Still Happy Dang it

I will make this short since I am still struggling with the whole happy thing..
Bobby Day
I am the opposite of the real coach.. C's team ending up placing fourth in our league and winning 50% of the games.. The kids all started playing better towards the end of the year and really started to enjoy the game.. So mission accomplished on my part.. I may or may not coach year depending on how C feels about me coaching. I have hard time not putting pressure on him and I would hate to wreck his experience.. I still can't believe how competitive I am I have to fight with my will to win every second of every game so that I make sure I don't let the real heavyD out..
Movies
I have watched so many since they have movies on demand on the flights to Europe.. So I will just run some of them down..
Illusionist.. 2.75 baldies out of 4.. Ed Norton is just solid... nothing earth shattering but an interesting storyline.
World Fastest Indian.. 2.5 baldies.. Well done simple story..
Football movie with the Rock. .5 baldies done 20 times before nothing new and poor acting
Timber wolves
I am really closer than before on completely losing any interest in them or the NBA.. Nothing interests me any more about this league and the wolves are a perfect example. We have street thugs with amazing physical abilities that could care less about playing hard or playing at all if it didn't make them millions of dollars.. Blow up the whole idea of the NBA you have failed to take this league into the next century.. To many games too few talented players and you have lost the game of basketball as we know it.. If the players don't care about themselves or the game then why should we.. The same players on the same team that was in the worst pro sport incidents in Detroit are caught shooting guns at a strip club at 3AM they have not learned.. If I was an owner I would lock these players out.. Let them all play over seas and pay the college kids to play hoops with a salary cap that is equal to the effort they are giving on defense each.. For instance Rick Davis would only be payed for 3 games this year.. THUD would be paying glen taylor still.. And Mike James would be filing for bankruptcy,, And KG would have to have one diamond the size of an orange instead of two.. Yeah I know I feel this way because the tiberwolves are a terrible team but I do think this is the worst NBA season I have watched or not watched in 30 years..

Weight
Extremely happy although I still haven't dropped below 230 yet but I am actually getting into pretty good aerobic shape.. If only I could lose some head circumference.. I am able to run 3 miles pretty easy and I am now just trying to get my time down.. I am struggling with my ipod since running with it is making the disk fail.. I have to come up with a better solution. If you don't have a treadmill it is truly the truth serum for people that say they are trying to work.. There is no excuse for not working out running or walking.. It is always there all you have to do is get on it instead of watching TV.. If you are lazy like me it couldn't be better since I workout and watch tivo at the same time.. So it does not affect whatever "schedule" I have in my life..
I will post more.. Sorry HEAVYDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

No Anger No Bitterness No Blog

Okay something new and boring..
I read the Post Office by Charles Bukowksi… IJ read it since Bukowksi is referenced in a Dan Bern song.. I read it because the book looked small and IJ said it was written so that a 3rd grader could comprehend it..( A bit of stretch but I thought I will give it a shot) So I got my dictionary ready and started reading.. In short this is a book about a drunken loser that gets through life by drinking and doing work that he absolutely despises.. I think Bern and I are on the same page this book is gutteral and simple like me and for whatever reason I just enjoyed this book for what it was.. I gave it 3 baldies and would recommend it to simpletons like me. BS you can read it to all the wrestling Dads on your long weekend trips..
Why I struggle with Wrestling.
All of this opinions below are solely my opinion that have no basis on fact but on my own feelings. My son C is really getting into wrestling and it really bothers me.. Sure as my son I want him to do things that he enjoys but Wrestling just makes really uncomfortable. I don't think they should allow kids whose parents who have never wrestled before in wrestling. Yeah I know that sounds like I am out of my mind but I mean that.. Wrestling just has so many stigmas that are not positive.. Yeah they have shirts that say this but they are really true.. You play football or Play Hoops or Play Hockey There is no play in wrestling not one bit. Almost everything that is attached to wrestling is true. They really smell yes when you sweat yourself through for hours at a time in an enclosed place it smell like ass and eventually you smell like the other wrestlers who wash there clothes in pig urine at home since you are swapping 20% of your body weight in fluids every night with the guys around you.. Wrestling hurts most of the time the holds in wrestling are designed to inflict pain or go against a joint so that you will relent and roll over.. Sort of like being married.. Well not quite like that.. You don't look cool in wrestling.. You look like homo out there.. Wrestlers know that.. there is no way around it you have to wear these clothes it is all part of it.. It is not like wrestlers go yeah I want to wear the singlet that looks like I am ready to take a dip in pool in the 1920's.. Basically you are wearing an oversized jock that pins your junk to your body so you look like you got nothing going down there.. The side benefit is that you can always tell who is gentile.. No too much information.. Wrestling is a second hand citizen sport.. Yeah I have heard it all before it is the most natural sport we have .. it was in the first Olympics.. Again I don't care.. You take anybody to wrestling match and the first question almost always is why would you want to do that.. I have no answer.. When you’re a winner in wrestling it gives you machismo or self confidence much like men in Latin America who have 14 children.. But it is really only to you.. No one else cares how good you are.. I am an excellent sleeper congratulations knock yourself out no cares if you sleep well. It is barbaric.. It helps to be dumb.. Both of these "skills" I have. I really enjoyed watching my family wrestle growing up but I can honestly say somewhere down the line it stopped being fun for me and it weirdly coincided with me getting to be a better wrestler.. Again congrats again no one cares if you wrestle.. When wrestling in a room without people it can be fun but you really don't want to be on display while doing it.. Sort of like riding my scooter.. Again when you say you like to wrestle in a room with a man with no people around it just doesn't sound good hard to put a positive spin on wrestling with a man. I will blog more on this but I just had to get some of this out.. C is wrestling this weekend and I will cheer for him to do well but it is really a road that I hope he enjoys because it is not the road I would choose.. Just my thoughts


Big dumb Heavy Out..

Where have I been

No Blogging.. Maybe I put on weight.. Maybe I am depressed.. Maybe I lost my job..  Those would all be good topics but none of those things happened to me. I have acquired herpes gladitorium and decided to take 8 days off to make sure my wounds have healed before I blogged. Actually I have been pretty busy at life and work but here goes.. A quick update on some items.. 

My son's basketball team is approaching  .500 and we are on a torrid 2 game winning streak.  I think this will be my last year coaching hoops I love it but I don't think I am cut out for it.. I had the team running lines (I ran them with them) to get them really tired so they could practice shooting and passing when they where tired.. The weird part is it really worked they where too tired to goof around and they listened during the teaching periods of practice. I missed a few games when I was in Germany and I actually think they played better when I was gone. I think I can teach ok but the kids feel a little too much pressure when I am on the bench during games. I wonder what these kids would think if I really didn't hold my self back..

I think I am in better shape than I have been in the last 10 years.. I am now to the point that when I measure my heartrate when  I step on the treadmill I am not at my target rate for my age..  I can jog three miles ok on the treadmill but would prefer to run outside since I seem to run so slow on the treadmill. Still can't break in the 220's  I think I need to run more and eat less to get there but due to the weather I am ok with it for now..

I just want to clear this up a few weeks ago I thought I felt like I lived through our first earth quake in RF but it turns out that 1.25 just fell of his roof. The good news is he is ok now and he now has an area hollowed out in front of his house for a pool.

Vikings
"We got him" we have been waiting for this coach from the colts to win the super bowl so that he be our substitute defensive coordinator. I think this guy will be fine since Childress said he is going to leave the defense alone and concentrate on the kick ass offense he created last year.  Being Vikings idiot I will somehow get excited about them being good for next year but unless they get a new play caller this team is going to be pretty boring whether they win or lose..

Wolves
Wow the big heavy is slowly losing his NBA vive.. I just can't stand the lack of effort in the NBA right now and I know most of it is because the wolves are simply waiting for the season to end but I just don't see the effort for these players at all right now.. I wish there was a away to cut back on the number of games played and give these teams something to play for.. Wittman is a decent coach but how you can you tell with this team they have no heart they have no pride they no winners on this team. If you have ever heard Mike James interviewed you will know why this team is a mess.. Mike James is insane he thinks the whole world is out to get NBA players and everyone is trying to keep him down.. I wish these guys would lose there bobos and have some real friends with real jobs If I had a friend that was in the NBA I would inform them how lucky they are to be making 5 million a year playing a game and if they pulled this feeling sorry for yourself or the man is out to get you.. That signing has been worth than Sam Cassel he is horrible player with a horrible attitude and all around thug..

Twins
Can't wait for the season to start.. I have high hopes.. But it is just to early to get fired up about baseball when it is 10 below 0..

Movies
SweetLand One of my favorite small movies of the year.. If you are like me from a Scand avian upbringing in the Midwest this movie is a must see.. It just gives you some insight on what it was like for great grandparents when they came to America..

The scenery (it was shot in Minnesota) was worth it for me alone.. The acting was subtle but it just reflected the time perfectly..

I am not saying this is the greatest movies of all time but it was a really nice small film.. 3.5 baldies out of 4.

Life
My uncle died this last week.. I really don't need to go into the details but I was fortunate enough to be able to help my parents go to the funeral in small town in Wisconsin. The warmth that all of my Uncles family surrounded the people that came down to the funeral was amazing. You can do a lot of things right or wrong in your life but in the end it is really about the impact you have on the people's life around you and all the people in my Uncle life couldn't be doing better. I was proud to say that I was his nephew..  By the way my Mom's knee is doing great she is walking with here new Knee better than here old one already.. My dad is struggling with his wrist that looks to have some nerve damage as well. But the doctors believe this can be resolved by taking out to the plates and pins but it requires yet another surgery..(I am such a dumbass for going up that hill)  Just a quick observation on my family when they are all together.. I don't believe any of my uncles way more than 150 lbs and I none of them are as tall as my wife.. My cousins all have hair are thin and are in general very small people. I love being referred to as the large freakish looking cousin that looks like mr. clean. I get the ohh…. you must have been the football player.. I wanted to return with ohh you must been the jockey but I didn't.. Again another situation where I stuck out like Muslim at a notre dame football game.

I went with privileged FT to watch the mighty Hopkins Royals play against Cretin last night.. I love high school hoops and they both have some great athletes.. I was very impressed with this wide receiver from Cretin that is being recruited by all the real colleges like USC and Notre Dame he is very athletic when he shot his jumper he looked like he was three feet off the ground.. The one gopher recruite that kid that shot that three from his butt a few years ago scored like 30 but he is not a great athlete he can shoot but he is pretty slow and I never same him really give you the impression that he could create his own shot..  The one humorous item was when one of FT's limizone hippie friends told the waiter to take back his styrofoam containter and bring him some aluminium foil for the environment and all.. 

I know this is boring but it is what it is I am out..

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