This past week has been a bit of a whirlwind for me. As many of you who follow me on Facebook know, March Madness is an obsession of mine. It’s slightly better than Christmas, minus the part where I get presents from people. However, life got the way of many of my laid-out plans. A member of my wife’s family passed away. She was her Godmother. She died much too young, leaving behind a husband and three young children. I never like starting my blogs off this way, and contemplated not writing anything, but someone that close to my wife deserves a moment of acknowledgment, even if it’s in the beginning of some silly blog her Goddaughter’s husband writes. To Nadine, I give you these laughs I try to provide in the following paragraphs. You meant so much to my wife growing up. It’s the least I could do.

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We open on a dim lit stage, sand bits piled one on top of the other until a beach is formed, trees casting heavy shadows … Continue reading →

Happy Spring! Or as I’m calling it, the Dawn of Global Colding. Jesus H. McDonalds it’s cold outside. It’s actually snowing here in IL tonight, with a low of something like 0 (after the wind chill). And, over the next few weeks, we’re not even getting out of the mid-40s, so it’s not like we have anything to look forward to. Typically, I don’t care if it’s warm or cold outside, but when you work in a populated high-rise, and your shift isn’t one of the firsts of the day, you tend to end up parking a good 2 miles from the front door. So, with that, I’d much rather it be warmer outside. I’ll thank you very much for switching that around for us, Mother Nature. Well played. Funny joke you pulled on us. April Fool’s is coming up, so call it already and lets get into the 60s again, ok?

Thanks.

The episode starts off with some rapid-fire b*tching from the Bikal tribe, who, if I recall, were the ones who decided … Continue reading →

Wow.

Just wow.

I don’t even really know how to write about the first 40 minutes of the show without getting right to the end of tonight’s episode, but I’m going to try. Here’s my best shot.

The episode begins back at the Gota camp, where everyone is thinking it will be the turning point of the season for their tribe. Everyone except Sherri, that is. She’s the only one who sees darkness on the horizon, after voting out a member of their own alliance in order to keep “the muscle” around to help win some challenges. And, all their justification was that Laura (that was her name, right???) was the worst swimmer. Good one – because ALL challenges incorporate swimming of some sort. And, there’s no way you can just take her off the swimming portion of challenges, either. So, good decision.

Was all this talk about turning point a foreshadowing of things to come? I guess we’ll know in a few short moments.

Oh, and Reynold played the Idol so that he could … Continue reading →