December quickies

I just realized its been a month since I wrote something on here. Oops. With classes to finish up before Christmas, basketball in full swing and holiday festivities it was easy to lose track of time. Then today I sat around doing absolutely nothing except making toast for a flu-stricken wife and watching "Little Miss Sunshine" for the 2nd time. Not a bad day all in all. I plan to end it by watching the always riveting college football game that is the Texas Bowl. Yep, 24 hours I am never getting back...and yet somehow it does not feel totally wasted.

Some December quicky observations:

1. Have I ever mentioned how much I deplore the World Junior Hockey Championships? Does anyone in Canada realize that we are the only country in the entire world that actually gives a flying poop about this? Its kinda like the kind of giddy excitement that the Scots get during the annual "World Caber Toss Championships". Except imagine it being the junior edition of that event. Whoopty-dee-do! Or if Pakistan could ever divise a competition based on mourning where the idea is to do the most random thing you could think of to show your sorrow. Like say setting a bus on fire and beating it with a giant stick. Or wandering around aimlessly with a truck tire around your neck. I have seen these on display in the last week and it makes me slightly giddy to think what they might come up with if their was ever a World Junior Crazy Mourning Championship. Come to think of it I would way rather watch that any day than endure the Canadian bonefest that is the WJHC.

The WJHC is probably the only thing that I will never cheer for Canada at. Somewhere deep in my heart, I secretly yearn for us to get beat by Denmark so that I can see all those hockey dads who are living vicariously through their sons on TV. And watch them think to themselves "we spent all those 5am mornings at the rink so that my son could lose to boys named Jens?" Is it any wonder that my favourite WJHC memory was that year we lost to Kazakhstan? Don't put it on my tv, I do not care.

2. Is Chris Simon totally retarded? Because you don't have to be employed by NASA (not even on their custodial staff) to know that you don't stomp on the back of someone's legs with skates on. Even if that person is Jarko Ruutu. Maybe only if that person was Dion Phaneuf.

3. When Eagles RB Brian Westbrook stopped on the 1 yard line instead of scoring a TD in Dallas, he likely cost me a fantasy football championship....and for the life of me I still can't find myself able to get mad at him. Weird.

4. I am slowing getting sick of my Milwaukee Bucks. The other night in Denver it was interesting to see that Mo Williams went 12-24 and the rest of the starters went 6-34. Wow...thats awful. I have finally come around to the idea of trading Redd, Bogut, Yi, Mason and pretty much any other piece of garbage not named Mo Williams. I can't watch as my favourite basketball team slowly morphs into horrid mediocrity like my baseball team (Orioles).

5. Speaking of the Orioles...isn't it interesting to see Orioles names show up in the steroids reports. Tejada, Roberts and Gibbons among the listed. How come we still sucked so bad then? For crying out loud, if you are going to take steroids you might as well take enough to actually make you good. And deal with the gonad shrinkage ramifications later. I love my sports teams, we can't even do steroids right.

6. Dropping a Coronation reference here but don't even try to dispute this one: Aaron Chan is the illegitimate love child of Yao Ming and Chien-Ming Yang. You know it, I know it and he knows it. End of story.

7. Here's a bad idea. Australian biker guy Robbie Maddison is going to jump over a football field on his motorbike on New Year's Eve. Must be an arena league field eh? Nope this one is going to be a 360 foot long NFL field placed somewhere out in the Vegas wilderness. ESPN is going to televise the event and is pumping it up as the postgame to the college football Chick-Fil-A Bowl. Firstly, I have never thought of suicide as a tasty postgame side dish and secondly, who are we kidding that this pathetic bowl game needs/deserves a postgame show.

So I guess here is my agenda for New Years Eve:

a) Watch Auburn vs Clemson in the Chick-Fil-A bowl
b) Watch in horror as some guy on a motorbike kills himself.
c) Kiss someone at midnight.
d) Fail to sleep because the last thing I did in 2007 was watch some guy kill himself for no apparent reason.

December 2007 was a good month. Only one blog entry but otherwise a solid month. I will try to get back on track in January with a more regular blogging flow. Just hoping my first one isn't going to be a Robbie Maddison obituary. I just have this bad feeling that the Maddison jump might end being as fun as this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsBk475yjIk

Happy New Year!