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I often just have random things that roll through the vast wasteland that is my mind. So I thought I would give them a place to stop rest a spell. This section of my webpage will be filled with the random rants, observations, and moments of clarity. No rhyme, no reason, just plenty of plot holes and spelling errors. Hope you enjoy taking a ride along the railways of my mind. Keep your hand and feet inside the car at all times please.
NBA Vs NHL
I can’t remember the last time I was this excited for the first round of the NBA playoffs. To be honest I can’t remember the last time I gave a damn about the first round of the NBA playoffs let alone was fired up to see them. But I have to give credit where credit is due, and the NBA has saved itself in my eyes. As recently as last year I was on the verge of checking out. And if it weren’t for my job I very well may have. I was tired of seeing a bunch of lazy guys get caught smoking weed, while shooting up a strip club, on their way to a dog fight. I couldn’t behind a lot of the players and more importantly the product on the floor was sloppy and uninspired. Maybe if you were lucky the conference finals would be mildly interesting. Quick, who did the Spurs beat last year in the western finals? Exactly, who the hell remembers? It was the Jazz by the way. This season though was a time of redemption for the NBA both on and off the floor. There really wasn’t a lot of off the court problems, we won’t count the Knicks. And the product on the floor was as good as I can remember, again we won’t count the Knicks. Sure it helped me that the Blazers were good this year and a easy team to get behind. But the whole NBA was just more interesting and compelling than it had been since 23 left the game. (I’m not counting the fat version 2.0 that played for the Wizards) The Spurs and Suns should be the best first round playoffs series ever. Can you believe we get that in the first round? It’s a good thing too, because this time of the year I am usually caught up in Stanley Cup fever, but man I’m having a hard time this go round.
It’s a sad state of affairs for the NHL when a lifelong puck head like me is turning the channel. Or more like I’m not tuning in to begin with. When I do find hockey on I watch but half the time I forget the game is even on. I can’t remember the last time I missed a Red Wings playoffs tilt. I’ve already missed 2 this year alone and it's only 6 games in. Completely forget about them. If they don’t get the hell of VS stat they are gonna end up being the WNBA on ice. It was my dad’s birthday a week or so ago and I went to buy him a Bruins jersey and the guy at Just Sports laughed at me when I asked them if they carried NHL jerseys. So while I soak up the NBA a piece of me is dying inside with the sorry state of the NHL. I hope I get more into it as the playoffs roll on, but I don’t see how when I can’t even see the games I want or find them when they are on.
On a side note, new episodes of Man VS Wild every Friday on Discovery channel. I’d rather watch Bear Grylls kick ass than the NBA and NHL combined. To quote my Bear Grylls t-shirt, “Bear Grylls, rewriting man laws one continent at a time.” If you’re not watching you should be you pansies.
Over The Hill
Do you ever just look at yourself in the mirror and feel like you’ve aged 10 years since last you took a look at yourself? I had one of those moments just the other day and since then, I have really started to notice little road signs pointing me straight to oldmansville.
Now some of these are just plain obvious, for instance my hair is starting to look like my front lawn: patchy at best. But those aren’t the things I’m talking about. It’s the subtle things that go unnoticed most of the time, but when they finally come out of hiding, they smack you right in the face. And the sad part for me is, I’m not even 30 yet. I figure at this rate I’ll be dead by next month.
For instance, my nose hair is growing at an alarming rate. I used to trim the hedges about once every couple of months. Now I find myself on almost a daily crusade to keep them inline. And don’t even get me started on the shoulder hair. If I could only harness this power for use on my head I would be a happy man.
And when the hell did I start needing to take naps every 10 minutes. I swear I’m like my 3 year old daughter or my 80 year old grandpa. I haven’t made it through an entire movie in 6 months. (To be honest I don’t really mind this one at times. Naps can be rather relaxing. But it would be nice to have some control over them) Speaking of sleep I used to go to bed around 1 AM and be fine at 7:30. Now I’m lucky to see 11:30. I can’t remember the last time I watched Conan; this one really bums me out. The man is a genius.
I never really feared growing old. I always thought I’d grow a cool gray bread, pull my pants up to armpits and hit the early bird at Denys. What’s not to like there. I just didn’t realize all that went along with it. There’s some bad with every good I suppose. It’s just a little weird finding out what all that entails.
And it seems I discover something new every day. I just hope I don’t start telling random stories that go on forever and don’t lead to any point. Like the time I went fishing in Longview with my friend, but we ended up going to the movies instead and I got these nachos that were really good, but the movie kind of sucked, but at least the weather was nice…….. |
