Touring mates of Processed

so what?

AS massive as the Russian offensive that led to The Destruction of the German Army Group Center in 1944, U2 has been pushing it's t-34's and Il-2's into the attack something massive in these parts. I've always liked the group, but much less now than, say, than 1983 @ the Aarogon. however, they seem to still put out a good few tracks each LP - so I still have a soft spot for them.

So - I watched them all five nites on Letterman last week, and they were pretty good. So - if my Neice gets tix to the show, I'll take one. her's a few trax for you not to watch, since I'm sure most of you do not care. But ...

football au printemps: Money Beckons

Ah, the spending sprees!! I deeply pride myself on my cheapness - get it cheap or do w/out, generally (unless that whole Reggie Jackson/ Rutger Hauer/Matt Jenke/Mick Jagger thing is taken into account thing is taken into account). So, w/ successive trips to marshalls and Sports Authority, armed w/ my cheapness and a 'tax free' form, I went shopping for soccer balls. Pretty good - I got 14 total for $123 - they ranged from $7 to $14.99. Pretty happy that we got new quipement, and that it was priced nice.

The other thing I was shopping for was a first aid kit. The assistant coach was talking around $30 for one, but now I know full well that ALL PURCHASES should go through me (a single exception, see below): there was one @ C.V.S. that basically fit the bill @ $9.99, although I want to get a few more cold packs to supplement the solo one in the kit. They are 2 for $5 w/ a $1 coupon towards the next purchase - so, get the two first, then spend $8.99 on the kit. I'd asked Jackson the M.D. where to get one, and he basically said just go to a place like C.V.S. Haven't bought it yet - since I own a very slite patch of Walgreens, I make a point of shopping there instead of C.V.S.

And the candy sale is coming up. I was able to but this stuff because last year the team raised close to $900 in candy sales. This yar my job is to maybe double that this year - I want $2000. It'll be easy to tell the girls: Look*, last year we played seven games - this year 13. And I gotta pay $250 for two of these games - so - next year, do you wanna play these extra games again? Then lets go nuts selling and selling so next year we can take buses and pay referees and play teams in the suburbs or whatever.

The plan is to get tonnes of candy from like Wal Mart real cheap and then sell it @ the $1 mark. It worked great last year, and with all of the coaches pushing the kids and and selling candy themselves, I am very hopeful we can reach the doublecentruy mark. Plus - since we have another team this year - my school for the first time will have something rare to all teams citywide - a freshman team. Since that means there are an extra 20 girls or so - all very enthusiastic to be a part of the team - I'm VERY hopeful of that double century mark.

Very hopeful.
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*=look? Who do you think you are, Pesident Obama?

Song is Over

Went to my schools basketball game - state playoffs - and we died a lonely slow death - we are done for. Last year, w/ more height/bulk in the middle and the freshman star playing his part, we won two extra games before the bitter loss to end the season. This year - well, since the star (now a soph) left in the middle of the year - something was missing. It showed since January, and this result was to be expected.

So, the song is over. I knew there was to be no state championship here this year, but the end came way too soon and I will totally miss it until next fall. Sucks. I'd really liked being part of the crowd - there wasn't another teacher who supported the team like I did, and I always felt the love from the boys @ school. I also loved sitting with the parents - I'm a pretty silent guy in many contexts - especially @ the games - but eventually I got to sitting near them. When I went into this game, I inadvertently sat on the other teams side of the gym- no biggy, but @ the end of the first quarter I switched sides to be near the parents. Not till November, now - but luckily for me, they're all coming back w/ a single exception or so. Wait till next year.

A final minor disappointment - Sister.3's kids I rarely see since they live way out in the suburbs (the other three sisters are basically w/in walking distance in the 'hood). However, if my school had won Friday night, then we would have played the Sectional matches @ the H.S. w/in 2 blocks of his house. It would have been fun to have taken them - the boy is a hooper in his own right and I'm sure he would have enjoyed it a lot.

still it was a good lay/ good lay

J and B -with the single exceptio of me - are all perverts. I consider the luckiest man on the face of the earth to be in their company, though - and the several days of emails about Minka Kelly culminate here.

45m/$7/1992

I love when Hilts picks stuff noone wants to hear to impose on those who brush closely to Security...OUT!

less than one month, now

what what?

the imagery of life

I wonder, long ago, if anyone had goin' through his had what sometimes i have going through mine - 27 knots, 33 degrees cold water, bows slicing through, thousands of trained men, @ their posts, concentrating on dials or optics or simply shoveling coal into horrendously hot boilers, twelve miles distant the enemy, slicing as well: and then, fire and smoke belching, the roar of the cannon (rifles so large simply unknown on land cepting freak specimens hinged on trains and coastal batteries), the dense black cordite smoke, water tall as tall trees rejoicing from the artic ocean: eventually ranged, straddled, and then finally hit - the shells slamming into feet thinchk metal plates - some richotcing off, some smashed to pieces - but some penetrating - some deep, some shallow - shatton damage of metal, twisted, the orange of fire, the black of oil smoke, the sudden sheering out of line stricken irrevocably - well, anyone.

Imagery of the Battle of the Denmark Strait - or Jutland, or First Guadacanal, or Dogger Bank, or the Java Sea - whatever it is, that imagery is alays with me.

bombers!

bombers!

the nice weather

Love the weather. Wishing that during girls soccer season and for Sox games I'm ticketed to this weather would be always.

However, i fully realise that very soon - like next Wednesday, when we have our first friendly(exhibition game) - it will be rainy ad cold.

We'll take this when we can get it.

the Lenten season

Did I mention that although Lent has been going on for eight days, for me it has been going on for five days.

But - again - I have been on lent for five days now. And good.

Hitler

Favoured line from Russia's War by Richard Overy, about Hitler @ the end and copped up in the bunker:

"Since communications were poor, Hitler conjured up in his mind whole armies of Siegfreds battling through to free the capital from the Soviet dragon."

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