Wednesday, May 2, 2012

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.





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