Gray

So in titling this post I had to pause and decide if I should use 'grey' or 'gray'.  For some reason I'm much more partial to 'grey' but the "traditional american spelling" is 'gray' so we'll stick with that.

So in (approximately) 10 days and 22 hrs BYU will host (presumably) nationally ranked Oregon State in BYU's annual homecoming game.  This is a special game because BYU head coach Bronco Mendenhall is a graduate and former assistant coach of Oregon St.  Also it will be the cougars first real test since barely loosing to Boise St. and the first of three huge and difficult games that make up the meat of BYU's schedule this year.

Finally, it is also the first time that BYU will not wear white, or blue as their primary color.  I'd like to say that BYU has been a uni-staple, but between 1999 and 2004 they went a little crazy with uniform ideas, but in 2005 settled back down into the tradition.  This month all that tradition gets a little tweaking with a (jumping on the bandwagon) black out.

In the uni-watching world we call this BFBS, and black for black's sake is generally frowned upon, as is grey for grey's sake, or pretty much using any color that isn't one of your team's official colors.  But I don't care, these uniforms are gonna rock.  Why? because I said so.  While this comes as a surprise, it's not quite as jaw-dropping since the idea was leaked back in April.

All this thought of BYU uniforms makes me want to compile an awesome database of their uniforms... but for now I'll leave you with the beautiful pictures of BFBS.

You're probably wondering why I called this post Gray, well it's because of this beauty.  That grey with the blue!  ohh it is soooo good!!! I LOVE IT!  if they did one thing right here, it's the use of grey.  boom.

Testing the 'scam'

So going around lately in magazines and in the mail, have been gift cards worth $500 for a company called RedStar Worldwear.  That seems pretty legit, but then you go and find out that you have to pay a 9% processing and shipping fee that cannot come from the gift card.  So this makes my "free" sunglasses actually cost about $17 (they're said to be worth $190 originally).  So is this a scam?  are they just trying to get your money for crappy sunglasses? or are these the real deal?  The website says they're doing this deal in order to "create a buzz for our new products" and you have to wonder if that's true.

So I took a small hit and tried it out (I had made a little extra money a couple months ago so I thought I'd put it to good use).  I ordered myself one of the pricier, polarized pairs of sunglasses, and got my wife a pair, and a pair for my good friend Chris Taney ('cause he helped me earn that extra money in the first place).  They shipped surprisingly fast, I was expecting a couple of weeks, but they got here in under a week!  And they are not cheap plastic wal*mart glasses.  They are surprisingly good, solidly built, quality materials.  For me the biggest test if they were quality or not was if they are truly polarized.  They have on their website a section of glasses marked as polarized, and I wanted to know if they truly came with polarized lenses, so I tested them out in the video below, and you will find that they are in fact polarized.  Sweet shades!