She's Gone Xtreme

We found a place with bounce houses today, just down the road. Never knew it was there, and apparently neither did anyone else. About 8 kids all together came in during the 3 hours we were there. That's right. I said three hours. Yuula is a maniac. 

Apparently being pregnant makes you good at basketball

And being pregnant makes you deem even the most inappropriate place to sit down and kick back acceptable

I wonder how she plans on getting back up

Dunks, Drunks, & Nearly Sunks

Goal for the weekend; catch-up with all the video we shot since our westward road trip. It's slightly unrealistic, but the penalty for failure is literally nothing, so...

Day #1

Such good cousins helping a little girl learn sports.

Believe it or not, none of us had a single drop of alcohol at that festival.

But the random fountain was intoxicating.

Mostly Wet, And Some Monkeys

We realized last night that we haven't even watched any of the video from our vacation last week. There's gotta be about 60 files. I grabbed a few highlights and thru together a little preview... it goes by fast.

We haven't even unpacked our suitcases yet, either.

The Germans Are Known For Their Balloon Expertise

I wish the cat had driven

Yuula got some dunking lessons, on par

dinner provided by Brad & Erin, pork steak, no surprise

we don't see this on our road

Fort Wayne fashion is still in question

Looking on from atop Mount Brad at her puppy balloon creation

She wasn't the only one styling some balloon art

Then we found this...

Dylan got trapped

It was like a party

Good thing we had her bathing suit

No Game Seven, Please

What a mess. It would be in the vein of true NY v Boston sports to have the Celtics be the first team to ever overcome a 3-0 deficit and move on to the next round. What a pathetic couple of games these boys have played, and now returning to Boston for a game 6, one just cannot feel at all confident about this debacle. Luckily I've been watching some of the other games, like Golden State and Denver, which was pretty thrilling last night. That Stephan Curry is fairly awesome. I'll enjoy these next few games before every just gets swept by Miami. Four game 6's tonight alone. At least when the Knicks start eating their own shorts I'll have something else to switch over to.

4 Seconds A Day: April 2013

I think we may need to start adding subtitles to these...

No Hubby/No Daddy

That's right! I am free for the afternoon. No changing diapers. No work. No meals where all I eat is what she doesn't. No chores. No kiddy shows on Sprout. Yuula was invited to a birthday party and she brought her mother along. I don't even know where they are. I am set up at the computer right now, gonna listen to some new music, watch some basketball, eat some treats and maybe even watch one of those movies (that only I'd like) that I've been trying to find time for. I really should go out and start raking leaves or maybe begin the redesign of the old shed interior but... I ain't.

Knicks just lost to Boston in OT. Suckers.

Eyes: Heat v. Lakers

Ears: White Rabbits - Milk Famous 

Asian Man Plays Basketball

Call it the dismal realization of the 2 months between football ending and baseball starting but it looks like I am jumping onto the bandwagon here. I have always said (to myself) that were I to be big into basketball, being loyal to my local, I would be a Knicks fan. The problem has been there's not much to get a potential fan excited about fanning himself over these past few seasons with the Knicks. For a second it looked like they may get LeBron and I actually looked into ticket prices. It wasn't to be. But then they picked up Amar'e Stoudmire and my ears perked up. And then this offseason they went out and got Carmelo Anthony and Mike Bibby who I remember watching play for Atlanta and liking quite a bit. Rounding it out with Tyson Chandler from the reigning champs and my favorite player in the whole league, Baron Davis (I mean, c'mon, the beard is amazing). Now all of the sudden it looks like the Knicks have something to watch, but still I was finding it background noise.

Until this week.

I caught a whiff of Jeremy Lin in passing Sportscenter highlights and so-on, asking "can he keep this up?" and "where did he come from?" and it didn't even register that he was on the Knicks. But I actually sat down last night and watched the game from tip-off and it was completely worth it. Taking down the Lakers like that, outscoring the great Kobe, and smiling thru the whole thing. I did find it suspect how the ESPN cameramen kept seeking out the Asian people in the crowd, but it was too fun a game to worry about the socialogical effects of race and culture on the ignorant media and I am not gonna join the conversation of whether or not he can continue on this record setting pace and give us a show like that every night, but I do know one thing... I have never went online to find out when the next Knicks game was.

Until today.

Spanish Basketball's Beijing Tribute

Class act guys. Well done.

Desultory Morning

I'm not sure why I'm awake.



That's a lie. Yes I do. Like a nitwit I erased my iPod yesterday so I could refill it with juicy new nuggets, but once again neglected to realize that the amount of time I have left to transfer all the files greatly outweighs the actual amount of time I have til this computer is boxed up and shipped off. So I'm up, thinking maybe my PC is a night owl and works better in the wee hours than it did in daylight. Let's hope for the best.



...also anxiety. I can't sleep because I'm all worked up. We went shopping for household cleaning supplies yesterday, and like I was telling my Dad, I guess I haven't really allowed myself to substantiate the reality of the situation, until yesterday: Like a ton of bricks. But I'm good. we got good news about our down payments. All parties involved are very nonchalant about the whole extravaganza, so I'm guessing it's only an extravaganza to me.



I think we may go see the new Indiana Jones today. I usually try to avoid opening days to these massive summer blockbusters (ever since having to watch costumed adults cry at Lord of the Rings, thanks Christian) but I wanna see it with Fran and I leave Saturday night so.....



Yeah can we talk about that for a second? I leave Saturday night. So we buy the house Friday (tomorrow, oh Lord) come back Jackson Friday night. Eric Brust comes down too. He and Fran are going to a wedding on Sunday. Fran doesn't know the couple but Eric is shooting their wedding and he wants a date. He's becoming a dead serious wedding photographer. I'm proud to say we were his first. Back on subject... we close Friday, come back, we are driving a float in a parade on Saturday morning, all three of us. I know, weird right? The Fran has to work til 10. Then we are driving to Springfield and spending the night with Cadets (yes all three of us). Sunday morning I start teaching and Eric & Fran get gussied up and get free cocktails. But I am gone for a month. Til June 21st. Or 22nd. Somewhere around there. I buy a house and then go live in a dorm and a bus seat for a month. Bananarama was right. It is a cruel, cruel summer.



Lakers beat the Spurs in game one last night. Mets have been degraded by the Braves. I watched the end American Idol finale. I haven't watched an episode since back in the auditions so I really had no idea who was who. I don't really think that was George Michael tho. I think they rented his double from Madam Curie's wax museum or an animated robot from the Neverland Ranch or something. Is it me or is that Frank TV guy an enormous hack? It's not me. And people, can we now get some instant replay in baseball?



I just realized it's not a good idea to blog while I'm half asleep at 3AM.

No Cavs. No Hornets. No Me.

Ok NBA, listen up. I know your ideal finals would be Lakers/Celtics and that's who I picked to be in it as well. I mean, it's practically been scripted since pre-season and it'd be a "classic finals showdown" and blah blah blah but in a season where I have finally been won over as a fan of basketball, you're losing me. I can't watch another predictable game played by the old man Spurs. I don't wanna watch those cocky Pistons. They're boring. I want LeBron back! I want CP3 circus shots! And now that they're gone, you better hope that it's that "classic" Kobe/Garnett finals or you won't see me again til October. Take that!

That said, I still want the Celtics to win it all. But after two full 7 game series and who knows what with the Pistons I'm worried these dudes won't have anything left in the tank. But I don't really care to see the Lakers win more championships. In the meantime, I'm campaigning for Knicks 2009.

2008 NBA Playoffs

I know it's already a couple games into the playoffs but I made this up the other day and never posted it. And it's always fun to look back and see how terrible I am at predicting these things. But look how pretty it is with the Lakers & Celtics dropping into the finals. It just looks natural.

Fiiiiiine, I'll Watch The NCAA's

I have been trying to pretend to be interested in the college championships but I just can't be bothered, but I managed to catch the end of the Davidson game the other night against Gonzaga and then again when they took out Georgetown and this Stephen Curry kid is impressive. So I made sure to try and watch most of tonights game against Wisconsin, where they were supposed to lose (again) but did not (again). Even tho it was a blowout, it was a great game and those kids, not only Curry, are exciting to watch on that court. Even Lebron was in the stands just having a good time watching these kids go further in the bracket than even they expected to go. So naturally, now I'm hooked, like half the country. Let's just hope they can get past Kansas, or for by some miracle Villanova, so I can keep watching the NCAA's cuz I'm afraid that if they're out, so am I.

Brackets Schmrackets

All I been hearing about is these NCAA brackets. Who's picking who over who, one seed, two seed, poppy seed, sesame seed. I choose Ohio State. Are they in it? I don't really care. There's too many teams. I like the 8 team playoff. I can keep track of that. It's forcing me to have to watch the History Channel. But that's fine. They had some programs on about the development of the western railroads and the Alaskan pipeline. Fascinating. Really. I've been lucky enough to catch a few decent basketball games (Rockets finally lost after 22 straight/I like the Golden State Warriors now) and some of the Mets spring training games. Liking Brian Schneider. Not so much with Ryan Church. But it's only spring training.

My favorite song right now is Friend Of Ours by Elbow. The Seldom Seen Kid is their brilliant new album. Pick it up.

Fran is on another cleaning spree. But this one was pretty effective. My sweaters have been color co-ordinated.