Merp...

Good morning everyone...  So sometimes you make a football prediction with your team getting 7 points (let's take the..., Baltimore Ravens, for example), and then you still lose by TWENTY-THREE points because they lost the actual game by THIRTY points (let's take the..., Baltimore Ravens, for example)...  Final score:  Houston 43  Baltimore 13...  I mention this for several reasons...  A few nights ago when I was manning the "gatekeeper" position at my job (RobVegasPoker, my job is to keep people safe and to make sure that they follow the rules), I told Melanie and Alyssa (the football friends from last week's ramble, who I am now pretty sure are coming into Harper's/The Veranda on Sundays just to be in my blog) that I was taking the Packers to beat the Rams in Lucki Duck's (fellow poker blogger) new football contest (the Packers did win by the way, by ten points).  Melanie was pleased with this, and Alyssa WOULD NOT talk to me...  Of course she said that I should have picked the Texans, but she didn't say much else, other than, "I'm mad at you right now..."  Based on the scoring in Lucki Duck's new contest, I would have DOUBLED my Week 1 points (this contest just began, and I did not fare so well in his last one, so we won't talk about it, other than to say "thank you" to the New England Patriots...).  MINNESOTA beat the Arizona Cardinals yesterday...  Anyway, in honor of Alyssa's wisdom (???), she gets her word on the title line of the blog today.  Merp is a word that the cool kids are using (or maybe just Alyssa), and it means "ugghhh"...  For example, let's say you picked the Packers and not the Texans in your football contest, and SOMEONE says, "should have listened to me" - well, it is appropriate to use the word 'merp' as a response...  You were right Alyssa...  :)  As a Steelers fan, I appreciate the effort by the Texans, and my wounded team is now only 1 1/2 games behind the Ravens, and these blackbirds seem to have just as many players dropping as we do, so watch out...  In spite of this monumentally awful prediction, I am still sitting at 5-4 for the week, and I have the chance to have my first winning week in a while if the Lions/Bears total stays under 47 1/2 points...  A friend of mine living on the left coast had a great little status on her facebook this week...  It seems that she was out (I'm assuming in a waiting room setting), and she was sitting by a stranger who was wearing a t-shirt that read, "Just Do Me" - the best part is that this woman was trying to corral seven children at the time.  "Success in advertising" I said...  ;)