Vick, Dean

I saw that Michael Vick finally decided to take the plea deal.  It seems like his NFL career should be all but done.  Of course he can’t even think about that until he serves his jail time.  Hopefully if anything good is to come of this it is that a big spotlight has been put on the horrible “sport” of dogfighting as well as serving notice that the punishment for it if you get caught could be severe.  Mikey just kissed away literally tens of millions of dollars.

Hurricane Dean is a monster storm and is probably coming shore right around now.  Mexico is surely not anywhere near to the hurricane code that Florida is, I’m sure the damage is going to be crazy.  I also read more bad news about the arctic melting at a rate even faster than previously thought.  No big deal, right W? Surely three or four BILLION people can’t affect the environment.

I have a weird ritual as I get ready in the morning.  After I wash my hair by leaning over the tub in the spare bathroom, drip my wet head on Buttons the diabetic cat, give Tuki his morning peanut and pick out my clothes for the day, I put my pants on.  But when I put them on I leave them unbuttoned and unzipped until I am ready to put my shirt on which isn’t until after I brush my teeth, shave and put my old man face cream on.  I tried to remember why I started doing this.  I think I recalled why.

When I weighed around 200 pounds I had more chub hanging around my waistline.  If I buttoned my pants with no shirt on, the waist of the pants would pinch the chub and become a visual that I didn’t enjoy watching in the mirror as I got ready.  Leaving the pants unbuttoned and unzipped solved the issue.  Now that I am some 15 pounds lighter it really isn’t an issue but I have done it for so long I continue to do it out of habit.  Weird.