Lazy Days

Man, I'm worthless. I just sit on my ass and get fatter. I really need to start traveling again or I'm going to lose my mind. Good thing Detroit is on the horizon and South America is coming up after that.

I have a few things I've been meaing to talk about but keep forgetting. The first one is a belated congratulations to my boy Kenny "Bones" Barron.


"Bones" or "Sky", whichever you prefer 

He was hired as the translator for the Mariners' new catcher, Kenji Johjima. He started yesterday and translated for Mr. Johjima in his first press conference. He'll be with the team from day one at spring training until the end of the season. He garnered a sweet salary and a really great per diem. Kenny's one of the best people you'll ever know and he really deserves this job. I wish him the best and I hope he enjoys the job as much as we all think he will.

Another intriguing topic is Kobe's 81 point game. My friend Mike has a great post up that I agree with 100% but couldn't write as well as he did. Kobe is unbelievably good but could do so much more with his talent. Lamar Odom could probably post Pippen numbers if Kobe had more Jordan in him. Bill Simmons has another good article on the subject. Again, this is a topic that I find interesting but I'll never be half the writer that Mr. Simmons is.

I downloaded the song that the Seahawks play before kickoffs and I've lisetened to is about 37984759 times in the past two days. It's a song called "And Then What" by Young Jeezy. It's reminiscent of the Hot Boys and the whole Cash Money crowd. If you remember that the answer to the question "What you need, boy?" is, "I need a hot girl", then you'll probably appreciate this song. I just love it because it reminds me of last Sunday, one of the top 5 days of my life.

Like I said in the beginning, I'm a lazy sack and I haven't done much of note over the past few days. On Tuesday afternoon, I drove up to visit my friend Chris in Oak Harbor. I hadn't seen him in a long time and it was nice to hang out and drink a few beers. His dad is a retired Naval Captain and one of the cooler dads out there. He cooked us dinner and drank wine and talked shit about his son. It was great. I only got one good picture out of the trip:


Deception Pass 

This is a spot about 15 minutes before Oak Harbor called Deception Pass. It's really gorgeous and I hit it right at sunset. I don't think this picture does that spot justice but I tried to get a little of the beauty on film. I drove home the next morning right around sunrise but I didn't feel like pulling over again. Tonight I went up to Edmonds to say goodbye to Amanda, who's moving to California tomorrow. She was in China for a year and it's been great seeing her for the few months that she's been back in the Northwest.

Tomorrow I'm going to try to get out and see the condos that I like. It's pretty painful because the selection is pretty grim this time of year and everything good is ridiculously overpriced. On the other hand, I know that they're just going to be more expensive is I wait until April or even August. Bleh.

Super Bowl tickets are insanely expensive right now. I think they'll drop in price next week Monday-Wednesday. I'm going to stick to my guns and try to spend about $1K per ticket. Right now it's almost impossible to find them for less than $2500. If I can't get them during my anticipated low point, I'm just going to wait until I get to Detroit and stay patient right up until gametime. I know that as they're kicking off the scalpers will get desperate and I'm willing to wait until then. Ballsy move, but that's the way these things go.

I can't reiterate enough how brilliant Scrubs is. Do yourself a favor and buy the first season. At least download some episodes. Then you can be a lazy sack like me!