Almost a week into the New Year and things are going well. I'm still on top of my budget and my goals. Showering/Shaving seems to be going well, hitting the gym has been a scheduling issue but I'm working through it.
Saturday night I went to Liquid Joe's to watch Spazmatics. I drank some but didn't get trashed. I start hitting on a few girls and getting shot down, then started self-imploding. Sorry if you happened to be someone I talked to that night. I was a mess. haha! Sunday I didn't even get dressed, I just sat on my love-sac all day and tried to make it go away.
Work is crazy. The economy is in the shitter which means no one is buying anything. That also means no one is shipping anything.. which means our trucks are sitting. My current role is 100% based on better utilization of moving trucks.. So I'm effectively useless.
Not the first time.
The weekend is getting closer. Man I'm not ready for this.
Everything seems to balance out for me. When something else is falling apart I always find something else to obsess over and cling to while the other stuff works itself out. I usually pick work, for some reason I can't find motivation there either.
I think I've officially decided that as soon as P is done with his issues.. we're leaving. I had a convo today with a guy I really respect, about life in general and some ideas of things to do.
I dunno what we'll do. Probably take off to Europe and live out of backpacks or something. Maybe just tour the US in some dirty old winnebago. I've had a dream to do that for years.. just drive from KOA to KOA across the country.. work odd jobs to stay alive and save up enough gas money to move to the next town.
It's coming, and I'm dying for more ideas of what to do. I've also got hopes that in about 15 years when Jacksy and Andrew are over 18.. we're all going to go be pirates in Malaysia or Somalia. Any other suggestions are more than welcome!
There's a reason I haven't left the country until now. Mainly because I don't trust myself to not just disappear and one of you bastards will find me selling trinkets in Cabo or something.
I could also see myself rising up through the ranks of some guerrilla operation in some small country and end up leading a coup. El Presidente Coyle. I better learn Spanish.
I'd rather be remembered forever for something horrible than forgotten.
7 comments:
i'd buy your trinkets.
Care of Mike Riley of ESPN:
It means nothing because the BCS has no credibility. Florida? Oklahoma? Who cares? Utah is the national champion.
The End. Roll credits.
Argue with this, please. I beg you. Find me anybody else that went undefeated. Thirteen-and-zero. Beat four ranked teams. Went to the Deep South and seal-clubbed Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. The same Alabama that was ranked No. 1 for five weeks. The same Alabama that went undefeated in the regular season. The same Alabama that Florida beat in order to get INTO the BCS Championship game in the first place.
FIND ME ANYBODY ELSE THAT WENT UNDEFEATED. THIRTEEN-AND-ZERO. BEAT FOUR RANKED TEAMS. WENT TO THE DEEP SOUTH AND SEAL-CLUBBED ALABAMA IN THE SUGAR BOWL.
Yeah, that's how it is now in the shameful, money-grubbing world of college football. If you're Florida and you beat Alabama, you get a seat in the title game. If you're Utah, you get a seat on your sofa.
Hey, remind me: What do they give out for one of those BCS things anyway? It's been so long since I cared. Something from Sears? This is the sixth year in the past 10 that the title has been in dispute under this cash-grab, fan-dis, monopoly that the BCS has created. Which is why the title game just doesn't matter anymore. It's like being named Miss Ogallala. Or Best Amish Electrician.
Just take a look at the teams that think they're worthy of being called national champs:
USC? Great year. Wonderful. Let's all go to SkyBar and celebrate. But it lost to Oregon State, a team Utah beat.
Texas? You think beating Ohio State by a nubby three points gets you the title? The Big Ten was 1-6 in bowl games! That's like pinning David Spade!
Florida and Oklahoma? They lost. Utah never did.
So that's it. Utah is the national champion. The Utes should probably have two now, actually. They went undefeated in 2004, too, and their coach still thinks they were the best team in the land. Smart fella named Urban Meyer. Coaches Florida now.
By the way, we're calling our title the "national" championship because it actually includes the whole nation—all 119 Division I schools—unlike the BCS, which includes 66. Yeah, the BCS somehow eliminated the middleman—the NCAA. The conferences these schools play in take their dump trucks full of cash straight from the TV networks and fairness can go suck a lemon.
Nettie Tien
The Utes won't get the trophy they really deserve, so we gave them one of our own design.
Do me a favor. Call Ohio State president Gordon Gee and ask him why he won't support a playoff. He's one of the most powerful presidents in the NCAA. He could get it done. If he says anything other than, "We don't want to share the loot" then you know he's lying his bow tie off.
"This is not how we normally do things in America," says Utah president Michael Young. "In America, quality usually wins, not conspiracy. And there's a reason people usually enter into a conspiracy. It's money. You make money doing it. And those that are in on the conspiracy want to stay in and keep everybody else out."
Sure, BCS blowhards will hand you schlock about how the college football season is like a playoff, how it's an elimination tournament every week. Really? Well, how come Florida and Oklahoma weren't eliminated with their losses? Utah ran the table, beat everybody set in front of them, including Ala-damn-bama in no less than the Sugar Bowl, and gets the bagel.
Oh, by the way? It was Utah's eighth straight bowl win, the nation's longest streak. Among the losers during that run? Let's see USC, Georgia Tech, Pittsburgh, and now the legendary Houndstooth Hats.
"What else do we have to prove?" asks Utah's magical quarterback, Brian Johnson. Good question. He and the Utes essentially whipped Alabama at home. Handed Nick Saban a garlic necklace to wear the entire off-season. Stepped on his team's neck 21-0 in the first three possessions and never looked back. Let's see. Who was it that was losing to Alabama until nearly six minutes into the fourth quarter? Oh, yeah. Florida.
What, you want the Utes to win a spelling bee? Make a prize-winning souffle? Knock up Angelina Jolie? What?
It just slays me. It really does.
Call Myles Brand, president of the asleep-at-the-wheel NCAA, and ask him if he and his greedy presidents are going to stand in defiance of president-elect Barack Obama, who wants a playoff and wants it yesterday.
Ask Brand what he's going to do if Obama starts asking the Justice Department to look into anti-trust hearings against the BCS. The Utah Attorney General has already launched an investigation into that very thing. Or ask him what he'll do if Obama asks the Department of Education to consider withholding federal funds from these schools that have entered into this secret club called the BCS. You don't think playing in the title game means millions in general-fund donations for a school? That's as unfair as anything Title IX fought against.
Until all these people do the right thing, I'll be celebrating with the true national champions—the undefeated, untied Utah Utes. (Our new slogan: Utahk about a team!)
Lemonades for everybody!
ok Adam's comment was really long. He should just start his own blog. You should take your siblings on a cruise and make up a new name and identity for yourself whenever someone introduces themselves. It stretches your imagination and memory... that's kind of like being a pirate, right?
I agree with Elena- Adam needs his own blog, he has a lot to say.
All your trip ideas sound great. Isaac and I did a road trip last year and didn't have any set plan. it was awesome.
I post one comment longer than 10 words and I justify my own blog?
Sweet!
Ok so the post yesterday was from Rick Riley not Mike. I own it I am a moron.
You beat me to calling you a moron.
I typed Mormon 4 times before I got moron out. Freudian slip. LOL
Utes are just like when little schools make the sweet 16. Everyone talks about it and it's great press.. but no one cares.
I think those Somali pirates are looking for some good henchmen
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