Archives February 2004

Last night I returned for week 2 of my volleyball follies. After week 1 my knee felt some little twinges of pain but nothing horrible. Last night my hitting shoulder went dead. It is a typical problem for me when I haven’t played for awhile. Something in my shoulder pinches and it deadens my arm. After 4 games I could hardly even lift the arm so I bagged it. My hitting was pathetic as a result. Other aspects were ok but if I can’t hit, I am not having any fun. I’ll keep pressing on and hope that it gets better. Normally after a few weeks of the aches and pains it tends to settle down. Towards the end of the night, one of the mexican guys had a collision that left him lying on the floor for an extended period of time. It was a bit scary, he said something around his neck hurt real bad. He usually walks to the gym but we stopped him in the parking lot and then I drove him home. I felt like a dope, I asked him if he spoke english and he said yah yah. I immediately realized that I heard him speaking english during the games so I felt stupid for asking him that. I dropped him off and wished him well.

Has there ever been an actor that has been in more movies in a 5 year period than Samulel L Jackson? It is incredible how many flicks he is in. I don’t quite understand why. He is a decent actor but not anywhere good enough to explain why his face is in so many films. I mean look at this list, incredible!

My letter to the editor hit the paper on Saturday. Evidently a lot of people here at work read that section with regularity. Within my first 15 minutes at work I had gotten a half dozen comments about it. Some were supportive, some thought it was cheap that I would get free tickets in the first place, oh well.

In contrast to last weekend where everything felt right with the world, Friday and Saturday felt like everything was a mess. I don’t know if it was the rainy weather we had those 2 days but I just felt antsy and anxious. I felt like the house was a mess, the outside was a mess, and there were a million things that need to be done. I spent a good part of the day trying to create an automated process to roll the numerous steps I have to take to update the Tivo into one batch file. I almost have it, but not quite. Saturday night we watched Bruce Almighty. Although it has several laugh out loud, real funny moments, in general I found it to be overly average and non-memorable.

On Sunday I loaded up the truck with the tractor and other lawn maintenance equipment and trucked over to mom’s place to clean up her yard. It took about an hour and a half. It normally would take less time but I had to chop up a huge fallen branch that was in her back yard. Mom said the branch was no wider than 6 inches in diameter. Hah! It was about 10 at it’s widest spot and a good 25 feet long. Mom never was good at estimating stuff.

The Super Bowl looked to be super boring during the first half. It was scoreless for a long time. I was already drifting off from being very tired from a night of bad sleep. The halftime show woke me up. Good performances and then the boob shot. Since I was watching this through the Tivo I was able to rewind and pause to verify what I just saw. Yep, it looks like her boob, imagine that. They acted after the fact that it was accident but I don’t understand how it could have been. Justin clearly pulled it off and it came off like it was designed to do so. I’m no stick in the mud but that was definitely inappropriate. I’d hate to have a kid and explain to them what that was all about. Then as the second half is ready to begin, somehow a person dressed as a ref manages to walk right into the middle of the field, strip and dance around. It is amazing that he was able to pull that off in our new airtight security environment that is SUPPOSED to be in place for an event like this.

The second half was like a totally different game. The teams marched up and down the field making big play after big play. It turned out to be one of the best Super Bowl games ever with a dramatic finish which enabled the Patriots to win their 2nd SB in 3 years. I tried to imagine how the Eagles would have performed in a game like that. I think they would have sucked. Thankfully this year they did not do a post game concert to go along with the pregame and halftime shows. Instead I hung on and watched All-Star survivor.

I am too tired to go into a lot of detail about it but it looks like it is going to be a GREAT show. They are making it way tough on the contestants. Rudy, Rupert, Colby and Richard Hatch are going to be the ones that make this very interesting, at least for me. So far, 3 days, and they can’t for the life of them get fire going. As a result they have no way to boil the contaminated water. They are hurting already and it looks to be getting worse.

SB commercial notes, there weren’t very many memorable commercials for me. The volleyball in the snow one was a personal fav of mine. The explosive horse fart one made me laugh. The Gilette Mach 3 one was ridiculous. How does being on top of your game, with imagery from Muhammad Ali and other sporting events equate with shaving? Shaving makes you feel like you are in the zone? Silly.