Geez, two weeks since I last posted an entry? Shows you where blogging is on my list of priorities. So, what have I been doing?
Reading, mostly. I finished my ninth book in three weeks tonight. If you’re interested to see what I’ve been reading, count backwards on this list (or everything between Gordon Henry’s The [...]
I’ve been a bad blogger lately. It probably correlates to the fact that I can either blog or use my scant free time doing things that actually matter. In a bulleted list, here’s what I’ve been up to:
– Parenting! Grey turned 10 weeks on Monday and things have definitely gotten better. He cries less [...]
Hey! Nothing like setting modest goals and instantly achieving them. I’ve become a huge fan of World Soccer Daily and resolved to get an email read on the air. After the first two losses by the US, I sent an email about Bradley’s record (which is largely summed up by the last bullet in this [...]
Over the past week or so I’ve read From Hell, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, and V for Vendetta. Between Alan Moore and Frank Miller, I find Moore’s work to be far more nuanced and compelling. In undergrad I took a course on comics where we read Miller’s Give Me Liberty and, while I liked [...]
The soccer team has been on a tear as of late. We dropped the first game of the spring season and now we’ve rattled off six straight wins. Happily, I’ve banged in goals the last three games and, unlike the pair I scored in the fall, this trio have been pretty good: a hard low [...]
Mad City Utd lost 3-1 in our first game of the year three weeks back. We played listlessly, lethargically, without any energy. Our passing was bad, our movement was bad—we were bad. I played out on the wing and wasn’t too involved. The other team played quite well and deserved their win. Last weekend, our [...]
I ended up finishing Kindred last week and concluded that I thought it was pretty good. My initial critique still stands, and maybe I just got crabby, but I think I got even more critical. In addition to the “As You Know, Bob” dialogues, I would also say there are a number of “messages from [...]
Hoo hoo, man! I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little disappointed that three of the four teams in the semis of the Champions League were English, but there’s no point denying that the top teams in England are better than the top teams anywhere else.
However, what makes me puke is the [...]
Recap: Not nearly as many guys today, probably 26 or so, which meant two fields but only a couple subs. The play was chippy, decent at times, but not great. I have complaints but more on that later.
Health Report: Relatively unscathed, though I did get tackled once way too hard against the boards. I have [...]
Recap: Way too many guys, probably about close to fifty, which means six subs per team. That’s just way too many. I was on the marginally better team on the better field but that’s not much to cheer about—we had a couple ball hogs and a couple of guys who didn’t like to sub. With [...]