Author: iPeat

Is this a movie or am I dreaming

If you haven’t been paying attention the Colorado Rockies have made it to the World Series on a winning streak, 21 of the last 22 games, that makes you feel like you are watching a movie. What is their secret do they have a tyrant owner trying to sell the team to warmer climates or maybe an orphan kid is seeing some heavenly beings lending the Rockies a hand so that he can be with his dad again. What ever it is they have not been getting the attention the usual under dog gets. This is something you normally only get in the movies yet no one seems to care. Which puzzles me because America usually loves the underdog. Plus this is an obvious sign of league parity that baseball has been trying to accomplish. Parity gets attributed to the success of the NFL, NCAA tournament, and NASCAR all the time. But it seems whenever analysts talk about any of the lower rung sports NHL NBA MLB and one of the big markets aren’t involved all of a sudden there isn’t any national interest. Why then has MLB been working toward league parity if the nation loses interest when the yankees are involved? I think this all just cover up of a greater loss of interest in baseball.

AJSPS

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Iron Mark

Mark Martin is just some 200 odd points out of twelfth after yet another top ten finish. While this may seem trivial remember that he has started five less races than the rest of the field. And now that Kyle Busch has signed with Gibbs and Earnhardt goes to Hendricks next year, this makes the semi-retired Martin DEI biggest commodity and they are trying their hardest to get him to run a full season next year. As well as fueling the speculation that Martin will be in the 8 next year. I personally don’t see it; Mark is just having too much fun racing each race without the headache that go with running a full season.

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Sums it up

I have been going through a period of time now struggling with motivation, what I want to do with myself, and what I am pretty sure now is adult ADD. And while listening to this weeks episode of This American Life – “#073 Blame it on Art” they had a quote that pretty well sums things up.

“Most of us are toiling away at daily work that doesn’t seem as important to us as the ambitious dreams we have for ourselves. We are convinced we are not living up to our potential. That there is a better part of ourselves that just hasn’t expressed itself yet. Until the day our lives are over and what’s left is that daily work whatever it is and what ever we gave it.”

Basically it is not what you do but how you do it. But it puts it in a light that makes the dreams even though possibly unachievable still worth the effort.

AJSPS

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Bottled water bad

As I say in my frankenstein voice. Recently bottled water has been getting a back lash from environmental junkies. (Check out this topic on Science Friday) Because of all the waste they cause and the energy it takes to make them. This cracks me up, because growing up in the country my parents were lucky enough to have a natural spring. So for me water always flowed freely straight up out of the ground 24/7 no shut off valve. As you can imagine I just assume that was how it worked for everyone. But now I live in Edinboro, and even though the water is safe and fine it taste absolutely awful. You can do the whole Brita filter merry-go-round, but it is a pain in the butt, and while clearer it doesn’t seem to effect the taste. So, I found myself buying water…. buying water. I still have to say it twice, to me it is still surreal. I tell you what though the accessible and ease of having that bottled always there and ready to go sitting in the fridge is quite nice. Well just as I start to get use to an item they tell me it is bad for you, typical. I don’t plan on over reacting though. Just limit my use to those times I really need the quick convenience of it.

AJSPS

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Moving forward

Ok so couple days ago I blogged about my current malaise and the current disorder I am currently living in. For someone that prefers organization and structure, it has been quite annoying. This has been an on and off again thing now for three years or since I moved out and bought my own place. So, I decided that it has gone on long enough and decided to get some professional assistance ( like my choice of words there, I am big one for denial .)  After the first session, they seem to be of the same state of mind that I may have ADD.  The book that mentioned the last posting seems to indicate the same.  Organizing Solutions for People with Attention Deficit Disorder has some excellent ideas and I would highly recommend it to anyone that has organizational issue regardless of whether you have ADD or not.  The first thing suggested by the book and my professional assistance is to de-clutter or more specifically simplify and take away the number of options I have to think about.

I figure the most effective way to de-clutter will be to sell my house all together.  I have been leaning toward this anyways because the drive up to Erie everyday has become quite tiresome.  So, this Monday I am going to start throwing stuff away rather than pack.  And as I post about reorganizing my life, I will also post about the process of fixing up and selling my condo similar Mike’s Roof on Fire blog but in reverse.

This weekend though I will be kayaking down the Allegheny. So, check back Monday for river pictures and progress.

AJSPS

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UGHHHHH!

I haven’t posted anything in a while for a number of reasons but mainly because I have been having major mood swings some awesome highs and enjoyment to utter depression or just numb uncertainty and confusion. I started this most recent blog with the intention of actually moving forward with some of my ideas and a clear focus. Instead it has been the same general hodge podge I was posting before. I am going insane I can’t seem to stay focused on anything. Since my weekends have been pretty much filled lately ( and have throughly enjoyed them; it seems like the only time I am happy) and will continue to be, I have lost my usual catch up time. The result has been my house is a complete wreck, I desperately need to go grocery shopping, I have no idea where my finances sit (I am usually quite anal about this), and for the first time it is starting to effect my work. Tuesday morning I think I sat and stared at my computer screen for a good two hours because I just couldn’t think straight.

Reading over this, it sounds much more dramatic that it actually is. It is just a recent thing two weeks ago I was fine, but it seems to be reoccurring. I keep falling into these malaises, I shake myself out of it, it will last for a couple days than I’ll slowly slip right back into it without even realizing it. I have been reading this organizational book for people with ADD and while I am not sure that I have ADD it seems to have hit a lot of nails on the head. I’ll write some more on this tonight. While I hadn’t envisioned this originally I think I am going to focus my next series of post to getting out of my funk. Hopefully by doing this it will help me keep with it. At that lunch is over, so back to work I must go.

AJSPS

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Dilemma of a High School Nemesis

Alright I had about five or six topics in Yojimbo that I was going to blog about, and maybe I still will. But something like this doesn’t happen every day. I’ll start with the history. I played multiple sport when I was in school along with core group of friends. And there was one individual (leaving unnamed, I’ll get to why in a second) from Fort LeBoeuf we had a number of run-ins with over the years. If you where every to lookup a definition of cocky this kid’s picture would probably be there. Now I am not sure if he ever realized the degree that we all abhorred him nor do I remember all the details as to why.

There are three occasions that stick in my head. The first was I think 7th & 8th grade basketball game. He had been his normal cocky self all game and to make things worse the refs were not calling that close of a game. It came to a head when he took out one our players hard enough that his glasses went all the way across the court. A fight broke out after that.

The next memory is quite small and makes one think they are in a bad movie. During a 9th grade basketball game, he actually took his finger licked it, held it up, and made a sizzling sound in the face of our point guard.

The final one was during 13 year all-star baseball tournament. We had already beaten them once or maybe they had beaten us but it was two loss tournament and whoever lot this game was out. He happen to be the catcher of other team. So, his jaw was going all game. To make things worse the umpired end up being related to someone on their team (for some reason I think it was him, probably because it makes a better story). But the game came down to a controversial call in which our guy was called out for interfering with first baseman. Well my dad who was our coach protested the game and it went all the way to Williamsport (HQ for Little League) and they found in our favor. We had to then finish the game which took all of one batter for us to take the lead.

Now he was pretty short and his talent didn’t match his cockiness (not that I was all that great) but by the time we were playing varsity sports he wasn’t. So, I kind of just forgot about him went to college and on with my life. Then, the other day while I was work on one of the servers I saw his name as one of the teachers in the district and made me chuckle. I wondered if it was the same person. Today I was going into that building to fix another server that was have network problems and there he was walking right at me. It made me pause for a second then I just gave the typical man to man head nod and walk by. Now he maybe a perfectly nice guy now but he has one of those jock faces that just looks cocky whether the person is or not. Also, while I recognized him I highly doubt he recognized me because I look a lot different ( 6 to 7 inches taller, a beard, no Recs Specs) and I wasn’t one our main stars.

This all got me thinking about how we perceive people and how we think they perceive us and how foolish this really is. If nothing else I got a good laugh at the whole thing.

AJSPS

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