James’ Blog

As I posted last night I am actually looking closely at this years draft.  Before today it was mostly because of being interested in where Kaepernick will be going.  Today Dontay Moch broke the 40 yard dash record for defensive lineman.  It may be a little bit inaccurate as he will mostly likely be playing outside line backer in the NFL, but was a defensive end all through college.

Dontay Moch sets 40 yard dash record

I also found this video with a quick mention of Kaepernick about how he is improving is draft stock.

Quarterbacks Improving their Draft Stock

This is really a bit of a slow time of year for me sports wise. There is currently no football since the Super Bowl was a few weeks ago now and opening day for baseball is still over 30 days away.

This year is a little bit different since Nevada has some good players coming out this year which has me very interested as the draft approaches. I came across this video that was posted by the local newspaper.  This is Colin Kaepernick who I would say is the best Quarterback to ever play at Nevada.  I am still not sure if he has the talent to make it as a NFL Quarterback, but I would really like to see him make it even if he has to change to another position.

Video (No embed link from ESPN)

Here is a picture of Colin with Zachary and I at last years Fan Fest.

Many of you that know me may think that title is something that I would never say.  In many ways it is surprising to see the words come up on the screen ask I typed them.

I should probably explain a little bit.  Christmas this year in the Wheeler family was basically name the Kindle Christmas. My brother’s wife got him one, My mom got one for my step father as well as one each for me an Aramelle.  A couple of days later Dave, Aramelle, and I got a crazy idea that we should put all of our Kindles on the same account so we could share the books that we bought.

I now find my it annoying when I don’t get to work early enough or have something that I need to take care of during my lunch hour because it is cutting into my reading time.  I know what a nerd I am becoming.

With that all being said and with this concept of trying to post most and have new pages different pages for my new interest that I am growing in to I am launching the Bookshelf.  On this page I am going to list the books I have read along with the one that I am currently reading as well as my Amazon Wish list.

As time as gone on since I started this blog I have noticed that my interests have starting changing.  Some due to having a family not and priorities changing and some due to just getting older and wanting to move on to different things.  With that being said I am working on making creating some new pages for some new interests while others will be coming down.  Not to mention a overhaul of the pictures page that also needs to have pictures posted to it more often.

Along with these changes I am working on posting more often.  I know that has been something that I have been talking about for a while now.  What can I say that is still a work in progress.

So stay turned and watch for the coming changes.

This video just makes me look forward to an Android phone so much more.  Angry Birds will probably be one of the first apps I down load when I get one.

This just seems to be a bit crazy.  I mean it isn’t like the guy was wearing one of those damn cheese head hats.

Besides it could have been worse he could have been trying to sell cars in Reno wearing a UNLV jersey.  Then he probably would have been arrested.

Chicago area car salesman fired for wearing a Packers tie

I had no idea that Boise was run by the Third Reich…

Even though the outcome of the Boise St game every year hasn’t had the outcome I would have liked (Last time Nevada been Boise St was 1998 in Reno), I look forward to this game.  It serves as a good reminder of why I will never live in Boise.

Sure it is bigger then Reno and therefore has more things like concerts and events that usually come with living in a big city.  The downside is that for the most part the people that live there just flat out suck!

Every year when Boise comes to town there is always thousand of the most obnoxious people that I can imagine (the worse of which always seem to sit by me).  This shouldn’t be all the surprising the way the people in charge of the university act as I pointed out in an earlier post.  These are people that are from another city visiting for a football game and give dirty looks and make little comments from time to time because I dare be a fan of the HOME TEAM!

I will have to admit even being surprised every year but the shear rudeness of people that will fall or knee you in the back as they are trying to get to their seats with out saying anything at all.  Things were taken to a whole new level when after the game Friday night.  I looked down at the field after all the Boise players had already left it to see how they had destroyed all of the crowd control fencing and benches on their sides lines.  If that doesn’t say high class then I don’t know what does.  Then it got even better when I came across this story on ESPN.  FOOTBALL IS JUST A GAME! People of Boise need to realize it is ok to get excited at the games and support your team but it is not OK to make harassing phone calls or setup threating Facebook pages because you lost a damn game!

It is things like that which is why Zachary will probably not attend his first Nevada Boise St game until he is at lease 5.  That is saying a lot since will will probably take him to the UNLV game next season.

All in all though it was so much fun to be there to finally see the Donkey nation get knocked down a peg.  It was defiantly a sports night that I will always remember.

For those that missed it here are the Sportscenter highlights that was on right after the game ended.

This would be so much fun to chase around kids or small animals with.