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Truth be told, I can’t even recall how long it’s been since I’ve last felt the literary gumption to note down anything of inconsequential substance. In all honesty, things done changed quite a bit in my life since I’ve last posted. Unbelievable as it may sound, someone outside of their sane mind actually decided to suffer the unfortunate fate of spending the rest of their life with me. I know…I know…like you, I shudder in sympathy for my significantly better half. I mean, let’s keeps it real…George Clooney…I ain’t. So, needless to say, ish been a bit crazy over the past 6-8 months with the sandstorm of wedding activity that was swirling around in the stratosphere of my life. I spent many an hour many a night diddling around with the most miniscule of wedding details. So, there wasn’t really nary a minute for me to devote to blogging down any thoughts. Believe you me, I wanted to throw down some thoughts from my wedding weekend lunacy, but just couldn’t find the time nor motivation to get around to sharing my thoughts with my devoted quartet of readers.
Anyways, things have settled down somewhat now. I’ve been married (wow, still sounds a little foreign saying that) for over two months now. The Honeymoon (Thailand – Phuket, Chiang Mai, and Bangkok) exceeded any statute of dopeness I could’ve drafted prior to departure.
As spare time becomes sparse and complacency teeters on the edge of becoming commonplace, very infrequently do I find myself inspired to blog. Truth be told, the indiscriminate culprit is probably more a haphazard concoction of apathy and ambivalence than anything else.
What better motivation to blog than when stuck sitting idly by as an Indian wedding proceeds. Believe you me, an Indian wedding is a spectacle to behold – for those that haven’t ever witnessed it. After you’ve attended a few, the traditional proceedings can appear borderline cumbersome. So, when the goblin of monotony annoyingly tickles the brain stem of my attention, I consult alternate methods of entertainment. The smartphone. Giggidy.
Here I am, at 3:04 in the morning, trying to squeeze out every ounce of complacency that I can out of the wintery fresh toothpaste of unemployment. What has driven me to this inevitable point? Well…my delusions of professional grandeur have taken a backseat to the unavoidable roadblock of the immediate future. The financial obligations of the present and near future have propelled me back into the search for an engineering gig. However, these past 3 months of unemployment have only reaffirmed the fact that I will not end my professional career as an engineer – there remains scant doubt of that. I will have to find a way to juggle reality with fantasy. Eventually, hopefully…
This is a draft I wrote after coming back from my most recent trip to Spain in October of 2009. It’s been sitting around in my drafts folder for an embarrassing minute. I guess I just never got around to publishing it…until now.
You didn’t actually think that I’d accurately predict the outcomes of both conference championship games last weekend…did you? Being average seems to be the hoodie that fits best over my unintelligible skull. However…Cutler being knocked out of the game after the 1st series in the 3rd quarter may have had something to do with the outcome in the Bears-Packers game. Shit…you know damn well that I’ll ride that scapegoat to a photo-finish.
In my opinion, this is the last weekend of legitimate football this NFL season. Championship Weekend. You’d think that Super Bowl weekend holds more significance to me…but it doesn’t. To me, Super Bowl Sunday is an overhyped concoction of exaggerated media coverage and belabored storylines. I am not a big fan of the two week break between Championship Weekend and Super Bowl Sunday. I can take only so much analysis. More often than not, Super Bowls have failed to live up to the hype (the two most recent Super Bowls notwithstanding).
Smoochin’ the lips of mediocrity, in my composition book, should be received with an ear deafening crescendo of applause. I went 2-2 in my NFL Divisional Playoff picks. Unfortunately, as I alluded to in my last post, I feared that picking the Falcons to win would foreshadow a Packers upset. An infallible prognosticator I certainly am not. Heartbreaking as that loss was, consolation was warmly received in a Jets upset of the New England Patties. As I explained in brief detail previously, Boston fans…are…well…just downright indecent. A few friends of mine are hardcore Boston fans. They’re alarmingly infatuated with all things Boston sports. Anyhoot, rather than diluting their tears in an unsavory mound of humble pie, they’ve taken the defensive route of teetering on the seesaw of denial. I understand the recent hatred between the New York Jets and the Patriots…but…
I’m going to do something I’ve only attempted a few times on this blog: predict the outcome of a sports event. The last time I did this, I tried to predict the 
The snowstorm that has hit the city ironically referred to as Hotlanta has rendered me crib-ridden for the past 3 days. This is crazy stuff. The city of Atlanta at the mercy of…snow? This, folks, rarely happens here. More often than not, on the rare occasion that it has snowed down here, it has normally melted away the day after. We’ve rarely been subjugated to any post-traumatic weather consequences. However, this time around, we’ve had ice on the roads for the past 3 days (and will probably continue to have it for the next day or so). This is the first natural catastrophe over the past 5 years that I’ve actually been present for. The snowstorm we had on Christmas Day in The A a few weeks back? I was in Macon – where it didn’t snow nary an inch. The tornado that hit downtown years ago and caused damage to buildings throughout Downtown? I was in Savannah for St. Patty’s Day. The flood that hit the city that had most of Buckhead submerged beneath inches of water? I was traveling for business on the Left Coast. So, I’ve finally experienced a natural disaster in this city. You may be smirking in reticence…but…
