What a Massengil….

 

This douchebag is your massengil of the day.  He is the main reason we will probably see $4.00 at the pump this weekend. What. A. Jackass.

Two Thoughts….

First, Tom Morello is the fucking man.  Not only is he a guitar legend, featured in guitar hero 3, has written some of the most kick ass transcending guitar riffs of all time, he’s smarter than you, me, the person sitting next to you and your parents COMBINED. 

For those that are unaware Morello not only play’s guitar, but oh yeah, he went to Harvard, and worked for a Senator for two years before melting your face off with his RIDICULOUS guitar playing abilities.  On top of that he’s a super genuine dude; he doesn’t believe in talking about change.  He makes change.  His Justice tour hits DC tomorrow night with a plethora of his friends who are doing this all for free.  The concert is a two day event.  The first night is a balls out rock concert, and the second day they do something to affect change.  In DC, the theme is peace and veterans rights.  They are going to spend time at Walter Reed and ALL of the proceeds from the show, which is a meager $10 a head, goes directly to an organization called the Iraq Veterans Against the War.  All I have to say is fuck yeah Tom, Fuck Yeah…..

Second point….I am ready to bang my head against the wall with the Democratic Nominating process.  Hillary won again, but by not as large of a margin as she hoped so Obama is still ahead, this is going to go the distance, but seriously: enough.  Just end it.  This isn’t doing anyone any good and it’s making the democratic party look weak and unorganized. The best candidate isn’t even in the race anymore…..

First REAL Spring Day

I love the first day of spring.  I love it for two reasons…First, I get to wear shorts outside of work.  I love to wear shorts, if I could wear shorts year round I would.

Secondly, girls get all buckwild and crazy and immediately go into lowcut tops and short skirts mode.  It definately makes life at lunch much more enjoyable.

But I’m Le Tired

Rowing.  I row.  Most people don’t understand the sport.  People always ask why I get up at 4:30 a.m. to go row a boat.  Mornings like today are that reason why. 

It was chilly this morning but not cold. Just cold enough to remind you it’s still April, but warm enough where there is hope for the day.  The water was flat and gentle, and you could see the ripple of your oar blade dragging on the water as we left the dock. 

As the dark horizon slowly turned to a purplish orange with the sun rising we began our work out.  Clean oars in and out of the water. The rush of water off the shell as we pushed the boat away from us using our oars.  Smooth strokes and one solid “thud” as we dropped our blades in together.  Power, and flow were felt from bow to stern.  We had achieved the much talked about “connection” in rowing.  The boat glided effortlessly on the water as we worked in unison, one rhythm one stroke.  Harmony in the water.

As we returned to the dock we were tired, but not a full muscle exhaustion, we felt a satisfied tired.  Eight guys working together with a singular focus, being fast through the water. j

It’s day’s like today that make me happy that I get up and row…..

“Life’s this game of inches…”

So I watched Any Given Sunday on Saturday night after I coached my high school team, and I actually turned it on at pretty much the end.  I was able to catch the speech that Al Pacino gives right before the last game, the scene is actually called “Peace with Inches.” 

I’ve heard this speech a thousand times through football, rowing and hockey.  It has become the modern day “One one for the Gipper speech.”  It might be my favorite piece of writing in a movie ever.  However, this time when I heard it, it hit home more so than usual. 

Lately, I’ve been finding myself in a battle for inches, whether it be at work, at practice or even just in my personal life.  I’ve been realizing that lately I haven’t been “fighting” for those inches.  I need to start doing that again.  I feel like the competitive nature in me has sort of taken a backseat lately to just getting things done.  I need to fight my way back into the light, climb out of hell.  Now, my life isn’t necessarily hell, but I came to the realization that while I’m watching this speech that I need to start taking advantage of the opprtunities around me. 

Perfect example is at practice this morning.  I wasn’t boated, and was stuck on land erging (indoor rowing machines).  Rather than get all pissy about it and decide that I was better than being stuck on the erg, I went at it full bore in the workout.  I simulated the exact workout that my team did on the water, not because I was angry or because I was pissed off, but because those meters that I pulled today on the erg are gonna make the difference between winning and losing come May 10th.

Now if only I could figure out a way to start applying that to other parts of my life….

Friday…finally.

It’s definately been a really rough week.  I think that sentence might be an understatement.

Between practice, working, and getting ready to move at the end of the month I haven’t had more than like two minutes to just sort of like decompress let alone do anything other than sleep. I don’t feel like I am getting burnt out or anything, I have things at work to do, but not stuff that is taking up my entire day. Hence the desire from yesterday’s post to have more responsibility. 

I just feel like I’ve been running around. Maybe this weekend after the regatta tomorrow I’ll have time to like sit on my ass. Probably not, the apartment needs to be cleaned…..then i’ll probably start packing up some of my bookshelves.

Damn….

Work..

Because there are people who are going to read this who work with me. Let me preface this before I jump into it.  I LOVE my job.  That’s not just something I say.  I really LOVE my job.  I love my job to the point that I obsess over it.  I love my job so much I wish I had MORE work to do. I wish that I was sitting at my cubicle doing work til like 7:30 at night.  That’s how much I enjoy doing the work I do.

However, lately I have felt VERY underutilized.  I have been told time and again that not only is management happy with the punctuality of my work for deadlines, but that it is also of a quality nature.  So why not put a little bit on me and see if I can handle it?  Why not? I mean I’m new but here’s the thing is that I’m proven already.

To compound matters, we have a large scale conference coming up, and the one person who has proven not only to be incompetent but to also be unreliable and a complete flake is doing the work for it.  I just can’t bare to be snubbed over like this.  It makes me ponder why it is that I bust my ass for a job.  That’s when I remember why I took this job…..because of the good that it affects for other people. My bosses and supervisors are well aware of my fervor and love for my job, but sometimes I feel like they ignore it…

So long story short, while several colleagues some deserving, some not are at a large scale conference being recognized by giving presentations, I’ll be sitting at my desk, with no more responsibility then I have had previously.

 

Long Time No Talk

Good christ it’s been a long time since I posted on here.  I know Katrina is gonna give me crap because her blog is full of post’s and mine has like six. Traveling has been fun but exhausting.  I am glad I have my job and love it to death, but sometimes the travel wears you out.  I’ve also started rowing again which is good becuase I missed it.  All in all life is pretty good right now.

Let’s start today with a rundown of the top ten massengils since my last post……

1. Isiah Thomas – Ran the greatest basketball franchise into the ground and thinks he will still be apart of it.  Fuck he even talks like he’s going to be apart of it……do us a favor walk out in front of the Garden and make sure that a cab hits you dead on…..I seriously have lost all interest in basketball because of you.

2. Bill Self – You won a national championship on Monday; Tuesday you want security???? Dude, they gave you a mega contract last year….get over yourself.

3. The new ESPNEWS format…..I have ADD so now of course I have no fucking clue where to put my eyes when watching it because they HAVE EIGHTEEN FUCKING THINGS GOING ON AT ONCE!

4. The airlines and mortgage companies – Why is it that they are the only two sectors that constantly need to be bailed out? Wouldn’t it just be easier if we replaced the people running those companies with I don’t know COMPETENT FUCKING PEOPLE.

5. The Yankees – My favorite team, but good god man, you’ve lost four out of your last six to the Tampa Bay DevilRays Rays and the Kansas City Royals.  Get it together……fer serious.

Okay so maybe I don’t have ten but still……anyways LET’S GO CAPS!!!!!! BEAT THE FLYERS…..

“Suck it Joaquin Phoenix” – Dewey Cox

Bill Simmons Likes Little Children, and Colin Cowherd watches.

What. A. Douchebag. I hope you read this Simmons and cry yourself to sleep at night. The sad things I used to enjoy his stuff…..now its just contrite drivel about Boston Sports…..

Admittedly Cowherd > Simmons in the cockgrabbing douchebag massengill category but still I felt a need to mention him becuase he makes my brain hurt when i hear him open his mouth.

Mr. Clemens Goes to Washington

So tomorrow is the big day. Congress gets its man. But does it really?

 Roger Clemens admittedly is the biggest fish in the pond that is the Mitchell Report. However, I believe we have all lost site about what these modern day witch trials are all about.  That being said I don’t have the slightest bit of anticipation, excitement or any emotion regarding this at all.

 Before I go down this avenue let me make it abundantly clear. I AM NOT DEFENDING Roger Clemens. I repeat. NOT. DEFENDING. CLEMENS.

Now then, the thing about this is that currently it is a he-said/he-said situation and we have all be quick to rush to judgement (not very surprising). Anywho, the point is that all we have so far are allegations. McNamee said he injected Clemens and then he provided some circumstantial evidence. Here’s the thing, we don’t know if there was any sort of tampering with that stuff, beyond that we don’t even know if people can definitively test the DNA there and see that it’s Roger’s and that PED’s are in there.

McNamee has no reason to lie. However, we don’t have any hard proof yet, and Clemens has poked a major hole in McNamee’s credibility by refuting statements made about him being at a particular party.

 The bottom line is this…we need to get back to the heart of this whole process. Finding out where steroids came from and then putting it behind us. This is admittedly a dark time for baseball and sports in general. Every major sport has had a scandal of some sort in the last five years, but with baseball it seems that despite guys like Griffey, and David Wright doing the right thing there were so many people who weren’t and have made it in my opinion an era we need to get to the bottom of and forget about, not persecute the biggest name named.