 2003 after only the first Superbowl win. Actually I believe he does know how correct he was as I am sure he has been enjoying the Patriots Superbowl run from the "otherside". If he was with us today (and how I wish he was) he would be reminding us of how he saw it all before anyone else did, he called it and he even wrote it down. You don't have to remind me Bob, I remember!! I will never watch a Tom Brady victory without thinking of you and how you thought this 6th round draft pick from Michigan was going to bring great things to New England. You were so right!!

Go Pats!!