Oakland Raiders 3.0

Last week the Oakland Raiders, "The Silver & Black", showed up to play the Kansas City Chiefs. Coming into the game the Raiders were 4-4 and the Chiefs were like 5-3. The Chiefs are pretty damn good this year, Cassel has definitely improved since last year and their receivers are pretty good also. But, McFadden and Campbell for the Raiders have finally remembered how to play football and showed up to play. They showed us why they were signed by the Oakland Raiders. McFadden had over 100 yards rushing and Campbell looked solid throughout the game. It was 20-20 after regulation so we went into overtime.
After a pretty short overtime possession by the Kansas City Chiefs the Raiders got the ball back and we drove it down the field and kicked the game winning field goal!!! The Raiders won 23-20 after about five minutes in overtime.
So the first time since 2003 Oakland has a winning record during a season and might have a chance to make the playoffs this year. Next week we have a bye week so we have plenty of time to rest up and practice to win against the Pittsburgh Steelers who are like 6-3 now.

The Past Weekend

So this past weekend my girlfriend, a friend, and I went to a few haunted houses over in MO. The first one we went to was the Drip, uhm yeah, a complete waste of time. It was like 10-15 minutes long and wasn't all that scary at all. On the radio they say its like the scariest one around, but the advertisers are deffinately wrong. We were going to go to Fear Factory on Saturday, but since it was only like half an hour away, we decided to go ahead and go. I'm kind of glad we did, but I do feel like kind of bad for how the night turned out. See my girlfriend has some odd fears, well one of them at least; the other is pretty common. Well anyway, two of her worst fears were kind of made into one and she witnessed it all in one night. I don't really want to say what it is because some people might be offended by it. Anyway she was pretty much hyperventilating and was scared out of her mind I basically had to drag her out of it. And plus at the end it sort of happened all over again. I felt really bad about it, because she was pretty upset. But she ended up laughing it off and everything turned out to be okay. She says she will never go back, but I know for a fact she will. We all had a blast, and the Fear Factory in Old Monroe was probably the best we had been to this year. We can't wait to go again next year!

Weir Driving cont.

This week I have started working alot more hours at my job at Weir, and let me tell you, it's starting to really catch up with me. I feel like a man thats been doing this for thirty years. I wake up at about 5 in the morning get to work by 5:30 or 6 and I don't get off until like 7 or 8, or later. load my truck up and head on my first route of the day. Lately I have been going to Missouri alot, which isn't so bad since most of it is city driving anyway. But they did have me going to like Marion and places farther south in Illinois like that. Those were okay but at the same not because they were kind of boring drives, because everything looks the same. I really enjoy the job though, it allows me to not have to do the same old thing everyday. Thats one of the best perks of the job. I don't get to do as much as I used to in my spare time with this job though, which kind of sucks, but the paycheck ends up being worth it. I don't mind putting in all those hours though, it keeps me out of trouble and gives me something to do. When I get off I'm always hanging out with my girlfriend, working on putting something new on my jeep, and sleeping.

Weir Driving!

So last week at Weir they asked me if I wanted to drive a route all the way down by Metropolis so I was like what the heck why not. I drove the long three hour drive down there and finally got back after a whole nine hours after all my stops when done. After that route Weir asked me if I would want to be a full time fill in driver, which means that whenever a driver calls in, which they all do at some point, I take their route for the day. There is always atleast one driver a day who cannot drive so I stay very busy. I also just recently bought a gps which made my driving life a whole lot easier on these routes. If I didn't have a gps I would be lost everyday of my life on these things. I've recently been as far as Jefferson City in Missouri, Metropolis in Illinois, and I'm going to Paducah Kentucky on tomarrow's route. My favorite of all of the routes that I have done would be the S-1 route to Metropolis.

The Oakland Raiders con't...

Alright well the Oakland Raiders are now 1-3 which is a bunch of bull crap because we should of won the last two games we have played in. We lost to the Arizona Cardinals and the Houston Texans both in the seven point range. We had the Cardinals but the bastards beat us by one point and the Texans beat us by a touchdown, they scored in like the last two minutes to take a lead. I think we will still be okay though for the rest of the season as long as our offense starts improving just a little bit. I also think that Bruce Gradkowski should start rest of the season and Jason Campbell should just sit for a while and Darren McFadden is definately improving this year. McFadden will gain well over 1200 yards this season without a doubt. For this Sunday's game i'm predicting that the Raiders will sadly lose by a touchdown but only because the San Diego Chargers are pretty good this year.