Reason Number 1:
My wife and kids are happy and healthy. Jen had some fairly major surgery a few days ago and came through fine. It was stressfull but it also sort of calmed me down from worrying about things I have no control over. Now that she's ok, of course I'm right back to chomping at the bit wanting to murder someone over the continuing saga of getting our building ready that was promised to be ready NOVEMBER 1, 2007!
But even that is on the horizon, hopefully by the end of the week. I am not holding my breath, though, having already missed 10 previous dead lines.
The kids are also doing extremely well, growing up happy and loud. Lots of loud, but a lot of happy, too.
You really don't need any reasons other than that to say life is good, but I promised three reasons so the other reasons follow below.
Reason Number 2:
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?
I watched the Hall of Fame game. Football is here! I love this time of year for many reasons, the promise of cooler temperatures, the upcoming holidays and yes, the arrival of football. Although FSU has fallen far from the dominance we once had, this area is still football hungry. Football is my favorite sport so I am always happy when the season finally gets here.
Add in that I absolutely love fantasy football and it is even more exciting. I'm going to win my league this year!
Reason Number 3:
The Long Way Round and The Long Way Down.
Wow. Have you seen, read or heard of these movies, books, trips? Long story short, Ewan MacGregor and Charley Boorman (google them if you don't know who they are) took off from England going east, all the way around the world. They had one guy riding with them to film it and had a support crew that met them at borders.
Check out the wiki. Now, I know that their trip and planning and everything are far beyond the reach of most people, but it still all boils down to two guys on two motorcycles. Sort of. And if you read the ride reports at Adventure Rider, you see normal Joes like you or me doing some incredible riding all the time.
I had heard of the TV series a while back from my buddy Glynn and caught some of the episodes on the Fox Reality Channel (the Long Way series is the ONLY thing worth watching on that channel) and DVR'ed them. I had three or so episodes in the series and watched them and thought it was great.
But with the showing of The Long Way Down, they reaired the first series and I DVR'ed all of them and finally finished watching them this morning.
My first thought of the series is how normal Ewan and Charley are. I knew who Ewan MacGrwegor was from seeing him in the Star Wars series. He was also in Trainspotting, and other movies. Charley Boorman is the son of film director John Boorman and has also been in several movies, including 'Deliverance'.
All that aside, watching these two and reading the first chapter of the books, I was struck by how normal and laid back they were. Of course, all of that could have been carefully crafted by some PR firm in New York but it was cool seeing MacGregor on the side of the road in Mongolia, ad libbing in his best Jedi Knight voice, 'These are not the bikes you seek...'
Another thing I really appreciated was seeing what Mongolia and Kazahkstan looked like. I'll never set foot there more than likely, but it was very cool to see what it looked like.
There wasn't a ton of riding in the series but it was still well worth watching. And again. And again. Take a look if you can.
Well, reason number two is sort of selfish and reason number three is definitely selfish but with what we have been through the last 10 months, they are still reasons to get a little happy.
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