Countdown to Glory: 28 to go

THE COUNTDOWN CONTINUES. 28 DAYS TO GLORY!!!

4 weeks until the big day. I am tingling with anticipation. Let's cut to the chase. 33 rules, 28 does not rule as much.

There are 28 days in a lunar month, but how convincing is the moon if only one month went along with that time length, and only 75% of the time at that? And it's the coldest, rainiest, most miserable month. The moon is not a good advocate for itself. Moon, if you can't even fight for yourself, you are not welcome on TEAM 33. We stand up convincingly for our cause.

28 is the atomic number for nickel. I knew a guy who would describe people he thought less than attractive as "looking like he/she'd been hit in the face with a sack of nickels." That isn't a nice thing to say, but I kind of like it because it sounds like something a depression-era hobo would say because he'd seen it happen a bunch of times. Hey... That sounds like a pretty good idea. We create a TV show where 2 hobos fight to the death using only sacks of nickels, and the winner/survivor gets to keep both sacks of nickels. We stage the fights in an old railyard, hopefully near a newly-gentrified area. We convert the terminal to a hipster bar for the studio audience (and we charge exorbitant cover charges because hipsters really love hobos). Production costs would be low because nickels are kind of heavy but still just 5 cents. And hipsters willingly drink PBR or High Life. And we can ply hobos with watered-down used antifreeze. HELLO TV DEVELOPMENT DEAL!!! Anyone who steals this idea has to donate the massive profits to arthritis research.

28 is the jersey number for some pretty awesome running backs - Marshall Faulk, Warrick Dunn, and the Zulu Cthulhu Chris Johnson.

28 Days Later might be the greatest zombie movie ever made (or at least the best one that didn't feature Simon Pegg and Nick Frost). That scene where Brendan Gleeson gets some zombie rage blood in his eyes and has to tell his daughter to stay away as they're just yards away from what appeared to be safety... just, dang. I need to see that movie again.

Now that I look at the evidence, 28 is pretty solid. Just not 33. 33 is the best ever.

28 on the countdown means that we have just 4 weeks to spread the word about Arthritis Walk Atlanta. Please join TEAM 33 and use these 4 weeks to spread the word about the walk and all the good we can do to improve the lives of people with arthritis. We're only about 1 week in and I've been astounded by the support so far. If we can match or do better than this in each of the next 4 weeks, we can do so much.

We make it easy for you to join TEAM 33 by following the link below:

http://www.kintera.org/faf/r.asp?t=4&i=312420&u=312420-211716341

Join TEAM 33. Sign up. Spread the word to your friends and family. Join us at the walk. Give a few bucks for a great cause. Decapitate the ultra-fast and mega-strong zombie that is indifference to arthritis. And we'll have cake.

27 more of these emails are coming your way. Admit it, you're even starting to enjoy these. I can say that with confidence because there's no way you've read this far if you don't like these at least a little bit. I'm on to you. Now you know I have mind-reading powers. I can use those powers for good or bad. Do you want to test me? JOIN TEAM 33!!!

If you have any questions about how incredibly awesome TEAM 33 is, give me a call or send me an email. Thanks again!