A few ticks, now what, pompous

You may remember I mentioned that the day we got back from our trip I started to feel like I was catching whatever Ali had the few days prior to that.  Well I never got full blown sick to the degree that she did.  Instead I have been hanging just a few ticks below healthy.  I have been blowing my nose more often than normal, feeling a bit depleted energy wise but otherwise still able to function.

Well after yesterday I had no doubt that I was still firmly in the grasp of this mysterious illness.  I decided to run at the gym.  The plan was to do my standard 3 miles.  Well it was a struggle right away.  Typically when I run it feels uncomfortable for maybe the first half mile or so but then you settle into a rhythm.  Well I never hit a rhythm.  In fact I was struggling with every step, I just had no energy.  I hit the stop button at two miles, I just had nothing in the tank.

It’s a weird malady.  I’m not sure if this is just a lingering cold.  I was talking to Jeremy about possibly playing in vball tourney with him next week but I am concerned that if I still feel this way it would be a colossal flop. If I felt like I did yesterday I wouldn’t be effective at all.

I have to shake my head over the LeBron James Decision tv event on ESPN.  I mean wtf, do we really need a one hour show and a two hour lead up to find out what team is going to overpay for LeBron James?  Even though supposedly some of the advertising dollars go to some charity, I think it still paints James in a negative light, as a big, pompous jerk.  I mean who actually cares about / watches the NBA anymore?  I could care less about it and most the people I know feel the same way. Stupid.

I saw some NBA team paid some guy that I never heard of who won the scoring title this year 85 MILLION for FIVE YEARS, a 21 year old kid.  I mean WTF?  The league deserves to go out of business.  No human being deserves to be paid that much money for bouncing a ball around.

I finished Season 5 of Lost last night.  Now I have a problem.  I wasn’t sure if there were 6 or 7 seasons of the show.  It turns out this past season was number 6.  Well the problem is it isn’t out on DVD yet!

The final episode of each season of course had huge cliff hangers.  However with the beauty of Netflix there was no need to sit and wonder what happened next, I simply added the next season into my instant queue and and the questions were answered in quick order.  Now I have to sit and wait like real LOST fans did for the past 7 years.

I have been on a non-stop 5 season Lost binge rapid fire like a coke addict.  Watching so much Lost plot in such a short time is pretty nuts.  It also makes going cold turkey difficult.  So now I get to sit and stew. “Did the nuke gimmick actually work?” “Was history changed?”  “What exactly is John Locke 2.0?”  No more instant gratification,  it’s just time to wonder and wait.