FC Dirtbunny Announces Reorganization for 2011-12 Season

The owners of FCDB (that would be Dirtbunny) have been on a long management retreat to contemplate the future of the squadra.  Frankly, the team roster doesn't get my heart pumping the way it used to.  Making lifetime acquisitions seemed like a good idea at the time, but certain players have done certain things that make them undeserving of the honor.  For others, well, it's just time to part as friends and move on.

Therefore, effectively immediately, FCDB players will now be organized into three groups.  There will be the active players, who are still around and still more or less as beloved as they were when they were called up.  There will be Dirtbunnies Emeritus, all of whom leave the club with honor and are free to publicly refer to themselves as Dirtbunnies.  And then there is the BadDog group, all of whom are being punished for some rime or another.  A few of the BadDogs can harbor some plausible hope for reinstatement if they make necessary changes and atone for their crimes.  Others are, I believe too far gone to ever come back.

EARTHQUAKE!!!!!

We had a 5.9 centered in Mineral, VA, near my parents' house and roughly 100 miles from here.  I was in the office and my best description of it is "freaky"  and "OMG earthquakewhatisitimsupposedtodo?"  There are no major injuries and no major structural damages in the DC area.  We had our usual traffic apocalypse, so it took an hour to get home instead of 20 minutes, but the hardest part was the first two blocks from my office.  I had my knitting.  What did I care?

At home, that wobbly thing on the shelf that falls over occasionally fell over and Kirby hasn't been this happy to see me or this reluctant to go outside in a long time, but all is well.  The worst after effect for me personally is that I got a light sunburn during the 45 minutes I spent on the sidewalk being evacuated with the rest of downtown.  Because there isn't much shade and what there was was taken, OK?  I did my best.

To sum up:

EARTHQUAKE!

• woah.  this is weird.
• I wonder how long we have to stay outside?
• If my meeting gets cancelled, I'm gonna bail.
• I hope Mr. D is OK.
• This traffic sucks.
• Geez, Kirbs, calm down.  I'm glad to see you too.
• Hm.  Looks like everything is normal.
• What's for dinner?

The Farm Box

Long-time readers (both of you) know that my aunt runs a non-profit farm in Connecticut that does animal rescue and animal-assisted therapy.  On years when I either have my act together so I knit a lot, or years when I am a complete mess so I don't do anything but eat/sleep/knit, I send her a box of my stuff to sell at her annual fundraiser.  Last year was largely OK but not great, so nothing.  This year I started out with my act together and have ended up a complete mess* so I have stuff to donate.  My aunt sent me a box of yarn spun from wool from some of the animals, as I documented here,** and I finally have some output.

Wretched

Summer continues to trudge along Chez Nous.  The farm box comes every Wednesday and the dogs beg for whatever might be in there, which lately has included a lot of kale.  You want kale?  OK, here you go:

They greedily grab it, chew it a few times, spit it out ("yuck") and then beg for more:

Old Lady Post: Hello, Goodbye, and Shirts; Plus Cannavaro Retires

Originally posted on July 9, 2011



 It's time for a brief Juventus mercato update.  Let's start with the ones who are gone.



*sob!*

Brazzo, marginalized for nearly the entire season, has finally moved on.  He's gone back to the Bundesliga, with Wolfsburg.  This means his #7 is up for grabs.  Let's hope that it goes to someone worthy.  The Elf, marginalized for most of his career, will stay with Parma, who have bought half of him.  Vaya con dios, both of you.

Season Survey Post: Mercato Edition

Originally posted on July 2, 2011



The Summer 2001 Mercato is open and Juventini are already traumatized traumatised.  While we try to find a way to cope, let's look back at some of the comings and goings of 2010-2011.  Today's topic is:  Notable Transfers! As usual, there is a lot of room for disagreement here, so please suggest your own in the comments.


The first one came early, before the lights at the Bernabeu had a chance to cool off.




The Special One left us for Real Madrid.  He took his coat and his notepad and his Rui and his crazy with him (but he left Beppe---whew!) and things weren't quite the same.

Season Survey Post

Originally posted on June 10, 2011


I am so effing bored! The offseason absolutely sucks and checking for mercato news every ten minutes is not exactly calming me down or making me happy. I was looking for football on the TV listings and I actually paused to consider watching the USL, so help me God.

Since there is no new material, let's look back at Serie A 2010-11.


Today's topic is: THINGS THAT ARE AWESOME

There were many, of course, and these are only a few.

Best video evar of the year:






For me, it's the Norwegian fruit advert, first brought to our attention by Martha. Among other things, this introduced me to Morten Gamst Pederson, which means I was paying attention the day Joey Barton sucker punched him on the pitch for no reason.  Meaningless violence = awesome, as long as it's not IRL.