The best things in life are free....

Some things are overrated in this life: Fame, money, power. Of course for those of us that don’t have it, that’s easy to say. Tonight I saw a show that touched me deeply with one frame at the end. One frame and this big 275 pound manly man was reduced to a blubbering mass in no time. That’s not hard to do of course, especially in my old age but it happened none the less.

So I sat and watched as this little girl, taken from her mother was reunited with her. She ran to her mother and jumped in her arms, legs around her waist and arms around her neck. Over the mothers shoulder you could see her smile the smile of a contented and safe feeling child. One that had everything back in the right places after the pieces were mixed up and frightened her. But now she was all right. Now she was back in the safe loving arms that had always made her feel the safest and warmest she had ever felt. The only arms that can give the comfort, love and solace a child needs.

That’s it? That’s all that made you whine like a baby? Close. But what did it was thinking about how right and perfect that feels. To have a child impart the energy they feel when they are feeling perfect: when they feel the way they do after being scooped up by their mother or father. That’s what did it. That feeling that courses through me when I have lifted my child off the ground and feel those arms reach for safety and comfort that can only be given by a parent.

I have experienced this with every child of mine. The one on one feeling of being the protector and safe haven for them when they feel their most vulnerable. They latch onto you and surrender their safety to the trust they have in you.

Just seeing that girl grab onto her mother reminded me of that feeling and made me so thankful that of all things there are in the world, I would never want to give up that privilege of having my little girl grab me around the neck and say “Daddy, boo-boo chicken.” I will gladly stay poor the rest of my life and only ask for the means to keep my family satisfied before I would ever release the privilege of that feeling.

So some things are overrated and I don’t need them. They would make life nice and even nicer for those I love. So I know some people value those things more: But then my sadness returns when I think of those that have not felt that warmth and contentment. The ones that may think it is overrated and resort to other means of fulfillment. If they only knew what they were missing.

I’ll take my hugs and kisses and I will return every ounce of love I receive sevenfold and ensure my child receives everything she deserves and more. Everything I didn’t get and everything I know will make her love her child the same way one day. Because she will look back and KNOW how it feels to have that love supporting you.

It may not read so blubbering, but it meant a lot to me to understand the true sentiment of that hug and all the emotions and communication that was transmitted in the simple free act of a hug and squeeze.

Sports...a season is closing, a season underway and two seasons to begin...

So the White Sox didn’t make it into the play offs. Yeah not good. Then they trade my favorite player. But not just trade him, they sent him to the dodgers. The dodgers! ( this is said in the form of the voice that only the word lamentation could fully describe.) At least they’re still in it so I can see my boy Thome a little longer before he retires. Downside is the Cardinals got knocked out but they deserved it. They didn’t play well enough: simple.

Then the Red Sox got knocked out YAY!!!! That leaves the Yankees and Angels. Can’t wait for that series this week, I may watch all of it.

Which brings me to my next problem. The Rockies are playing the Phillies and well, the Rockies aren’t doing well but the announcers are so firkin boring. It’s like Bob and Doug McKenzie calling the World Cup fo Soccer. You know those two canooks have no clue about that! Neither do these guys and they sound tired.

Now keep in mind I am in Central Time, the game is in Mountain time so its after 11 here and it MAY put me to sleep!!!!! It just may.

I had a rough weekend on the betting side. Missed a big money maker Thursday with Nebraska and Mizzou by 1 frikin point! 1!!!!!!! Picked them right though but took the over under bet and missed! My fault. And then on Saturday I broke my rule and bet on a Tennessee game. Only I didn’t bet on them I bet against them. Never bet on Tennessee in any form unless it’s the Lady Vols Basketball team.

Then for pro football I got my big game bet right on the money. Then we made another parlay with four games. Indianapolis came through in fine fashion, so did Philly and so did Pittsburgh. But that firkin crazy San Francisco didn’t even win their game let alone make the spread. Sigh…missed out on some dough there but didn’t really lose a lot of money. I am actually sitting with a nest egg of 66% profit for the weekends activities. I will be parlaying that this next week into another small tidy lump sum as well. Hopefully exponentially.

I only see four games right now worthy of betting on PRO. Not touching baseball till the world series. College is going to have to be Florida playing New Orleans school for the dead before I touch it. But basketball is coming up and My honey will be giving me insight on Hockey as soon as it becomes viable for betting.

So I sit each weekend and always wind up with a problem on my fantasy team. I usually have two or three players that depend on the guys players I am playing to succeed and I usually have a bet on the team they play for to lose which makes it hard to enjoy much. But it does make for an exciting day! So I will continue!

Anyway, that’s my sin for the week. Back to watching the playoffs!

Vandalism and the angry mob...good grief.

I just got through reading a story about some kids in my home area of the country that was caught spray-painting the back of a school during a rivalry week of football.

Okay #1, I do know vandalism of this nature is illegal and should not be condoned and I do not condone it. HOWEVER!!!!!! I do know every class has done something to the other school across this country and had fun doing it without hurting a soul! I also know it isn’t a felony or a hate crime. Its firkin school rivalry and pride at work.

Some proposed solutions: Banning the teams from playing each other ever again? Suspending this game due to escalating vandalism? (I didn’t know spray painting we’re #1 was escalating vandalism.) Press charges against them for felony destruction of property?

What part of this story did I not hear? How much is the Police department keeping from us? Is there a serial killer associated with the crime? Did they find Hoffa under the football field? Maybe one of them has new information about the Lindbergh kidnapping. No I got it, one of them MUST have information about Joseph Manglia. Has to be it.

Give me a break! They actually did a lab test on the damn paint and traced it back to a specific Wal-mart, (I knew a Wal-mart would be involved. That satanic retailer is behind everything. But I digress again!) then obtained video of every person buying paint and uncovered some teens purchasing paint cans. Very circumstantial but I bet if they can get the epithelial off of the paint fragments and connect it to the boys hands and fingerprints that would tie it up more. And what would cinch this case for the DA all nice and tight would be determining the lingering form of Axe body spray left on the premises by the alleged would-be Da Vinci’s once and for all: Thus sealing the coffin and nailing with facts how the teens went about their dastardly destructive and subversive behavior which undoubtedly has sank our wonderful and virgin society to the depths of the cesspool that is now criminal.

PLEASE!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!! You know there are a few murders in that area that could use this type of direction and attention!!!!! Think we can get on that some time soon!!!!!!!!! HUH!!!!!!!???????!!!!!!! External School Vandalism during a rivalry week???!!!!!??? REALLY!!!! This is out attention!!!!!!

We stood by and watched a woman be murdered on TV in Iran and didn’t even impose a sanction on the place. We let genocide occur daily in the Congo and say nothing! We donate, sometimes some of us do anyway, our spare change to the people collecting for good causes in the street but most of the time even roll our windows up and ignore them instead of helping. But our noble efforts and devotion is deserved of this endeavor. BRING THESE TEENAGE FOOTBALLERS TO JUSTIVCE AND MAKE SURE THEY KNOW YOU CANT PAINT OUR SCHOOLS LIKE THAT!!!! YOU CANT DO THAT AND GET AWAY With it!!!

But you can become the leader of a small faction of idiots that want to wipe out a race and we won’t bother you for a while until the right people get involved or it becomes something the WORLD says we should intervene for.

STUPID!!!!!!!!

I know I blow this out a bit but really. I know I took part in silliness of this nature as did most of the cops involved in the investigation BECAUSE IWENT TO SCHOOL WITH SOME OF THE MORONS!!!!!!!!! THEY HELD THE DAMN CANS WITH ME AND THEY ALSO USED THE BAG OF LIE THAT WE PUTON THE FIELD TO BURN OUR FLAG INTO THE FOOTBALL FIELD SO IT WAS THERE ALL SEASON! But they want to crucify these guys because the Sadducees and Pharisees are hurling stones and threatening to call Caesar!

Now I feel like Eddie Izzard. Breathe! K. There you have it.

Catch the kids with normal effort not the cinematic efforts of CSI: MIAMI. And when you do, charge them with very low-level vandalism charges. Make them clean it up and do some public service LIKE YOU HAD TO DO!!!!!!!!!!!! And be done. Trust me, this is not the premonition of a group of Ted Bundy’s that need to be stopped now before they get out of sorts.

Good lord. No wonder our world is so screwed up. I bet our parents wouldn’t have turned it over to us if they knew we were going to get this stupid.

Soap box vacant. Diatribe over. Commence milling around and discussing now. Thank you!