Yes. It is back. Sorry. It is what it is.

Read it, don’t read it, I don’t care…just needed to get some things off my chest.

In no particular order of chronology or importance…

Not on the clock but don’t feel like blowing my entire Sunday afternoon blogging either.  Not a speed version.  Not an airplane rant (although you will get PLENTY of them in the next 4 weeks).  Afternoon rant.  Let’s turn and burn.

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1. Greetings and salutations, people.  Thanks for coming aboard (the boat).  Let’s move.
2. JJ. Pops.
3. I am sitting here watching the Islanders-Washington game, and I will say it is SOOTHING listening to the best announcers in all of sports…hockey announcers.
4. Almost as soothing as listening to Hubie Brown do an NBA game. I was at happy hour Saturday.  We saw Hubie on the screen with a mic.  I closed out our tab immediately.  
5. Unchained Melody came on at brunch today, and although I told Lindsey I could DESTROY that song at karaoke but usually don’t feel like doing serious low key songs, I got the feeling she didn’t believe me. Those guys all called ME on a speaker phone the day after a night out and asked me not to sing that song anymore as I made them look bad.  Shai called me oddly later that day also, as I can sing THIS song better than THEM.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caNRc1ER8p4
6. Ok, well CLOSE to their quality at least?
7. The person was drunk who told me that, but I still nail that song.  
8. The Raptors are exactly who I thought they would be…at least for game 1.  Go Wizards.  I am counting on you for TWO series, mind you.  
9. The more I think about my NHL picks (winner of Nashville-Chicago series vs. winner of Rangers-Pens winner), the more I like them.  Odd way to pick something, but my logic is solid.  
10. Matt, Lindsey has a new position at work, so Sugar Mash time has diminished, but she is on level 878 if anyone cares.  
11. Djokovic became the first player to win THREE Masters events by this time in the year. A couple of things.  First, Nadal only cares about the French Open, so don’t go jumping off of any bridges, anyone.  Second, I am old enough to remember there NOT being “Masters” events.  Third, Nadal only cares about the French Open.  Yes, he will win AGAIN this year.  
12. If you have a partner in life, then you should click on this and then proceed to laugh naturally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq6pwVsZkS0
13. The Rangers won’t interfere with Russell Wilson’s football career. My bet is they wait until he wins his second Super Bowl and THEN push upon him that he might become one of the greatest second basemen of all time…which he might be able to do.  Win fast, Russell.  
14. Why are the NBA games so late on a Sunday? I went to church, but wouldn’t have minded exiting stage left and then catching the first game of the day.  AND, the game I want to see is on AFTER Game of Thrones and Silicon Valley tonight.  I will be going to sleep about 10 minutes after both of those shows.  Get the feeling tonight this chick is going to start OWNING shit.  
15. I won’t get into church today.  First time in a while.  After being devastated by having a pastor who slept with half our church population, I haven’t been in a while.  It was ok.  Yay, God, though.
16. My brother almost got me this.  I love Game of Thrones, but I already have a demon kitty, so this would be over the top.  
17. Random.  When going through my pics, I found this pic of Lindsey and I.  Us.  Beach.  Cycle complete.  
18. Apparently, I am being told Vikings is better than Game of Thrones.   People.  I can only be addicted to one or two things at a time, and my quota is presently filled.
19. Nice that UCLA finally gets a top notch recruiting class in football and that one of those guys gets arrested before playing a game. Class acts.  Sorry, Bob.
20. Love them or hate them. 99k in a stadium for a spring OSU football game is MAD support.  
21. I think UVA football had a spring game too. I have a great picture somewhere of me standing on top of a hippie van with a solo sup full of bourbon pretending like I was watching horse racing.  It is a hard copy of a photo, and it sounds like a lot of effort to download it.
22. Vote anyway you want. I think Jimmy Butler is the most improved player in the NBA this year.
23. Things got complicated last night late night. After Lindsey remembered we already saw SNL (I don’t remember anything as far as events), we had Hustle and Flow, Rocky IV, and 25^th Hour all on at the same time.
24. I have exhausted her on Hustle and Flow and that one “hook” scene, she was over Rocky IV before I even got started with her, and she still doesn’t have the patience to watch 25^th Hour, a very slow developing movie that is one of the best movies you haven’t seen.  
25. I watched the first 10 minutes of Tammy and was mildly impressed. Chuckled a couple times and enjoyed the constant Allman Brother references.  
26. I remember being at Woodstock 1994 wandering around during a thunderstorm in the mud pretending to sell event programs.  I can write that since I was busted by the rents for being there.  
27. Bryant got struck out THREE times his first game and then got a hit the next game. Listen, all.  I KNOW he will be magical.  I GET it.  But at THIS pace, it won’t matter I live NOT in Chicago as I will know everything he is doing WHEN he is doing it.  Stop it.  This is like the baseball version of Tim Tebow as far as updates.  
28. I’m excited.
29. LOTS of travel coming up. And my work travel is taking me to a couple not so bad spots in the nation.  Prepare for randomness, airplane rants, and more pics.  
30. That is next week.  But my work vacations won’t suck either.  
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33. Ok.  The third one is definitely weaker.
34. The Irish Snug is slowly overtaking Uptown Tavern as my go to place for watching sports. Cheap, TV’s, more couches, multiple levels, friendly staff, and much closer to my crib than somehow I imagined.  
35. Pete Rose joining Fox is perfect. I am cracking on both at the same time.
36. Well, I don’t really crack on Pete. I am a firm believer that he should be an HOF’er, but aside from that he is kind of funny.  Fox just sucks in general overall.  
37. GAMER and then some.
38. The Raptors GM cusses more on a public microphone than I do in this rant.
39. The Rockets are better and more talented, but don’t be surprised if Dallas doesn’t win two at their crib before the Rockets pull away.
40. I watched the Bulls-Bucks game. I get the hip “Bucks are dangerous” thing going on, but when Rose is healthy, the talent differential is MUCH too big.
41. I am less concerned that the Warriors will win this series, and more concerned that I went high on 5 games total in the series.
42. I ALMOST beat Lindsey at Scrabble last night, but didn’t. I have no idea why she owns me so much in that game, but maybe it is her passive impatience while I am finding a word to play.  Pretty smart actually.  I get nervous.  I need to purchase Monopoly.  I had to beg my family to play that game as a kid, as I was pretty irritating with my tiny dog, hotels, and MASSIVE dependency on getting the green properties.  
43. And of course the dog.  
44. Lindsey is younger and has not seen either Motley Crue nor Billy Joel. I think she is not scared to go to either show with me, but the reservations are about the TRAINING sessions the week before the Crue show to make sure she is up to speed besides Girls Girls Girls.  
45. Pick a Saturday morning and go to Beast and Bottle on 17^th street in Denver. Pick whatever you want on the menu.  It will be the best thing you have had in a month.
46. How do I tell my demon kitty to NOT sleep when we are not home so we don’t have to lock him out of the bedroom at night?
47. How do I tell my demon kitty that a laptop is NOT something to jump on while I am blogging?
48. How do I tell my demon kitty anything?
49. Lindsey’s sister and I have a bond that I can’t really explain and you are the bomb, Avery.  
50. Contribution from my fiancée that made the cut. http://www.funnyordie.com/articles/bd1bf9cfb3/aaron-hernandez-prison-gang-draft-report
51. This hockey game is going to OT, and it is fantastic. I have not turned to the bball game yet.  By the way, how can guys with one remaining tooth CONSISTENTLY be the best interview in all of sports?
52. I am with Jim Rome. I am taking 5 hockey player on my team in an alley fight ANY time of the week.  I think I AM Jim Rome, but he was more locked in on his career path.  
53. Well, I guess he is better looking too.  Dammit.  I can’t win anything.
54. Jordan Spieth DOES have a flaw outside of taking a day off the week (before a 62) after owning The Masters. He can’t remember how much money he has won versus Tony Romo in golf.  
55. So, Josh Hamilton has gone from the best of the best, to laying face down on drugs on a remote Arizona road, to being in bars with chicks doing stuff to a married man, to making it BACK to being the best in the game, to being a character some of us are hoping just fades into the sunset.  
56. I get the feeling after his 12 strikeout game the other day that Kershaw will NOT be above 4 much longer in the ERA column.
57. I have the Cavs to win it all, but if I am right, I will be kind of depressed that JR Smith will have a ring.  
58. A-Rod doing well also depresses me.
59. Kind of weird that a week from now I will be taking advantage of an all inclusive package a week from now on a Punta Cana beach.
60. I have a week to learn Spanish and wish I would have paid more attention in my college classes.
61. The demon kitty is swatting my hands as I type this blog and evidently doesn’t have a blog to write today.
62. If I don’t get a new Jeep or a used 4-Runner, I have suddenly started liking the orange Subaru Crosstrek.  Weird.  One is parked outside my condo.  I think I just like the hubcaps, but not sure.  
63. It may or may not be true I watch The Voice, and if Sawyer doesn’t win, I will be depressed.  
64. It may or may be true that I have a couple libations and can NOT stop listening to Payphone by Maroon 5.
65. Does UTI the college know that they might be confused with something else? THINK about your company names, people.
66. Imitation Game is a fantastic movie as I love mathematical-code movies, but lots of inconsistencies that my much smarter fiancée reminded me about AFTER I thoroughly enjoyed the movie itself.  Enjoyable overall though.  
67. Sit down.  Take a breath.  This might be the funniest thing you see ALL week.  The short of the story is I sold a project that involves motion graphics and a bird.  Here was my colleague’s input.  You might roll off whatever thing you are sitting on.  bMG_3759
68. Shame on you if you don’t remember one of the greatest Family Guy episodes ever.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WNrx2jq184
69. Demon kittly is presently sitting on my blog list.
70. Switched to NBA game. They are talking about Zeke.  If you don’t know who that is, you are reading the wrong blog.  He was an idiot in some respects, but one of the best three PG’s of ALL time.  If you doubt that comment, then remember he alone was the gap in between Magic and Larry, and Jordan.  He jacked up the whole system.  And THIS is part of his legend.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQRYE-p1muA
71. Damn, I loved that guy as a player.
72. Yes, they were talking about the other one here and there.   I am aware there is a Thomas playing right now presently.  That is why “hall of fame one” or “zeke” are notated for MY guy.
73. I need one of those home cameras for my demon kitty.
74. I have never been to Carl’s Jr or Sonic. I drove into a Sonic one time and got freaked out by the service.  I need to be CONTROL of my fast food binge.  
75. Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel has some of the best lyrics of any pop song in the last 50 years.  LOVE them.  Chills.  
76. Wow, I hope Lindsey reads my mind and brings me a two cheeseburger meal from McDonald’s today. (On editing and adding pictures, she is home, and I don’t have McDonald’s)  
77. It might be a demon kitty, but glad he is playing proactively with the $17 ball game and $52 tree house we bought him. Smart cat.  My demeanor is improved.
78. If I had to name him again, he would be Stewie.
79. Come on. That one is easy, and if it is not, then you are missing out by not watching Family Guy.  A talking baby who wanted to kill his mother.  
80. I washed Eleanor for the first time in 5 years yesterday. I was doing internal cleaning and car fluids, so I said what the heck.  I live on the edge in my now marginally clean car.
81. I really don’t want a new car.  I love her.
82. Thoughts and prayers on your surgery recovery, Kareem.
83. Why the HELL does NO one do the most unstoppable move in basketball over the last 50 years?  
84. Way to beat the odds by signing BOTH Winston and Mariota to a contract, Nike.
85. Did you know Adidas was SO close to signing LeBron out of college.  It would have been fun to see the shifting in power.  But they didn’t, and Nike still rules.
86. They might have suspended his criminal investigation, but I get the feeling Talib is a partier.
87. I personally hope Manziel’s apology is backed up in the next week with a photo with strippers at a bar. Come ON.  I need new material, Johnny Football.  
88. The demon kitty is now eating my blog list. I better go fast.
89. Unretire.  Retire.  Unretire.  Whatever way you slice the bread, winning the 100m fly against the best in the world is DOPE.  Nice, Phelps.
90. Dope is my highest compliment.
91. I really hope this civil suit against Winston sticks. SOMETHING stick.  The guy is pro style, had a 27 Wonderlic, and is unscathed in the last few months.  But count me in as PRESIDENT of the “Winston will fail” club.
92. Shark Tank is one of my favorite shows, and I plan to be on it at some point when I get organized with The Tripod, The Frost Zip, and The Rotation. Mark it down, no pun intended.  Don’t tell anyone, Lindsey or Ben.  
93. I was listening to glam rock at work the other day. Can we recognize brilliance?  WHY you ask did Ratt succeed?  Because EVERY single video they made simply had barely clothed chicks in them.  I will just randomly pick one.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diy49a-KulI
94. For the first time in three months on Thursday, I didn’t open my laptop for work. Amazing night.  I felt guilty actually.
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96. WordPress.  Have no idea how it generated a random 95 hook and won’t let me type there.
97. If you are a dude, go back to #93 and click on the link.  Promise you won’t be sorry.  Typical Ratt video from 1986.
98. Finally, Britt, I think you thought your Warhol 15 minutes would be a LITTLE bit different, correct? Nice job.  Unless you live in Antarctica, you know what I mean.  Parking lot attendant.  Come on.  Follow along.
99. Side note. Next time you are on a toll road, pay the toll for the car behind you.  It is a great feeling and a small contribution to doing something right.  My mom taught me stuff like that.
100. Actually, she didn’t tell me to do that stuff.  She just raised me in a way where I find myself doing stuff like that.
101. That is it. Gotta go watch basketball, GOT, and Silicon Valley, with hopefully some constructive stuff in the middle.  Hope you enjoyed or are at least more informed.  As one shepherd said to the other shepherd, I am getting the flock out of here.