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Monday, April 7, 2008
Sunday, April 6, 2008
news and the like
Updates are in order, but to start I thought I could take a stab at what is happening in the world once again.
Baseball is among us again, and what fun it brings to us all. Fans rejoice over their team's offseason aquisitions and signings, yet every year this seems much more dramatic at the time than it ends up becoming. For me, I always wonder what the Twin have in store, but by the trade deadline during the season I have a pretty good idea how they will end up, and in the past decade all of the opening day hype has been forgotten by that point which uually means the Twins have mustered a mediocre eason at best. This year looks like another one for the books, with almost an entirely new lineup and pitching staff. Thats not to say they won't compete, it just means that the team will take 1/3 of the season to adjust to each other, and the last 2/3's to make up for this. Look at the Timberwolves, they did that this season, they had the worst record in the league thirty games in and now they are lucky if they get a top five draft pick in the first round next season.
All this and the Vikes still have yet to impress me with their scouting skills. Sure, they have a few prospects and the names they did sign don't really carry much of a load behind them. In all honesty, if they sign Gus Ferrott from the Bears why not give Tarvaris Jackson half a season on the sidelines so he can build up his confidence level rather than start him with hopes of the best like they did last year.
And as some of you may know, I am going to China from May 18 through June 6 with my sister to study abroad, but the main focus in the news as of late has been China's connection to Tibet and the protests/riots that have ensued because of this. One thing I would like to know is what started these incidents? Is it the culmination of the Olympics, did the Dali Lama tell his followers to be active in their beliefs, were thee people provocked in some way and they want to be heard on a national scale now? Any way it is sliced, this trip could turn out to be much more adventerous than originally planned, but at the very least I will get to see the pre-game setups which will be quite amazing.
With that all behind me now, I have to say I don't think I have ever been quite as buy as I am now. The wedding planning is quite extreme, but that comes in spurts so I can't really weigh it down too much. Classes are going well, but the workload is picking up as finals appraoch for the end of April. Work is going well, I average three mornings per week and the occasional Saturday. The move out from our place into my parent's house went pretty well, not too much planning for this unfortunately but it went over without too many hitches. And the move to New York is setting itself up well, we are going there this coming weekend to look around and set our sights on the places we will frequent when we get there.
Thats about all that is on my plate right now, looking at it as a paragraph makes it seem quite small to me, but I don't think writing it down really conveys the message properly. Needless, you get the idea, so if I seem out of the loop for the next month you can refer to one of those listings as my excuse because I may not have the time to get back to you in an orderly fashion.
I did feel like there was more to say, but when I just write what I think the little things seem to slip away. I think that is a good thing, because after a while they can add up. I leave you this time with a photo I took at night in Tortola, the camera was on a banister but when I pushed the shutter button down the whole camera tilted with it and then napped back up which caused this image to appear the way it is.
Baseball is among us again, and what fun it brings to us all. Fans rejoice over their team's offseason aquisitions and signings, yet every year this seems much more dramatic at the time than it ends up becoming. For me, I always wonder what the Twin have in store, but by the trade deadline during the season I have a pretty good idea how they will end up, and in the past decade all of the opening day hype has been forgotten by that point which uually means the Twins have mustered a mediocre eason at best. This year looks like another one for the books, with almost an entirely new lineup and pitching staff. Thats not to say they won't compete, it just means that the team will take 1/3 of the season to adjust to each other, and the last 2/3's to make up for this. Look at the Timberwolves, they did that this season, they had the worst record in the league thirty games in and now they are lucky if they get a top five draft pick in the first round next season.
All this and the Vikes still have yet to impress me with their scouting skills. Sure, they have a few prospects and the names they did sign don't really carry much of a load behind them. In all honesty, if they sign Gus Ferrott from the Bears why not give Tarvaris Jackson half a season on the sidelines so he can build up his confidence level rather than start him with hopes of the best like they did last year.
And as some of you may know, I am going to China from May 18 through June 6 with my sister to study abroad, but the main focus in the news as of late has been China's connection to Tibet and the protests/riots that have ensued because of this. One thing I would like to know is what started these incidents? Is it the culmination of the Olympics, did the Dali Lama tell his followers to be active in their beliefs, were thee people provocked in some way and they want to be heard on a national scale now? Any way it is sliced, this trip could turn out to be much more adventerous than originally planned, but at the very least I will get to see the pre-game setups which will be quite amazing.
With that all behind me now, I have to say I don't think I have ever been quite as buy as I am now. The wedding planning is quite extreme, but that comes in spurts so I can't really weigh it down too much. Classes are going well, but the workload is picking up as finals appraoch for the end of April. Work is going well, I average three mornings per week and the occasional Saturday. The move out from our place into my parent's house went pretty well, not too much planning for this unfortunately but it went over without too many hitches. And the move to New York is setting itself up well, we are going there this coming weekend to look around and set our sights on the places we will frequent when we get there.
Thats about all that is on my plate right now, looking at it as a paragraph makes it seem quite small to me, but I don't think writing it down really conveys the message properly. Needless, you get the idea, so if I seem out of the loop for the next month you can refer to one of those listings as my excuse because I may not have the time to get back to you in an orderly fashion.
I did feel like there was more to say, but when I just write what I think the little things seem to slip away. I think that is a good thing, because after a while they can add up. I leave you this time with a photo I took at night in Tortola, the camera was on a banister but when I pushed the shutter button down the whole camera tilted with it and then napped back up which caused this image to appear the way it is.
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