What Have I Been Up To Lately? (Part 2)
Yeah, I know…four days between posts?
Be quiet.
Quick-hitters:
- My Wii friend code is 1963 4549 4969 1019.
- How about them Lakers? Andrew freaking Bynum is a stud! Jordan Farmar has been a spark plug off the bench. And Kobe’s happy!
(Did I just jinx them?)
- One quick sports take: how about this ruling that the Hawks and the Heat have to replay the last 51.9 seconds of OT because of a miscalculation in the number of fouls Shaq had?
Questions:
1) What the heck took so long for this ruling to come down? Shouldn’t this have taken a couple of days at the most?
2) What if Shaq is hurt when the replay occurs?
3) What if players on either team get traded before the replay can happen? I would love to see the NBA mandate that a traded player has to return to his original team just for this one minute of action.
4) Um…the Heat are one of the worst teams in the entire NBA! One extra win (should they pull this game out) isn’t going to make a lick of difference in where they finish! Besides, if I were Pat Riley, I’d strongly consider tanking the rest of the season starting now…that is, if teams actually tank games to better their draft position in the first place…
- So what else did I do during my prolonged absence? Like I mentioned in my last blog entry, I took a trip up to Elk Grove, CA, to visit my cousins and nephews. They were staying in Reno on the 26th, and we planned on meeting them up there for the night.
We drove up there, and somehow got from Tarzana to Stockton—we stopped for a lunch break—in a bit over four hours. Stockton to Reno via Sacramento and Lake Tahoe took another four hours, though, and the precipitous drop in temperatures got me sick.
(Great, huh? The first day of my vacation, and I got sick!)
Amazingly, while in Reno, I did no gambling. I got the joy of following two ultra-hyper kids through Circus Circus’ kiddie land, while feeling sick as hell. I might have gotten an hour of sleep that night; it didn’t help that one of the brats woke me up at 7AM.
Thursday was spent sucking on cough drops one-at-a-time for the entire day (to hell with the dosage recommendations!) while going on a second tour of duty through Circus Circus’ kiddie land. After that, we headed back to Elk Grove, but not before stopping in Truckee, CA (just south of Tahoe, if I’m not mistaken) for an unforgettable experience.
And by unforgettable, I mean I’m never doing it again.
My uncle thought it would be a fun idea to do some sledding (sorta; basically, we’re doing down a snow-filled hill on a board, sitting down. Anyone wanna let me know what that’s called? In the meantime, we’ll go with “sledding”). I emphatically announced that I would not be getting anywhere close to one of the boards, knowing full well that riding one of those things would probably have killed me.
(Totally off topic: I’m placing some online orders while typing out this blog entry. Should a random string of characters—some random digits, my credit card number, etc.—appear on this blog, let me know, yeah?)
Anyway, the highlights of that day include:
- My seven-year-old nephew went down the hill first, and I immediately noticed he was drifting left, right towards me. Instinctively, I jumped over him and to the left, to avoid certain death. Thank goodness for my cat-like quickness and agility, even for a person my size, and especially considering I was sick!
- Twice, my cousin was ready to slide down the hill, only to have the board slide down…with him not on it. Both times, he decided that he had no choice but to slide down on his shoes. By the way, he was wearing dress shoes. The second time he went down, all I remember was him barreling down the hill.
- I also distinctly remember watching my sister go down the hill twice. Each time, she (the lightweight that she is) couldn’t stay fixed on the board, and she kept bouncing off the board as it was going down the hill. And I’m not talking about coming off the board slightly! We’re talking 3-6 inches!
- In my delirium, I may or may not have been forced to go down the hill once. I honestly cannot remember.
(*whistles*)
- The rest of the trip was pretty boring, even though every morning was started with coffee and a donut from my cousins’ donut shop. I did get a ton of recipe ideas, cooked them some tasty steaks—could you believe my sister wanted to serve them London broil???—and thankfully, I got over my sickness…when the trip ended, naturally.
We returned home on Christmas Eve, and just about nothing happened between then and now. I did get Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii, though, but I haven’t even ripped off the shrink wrap on the case.
That’s all I have for now. Until next time!