Who is Lady Gaga?

I'm watching this HBO special she did at Madison Garden and she rocks!  She's one heck of a performer and she really can sing.  Her shows are like theater.  It's brilliant.  Now I'd never go to one of her shows because no one ever sits down.  But it looks fun if I were that type of person.  I just appreciate her voice and the showmanship.

On to other things that are less inspiring.  Today Tony had a breakdown in his car.  He darn near parked it.  Now I know why he was angry and I don't blame him, but for him to have the hissy fit in his car today that he had just was totally not like him.  I've never seen him shut down like that before.  And I mean he shut down.  Took two hundred laps for him to snap out of it. 

Hopefully it doesn't carry over in to the coming weeks.  The team needs to regroup and figure out what is going on.  Maybe Tony needs to take a trip home to see his family or something.  De-compress or something, but this is obviously the culmination of several bad weeks of racing and maybe he just needs some time away.  Who knows.

Anyhow, that's about all the commentary I have today.  The race itself wasn't very exciting, attendance was way down and slightly disappointing.  Oh well I guess.


"I'm beautiful in my way 'cause God makes no mistakes! I'm on the right track, baby, I was born this way."

Haven't posted in a while.....

I don't know why, I just haven't been in the mood.  I don't have much to say right now either but I'm typing.

I could take up a Nascar cause, but there's not much drama other than boys being boys.  Not men being men.  Tomorrow if it doesn't rain it should turn out to be a good race.  I hope Tony does well.

Word on the street is that he's close to proposing or has proposed to Jessica.  If he is or has I'm glad.  He's been so much more calm and happy these days.  And he sure looks more healthy.  Doesn't have the dark circles under his eyes or just the tired eyes.  Check out what I'm talking about below. 

 

So if she's making him look this good then Yay for him and Yay for us that think he's eye candy.

Otherwise, my daydream world has sucked lately.  I'm just not in to music anymore.  LOL!  Its like I don't have time for singing along anymore.  Hacking and being sick isn't helping any I'm sure.  I'm tired of being sick.

I was thinking though.  This is the best I've felt in a while.  I'm not depressed or anything.  It's weird to be ok but I am.  Other than fighting being sick all of the time, I'm not saddened or anything.  So I'm happy about that.  I haven't figured out why I'm feeling ok but as long as it doesn't change it's all good.

I'll try to blog more often.  I think I just haven't been doing it because I haven't been on my computer much.  I use my tablet a lot more than I do my computer.  Maybe in the coming days you'll get more commentary on NASCAR and College Softball.  

Commentary like this:  Jordan Taylor has a wicked curve ball.

Ok all done!  Goodnight!!

How long are they going to freeze us out?

So the building I work in must be ancient or something because the darn thing has a boiler that does it's heating.  Well, the way it works, which I don't quite understand, is that every now and then the building pumps in fresh air from outside.  Now, in the spring and summer that's no biggy because it's warm.  In the winter, when the outside temp is 50?  Now that's a problem.  So the room temperature is probably somewhere around 62 to 64 on any given day instead of a comfy 72 degrees.  Hell I'd settle for 70.  So we bundle up.  Now for those of us who sit under the air vents, it's hell.  It's always cold and our hands and feet are always frozen.  Lately it's been so cold it is actually bothering my back.  That's just damn near the craziest thing.

Otherwise, I had a twitter war with a reporter for Nascar today.  Just not a fan of the fact that he was like the first person to point out something and did it on Twitter and then picked a fight with anyone and everyone who chose to feel differently than he did.  I think it was very unprofessional to air his grievance on Twitter, he seems to think it was ok, but cheering in the press box?  No that's worthy of burning someone at the cross.

People these days just think it's cool to air out whatever they want on Twitter because it happens.  He literally told me that.  It happened, what did you expect?  That you act like an adult about it.  That's what.  He still didn't get it.  Still doesn't get that I, as a non-credentialed fan, do not have access to the activities happening in the press box.  So until someone who is privy to that activity points it out I am totally oblivious.  I don't know there's bias because I CAN'T SEE IT.

But no, this reporter just decided it was his job to point out supposed bias by other members of the media.  That wasn't his job.

Now we have bloggers who want to be legitimate members of the media once they finish school who are worried that because they express their opinions now they won't be hired later.  Because they're worried it'll become so black and white in the media that there will be no room for journalists who do both reporting of the facts and commentary on the facts separately from their straight forward reporting of the facts.

Pete Pistone said, as long as they stay professional they'll be ok.  I think the same.  Also, as long as they maintain integrity, don't blur the lines between fact and fiction, and manage to maintain that line between journalism and commentary theyll be fine.  But what we're seeing all too much these days are reporters who claim to be journalists but often inject their opinions in to their stories.

Some are good at drawing that line.  They report stories on one place, comment on them on another place.  This helps the fan understand when they're looking at a statement of fact versus an interpretation of that fact.

In the end this whole mess has taken away from some good beginning of the year storylines and I hope everyone just moves on. 

Yeah we get it, NO CHEERING IN THE PRESS BOX!

BE CAREFUL NOT TO CHEER!!

Long Day

I'm glad I went though.  I needed a day off really.

So today I headed down to LA Live to see Trevor Bayne.  He was a cool guy.  Very intelligent and has a wicked smile.  He stayed and signed autographs afterward too so I got one.  I took the train out there and getting to Union Station and back from Union Station is nothing, but riding the metro trains in an experience.  Makes you wanna work down there.  At least there's always something going on.

So today I was just purusing Twitter and there are a few journalists still arguing about cheering in the press box.  To this I say "GET OVER IT."  There are some high and mighty people out there.

Otherwise, I did get to ask Trevor about God and what he would say to the nay sayers in the crowd and he said that he just doesn't believe that God had nothing to do with it.  That he knows God gave him the opportunities he's taken and guided him along the right path.  Very smart kid and very smart answer.

In other news.  Mickey's team got fined for the spoiler falling off on the last lap of the truck race at Daytona.  Some say he should lose the win.  I still understand why they don't take it away, it makes for some serious messes when it comes to everything.  But they were right to fine him.  I found out that Nascar does not issue the truck teams the spoilers.  They approve them, but they are built by the team.  Therefore Nascar cannot be held accountable for a parts malfunction and the team must be.  They had to have done something wrong in order for it to break as it did.  So the penalty is warranted.

I wondered out loud if this had happened with 10 or 20 to go in the race what Nascar would have done.  The consensus is that Mickey would have been black flagged.  So they would have made him fix it because there's a clear aerodynamic advantage to having no spoiler.  So I also then wondered if the team had rigged it to be that way.  I thought that it would have been a brilliant plan, but probably improbable.  There's just no way it'll go according to plan.

I had fun today, got some sun and now I'm going to relax.  My foot hurts, it's been a while since I've done that much walking.  My back doesn't hurt though so that's a good thing.

Until tomorrow!

I can't say it enough...

Honest to God I love Harry's Law so much.  Just don't know why.  Part of it is Kathy Bates the other part is the dude who plays Tommy Jefferson.  I dunno.  I just think it's a totally cool show.  I'm going to google the ratings to see how it's doing.  I'm sure though it will get cancelled.

So a couple of things have been happening with regards to NASCAR.  I mean no one can really complain about the race as ratings were up and it was really interesting.

First thing's first.  Looks like some media members cheered when Trevor Bayne won.  Some other media members did not appreciate that as they are supposed to be unbiased and objective observers of the event.  I understand the sentiment, but I see the other side of it too.  To me it seems that somewhere along the line you find that this is your investment, these journalists who only report on NASCAR, and when you see something that benefits your sport, your livelihood, you celebrate it.  Uncontrollably too.  I wasn't stoked Tony wasn't going to win the race but I couldn't help but be thrilled to see this kid, in his first Daytona 500, win the race.  He ran an exceptional race too.  So I could see where people might just get caught up in the moment and get caught celebrating what this means for the sport.  NOW!  The pressure is on for Trevor, just to remain true to himself, God and continue to grow and be successful.

The second thing is that Trevor said something to the effect that God was responsible for his win.  And man oh man did that trigger a backlash.  People all over the place saying that God had nothing to do with it.  (This actually is something I'm going to ask him about.)  Why people feel the need to shoot someone else's beliefs down is beyond me.  I don't know about God anymore, I don't do the church thing, I don't do religion, but I'm not going to second guess what that boy believes.  He believes that and if it gives him joy and comfort, then so be it.  Who am I to say he's wrong?  I'd like to see his response to those people.  I wonder how a 20 year old kid would handle that question.  Probably better than those people who had the nerve to say God had nothing to do with it.

Otherwise, vacation day tomorrow.  Going down to LA LIVE to see Trevor and do a Q&A session.  Riding the train down there.  Work is good.  Have lots to keep me busy.  Can't get my rater to work right, I'll have to have my boss look at it.  Obviously I'm not seeing it.  Otherwise, this weekend will hopefully be good.  Opening day for Kaylee is Sunday, race at noon, so I can do the parade and get home in time for the race.  Priorities, priorities.

Well I'm off for the night.  Had a little more commentary for today.  Hopefully you enjoyed it.

Today, today, today.....

So I went to bed around midnight last night and forgot I have an alarm on my tab set for 5am, so it went off.  But in all reality that didn't matter, I was ready to get up.  So I just chilled for a while and then got up.


I went and saw Unknown today.  I guess I was expecting something more similar to Taken but I was disappointed.  It was a good movie, but I guess I biased myself expecting something like Taken.  He didn't go all super kick ass dude until the end of the movie.  So that was kind of lame.

Then I went over to mom's and just sat around.  Played with Kaylee and then had Annabelle sit on my lap. 

Didn't get anything else done today.  Should have done laundry and changed the cat littler.  That'll be my thing for tomorrow because Wednesday will be spent down at LA Live at the Trevor Bayne appearance.  I hope that's fun.  Would have liked Tony to have won the 500, but that kid did a good job on Sunday and deserves it.  I hope he continues to do well in the Nationwide Series and in his remaining Cup starts.  He has a new fan in me.  I like to see new talent come up through the ranks. 

So I guess that's all for now.  This isn't very exciting, I have no opinions for the day.  Hopefully in the coming posts I will have an opinion or two about things.  Maybe tomorrow I'll write a novel on something political or whatever.  The 500 was so good there's nothing to complain or argue about.  First time in a long time following a race where there hasn't been some sort of complaint.  Ratings were up, the coverage was as good as it was going to get, and the racing was great.  What more could you ask for?

Starting my new blog...

I'm sure this won't be real interesting, but maybe someone will like it.  I'm going to post about life.  I'll post about my feelings, thoughts and hobbies.

I wonder if I can hook this up to post to Twitter?

So I think we will see a plethora of things here, from rantings about work to rantings about kids and finally most of all commentary on the current happenings in Nascar.

I look forward to doing this.