I better write this now, because tomorrow I expect to be in great pain.
Suzanne and I bit the bullet and signed up for a personal trainer at our gym. We thought what better way to ensure we’re consistent in getting to the gym, are meeting our goals, and throw some more money to them each month?
Our first session was today. The pain is already kicking in.
Sweet heavens to Betsy. I’ve found proof that we’re all a lot more alike than some people want us to think, and that the world truly is a wonderful place.
A timely piece from the New York Times that may affect/interest some of you. I just let my Newsweek subscription expire last month. I had been getting the magazine, off-and-on, since high school.* But I’ve found that I rarely read it cover-to-cover since much of the magazine is material I’ve already read in various forms. Plus, with most of the columns available on-line, why spend the money? Sounds like they’re making an effort to shore up their subscriber base before it’s too late.
* Yes, I was a gigantic geek even in high school.
Newsweek Plans Makeover to Fit a Smaller Audience -
Newsweek is about to begin a major change in its identity, with a new design, a much smaller and, it hopes, more affluent readership, and some shifts in content. The venerable newsweekly’s ingrained role of obligatory coverage of the week’s big events will be abandoned once and for all, executives say.
There are some changes in store for the blog in the coming weeks and months. I’ll get into more detail as I work things out, but I’ll offer up a hint that I’m teaching myself how to code HTML, XHTML, and CSS. For the majority of you who are scratching your heads about what the hell those things mean, they are the languages that websites are written in. So, sometime in the future, I’ll be able to code how the blog looks all by myself. I think that’s terribly cool. I hope you’ll indulge me and agree.
In the meantime, I’ll be playing around with the templates available to me now. Thus, the look and feel of the site may change quite a bit as I experiment to help formulate my plan for how I want my design to look when I’m ready to start coding.
Also, I’ve decided to scrap the Weekly Links feature. I’m just going to post links as I find them. That way I don’t miss anything, I can comment a little more on some of them, and I offer up more content each week. Everybody wins!
This link, though, doesn’t require much explanation from me.
The best thing about the scandalous revelations that A-Rod, too, has ‘roided? That many less hours ESPN has to push the Duke-Carolina game on us. I bet they were sweating it, though, and were worried A-Rod wouldn’t talk to Peter Gammons until Wednesday. No way they devote the entire 6:00 p.m. Sportscenter to the interview and reactions on the night of the BIGGEST RIVALRY IN THE HISTORY OF RIVALRIES AND PROBABLY THE UNIVERSE ITSELF.
Quick take on A-Rod: not surprised, everyone was doing it, right? Nice that he’s manning up, to a point, instead of offering up vague apologies. But it’s not like he came out and admitted this on his own. It took the report of a positive test six years ago to get him to come clean.
And can all the sports writers out there just chill on the “Wait until Player X, who is clean, wipes away all the records from the steroid era” chatter? See what it gets you? Everyone is doing something for an edge. Never forget that.
That’s the best way I can describe last night’s KU-MU game. The Jayhawks just forgot to win. Of course, Mizzou had a lot to do with that, as did both Cole Aldrich and Sherron Collins operating on fumes the last four minutes. There were a few dicey calls, including a classic “Horrible Call That Only Happens When KU Goes To MU.” But those didn’t cost KU the game. They pissed away a game that was in the bag in Columbia last night mostly by themselves.
KU’s Tyrel Reed makes good on his promise to eat his jersey if KU lost to MU while Leo Lyons displays the Tigers’ current winning streak over the defending National Champions following Monday’s 62-60 win.
I had planned on using this space to talk about basketball, specifically the progress of KU this season and tonight’s big game against Missouri. But Lia is being a fussy girl today, and I’ve not gone five minutes without her in my arms. So, unless I get a longer break this afternoon, it looks like that will have to wait.
But, hey, it’s the first big game between KU and MU this late in the season in quite a while. Should be fun and telling for both teams as they try to figure out exactly what they have this season.
A little trivia from this week’s American Top 40: The 80s* rebroadcast.
* Apparently this is the official name for these programs.
Until 1980, no artist had ever had two top ten hits at the same time as both a member of a group and as a solo artist. Diana Ross did it first in late 1980. Another artist accomplished the same feat this week in 1981. Care to take a guess? Answer is below the jump.
My sister-in-law Heather sent me this clip of Louis CK on Conan O’Brien. I laughed a lot and realized I’m old. Do you know that I was seriously thinking about yelling at the neighbor kids who were playing on the snow plow mounds in front of our house last weekend?
Meghan and Cait built their first ever snowman over the weekend.* They were very excited about it. It had to have been the easiest snowman in the history of snowmen. The snow had melted down a little so that it packed without any effort. As I rolled the snow, it sucked everything up down to the ground, leaving a trail of dead grass behind me. Meghan saw the path and decided I had magical powers.
“Daddy is changing winter to spring!” she shouted.
If only I had that kind of power.
* OK, I actually made it for them, but they directed me.
