More Randomness

While I was on vacation, I didn't watch TV for three weeks and didn't miss it one bit.

While on vacation I got an email from a softball coach griping about how the Miss Maine Softball award was chosen. I think this coach's complaints would have a little more credibility if he wasn't sore about his daughter not winning the award. And, had this guy been so concerned about the selection process, don't you think he'd do or say something before a well-deserving player was picked over his daughter?

Did you see the guy that ducked away from the foul ball just in time to let it hit his girlfriend? I thought the fact that the nitwit was wearing his hat on sideways like he was stylin' would have been enough for the girl to dump his sorry punk ass already. But apparently an act of cowardice at the sight of a foul ball did the trick.

Car dealers/peddlers just make me feel icky.

Speaking of which, are there any bigger morons in the world of commercials than car salesmen?

Just for those keeping track, during my vacation I saw: deer, an eagle, seals porpoises, osprey, various ducks and sea birds and a mountain lion.

Just for those keeping track, during my vacation I read six books, including two that I wrote, and wrote a good chunk of my next novel. I even managed to have future chapters evolve in my head that are now just waiting to come out.

I discovered that just because the beer is imported and cost nine or ten dollars doesn't necessarily make it all that good.

It just melts a guys heart when a little girl tells him that she loves him and gives him a kiss on the cheek. Of course, it's not so bad when her mother does the same thing.

Wonders why it is so hard for people to return a phone call or respond to an email out of courtesy.

This whole Corey Pavin-Jim Gray thing has gone from amusing to annoying. Golfer claims he's misquoted, reporter confronts golfer, golfer claims reporter poked him and said "You're going down". If things got any more out of control, they just might have broken into a full-fledged slap fight.

By the way, I have never, ever, misquoted somebody.

And, Jim Gray, you should ask LeBron James to buy you a digital recorder. They're great for recording interviews and covering your ass.

Speaking of James, he's making a list and checking it twice of all the people that have hurt poor little LeBron's feelings. And, I assume, he's going to have a prime time special on ESPN and read them all.

I really get tired of people emailing me propaganda that basically states that people in this country should only be allowed to speak English. Let those of you not the product of immigrants throw that first stone. I think all those gripers should just be miraculously plucked from their daily lives and transported to some foreign country where they don't speak the language. We'll see how sympathetic they are then. Como esta usted?

I saw the brawl between the Cardinals and Reds, if you can call it a brawl. Baseball players really need to learn how to fight. They spend more time pushing, shoving and flailing than actually fighting. At least somebody managed to kick somebody - even if it did make him look more like a rockette than an athlete.

I swear it can't be too hard to be a weatherman.

I missed my chance to go to Oz when a tornado ripped through my hometown and I wasn't there.

I wish I could file a protection order against people that annoy me.

I wonder if the police scanner was as amusing to listen to 20 years ago.

I love how the littlest of things can spark a wonderful memory from your childhood.

Last I knew this country was founded on a search for religious freedom and escaping from religious persecution. So, it is rather interesting that the my-country-right-or-wrong crowd, the flag-waving religious zealots are the ones barking the loudest about the Muslim mosque in New York. Granted, I understand the controversy strikes a chord and is a sensitive issue, but the place is supposedly being built on private property and not on the "Hallowed Ground" of Ground Zero as many of the radical protesters indicate. Their opposition often borders on racism and seems more about politics than honoring the people and sight of the 9/11 attacks.

And Sarah Palin, just shut it will you? If the country cared what you had to say, you'd have been elected.

I get great amusement watching the local TV news when they offer up any old talking head to do the sports news. Between the butchering of names and knowing little about the sports they're reporting on, they're trying to fake it while oblivious to the fact that the sports audience will spot a fraud in a second.