Just found out from Sol over the weekend that the Citi Dividend Card changed its rewards system as of mid-October.

Old reward system:
5% cash back on supermarket, drugstore, and gas station purchases
1% cash back everywhere else

New reward system:
2% cash back on supermarket, drugstore, gas station, convenience store, and utility purchases
1% cash back everywhere else

I don't use this card for convenience store or utility purchases, so that change stinks. Also, Citi said they mailed me a notice about this change, but I don't remember getting it. Must've been in fine print or something...

Anyone have suggestions for other cash back credit cards to apply for?

Justin Morneau, AL MVP? For me, Justin Morneau is just a fantasy baseball nightmare.

In 2005, I drafted Justin Morneau in the 5th round, ahead of the next guy on my list, Derrek Lee. Morneau hit .239/.304/.437 and ended up being a major bust, while Lee was one of the most valuable players in baseball that year.

This year, I wanted to give Morneau another chance, so I drafted him again. I dropped him, added him, and dropped him again while he hit .242/.304/.473 for the first couple months of the season, and looked he was going to repeat his 2005 stats. So of course, some other team added him and he ended up going off on a tear the last 4 months of the season to finish at .321/.375/.559.

Oh, and it doesn't help that I missed the fantasy baseball playoffs by .007 percentage points in 2005 and .008 percentage points in 2006. How annoying...

Highlights from EM retreat:

-Pastor Claude's never-ending movie clips and references, especially the quote, "Don't have a starring role in an small story, but take a supporting role in God's epic story."

-Almost convincing Slum Dave to eat a bucket of 300 red vines and/or 70 slices of sandwich meat.

-Eun-Sook's "aggressive" play helping us win our ultimate frisbee match, despite opposing frisbee expert Mike Kim and impossible-to-defend Slum Dave.

-Frank leading us through campfire songs, including one song that ended up being a solo performance because no one else knew the lyrics.

-Small group time. The guys really opened up at the end and I'm glad I got to know them.

Today as I was reading the story of Samson and Delilah, I ran into one of Slum's favorite bible verses:

Judges 16:16
With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was tired to death.

Haha...

This week's best quote, when taken out of context:

"Can I get a raw dump from you?"

At my company, a raw dump is a print-out of the original data used in our software. So when I asked this to a co-worker, it didn't raise a single eyebrow.

But don't ask me why it's called a raw dump...

Thank you Frank, for showing me this trailer of Office Space as a thriller. I love it...

It's November, so that means it's time for Mack Brown to start complaining about why his team isn't ranked higher in the BCS.

"I still can't figure out the computers... If all the coaches and athletic directors could understand exactly who the computers want you to play and where they want you to play them, and then if you could know how many games they were going to win, it would probably help all of us."

Hmm... I don't remember Mack Brown complaining about the computers when they put Texas into the Rose Bowl a couple years ago. And let's see, Texas' non-conference wins are against North Texas, Rice, and D 1-AA Sam Houston State. Could this be why the computers don't like Texas that much this year?

"Everybody says there's flaws with the different polls that we have. But at least we've got eyes looking at it and people who are basing it on what they feel and the strength of schedule and the way the team is playing at this time."

Yeah, that and the fact that you're allowed to lobby for votes...

Fun weekend... went out for dinner on Friday night and watched Borat.

It was hilarious, but unfortunately there's only one scene from the movie that stands out. If you saw it, you know what I'm talking about.

Saturday, of course, was gameday in Berkeley.

Here's the Thomas Decoud block on Desean Jackson's punt return touchdown. This also shows Korey Bosworth (the UCLA guy who happens to be Brian Bosworth's nephew) falling down again as he tries to walk back to the sidelines.



And then today, a few of us went bowling... for 7 games. Those 3 hours were easily the longest I've ever bowled.

Rudy Gay did pretty well in his first career NBA game:

21 points, 8 rebounds, 4 blocks, and 1 steal

I only bring this up because it gives me an opportunity to link yet another great sports quote.

Rick Majerus: "I'm not a big Gay guy"



Watch as Steve Lavin tries to hold in his laughter.