Would You Rather...

Ok... question time...

Would you rather be a famous actor/athlete or president of the United States? Both have their pluses and minuses right?

I got to thinking about it though, and figured I'd rather take the less responsible route and be a famous athlete/actor. Sure, you're privacy is completely gone (which basically happens when you're president too right), but you don't have all the pressure of fixing the country. You only have to 'work' during the season of your sport, or while you shoot your movie, so there's plenty of vacation time, which is nice.

On the other hand, if you were president, then you could actually do something with your life. You could actually fix (or attempt to fix) the problems we face today. But you don't really get to take a day off for the next four/eight years, which would suck...

And if you're president, you're only making like $300k a year, but chance are if you're an athlete/actor you're going to be making 10 or 100x more than that! But it's not like you have travel costs or rent if you're president.

Oh and if you're an actor/athlete and fool around with someone who works for you no one cares. If you're the president and do that, you lose your job...

It's Hard Coming Up With Titles

So I don't really have one for this post... just a couple of quick points and I'll be on my way.

• Have you ever noticed that a 20 second time out in basketball is 20 seconds only in name? They always play at least two commercials during the time out, so that's at least a minute right there..
• I'm finding it very difficult to turn my brain off at night. I can zone out no problem playing on the internet or watching tv, but as soon as the lights go out my brain kicks into high gear. Work, stuff around the house, tv, everything! I used to be able to relax no problem and shut down for sleepy time. Now it takes like twenty minutes, any suggestions on what to do?
• It's almost Valentines Day and I've gotta say I'm not really a huge fan. It's a completely made up day that forces us men to do stuff for our ladies. Does Hallmark really think we as men are that incompetent that they have to tell us when to buy flowers, etc?
• Did you watch that interview with ARod yesterday? It was funny listening to him go on and on apologizing, etc. "I was young and naive and didn't know any better", "everyone was doing it", "it was all about the money". Doesn't it sound like one of those Hollywood actresses that does nudity early on in her career then goes on to superstardom and regrets taking off her clothes? Seriously though, the whole steroids thing, I'm really over it. To me, it's just another era of baseball. When I teach my kid all I know about baseball, it'll be just another chapter, that's all. And as for keeping these guys out of the Hall of Fame, bad idea. The HoF is nothing but a museum and a museum should tell the entire history, not just the parts it picks and chooses. But that's just my opinion, what do I know...
  

Decisions, Decisions..

I'm thinking of taking a bold step...recently I've noticed the bald spot on my head.. well it's not really fair to call it a spot, more like a region, has been expanding and taking over the rest of my head. Think of it as Germany circa 1938 with the rest of my head being Europe, only there's no Allies to come in and stop them...

Others have noticed too... the other day at work, I bent over to write something on a desk while standing, and my 71 year old custodian looks up and says, "wow Jason, you're really going bald huh!" So I over course asked him if he knew what it was like to stand in an unemployment line. Then yesterday, I'm in the bathroom brushing my teeth as the wife is taking her shower. I comment to her that my hair seems to be thinning out more, and she says, "Um thinning out? I think it's done thinning and has moved on to disappearing!" This of course led me to reach into the shower and turn off the hot water while she wasn't looking. Fair play I'd say.

So I'm thinking of not shaving the head again, but just stopping the "pretending it's not there and try to cover it, but letting the hair around it grow a little longer" and just cutting it short. Not bald short or wiffle short, just shorter than it is now, so it doesn't look like I'm trying to hide anything...

I don't actually own hair clippers anymore, so I'll have to go buy some. So nothing will happen until I make another Target run, which knowing my wife, will be very soon. We'll see...any suggestions??

Movies And Then Some

So we went and saw He's Just Not That Into You last night. We'll get to the review in second, first two things...

When purchasing the tickets, the wife left me to go to the ladies room (her way of making me pay for them). The woman behind the ticket counter was in her mid fifties and the conversation we had went something like this:
me: "two tickets for he's just not that into you please"
her: "ok...(tapping computer screen) did you say two?"
me: (laughing)"do i look like the type of guy that would go see this movie by himself?"
her: (laughing) "you actually look like a gentlemen who bought tickets earlier who said he had lost a bet with his wife"

Then while standing in line to buy popcorn, I turn to the wife and asked if she thought movie popcorn used real butter. After all, they call it butter, right, so why not? She said no, she didn't think it was real at all, just some synthetic concoction dubbed butter. Well let me tell you, my lactose intolerantness begs to differ... it's butter...

Now as for the movie... I have to admit it was pretty entertaining. Every single/nonmarried girl out there should see it, as it lets you behind the curtain to the male dating thought process. If even half that movie is true, you girls think waaaaay too much...

The director also managed to do what I thought was impossible. They tried their best to make Scarlett Johansson unattractive. Or maybe she's just not as attractive as I thought she was? There's a scene or two where she's very yummy, but otherwise I was kinda disappointed...

Slow Days

Haven't had much to report on lately, so sorry for the lack of posts. My lovely wife is painting the kitchen cabinets (a cheaper alternative to replacing them), but our camera is broken, so I can't show you any pictures. Needless to say, it looks 1000% times better.

We bought a web cam the other day too. The in-laws are in Italy for the next four or so months so we figured this would be a good way to say hi, especially when Future Baby arrives. I'm just hoping it works ok.

Otherwise it's been pretty quiet around here. I'd babble on some more, but the Celtics-Lakers game is on...

Where Have All The Good Writers Gone?

Those of you who know me, know that I'm a huge fan of tv. Love watching it, have a list of shows I love to watch, and think the dvr is one of the best inventions ever. My new satellite tv has just worsened my habits.

But I have a problem. I'm finding that there's less and less good tv out there. It's almost like the networks have given up on creating decent programming. Comedies are pretty much gone these days, everything seems to be crime dramas and reality tv. And when a new comedy does appear, it's usually horrible (case in point, NBC's Kath and Kim. how in the heck is this train wreck still on the air? i've watched exactly three minutes of it and i sincerely regret wasting all three of those precious minutes). Even if you do choose to watch an hour procedural show, eighteen minutes of that hour is commercial, how ridiculous is that? Again, this is where the dvr (or better yet a Celtics game) comes in handy.

Am I the only one that feels that tv has gone seriously down hill?

Miss Me?

So we're back in Maine.. babyless.. as most of you have already heard. The birthmom decided to parent the baby after all. They say that 50% of adoptive parents have this happen to them. So it totally suc-didily-ucks, but it's not the end of the world. We're already back in circulation so now we just have to wait to get picked again. Next time though, we'll make sure to not repeat the same mistakes and not let the birthmoms agency make the same mistakes..

Oh, and no one should ever ever ever go to Ohio. It is the worst state ever. The people can't drive, plows are nonexistent (after receiving 8-9 inches of snow we didn't see a single plow), and there is absolutely nothing to do.

So thanks to everyone for all their thoughts, prayers and finger crossings, we'll let you know when we need them again..