Two More Days!!!

Okay folks, draft time is upon us. So get out your mock draft boards and see if your draft compares with the actual draft. Will it be JaMarcus or Brady headed to Oakland? Maybe the Black Hole with take the star from GT. Will Detroit finally wise up and not take another wide receiver? It's all going to be played out on Saturday in New York when the bell sounds and Mr. Goodell walks to the podium and utters those words that all fans wait to hear. "With the first pick of the 2007 NFL Draft, the Oakland Raiders pick ...." You fill in the blank.

No matter what happens, each team will have doubters saying they should have picked so and so, why did they pick this guy when they really needed this guy, etc. I just like seeing how happy the guys are being picked. Last year when Vernon Davis was picked up by the 49'ers and he was crying because he was so happy, loved it. I was just thrilled to see someone that considered it such an honor to be playing a sport for a living, unlike some folks that didn't get the deal they really wanted (Eli, not that I'm pointing fingers or anything. Is New York so much better than San Diego?). Every team is looking for a savior, to each of the 32 teams, good luck.

Getting the caffine ready at life.sa.laugh@hotmail.com.

WTF?

As if you didn't know by now, the tragedy at Virginia Tech now has a name and a face to hold responsible. And of course it's a fellow South Korean. I guess I can use this to my advantage at work when people stress me out. "Don't mess with me, or I'll just go off the deep end and start shooting people." Just kidding.

On a serious note, why do these people have to kill other people and then kill themselves. Why don't they skip that middle step and just off themselves first? Well according to some psychologists it's because they want to make a mark in the world. One of those, "If I won't amount to something in life, they will certainly remember me in death." Of course, there's also the argument that there are just a long list of grievances, or insults to the person and they finally can't take anymore. That's what they said about those kids in Columbine.

I personally think that the media's 24/7 coverage of these tragedies helps perpetuate other instances. They said after Columbine, there were many more copycat plans discovered though, thankfully, not carried out. They even said that the story last September of a young Asian man shooting people at a Montreal college may have been an inspiration for the troubled young man that committed those heinous killings yesterday. Either way, you can't turn on the news or open a paper, or magazine and not see stories of violent crime, complete with sound and pictures. Maybe if it wasn't glorified by the news outlets, people wouldn't get it into their heads that it's a good idea to do these things, that they will be forever immortalized in magazines, books, movies, etc. It has to stop.

Praying for the victims and families at VT at life.sa.laugh@hotmail.com.

Spring Break

Season is almost over here in the land of sun and aloe vera. Thank God. When we start to see the high school and college kids arrive en masse, it signals the old folks to head back north for the summer. Good times. For now you can observe at almost any location in the great state of oranges kids glowing with the healthy look of sunburn, marked here and there by the glaringly white swimsuit marks and/or sunglass rings. Guess no one thinks to put on SPF. Why protect from skin cancer now, when you can have the joys of a first or even second degree burn to show all your friends in the frozen tundra up north?

Unfortunately, the end of that season means the beginning of one of another kind. Yep, hurricane season. It's been predicted to be a "very active" season this year. Great. We all know how much I enjoy that time of year. In case you haven't heard, hurricanes suck in general, and when they hit your area, suck specifically. Like gas wasn't already high enough. Anyone else notice how gas prices went up like 30 cents in two weeks, and it's not even summer yet. Am I the only moron that sees some sort of correlation between Exxon reporting record profits, into the billions people, and us having to pay more for gas? Guess that's why I'm not making the billions.

Working on my loan application for a tank of gas at life.sa.laugh@hotmail.com.

Well, if you're not into NCAA basketball (and I am not) you may not have heard that the University of Florida beat THE Ohio State University in the NCAA Finals last night. Normally, being a Michigander, and thus sworn to hate everything Buckeye, I would have been happy about this. However, I now live in Gator country south, full of UF Fans. If you've never experienced the joy of Gator fans and their obnoxious Gator chomp (you know that nifty move they do with their arms going up and down like an alligator mouth, witty I know) it's almost as bad as suffering through a football game watching the leprechan of Notre Dame. Yep, it's that bad. Thus, watching and hearing UF fans gloat over winning something as big as this is worse than hearing everyone from the state of Ohio refer to the state college there as THE Ohio State University which is pretty annoying unto itself. (What's up with the emphasis on THE anyway? Is there another Ohio State University? Do you really need to differentiate between this Ohio State University which is actually located in Nebraska and THE Ohio State University in Columbus?)

So I didn't stay up until midnight to watch UF beat OSU to a pulp, but I was secretly hoping that UF would lose. Take a little wind out of their sails. Hearing they won this morning brought forth this reaction: aw crap. It's not enough to listen to all those UF folk talk about how great they are winning the national championship in football, now I have to listen to them rant about how great they are in basketball too, not once but twice making it doubly crappy. Now we have to listen everyone in the state of Florida extol the virtues of Billy Donovan and Urban Meyer. Yuck.

waiting for football season at life.sa.laugh@hotmail.com