Crumpled Notebook

Regardless of your political beliefs, you cannot tell me the speech below is not inspiring, or at least this part of it (1:06 in video): “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for…We are the change that we seek.” Sure, it’s not original, or a new concept, but regardless of who says it, but it could be the most true thing I’ve heard spoken during this election season.

Anyway, this isn’t about the election. I voted for Obama, but I’d be perfectly happy with Clinton, McCain or Obama.

For the record, I re-did this post 3 times in the last 20 minutes. First it seemed too anti-american for most of your all’s taste. Next, I got too political. But, that said, if you’d like to know what’s really going through my head on those 2 fronts, email me .

So it’s official. I bought a plane ticket tonight to Chicago for May. So here is the plan:

May 7th: Arrive and probably sleep
May 8th: White Sox game with Jeff
May 9th: Cubs game with Jeff
May 10th: Wander around Chicago before starting the drive to Pittsburgh
May 11th: Visit my brother somewhere around Pittsgurgh (about an hour from there)
May 12th: Pirates game!!!!! (and they are playing good ol’ Atlanta…CRYSTAL)…after game, start driving back to Chicago
May 13th: Get up, finish trip to Chicago, get on a plane, go home

Now I just have to figure out what to do in the evenings in Chicago on the 8th and 9th since the games are mid-day. Anyone have any suggestions?

Bobby Knight, the all-time winningest Men’s Division I coach, resigned today with 902 wins and only 371 losses. He’s currently at Texas Tech.
Not sure why, or if there is a reason, other than what is listed in this article here. I hope not.

If you read here, you know I am a fan of Bobby Knight. Always have been, at least since his time at Indiana, and will probably always be.

Anyway, it’s a sad day for NCAA Basketball, but wow, what a wonderful career this man had.

So, I’m not sure if I’ve ever blogged about this before. I know I’ve mentioned it to a few people, but not everyone. Anyway, I was looking at the shirt tonight on shirt.woot.com and it reminded me.

So anyway, I have this thing I do when I’m trying to sleep. I haven’t done it as much recently, but it used to be a lot, when I’m going through spells of not sleeping well. Anyway, when I can’t sleep I try the really lame counting sheep thing. It’s always the same. Sheep are lined up, coming down through a field, and then they have this little wooden fence to jump over, similar to the one in the picture below.

Now, here’s where my problem kicks in. Before I say this, I will say, go ahead and analyze me all you want. I don’t care. Anyway. The first few sheep are fine, do their thing. But after a few sheep jump, they start jumping too fast for me to keep up with the counting. You’d think, since it’s my mind controlling this, I could slow them down. But it doesn’t work. I can’t control them once they start jumping too fast. What does help is that I open my eyes and stop. Close my eyes and then picture in a gate that they have to go through before they can jump the fence. I seem to have more control over the gate than I do the jumping sheep. Ultimately, they figure it out and it never really helps me sleep.

Yes. I know it’s weird. But it’s all true. Psycho-analyze me and my sheep all you want.

I added a captcha to my comment form. All that means is that it will put up a randomly generated word or group of letters and you have to type in what it says…that is, if you are human. I’m sure you’ve seen them. Anyway, the reason is because while I have an awesome spam catcher, askimet ,  I literally delete hundreds of spam comments a day. Sure, I could let it sit there and delete automatically, but it annoys me when I see them all, so really I just want to see if it makes any difference.