Getting caught up after a crazy couple of weeks

Hi there.  When I looked at the date of my last post which was May 2nd, I found it hard to believe that it has been 3 weeks.  I think in the 4 year history of The Greenhouse Effect that this has been the longest stretch between entries.  Even being sick or just plain busy never stopped me from posting at least once a week or every 10 days.
Back to business.  Leading off a horse named, I'll Have Another. Two great runs to victory in both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. Bodemeister is quickly becoming known as the greatest pace setter in history.  Mike Smith is an amazing jockey, but I have question the pace that Bodemeister ran in both races.  In Derby, he was going way too fast and the horse ran out of gas.  In the Preakness, the horse ran slower split times than in the Derby, but didn't put it in high gear as he made his way around the far turn into the home stretch.  With the shorter distance, the pace Bodemeister set in the Derby would have won him the Preakness.  Mario Gutierrez rode I'll Have Another perfectly.  Keeping him within striking distance and out of traffic and then just at the right moment getting the horse to break in high gear.  Don't start speculating about winning the Triple Crown.  We horse racing fans are desparate for one since Affirmed last did it in 1978.
By now the big move to our new home at 238 Bay Road in Queensbury has happened.  So you think moving to a new home is hard?  Try moving 3 radio stations.  Having to co-ordinate studio moves with minimal down time is like trying to choreograph a ballet.  Then there's all the satellite equipment, processing, and of course the furniture and workstations.  There's still more stuff to be brought over and put away in new spots.  It has been a one hell of a crazy week.  The two guys who have gotten the worst of it are Jim Scott and Alan Doane, who's studios are still under construction.  Alan is doing the best production he can in a temporary spot and Jim's news room is about 75 percent done.  He should be able to broadcast Tuesday if everything lines up perfectly for our engineer to finish everything. 
I wonder if the Las Vegas odds makers had a line on which Los Angeles sports team would make it to finals.  The odds on favorite would have been the Lakers, right?  Well the guy who put his money on the Kings will be a very wealthy man barring a monumental collapse.
Rangers/Devils in the Eastern Conference semi's.  Doesn't get any better than that.  Gary Bettman is thanking the hockey gods for that one.  He's even begging the media to leave Coach Torts alone and let Devils coach Peter DeBoer do all the talking.  
Even the most hardcore, passionate baseball fan had no idea that this years' All-Star game was being played in Kansas City at Kaufman Stadium.  It has been nearly 30 years since the Royals were the slightest bit relevant.
Can someone pass on this note to Mitch Albom.  Please come back to The Sports Reporters!
I didn't watch, but saw some of the sketches Eli Manning did as host of Saturday Night Live.  The cross dressing thing gave me the creeps.  The best sketch hands down was the public service parody, "Little Brothers." That maniacal laugh at the end was downright hilarious and scary at the same time.  Never thought Eli would do something like that.
On the local front, a woman in Saratoga County walked into a Curtis Lumber store and a Stewarts shop in the Ballston Spa area naked within minutes of each other.  The woman claimed she was merely expressing her freedom to be fully liberated by walking nude into those places.  What's even better was mental health checked her out and found no psychiatric issues whatsoever.  This is one case where I would have sought a second opinion.
Both the How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory season finales were in two words, disappointing and lame.
Check out the new Hits 95 Nine web page at www.wcql.com
Garden 2012 is planted!  To quote Tom Petty, 'The waiting is the hardest part." 
Next projects on tap.  Getting carpet installed and writing the sequel to the Morning Club Christmas Carol.
Is it O.K. for this Mets fan to buy some of the cool Red Sox ice cream novelties that are made by Hood that you can find in local grocery stores?  If I was a Yankee fan it would be considered a violation of being a Yankee fan.  Buying any food product with Red Sox on the label.  I've noticed there are never any cool food products that say, "Mets" on it.  It's always Yankees or Red Sox.  Now I know how Jets fans feel.  LMAO.
Finally, if I have to see underside of one more counter top to either to take down or set up and plug in equipment, I think I'm going to runaway to Flushing and watch the Mets play at CitiField with my seats in the Pepsi Porch.  It will have driven me that crazy to do something like that...Leccese out.

Where's my May basket?

Hi there.  Well here it is May and right now I'm so far behind.  The weather has set me back a few weeks in getting the garden ready.   Need to borrow Dave Thomas' mantis tiller.  Buy the endless bags of soil enrichers, a.k.a cow manure and get the beds ready for tomatoes, beans, and squash.  Also have to buy a couple of bags of container soil for my potato bags.  The other thing is the hardening process in which you take the seedlings that you started and have growing inside and gradually get them used to being outside before you put them in the ground.  Got lettuce seeds sown in the ground and my Earthboxes are ready for the eggplant and peppers to go in them.  
The other thing I'm behind on is my golf game.  Haven't picked up a club yet.
Another level of hell must have frozen over when the both Grizzlies and the Clippers make the NBA playoffs in the same year.  
When they said hit the glass hard Amare Stoudemire, they meant rebounding the basketball, not punching your hand through a fire extinguisher door.
It must be pretty good to be a sports fan in Los Angeles these days.  The Lakers and Clippers both have good chances to advance to the second round of the Association playoffs. The Dodgers with former Yankee Don Mattingly managing them are off to a great start (Matt Kemp is a stud!); and the cherry on top of the sundae is the Kings knocking off the Canucks in round one of the Stanley Cup play-offs and are up 2-0 on the Blues.  The Kings haven't made that much of a play-off noise since Wayne Gretzky played for them and Barry Melrose was behind the bench.
In last Sunday's NY Daily News, Mike Lupica wrote this observation about Rangers coach John Tortorella.  "This is going to sound crazy, but there are days when the Dale Carnegie courses really don’t seem to be taking with John Tortorella." 
My folks are back from their trip to China.  Had a very nice time on their 3 city tour.  Unfortunately for me and my brother in law, they couldn't find any cool personal electronic devices.  On a positive note, I don't have an Asian bride to get married to.  That's what they plan to bring back for me when they visit Italy. LOL.
Am I feeling alright?  I haven't ripped CitiField in whole month.  I must be slipping.
I don't what is uglier.  The new logo of the re-branded Brooklyn (formally New Jersey) Nets or the new unis that Nike designed for Rutgers.  At least they're better looking then the ones that Nike are outfitting the Seahawks in.  Talk about double bag ugly!
So this girl took a Tim Tebow cut out type advertising display to her prom.  She walked in the procession with it.  It would have been really funny if the cut out had been named prom king.  I wish I was that smart or creative in high school.  I could have done that with a Cathy Ireland or Carol Alt type display. FYI-I graduated high school in 1984.
One NFL draft note.  Some idiot got hold of Mohamed Sanu's phone number and played a not so nice prank on him by calling him up during the first round and saying the Bengals were going to draft him with the 27th pick.  He thought something was up when he saw the actual pick and it wasn't him.  The irony in all this is the Bengals drafted him in the third round.
Junior Seau was one heck of linebacker for the Chargers and Patriots.  Sad to hear about his passing and how it happened.  He was only 3 years younger than me.
I occasionally listen to Dennis Miller's syndicated talk show which can be heard on Talk 1450 WWSC weekday mornings at 10am (that's a shameless plug).  Some of his references make me feel really dumb at times.
So we're on the verge of leaving our soon to be old home at 128 Glen Street for the very nice nearly completed new digs on Bay Road.  The new place is beautiful.  However, there's one thing I really don't like about it.  Too many windows!  I prefer to have my studio be a cross between a maximum security prison and those military command centers that they build deep inside a mountain.  If I wanted to be seen, I would have become a sportscaster on television.  Can I make a suggestion?  Would it be possible to install some vertical and horizontal blinds for some extra privacy?  I didn't think so...Leccese out.