Can't Hold a G Down

Hey everyone. Tomorrow is the day new Futurama episodes start coming out. I have just downloaded Toy Story and Toy Story 2 to get ready for Toy Story 3! What a great series of movies, but I hope they do not go past the 3rd one. The U.S. just got into the round of 16 at the World Cup and so American will continue to care about soccer. I like playing soccer, but watching outside of a drunken stupor or without a massive group of fans with me isn’t really appealing. The game is just not fast paced enough to maintain my interest.
There will be so many sports I shove my kids into, but I hope they never grow up emulating certain “icons of sports” that have lived sub-par lives off or on the court. Michael Jordan, Jerry Rice, and… (ok I didn’t have a baseball icon when I was a kid) were people that you could look up to beyond their natural talent and determination to make money. Here’s a list of players I don’t think deserve to be idolized at all even if they are the greatest of all time:
Tiger Woods: Cheats on his wife consistently
Kobe Bryant: Cheated on his wife
Alex Rodriguez- Steroids
Mark Macguire- Steroids
Reggie Bush- Accepting money from USC and dooming them

Meaning of G
Another problem with our new age sports stars as role models is that they have problems with many of the more noble characteristics we used to take for granted in society. Players in all sports refuse to play if not being paid ridiculous amounts of money or being given enough play time (Terell Owens). They don’t care about the team winning or losing, just their own benefit. There is no loyalty, only greed. A player that exemplifies this problem with our era of sports is….

LeBron James!
(quoted from http://www.askmen.com/sports/fanatic_250/293_lebron-james-not-man-enough-to-see-it-through.html) read it if you care

Lebron James is not G because he doesn’t have the needed qualities to symbolize the best in athletes. None of the other people on this list are in their commercials as they do not either. Loyalty to the game you are meant to love, your family you are meant to love, and your team that you are meant to love, show which players have”G”. James giving up in Game 6 because the Boston Celtics were beating them and then not saying whether or not he will stay with Cleveland to get his coach fired. That’s pathetic.

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Hey Everyone,

Well it’s been a WHILE since the last time I posted on here. Let’s see if anything has really changed

1. Unemployed
2. Dad’s health not good
3. Trying to workout

Honestly not much has changed sadly. I have been doing many many new things though and so I guess I have been expanding my horizons. I went to New Orleans and that was an incredible experience with my girlfriend. We went to New Orleans and San Diego to see the campuses my gf could possibly go to for grad school. Sadly we could only stay for 2 days, but they were a fun 2 days! The mornings we ate decadent beignets and later throughout the days there were NO style foods that fascinated our taste buds and eyes. Look on my facebook for my pictures! I will be uploading them soon. San Diego was the next stop on the trip and it was nice to go to a beach that isn’t being attacked by british oil (you spill it, you buy it!) and see both of our friend groups down there.

Besides the big trip to New Orleans and San Diego, I’ve also got to go watch Wicked in San Francisco. Though it has been a while since it came out, the cast is still good enough for the $40 price tag and it’s a treat to see the story of Oz from Glinda’s point of view (Wicked the book is from the Witch’s, Wizard of Oz is from Dorothy’s). Though one of my pet peeves for big cities reared its ugly head in the form of NO PARKING…

What am I doing about my unemployment? Well I am trying to spend time studying for certification tests. They are by far the best way to get above the curve of college graduates instead of just going back to school. I am going to try and get 2 certification tests done by the end of the year. As well I have been emailing old job contacts and just seeing if they know of any openings and then going off those.
I will be taking my Dad to physical therapy twice a week at his old carehome. Hopefully he will progress quickly with it and I will have somewhere around there with wifi where I could study while waiting for him. Until I get a high paying (50k) full time job, chauffeuring around my parents is the best use of time and taking care of them.

For exercise… I am going to run a half marathon (13.1 miles) at the end of July! The marathon will be for the American Cancer Society and I started training for it 2 weeks ago. The workouts are going like this:

Lift Run Lift Run Lift Swim Rest….. Repeat!

So I should be in great shape by then. It’s giving me a nice goal to strive for and I think I’ll keep looking around for charity activities to join. Last year I did the Diabetes Run (I don’t remember the name…) and so now I’m going to build on that. By the time of the marathon, I will have run 70 miles! Luckily I just bought new running shoes. If anyone has some really good running/working out songs, please share with me! I am redoing my ipod’s list.

Anyway, here's the world record breaking game of dodgeball

Dodgeball!

Dodge, Dip, Duck, Dive, and Dodge!