As of… NOW… I have 47 hours and 11 minutes to finish my Dead Pool. It’s really ready to go any time now, and I’ll likely submit it early tomorrow, to give me a day or so to work out any errors, namely of people that snuck their death under the radar. With some help, I think I’ve got a pretty decent list, some good candidates for solo shots, and even the non-solo old folks I have are good for 40-50 points each. There’s just a couple that I’m still on the fence about that would be good point totals, but I’m not quite sure about their “deadability”, as compared to some of the elderly folks.

One bright spot from the previously-thought-to-be-disappointing year that’s about to pass is that I’m currently sitting in 10th place with only four hits on the year. While I was originally getting a bit disillusioned about my skills at picking dead folk this year, I’m currently sitting in tenth place out of 144 players. Not only that, but I’m one good New Year’s Eve solo shot from cashing in! (C’mon Eunice Kennedy Shriver!!!)

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Earlier today, USA Network showed “Half Baked”. Somewhere in the middle (I assume many times) they had a commercial for “drugfree.org” or whatever. Certainly it was somewhat planned, right? Either way, the irony made me giggle.
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Also during some show or another today, an announcer plugged the show’s website as “www-dot-something-dot-com-backslash-somethingelse.

If I type in a true “backslash” and don’t get to their website, can I sue? This goes up there with the rest of my “minutiae pet peeves” like people who refer to “Eastern Standard Time” when referring to things going on in the summer. Uh, that would be daylight time, thankya.