Well, Wilson went down on my fantasy team, so what the hell, Cousins gets the start. This should be amusing.

Seriously, this is just the worst possible combination for the final four teams in baseball.

All right, I'd still take the Dodgers over the Cards, but besides that, worst final four teams.

Last weekend we went to nearby(ish) orchard for apple picking, plus a pear tree or two they had on the side. On the way out they were also selling whole sunflower heads for $3 a pop. We scooped one up because it sounded fun.

While I did see some interesting grill recipes, I went with a more traditional boiling and roasting method. I used about a 1/4 of the salt the recipe I found called for, and it was fine. One mistake was too many seeds on the roasting pan. For reasons too long to explain, we ended up counting all the seeds (minus the crappy, puny ones) we harvested from this head and it came in a 2,214 (I had guessed around 2,300!). Even though I mixed the seeds several times in the oven, I found the ones that got stuck in the corner and roasted more were way better. Live and learn.

I can't exactly say why, but I've been listening to a lot of city pop recently.

Quick exit for the Southsiders.

Phil's bracket is looking pretty good right now.

Uh, Happy Colum--

No, nevermind.

So I'm in this Survival football thing that ZG started and as I've mentioned before, you can only pick each team once apparently. Well, I'm going for the Vikings over the Lions this week, so you can be sure the Vikes will lose in spectacularly embarrassing fashion.

Still got a bunch of carnitas, gang! Come on over!