http://www.pleonast.com/user/ellwoodwd recent pleonast.com entries by user ellwoodwd en-us http://www.pleonast.com/user/ellwoodwd?l=5&entryID=603403 i went to the b-day party of a friend's 1yr old daughter last night and didn't get home until about 11:45. so what could be so fascinating about a 1yr old's b-day party to keep someone out until almost midnight? answer: 42!!! that's right 42. which, by the way, is also the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. this brings me to the topic of 'house rules'. we played a little different from what i'm used, which makes it all that much more interesting. different 'house rules' used last night: 1) a pass through on bid - reshuffle with the shuffle and opening bid passing to the next person. 2) opening bid up to 2 marks - followup bid up to 1 mark higher than last bid. 3) declare the status of doubles (high or low in suite or suite of the own) when going nello. 'house rules' that i use 1) forced 30 bid on last bid 2) opening bid up to 2 marks - follow up bid up to 2 marks higher than last bid. 3) double always high in suite (doesn't have to be declared), u... 2008-11-26 http://www.pleonast.com/user/ellwoodwd?l=5&entryID=602696 1) the rover - led zeppelin 2) paralyzer - finger eleven 3) zombie - the cranberries 4) prickly thorn, but sweetly worn - the white stripes 5) absent element - finger eleven 6) staring at the sun - the offspring 7) coming down - the cult 8) bring it down - primal groove 9) take me - papa roach 10) butterfly in reverse - counting crows 2008-11-24 http://www.pleonast.com/user/ellwoodwd?l=5&entryID=602338 Tech lost and lost badly. with the way they played they deserved to lose as well. absolute total melt-down of Tech's defense and the offense was ineffective. if they are not ashamed of how they played they should be. i hope they can get it together for next week because if they play like they did tonight then baylor will kick their butts as well. needless to say i'm very disappointed in Tech's performance they should have done better. 2008-11-23 http://www.pleonast.com/user/ellwoodwd?l=5&entryID=601066 my boss just handed me a little project designing some guard rail for one of our sales men in houston. when asked to calculate the weight of the guard rail so the sales man could figure the shipping cost. i promptly asked "why don't we have fabricator in houston? then we wouldn't have to worry about shipping cost from houston to dallas and it would be cheaper for san antonio/austin office to have everything shipped from houston rather than dallas." to which my boss replied "good idea. you can get on setting that up as soon as you finish this." so does anyone know of any good fabrication shops in the houston area? 2008-11-19 http://www.pleonast.com/user/ellwoodwd?l=5&entryID=600665 Tech -- ou offense: points/game ....... 47.9 -- 51.4 pass td ........... 38 -- 39 rush td ........... 25 -- 30 pass attempts ..... 49.9 -- 36 complete .......... 35.5 -- 24.3 pass % ............ 71.1 -- 67.5 pass yards/game ... 433.7 -- 355.5 rush/carry ........ 5.2 -- 4.6 rush yards /game .. 25.7 -- 42.4 total yards/game .. 566.3 -- 549.8 t.o.p. ............ 30:45 -- 29:38 sacked ............ 5 -- 9 defense: point/game ........ 22.2 -- 23.6 yards/game ........ 351.8 -- 345.6 interceptions ..... 16 -- 13 returns: kicking ........... 10.6 -- 9.7 punt .............. 37.0 -- 35.9 note: Tech's has been sacked the fewest times out of all the big12 teams. Vote Harrell for Heisman you too can make a difference!! 2008-11-18 http://www.pleonast.com/user/ellwoodwd?l=5&entryID=599267 oh, things i do and for the reasons I do them. life would so simple if some people would move bqck to where they belong. 2008-11-14 http://www.pleonast.com/user/ellwoodwd?l=5&entryID=597427 i had a feeling Tech would beat osu, but to the extent that they did. Tech show a very balanced offense with both passing and running the ball. while Tech defense was able to shut osu's running and passing down for the entire game. Tech's next game is against ou and both teams have byes giving them two weeks to prepare. this will be a game to remember, like we haven't already had a couple of those as it is. what i want to know is; who do you think should win the heisman this year, graham harrell or michael crabtree, and why? p.s. if you haven't figured it out by now, i'm a huge Texas Tech fan!!!!! Go TECH!!!!! 2008-11-09 http://www.pleonast.com/user/ellwoodwd?l=5&entryID=596849 No flash photography - no videos allowd :( 2008-11-07 http://www.pleonast.com/user/ellwoodwd?l=5&entryID=596489 chris just called me up and now i'm going to see joe satriani tonight at the house of blues!! 2008-11-06 http://www.pleonast.com/user/ellwoodwd?l=5&entryID=595982 i'm headed to houston next weekend and i will be staying with them. i had concidered coming down the weekend of the 22nd, but that being the Tech - ou game really wouldn't be fair to her. we can be pretty bad as it without that to stir things up. the only thing that is planned right now is to try and go to the singing in katy. eventhough we don't have anything else plan we usually find something to do. 2008-11-05