Current Mood: Crazy

See that image above. That is one of the greatest pictures ever. Ranking up there with my ultimate picture. Which is when Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise fists for Black Power in 1968 at the Olympic games.

I know, you’re thinking, why is the above picture so great? And I’ll tell ya…be a pointless post if I didn’t. Well, as you can see, two teammates are clearly carrying a player of the opposite team. Noble in it’s own right, but not worthy of being called “one of the greatest pictures ever”. The reason it’s so awesome is the girl being carried, senior Sara Tucholsky, just homered on the other team. Her first homerun ever. Well while rounding the bases, in her excitement, she missed first base. So as she turned around to touch first base she tweaked her knee bad. Due to a rule in baseball/softball, if a player homers and can’t round the bases for whatever reason, it goes down as a single. Her teammates cannot help her round the bases neither. In an awesome moment of sportsmanship, the other team carried her around the bases so she was credited for a home run. Awesome!

Here’s a link to an article with the full story.
A Sporting Gesture Touches ’Em All

Current Mood: Chill

Well the draft has come and gone and I’m pretty happy with how things went down. Chiefs really scored with their first 4 picks. Would’ve liked to have seen them take at least one offensive lineman with one of their third round picks. But can’t complain when we get possibly the best player in the draft in Glenn Dorsey and an offensive lineman who may be the steal of the draft in Branden Albert. Follow that up with the hard hitting Brandon Flowers out of VT, and the fast as all hell Jamaal Charles and I actually look forward to next year…unfortunately Herm will almost guaranteed ruin all chances at a respectable season. Fuckin’ Herm.

Roger Clemens keeps digging himself deeper and deeper. Apparently he had a 10 year affair with Oxycontin spokeswoman, convict, and part-time country singer Mindy McCready. Which apparently began when she was only 15. I guess he never heard the saying “15 will get you 20″. He went by the motto, “Old enough to bleed, old enough to breed”. Of course he “flatly denied” all accusations through his lawyer. Which of course comes on the heels of him “flatly denying” his use of performance enhancing drugs. Unfortunately for him Mindy McCready today denied nothing, and all but confirmed the affair. Clemens, grade A douche bag.

The Orlando Magic won their first playoff series since 1996, and it’s about time. After Shaq and Penny left the Magic way back when, I quit the sport for about 10 years, so I missed all of their struggles and just came back to Basketball this year. Them winning…Coincidence?…I think not! Side note: Dwight Howard is the Bomb Diggity yo! Averaging 21pts and 18 boards in the series.

My other team, the Braves, not fairing as well. Tom Glavine on the DL for the first time in his long career(he is back today however), Mike Hampton’s 20 million a year fragile ass, Smoltzies shoulder acting up, Mike Gonzalez still out, our most consistent reliever Peter Moylan on the 15 day DL, and our Closer also on the 15 day DL makes for a bad patchwork pitching staff.

Then you got Chipper Jones and Yunel Escobar playing hurt. Only bright spot thus far is Jurrjens is pitching really well. Hopefully things get turned around but I’m not optimistic. Side note: Braves need more TV time…fuckin’ TBS!

Current Mood: Happy

Well things keep getting worse for she who shall not be named and her insignificant other. Had another court date last week. She who shall not be named, was gonna plead not guilty “cuz she don’t have no drug problem.” Then the judge informed her if she was to do that, the prosecutor had the right to add more serious charges to the indictment including like 3 felonies. She plead no contest as did her insignificant other. They go back to court May 1st. Which should be interesting. Why you ask…again, you asked.

Well, they were supposed to have visitation today(mom’s b-day), but due to some unforeseen circumstances…like her vehicle being shot up Tuesday while her insignificant other was illegally driving…again. Nobody was killed, but his little brother got hit in the back(3rd time he’s been shot) and another relative of some sorts was hit in the leg. Of course she who shall not be named lied about it. Thus, why I expect their court date to be very interesting.

On a less absurd and much more positive note, Oogie weighs a whopping 11 and a half pounds or so now. Pictures when I’m done with this here post. I even got to see him laugh finally. I had heard rumors that he wasn’t always disgruntled but I passed those off as hearsay and tall tales. Low and behold, it was true. Even got pictures of it as proof. Much better quality than any Bigfoot or Loch Ness evidence. He’s quite the cutie.

Not much else going on. Gonna go see Iron Man on the 3rd or 4th. Be my gift to myself as my b-day quickly approaches…and anybody else who comes along. Already got Tre’s birthday gift buying done. Thought May might be a financial free month, but now my gotdamn dvd player is dying so gotta get a new one.

Anyway, here’s Oogie hamming it up for the camera…

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Current Mood: Tired

Just some random musings on things I’ve watched, read, and plan to watch, read.

I’ll start with Thursday night on NBC. A nice return of the Office we all know and love. Michael’s odd form of crazy, Creed’s awesome one-liner’s…”Then I’ll have 2, only one more to go.” lol. The sweet relationship between PB&J. Just good stuff last night. My favorite line/moment of the night was Michael’s conversation with Oscar. When he called Oscar, “Oscar Meiner Wiener Lover” and referenced his homosexuality as “your condition” I was rollin’. And of course the end with PB&J was great, and love those little moments in the show.

Earl had one of it’s better shows of recent. Funny and touching. Really, really enjoyed this weeks episode.

Scrubs has yet to be watched, but it’s almost guaranteed funny.

Next up is movie time! First up is Transformers. I was a HUGE Transformers freak as a kid. My favorites being Soundwave, Starscream, and of course Optimus. So initially I was excited as hell when I heard there was a live action version coming out…then I saw the character designs and my excitement was gone. I loved it when Megatron would transform into a gun for one of the Decepticons to fire. Anyway, so I decided to boycott then new movie. I was sick of Hollywood raping my childhood with half-assed uninspired remakes of things I loved as kid. Then I suddenly had a munchkin(Tre’) to entertain and had just bought the HD-DVD add on for my 360. So I broke down and bought Transformers in HD-DVD. I figured it’d at least be pretty and you can’t go wrong with giant fuckin robots beating the shit out of each other. So I watched it, and was pleasantly surprised. It wasn’t a Transformers movie as I knew it, but it was a fun action movie. Not gonna lie, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Needed a little more robot on robot action, but what can you do.

Also watched Stardust. Originally a book written by one of my favorite writers Neil Gaiman. I had a longer post concerning this movie but something fucked up and I lost it, so in summation, I will be buying this movie in the near future. Great fantasy movie.

I read The Secret Garden for the first time in like 20 years. Great book…for tweens. Next up in the literature department is The Eternals by the aforementioned Neil Gaiman or Live Wire by Jay MacLarty, the third book in the awesome Simon Leonidovic series.

In more pressing matters, is the sudden relationship between anime and Hollywood. We’ve already got Speed Racer coming. And according to Attack of the Show, Steven Spielberg is doing a live action version of Ghost in the Shell, M. Night Shyamalamadingdong is doing Avatar, and in the biggest head scratcher is Leonardo Dicaprio producing and starring in Akira. Fuck you Hollywood! So little creativity, so many greedy suits. I do however have a small interest in a live action Avatar, though finding someone good enough to fill the title role will be a bitch. He’s so damn likeable in the series.

That is all.

I should be back to posting regularly soon. My laptop went in to be fixed today and I’m also ordering a new Dell. I’m done with alienware. Unfortunately the new Dell has Vista instead of XP. I’ll get used to it I’m sure, but I really liked XP. 100x the improvement over Windows98, and from what I hear Vista is a step back. I thought about getting a Mac for like a quarter of a second. Then my irrational hatred of all things Apple stepped in and slapped the shit out of me. Anyway for you techno geeks, here’s the skinny on the laptop.

XPS M1530 - Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T8300 (2.4GHz/800Mhz FSB, 3MB Cache)
Operating System - Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition
Memory - 4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz (2 Dimms)
LCD, Color and camera - High Resolution, glossy widescreen 15.4 inch LCD(1440×900) & 2MP Camera
Video Card - 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT
Hard Drives - Speed: 250GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive Free Fall Sensor
Combo or DVD+RW Drive - Slot Load Blu -ray Disc (BD/DVD/CD read/write)
Sound Card - Integrated Sound Blaster Audigy HD Software Edition
Wireless Networking Cards - Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N Mini-card
SECURITY - Finger Print Reader XPS M1530
Bluetooth and Wireless USB - Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth Internal (2.0+Enhanced Data Rate)
Not too shabby and about 2 grand less than my alienware.

Next item up for debate…The Office returning. Has there ever been a more uncomfortable or awkward episode than this last one? Just brutal…ly funny! Poor, poor Michael and his 13 inch LCD Hi-def TV. Not to mention his Dundee…his Dundee for God’s sake! He needs to get out of that relationship as soon as possible. Horrible sitch…shit, I just said “sitch”…I’m watching too much Kim Possible. Anyway, great return episode. Can’t wait for tomorrow. Earl was just meh, and Scrubs continues to bring the funny. Shame it’s in it’s final season yet ER just keeps on going.

Next, is the Clinton campaign so desperate that the worst dirt they can find on Obama is a small speech about a bunch of gun-toting, Jesus freaks. The “bitter” comment may have been off…a little, but he was right on again. I live right in the middle of it and it’s a bit ridiculous on the attitudes that still exist around here. I have no problem with religion…well almost. If believing in an all-powerful omnipotent being, makes you a better person, or gives you purpose in life, who am I to argue? BUT if you do follow the bible and it’s teachings, it should be the whole Bible..with a little common sense. Of course it contradicts itself a number a times. You can’t just pick out the parts you like and ignore the rest. Love thy neighbor. Not just the white ones, or straight ones, or Christian ones. Nowhere in the bible did I read that only the aforementioned are worthy of God’s love. Ok, I know, there’s some harsh things about the gay folk, but they are still your fellow man(or woman).

Like Chris Rock said, “If it ain’t white, it ain’t right.” That’s pretty much the feeling in these parts. I’m clearly not saying everyone is like that around here but it’s a very real feeling and attitude. Of course I’m only speaking of the Christian religion cuz it’s all I know of, what with being raised that way. Nowadays, my faith is all but gone. I don’t deny that there may be a God, but I’m not convinced of it. At this point, it would take a lot to convince me. Damn it, now I’ve gone off on a tangent and got away from my point…if I had one…hmmm. Anyway, I don’t know a lot about politics, and what I do know is based on just what I pick up here and there on the Jon Stewart Show and the Colbert Report. I do know, I am not a fan of Hillary. I know very little of McCain, who I’m sure is our next President by default. America’s not ready for a female or black president and that’s a shame. I know the most about Obama. Not his policies but the man…and I like the man….so there really wasn’t a point as I’m not even voting.

I had more to talk about but this post is long enough with my inane ramblings and whatnot.

That is all.

Current Mood: Confused

…well, I wouldn’t say never.  At one time during my youth, I wanted a kid but I wasn’t thinking clearly then.  What i mean by that, is I was romanticizing the idea of a kid.  I wasn’t thinking of the financial responsibility, or even really the emotional side of things.  I just knew I wanted a kid.  After I broke my neck, I quickly decided kids were no longer an option.  I cut off the love of my life, and pretty much everything from my past.  I don’t have anything left from my years before my accident.  I just didn’t feel like I could do it as a quadriplegic.  I still don’t.

But “thanks” to she who shall not be named, I am now semi responsible for a life and the reasons for me not wanting kids are still there.  I just can’t do the things an able-bodied person can.  I can’t play catch, can’t take them to the park to play, can’t shoot hoops, etc., and it sucks.  I selfishly wish she who shall not be named got her shit together enough so I don’t have to deal with it.  Not for her well-being, or for the kids, but for me.  It was easy being just an Uncle.  Play a few video games, watch some cartoons, and I’m done.  In the end, she who shall not be named would bear responsibility.  Their dad would teach them to throw, shoot hoops and whatnot.  Now I don’t have that luxury, and they(the kids) don’t have that chance.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m VERY happy they are here with me.  And they are in a 1000% better situation.  They didn’t have a chance with she who shall not be named or her insignificant other.  And I fear they’ll clean themselves up just enough to get custody back.  As long as they’re in the environment they’re currently in, the kids would be facing an uphill climb.  Tre already thinks pimps, thugs, and gangsta’s are “cool”…

This post has really strayed from the post I wanted to make lol.  So I’ll shut up now, and make that post.

I don’t know what kinda father I would’ve been had I not broken my neck and had in fact had a kid, but as a stand-in dad/uncle, I spoil the fuck out of the kids.  I don’t know if it’s because I feel sorry for ‘em, or trying to compensate for something, or maybe even old insecurities, you know, like I’m trying to buy their love.  I really don’t know.  Maybe I just like buying them stuff.

The original reason for this post is yesterday after me and Tre’s trip to the dentist we went to Wal-Mart.  We went to the electronics section like always…I love my gadgets, and well, electronics.  You know what I got…2 games for Tre, Justice League Unlimited Season 2, He-Man Season 1, and a Backyardigans DVD…that’s it.  I got stuff from amazon as well.  I bought another Backyardigans DVD($15 for only 3 f’n episodes!), Scooby Doo Season 3.  Tre a chair, so when all the boys are here, he has his own, and also some basketball cards to try and introduce him to collecting and how to take care of stuff.  I bought me a $9 microSD card for my new cell.  That’s it.  In the past, it would’ve been all about me and my crap.

It’s clichéd, but there really needs to be a definitive book on parenting cuz it’s confusing.  I don’t know how people do it, and make it seem so easy.  Much respect to all the stand-up parents out there.  A special shout out to Chonees, for she is stronger than I will ever be.

Side note: My mom’s pretty great too, even if it took a broken neck for me to see it.

Current Mood: Chill

Got myself a photo editor so uploading a few choice pics. Some are already on my myspace…actually I think they all are. But here they are for all you lurkers out there stalking me from afar.

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