Bears and my shower

It was a big Bears victory today against a divisional opponent, the Minnesota Vikings 48-41. Wow, what a game to be at. Kyle Orton should have been credited with five touchdown passes, but Marty Booker dropped one ball right in his hands in the endzone and another one that an NFL WR should catch just about every time and then Desmond Clark dropped one after getting hit just before the goal line, but fortunately the Bears fell on the fumble in the end zone for a touchdown anyway. It was that kind of game. The Vikings didn't have an official punt all game!! They tried once but the punter fumbled the ball and then had the kick blocked. All the way until the end, it seemed like the Vikings could win or tie, even though we had a 17 point lead in the fourth quarter. With 66 seconds left the Vikings had the ball on their 25, but didn't have any time outs left. After a sack, the Bears picked the ball off to effectively end the game. And the celebration began!!

BTW, I tried to go see Amy Freeze, the Fox News weather babe, but security was checking tickets so I couldn't get anywhere near her. Crap! Hi Amy!!


Here's the tailgating crew: The Sausage King in the chair, Benny Baseball (in orange) and OSU Fedor (an ex-Morningstar person). We took Fedor's car which is an SUV so we got a larger parking spot than I'm allowed with my Camry.









So the Bears are 4-3 and tied for first going into a bye week next week. While they could easily be 7-0 or 2-5, they are what they are. When the schedule came out back in April, I thought they would be, or could be, 5-2 at this point. Here's what I predicted:

At Indy Loss
At Carolina Win?? Make an argument either way
Tampa Win?? Make an argument either way
Philly Win
At Detroit Win
At Atlanta Win
Minnesota Loss
Bye (eke out a victory)

Somehow I accurately guessed the Philly win and the Detroit win, but that was it! Not very good! Here's what I had predicted for the rest of the year:


Detroit Win
Tennessee Win
At GB Win Though I wish this game was earlier in the season with Rodgers at QB.
At St. Louis Win
At Minn Loss yeah, they'll sweep us.
Jags Loss
Saints Loss
Packers Win otherwise the season would be lost!
At Texans Win for a playoff spot


I fear many of these will turn out differently as well.


This picture was drawn by some guy at The Full Shilling, where we went to watch the Atlanta game last week. I bought it from him for $10. The guy in the 54 jersey is "me". Eric and Erica are on the right. Benny Baseball is the other guy in orange. George is diving for the ball and JC is the ref. That is NOT an accurate representation of Erica's chest by the way. Ha!!





Now pictures from my bathroom! Here's the window and tile on the wall. The blue tape obviously comes off.

















Here's the shower stall. The tile and grout are done! Here you can see the terracotta floor tile combined with the off-white wall tiles.















Here's the shower stall with the built in ledge for shampoo bottles. It's getting closer to being completed. I looked it up and Manual Labor Mike started the "3 week" job July 15th. He was off by a bit.......like Gilligan's Island off.