Meat Loaf (The Food, Not the Musician), My Living Room Is a Mess, and Why I’m Worried About the Bruins
Quick-hitters:
- Hey KFC…any time now, you can stop airing those stupid commercials advertising your “sauceless” hot wings. I don’t know what bugs me more: the annoying as hell actors, or the fact that the hot wing has been sold at KFC for years.
I almost miss the “I’m lovin’ it!” McDonald’s commercials.
(Almost.)
- Since when have Twizzlers tasted so good? I bought a pair of bags from—where else?—CVS on Saturday (they were BOGO and I had a $2 ECB I needed to spend anyway), and my sister and I have already polished off one bag.
I can’t wait for the day after Easter, when stores start clearancing their Easter candy :P.
- So I had a hankering for some meat loaf over the weekend. While running errands, which included Costco (evil!!!) and CVS, I got what I needed to make the loaf on Sunday. A non-health emergency forced me to wait until Monday to cook, but I didn’t mind.
(Adding half a bulb of garlic to a 2lb meat loaf isn’t too much, is it?)
I served the meat loaf with the usual fare: mashed potatoes, gravy, and a boatload of steamed veggies. Methinks I will be making another loaf later this week.
I would have enjoyed my meal a lot more if not for…
- …the fact that I discovered a series of cracks in my living room wall a few days ago, as well as a leaky bathroom faucet, prompting me to give my landlord a ring. Unfortunately for me, I had to move the computer desk and bookshelf blocking the cracks, and now my file server is out of commission for the time being.
Worse, my LCD HDTV was also sitting there, and that is also out of commission for the time being. Unfortunately, I have no space anywhere else in the house to put the TV and computer, until the repair job dries and is painted over.
A week without ESPN HD???? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Well, at least the repair guy did a nice job patching the cracks, and I was able to vacuum the area behind the computer/TV desk. And it was kinda fun to cook a whole dinner while sidestepping repair men as they went back and forth through my house.
- So after the Bruins got away with another victory—and the “win” against Cal might have been even more ridiculous than the one against Stanford—I have to say that I can see the Bruins not making it out of the Sweet 16 this year.
(Tangent: As bad as the Josh Shipp miracle-that-shouldn’t-have-counted shot was, the non-call on Russell Westbrook on Cal’s Ryan Anderson was even more egregious. Cal needed to call in CSI to fingerprint the back of Anderson’s jersey. That’s as close to a legal mugging as I’ve ever seen.)
Sure, the Bruins probably locked up a #1 seed. And yeah, they’ll probably play in the West. Still, I can easily see the Bruins not making a third straight Final Four, for the following reasons:
1) The Bruins can’t seem to stop anybody in the paint. I thought Kevin Love was supposed to give the Bruins an interior presence, but for some reason, guards have been able to penetrate the Bruins D with ease lately. Good passing bigs (the Lopez brothers of Stanford, e.g.) seem to be giving the Bruins fits as well.
2) The Bruins can’t shoot. Josh Shipp better find his shooting stroke, or the Bruins are toast. He’s been looking good lately, but who knows what will happen in the tourney? Ben Howland’s a great coach, but he really needed to give some PT to other players to find a capable zone-buster (the role Michael Roll was supposed to fill this year). The boys from Cameroon have proven to be less than capable shooters, and they can’t be depended upon offensively.
3) Darren Collison is going to have an off-night. Collison is a great shooter, and an even better distributor, and sometimes his shots aren’t going to fall. On those nights, who is going to pick up the slack? Love? Not if the opposition is playing zone. And as nice as Westbrook has been this season, I cringe when he tries to go one-on-all for consecutive possessions.
4) Depth, or lack thereof. Seven deep? I really worry about fatigue.
Speaking of depth, I can see four members of the starting lineup (Shipp excluded) leaving at the end of the year, along with the graduation of Lorenzo Mata-Real. How the heck are we going to replace all that in one season?
Anyway, I can’t wait for the tourney to start!
Until next time.