AFC North Headline Of The Day...

To invoke a traditional analogy - Imagine you're a juggler, or one of those meticulous nut cases who spins plates on sticks.

You've got to keep your eye on everything at the same time, but that often means spending a few seconds glancing at each ball or plate successively to make sure that they're all still in rhythm.

In this situation, if you wanted to, let's say, stop juggling and throw a fastball for some reason, it wouldn't be possible without letting all the other balls drop. Likewise, if you wanted to pull some real fancy trickery of some type with a plate, you'd be guaranteed to lose all the other plates as casualties.

And in either case, focusing exclusively on the one thing could screw up the whole balance and then you'd be starting again from scratch.

This is how it feels right now for my life.

I'd love to be writing well thought out, funny posts that are moderately insightful in some way or another. But frankly, 15 minute windows of time don't exactly lend themselves to producing a quality editorial product.

Anyways, I need to take this whole afternoon, and tomorrow morning, and possibly tomorrow afternoon off from writing this here blog.

While it IS one of the ways I normally escape from the adult responsibilities in my life, unfortunately, I can't always enjoy that luxury.

So I hope to be back in full gear tomorrow afternoon, but this unfortunately means no Meeting People Is Easy, or anything else substantive, unless something Earth shattering happens...like Jeff Reed becoming a decent human being.

Until whenever, here are some links to keep you all entertained.

Dishes are done, man...

Geno's got the right idea [PSaMP]

/shakes head, smacks forehead [Sean's Ramblings]

Lorenzo Neal wants to be a Raven? [Ravens Insider]

Look at Buffalo, getting all cute about TO... [Deuce of Davenport]

So at this point, can't we just fire Michael Vick from life? [Post-Gazette]

But not if you ask Tomlin...WTF? [Fanhouse]

A full break down of the new NFL rules from MJD [Shutdown Corner]

Trey Wingo on Jay Cutler and other things [OnTheDL]

File under "Giant Wastes of Time" - Congress to hold hearings on BCS. Hey, guys. Remember that speech the other night? The floundering economy seems to be a greater concern. But that's just my assessment, I guess [AP]

What a photo to caption! [Sports Crackle Pop]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA [Tirico Suave]

WIN! [FAIL Blog]

More quotable press conferences - Obama or Tomlin? [Carbolic Smoke Ball]

Analysis of last nights Lost. I stopped trying to speculate a long time ago [The Big Lead]

Dear Illuminati... [9-to-Fried]

In the immortal words of The Stranger from The Big Lebowski...

Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes the bar, well, he eats you.

You said it, man.

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