Seanitude Version 2.0 This is the personal web outlet for Sean McDonald. Now serving 25% more Auburn, Bama and Ole Miss hatred.
Monday, June 30, 2003
12:14 AM
Thought I'd add some appropriate music for the fun sitting off the Louisiana coast right now.
Work's been very busy this week (I worked at least 4 12 hour days including Saturday) but that's because I got very loaded down. Bigger load than I think my bosses knew I had (they gave me more to do this month than they said I should be trying to average right now. Without putting the numbers out publically)
Anyway, I've gotten out from this pile and have been told that it's OK to tell them no on accepting projects, so I might take that advice in the future.
On the bright side, my schedule lightens up now so I can go to CKI Convention in Indy. Should be interesting. Might even get to see Ant if we get to go through Nashville.
I'm hoping that tomorrow morning this thing has gotten a little stronger, I call into work and they tell me to stay home. That would be nice.
BTW, I'm using the new blogger now, its very cool. I can preview coding changes before putting them out there for everyone to see, a very nice improvement. The interface seems to load faster too, which is cool with me.
If this thing comes through and I stay home, I will post hurricane updates on here tomorrow.
1 Am Eastern (mdnight central) on July 4th. Comedy Central is showing South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut. UNCENSORED! We will be hearing "Uncle Fucker" on basic cable TV. Never thought I'd see the day. "That's U-N-C-L-E FUCK YOU UNCLE FUCKAAAAAAAAAAA"
12:38 AM
LSU has released its 2005 and 2006 football schedules
2005
Date Opponent (TV) Site Time Result
09/03/05 TBA TBA -- If this isn't playing Tulane in New Orleans, this should be a home game since LSU needs 7 home games a year to operate the athletic department in black. I think this is TBA b/c we're supposed to face Tulane in 2005 and the location is still being worked on. Just do what they did for baseball and have it in the Superdome and treat it as a neutral site financially. Let Tulane get the "home" game but don't have Tulane getting money of of mostly LSU fans (who would be in at least 50,000 of the seats). A 50/50 split is more than fair (simple math 50% of the 75,000 there is more than 100% of the 25,000 max normally there and more than Tulane would get from playing at LSU). If the egos can't work it out, look for either LaTech or UL-You Pick Em in Baton Rouge
09/10/05 North Texas Baton Rouge, La. TBA -- The first bowl team in years to have a losing record! We destroyed them in 1999 if that tells you anything. Maybe playing in the Sunbelt has made this program tougher.
09/24/05 Tennessee Baton Rouge, La. TBA -- Finally a good game (Note: The first game is not yet announced, this is not meant to be a knock on the fine and historic program at Tulane)
10/01/05 Mississippi St. Starkville, Miss. TBA -- Mooooooooooo
10/08/05 Vanderbilt Nashville, Tenn. TBA -- Maybe I'll go visit Ant if he's still there
10/15/05 Florida Baton Rouge, La. TBA -- Zook should be fired by the time this comes around so I'm not making a prediction
10/22/05 Auburn Baton Rouge, La. TBA -- SEC West Championship game. Glad its in BR and not in Brusly with a 60,000 seat stadium
11/05/05 Arkansas St. Baton Rouge, La. TBA -- Its Homecoming
11/12/05 Alabama Tuscaloosa, Ala. TBA -- IF they're not given the death penalty before then
11/19/05 Ole Miss Oxford, Miss. TBA -- I just hope that the OM admistration removes its head from whatever left wing moron's head its up and gets Col. Reb back on the field for this.
11/26/05 Arkansas Baton Rouge, La. TBA -- Is our contract with CBS making this Friday at 1:30 over yet? This is the worst game b/c its always on a weekday afternoon and college football doesn't belong on Fridays!
2006
Date Opponent (TV) Site Time Result
09/02/06 UL-Lafayette Baton Rouge, La. TBA -- An annual welfare check to one of the Louisiana schools that shouldn't be in Div I-A (and no I don't include Tulane in that!)
09/09/06 Arizona Baton Rouge, La. TBA -- Return game from this year's game in Tuscon. Finally a quality OOC opponent (besides VaTech in 2004)
09/16/06 Northern Illinois Baton Rouge, La. TBA -- Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, probably homecoming
09/30/06 Mississippi St. Baton Rouge, La. TBA -- I hope Curley Hallman, Joe Lee Dunn, and Jackie Cherill are still there
10/07/06 Florida Gainesville, Fla. TBA -- Always been a fun game I've been told, might try to go to this one
10/14/06 Kentucky Baton Rouge, La. TBA -- Hopefully we won;t need a miracle this time
10/21/06 Auburn Auburn, Ala. TBA -- I'm never going back to the shittiest little town on the plains again (an no not just because we lost there last year)
11/04/06 Tennessee Knoxville, Tenn. TBA -- Another one I might try to go to.
11/11/06 Alabama Baton Rouge, La. TBA -- See 2005
11/18/06 Ole Miss Baton Rouge, La. TBA -- If Col Reb isn't on the sideline, we're feeding whatever Ole Miss has out there to Mike.
11/25/06 Arkansas Fayetteville or Little Rock, A TBA -- It'll be Little Rock unfortunately. Arkansas has a pretty neat stadium in Fayetteville (courtesy of everyone that's ever shopped at Walmart) I'd like to see.
There I talked about football without inciting anything, I think. 2006 looks to be a year I'm going to try to make some road games. Just hope I still have the income then. Also looks interesting because instead of having an OOC game in October/November like we normally do, all three are up front followed by 8 straight SEC games. However, i do like that its a 4-4-3 (open dates between the numbers) schedule. That is much better than recent years (and the 2-5-4 in 2005). Spaces out the rests more and allows more preparation for the big SEC games. If it weren't for some tough road games in 2006 (Florida, and Auburn and Tennessee back to back on the road) I'd probably be predicting an SEC Championship this far out.
In other news, download Wierd Al's "Couch Potato" and "Angry White Boy Polka". They are off his new CD and are both hilarious. That is all
Sunday, June 15, 2003
11:21 PM
So Justin decided to be stupid and say that its embarassing that LSU got eliminated from the College World Series.
Its so embarassing to be one of the top 8 teams in the country.
Its so embarassing to have gone further without our deceased senior 3rd baseman and 5 players injured all year (including 3 pitchers) than we ever should have.
Its so embarassing to have made it to Omaha with 7 starters being freshmen and sophomores.
I wish that this team had not been able to host a regional, had to travel to Houson, and gotten eliminated there in the regional round so that LSU wouldn't be so embarassed by this team in Omaha.
Justin I will say the same thing to you we say to USL and Tulane fans: sit down, shut up, and don't talk shit about baseball until you have five rings!
And there's no bullshit excuse. Smoke in his infinite wisdom started a guy that is 0-4 against USC lifetime and is known for shitty first innings and it happened again. This weekend, the same problems we've had all year came back. Inability to get the timely hit (Friday) and slow starting pitching (today). They just caught this team back to back for once and not spaced out to where one bad game could be recoverred from as it had in the past (i.e., last weekend)
In other LSU news, Pat Henry brought home LSU's 25th Track and Field National Championship with the Women winning this year and the men coming in forth. 25. That's all your toes, fingers, and teeth for you Rebel fans :-)
Thursday, June 12, 2003
11:43 PM
Look what I just found, on a Tulane message board, believe it or not.
[Disclaimer, I did not create this. I had nothing to do with it. It was brought to my attention by a Tulane fan. Don't blame me.]
1:18 AM
Back to the old music for a few days while I try to fix some stuff here (faster downloads).
A few million people got to see an LSU Superregional win today on ESPN complete with very loud "Wally" and "Omaha" chants at the end.
That's how you shore up recruiting for the next few years.
WWL's headline says it best about today's win. "Back Where They Belong"
12:38 AM
Well a fun e-mail came over the LaMissTenn reflector tonight from Southeastern. I've decided that my opinions belong more here than they do back on the reflector.
I would like to take this opportunity before getting off the listserv to express my thanks to everyone who participated in helping the schools that needed the help most, such as my homeschool Southeastern. We busted our own butts for a long time to get Circle K up and running. Every school busts ass to get their clubs up and running each year.
We asked for outside participation from all schools and received none. That's funny we never got word of anything since the leukemia walk e-mails in AUGUST and we're only 45 minutes away from Hammond. If this is complaining about the walk, it was a SUNDAY NIGHT event. Believe it or not LSU students DO have homework and actually do it.
I am extremely disappointed that an organization that prides itself on serving others couldn't even show support or try to help a group of peers who shared the same interests as yourselves. And I'm disappointed that SLU forgets that CKI also prides itself on fellowship and never reached out to anyone. Was SLU even at Tioga? If they were no one knows because they didn't talk to anyone.
Our school is better for not having a Circle K club if that is the kind of organization it truly is. We were excited and ready to recruit, but we were only three students and an amazing teacher with lives of our own and little time or understanding of the organizations rules and regulations. With the exception of one person, so was Tulane a year ago. And believe it or not, everyone one else has lives of their own too
We asked for help and instead received criticism and belittling from people with inferior leadership skills and an amazing ability to pass judgement. Once again, who did you ask? Ryan? I hardly believe all he did was criticize and belittle you. Did you talk to any other "leaders"?
But I ask, how many of you experienced the situation we faced? The situation where you had to build the club from the ground up in a school where most people commute and the rest have decided that their time will be spent in sororities and fraternities. Lets see, Loyola about 4 years ago, UT-Martin, NSU, ULL when it restarted a few years back. It can be done.
How many of you struggled with trying to hold two meetings a week so that ALL interested parties could participate? Maybe on the flip side, 8 meetings a month was excessive for a club trying to form. But that must be our fault for not realizing it for you because we didn't have the clairvoyance to realize what you were doing on our own.
So how unfair is it of you to pass judgement and say we didn't do enough. It felt like your goal was for us to fail, and in that -you win. Once again who is "you"? With no definition, you accuse over 200 members in a 3 state area of passing judgement and wishing you to fail when about 95% of them didn't even know you existed because your club never talked to anyone!
We have found organizations who are dedicated to really serving others. Organizations where when you ask for help and participation you receive it. I suggest that this organization tries to do the same otherwise you will, in the end, only lose everything you seem to think you are "working" for. So you've started helping to teach a kindergarten? Here's a little tip from the real world that I've picked up in my 3 weeks in it. You don't always get the help you need. Help yourself. If people see you helping yourself and still needing more help they will come to your aide. But if you don't let anyone know what you are doing and where you are struggling, everyone will assume everything is OK.
I am a firm believer for speaking out for the underdog and standing up for what is right. Well where was the speaking out for the past TEN MONTHS???
I hope that things in this organization change and I hope that one day serving others doesn't mean ostracizing peers who want to become a part of your organization. I felt more like an outcast than a part of the in-crowd. WHEN? WHERE? If you go to an event and stand in the corner, you're going to stay standing in the corner. Everyone's been the new kid at sometime in their lives and most of us learn to deal with it. At the very least, we learn not to bitch about no one talking to us if its our own fault.
What a high school mentality this organization has- to be more like a clique, than a group of students dedicated to service. Names, places, times. Your vagueness detracts from your arguements and makes this sound like you need a WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAmbulance more than anything.
Good luck in the future, I hope your schools clubs continue to grow. As for Southeastern's it has disolved. Well its a great shame that a club that has given TWO INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENTS can't get its head out of its own ass.
This was quite interesting. The entire e-mail was ripping into an entire district that Lynsi knew nothing about. After not sending out one e-mail to the reflector since last August, she now decides its time to rip into everyone. Why such a long silence followed by such rage? Where are all the supposed calls for help? I just checked the LMT reflector and there are no e-mails from anyone from SLU. Almost everything is from LSU, NSU, or the New Orleans schools. You'd think with all that e-mail she was getting from school near her (LSU and New Orleans), she or someone from her club could have hit Reply once.
This wasn't my best week. I didn;t bill out as much as I could have, but that's because of several problems. First off, we're having network problems that are making my job very horrible (I'm the only one on the new server so I'm the only one with problems). Also, I've been going out of my way to scan stuff and then copy and pasting stuff into my reports that I didn;t need to. No one told me this until they were wondering why my files were so big (its because I have about 30 megs of images in them that I could have just put in as photocopies). That was costing me a good few hours on every appraisal. Also I wasn't told that one of my reports was due on the 1st until the 3rd.This is one we thought wasn't due until the 10th, so it wouldn't be a problem if I took that week off to move. Oops.
Anyway, next week is looking better, we got the network working a little better today and I've got a better sense of what is due and when. I only finished one report this week, but I have one that should be done by midday Monday (if not Sunday should LSU win the superregional in 2 games) and a few real simple appraisals sitting on my desk. I might be able to finish 3 or maybe even 4 appraisals next week. I won't get into what they are, but they are very similar to some other ones I've worked on and as I've been told, repetition = money in this business.
Anyway cable and internet get hooked up tomorrow. Finally. I need my nightly Daily Show and Saturday Night Live to give me laughter at the end of the day. the only bad part of the timing is that I don't think I'll get to see LSU baseball play on ESPN since they play at 11:30 tomorrow and cable comes between 2 and 4. (Yes I am predicting that there won't be a Sunday game on the Deuce!)
6:11 PM
A friend from way back in the middle school days sent this to me and I filled it out and sent it to everyone she sent it to because I saw some familiar names. Anyway, here's one of everyone's favorite forwards:
Questions:
1. Last Movie you saw in the theater:
X-2
2. Favorite Board Game:
Monopoly
3. Favorite magazine:
Stuff and the Baton Rouge Business Report (just kissing up in case this ever gets to my boss)
4.What book are you reading now:
I've kinda been out of reading with the move, but I think I was last trying to read Primary Colors.
5. Favorite smells:
Cigar smoke after LSU beats Auburn
9. What's the first thing you think of when you wake up in the morning?
I hope I didn't oversleep
10. Favorite Fast Food Place:
McDonald's. That place has an awesome name.
11. Future child's name:
I am no where near thinking about that
12. What is most important in life?
God, Family and Friends
13. Finish the statement, "If I had lots of money I would...":
go to Australia, buy some waterfront property, buy a luxury suite in Tiger Stadium
14. Personal (inspirational) quote.
"I'll take your bet, you're gonna regret cause I'm the best there's ever been"
Charlie Daniels, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"
15. Do you sleep with a stuffed animal?
Not since I was a little kid
16. Storms make me:
Check the radar, pull out a hurricane tracking map if applicable.
17. What was your first car
1991 Chevy Lumina
18. Favorite alcoholic drinks:
Screwdriver, Rum and Coke, Figleig Vodka, Abita Beer
19. Finish the statement "If I had more time...":
I'd get involved with Habitat for Humanity full time, go to nightschool for a graduate degree
20. Do you eat the stems of broccoli?
Yes
21. If you could dye your hair any color, what would you choose?
I wouldn't. I like my black hair.
22. Half empty or half full:
Depends on what's in the glass
23. How many different cities/towns have you lived in?
Harahan (less than a year), Metairie (3-4 years), Kenner(18 years), and Baton Rouge(5 years overlapping with Kenner and now completely in BR)
24. Favorite place to relax:
Bed or anywhere near water at night
25. Favorite sports to watch:
Football (any), Basketball and Baseball (College only), Rugby
26. Say one nice thing about the person who sent this:
Only one? Chrissy's been a very sweet person as long as I've known her
27. What's under your bed?
At most a shoe (I just put the bed there a week ago and haven't been shoving stuff under it yet)
28. Toilet paper over or under?
Under, I think....
29. Of the people you've e-mailed this to, who's the most likely to respond?
Considering most of the people on here (that I actually know) I haven't seen in years I will choose at random and say Dana
30. Least likely:
Same as above and I'll choose Karla
31. When is your birthday? (mm/dd/yr)
10/20/80
32. What is your dream vehicle?
The Millennium Falcon or if I can't get that a convertible will do.
10:12 PM
Well I'm back earlier than expected. Now that my phone is back up (after a weekend with no way to call anyone to help me move) I decided that I might as well screw AOL for a week while I wait for my cable to get reconnected. So I registered TGRB8T (sound it out) as an AOL account to have free internet for a week.
Anyway, good and bad things while I was gone:
Good: LSU gets to do its annual Regional Romp after yet another Regional tournament win.
Bad: LSU doesn't get to be the one to send Tulane to Division III hell for good.
Good: Bama goes 2 and out in their regional.
Bad: Southern doesn't win its regional.
Onto non-baseball:
Bad: Phone goes out Friday, stays out till Monday morning.
Good: I get silence when I'm resting after the move.
Good: I get my first paycheck. After 2 weeks I've been paid what I made in about 2 1/2 months at LSU.
Bad: After the week off, I've got a nice pile of stuff to do at work including one appraisal that needs to be delivered by Friday (i.e. I need to finish by Thursday)
Bad: "Classy" Freddie Blassie died earlier today. Its a sad day for all of us Pencil-Necked Geeks.
Good: Nick, Eddie, Monique, and Dan helping me through the move.
Anyway, 36 hour blood drive is next week. If anyone needs a place to stay, my apartment is open. But I won't be able to stay up and party or anything I need to work Friday and possibly Saturday. But I have lots of space (especially since I'm still a little thin on furniture) if people want to stay over. Just bring sleeping bags unless you're planning on joining me in my nice big bed from home (and I'll let you readers guess which 50% of the population is welcome :-) )
"If we must take this war into their homes and burn them to the ground, we will do so."
-Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
President, Louisiana State University
