DJ's Nationwide Pick'em

For those of you that know... well know that I like sports. Since I grew up in Colorado (go Broncos!), I follow those teams like a diehard fan. Anyways, back to the point. I think over ten years ago, I started using ESPN's fantasy game to set up a "pick'em" for my friends. It has been amazing to watch the advances ESPN has made. The game is lot of fun and eaiser to use now. So, I invite all the readers of my blog to play along with me. The few of you there are. Info is below, straight from the email I could send out to invite you. Note that you will need to have an ESPN account to play.

Here are the instructions:

This message is from Danny Young (that's me!) who is challenging you to play Pigskin Pick'em on ESPN.com.

This game challenges you to select the winner of each game throughout the 17-week NFL season and offers a spread and non-spread version. Best of all, it's FREE to play.

Get in the action now:
http://games.espn.go.com/pigskin/group?groupID=960

Game Front:
http://games.espn.go.com/pigskin/frontpage

Group: DJ's Nationwide Pick'em
Password: redbone

A Milestone Return

As I said in my Comic-con post, some old characters that I like a lot are making a comeback. Milestone was published book in the mid 1990's. It was just by chance that I pick up a book called Hardware. It was so good that I began to collect the whole line. It was only four books at first (Static, Hardware, Blood Syndicate, Icon) so it was easy for me at the time.

Milestone published books for about 4-5 years, then everything stopped. Lots of reasons had been given, but I am sure it came down to business. Dollars and cents, especially at that time. The comic book biz was a little out of wack.

That all aside, these comics were among the best in terms of story I have ever read. The characters were well-developed and the plots thoughtful. When I hear that they are being "merged" into the DC Universe (yes the get to play alongside Superman, Batman and the rest of the gang), it is a good thing, bad thing to me. It is great to see these characters in print. To see new stories that involved them is going to be interesting. But I think it bad that they are going to be submerged into DC. I hope that uniqueness and depth that made the heroes of Dakota so interesting isn't lost.

But that is show biz. You have to take risks to get your stories out there. The first "return" will be in Justice League of America #27. It is written by Dwayne McDuffie. One of the Milestone founders from way back, so I have high hopes for this one.

On a more selfish note, this will probably mean the Milestone Rave is going to impossible to keep self-contained. I don't think I am going to track down every appearance of a Milestone character in DC. But I will be on the look out for good stories.

Here to hoping it is a grand return for Milestone.

Week 34 (08.18.2008)

And here is the second one. This last week was actually a good week of working out. Can't believe is almost the end of August! Summer is blazing by now. It has been a good one. Ok, wasn't as behind as I though. But not blogging in two weeks sure does make you feel like you are slacking.

Monday (08/18) - Cardio Completed!
Tuesday (08/19) - Weightlifting Completed!
Tuesday (08/19) - Basketball Completed!
Wednesday (08/20) - Cardio Completed!
Thursday (08/21) - Weightlifting Completed!
Friday (08/22) - Cardio Completed!
Saturday (08/23) - Weightlifting Completed!
Sunday (08/24) - Rest Day

Week 33 (08.11.2008)

Ouch, I am really behind in any attempt to blog. Since today is a relaxing day, I hope I can take some time and catch up on the blogging communications. First task is to get my weekly updates out. Been doing pretty good for last couple of weeks. Here is the first one.

Monday (08/11) - Cardio Completed!
Tuesday (08/12) - Weightlifting Completed!
Tuesday (08/12) - Basketball Completed!
Wednesday (08/13) - Cardio Completed!
Thursday (08/14) - Weightlifting Completed!
Friday (08/15) - Cardio Completed!
Saturday (08/16) - Weightlifting Completed!
Sunday (08/17) - Rest Day

Week 32 (08.04.2008)

Second catchup blog. Nothing to exciting to report here. It was a rather quick week. Lots of hard work, I was glad the weekend came, I needed it in the worst way. And it was a good weekend. Got to go to a cool BBQ and even watched some cool UFC action. Fun stuff.

Monday (08/04) - Cardio Completed!
Tuesday (08/05) - Weightlifting Completed!
Tuesday (08/05) - Basketball Completed!
Wednesday (08/06) - Cardio Completed!
Thursday (08/07) - Weightlifting Completed!
Friday (08/08) - Cardio Completed!
Saturday (08/09) - Weightlifting.. didn't really do a second workout
Sunday (08/10) - Rest Day

Week 31 (07.28.2008)

Yikes, I am way behind in my blogs again. Might have to switch up how I blog. Start doing things in a more quick hit way. Life just seems to get busy lately, even when I don't feel busy.

Ok.. I think I can remember this far back.. here we go..

Monday (07/28) - Cardio Completed!
Tuesday (07/29) - Weightlifting Completed!
Tuesday (07/29) - Basketball Completed!
Wednesday (07/30) - Cardio Completed!
Thursday (07/31) - Weightlifting Completed!
Friday (08/01) - Cardio Completed!
Saturday (08/02) - Weightlifting. no, we did a long bike ride.
Sunday (08/03) - Rest Day