SOOOO Hot!

...I'm Mister Sun
I'm Mister Heat Blister
I'm Mister Hundred and One
They call me Heat Miser,
What ever I touch
Starts to melt in my clutch
I'm too much!

This is how I feel when I am on the pool deck coaching. MAN is it hot.
Well 3 practices down and two to go for me coaching stint for FLA.
The practices have gone very well and everyone has thanked me, it is hard work with
that many people and three different levels of speed, but I think I am pulling it off.

I will hand my practices over to tha coach and see what he has to say.

Then I am back in the pool and hopefully back to full time training by January.

In the Deep Once Again

Well after having my Acromion Process which is number 12 on the photo shaved back, I am once again in the water. Albiet only kicking and sneaking in a couple 50's swimming.

My teammates are venturing off to the Woodlands in Texas for long course nationals, wish I could go. I am shooting for short course nationals in Austin next year.

Good luck FLA!!!

Go FLATT and FLUCE and FLARTY!!!

FLA IS FLAWSOME

Oh One For Service

Tomorrow I will be awarded with the ISHOF Service Award for my dedication to the International Swimming Hall of Fame and its Web site. This was a wonderful suprise since this is the only way I am ever getting in the Hall unless I become a superstar when I get to the 80-84 Age group.

I apologize to Da Hoop for his missing of practice, but here is the back-handed slap of it all, he COULD get up and swim the AM practice an avoid the traffic- HA HA HA. Not like I am doing much swimming at this time, so I can pick on him as much as I want.

I am actually going to coach next week, I even get the shirt to prove it. This way they will have to RESPECT MY AUTHORITAY, as Cartman would say. I hope they are all ready, since I will be unleashing my sprinter practices on my friends who make it to the Noon practice, and the ones who come next Saturday will enjoy it.

More updates soon.

ISHOF Honoree Induction Weekend

It is time for the International Swimming Hall of Fame Induction Weekend. Yours truly is the reciepient of the ISHOF Service Award for my Web site work for the Hall.

It is truly amazing what the inductees of the ISHOF have accomplished during the career. If you get a chance, check out ISHOF.ORG. One of these days I will get back in the water, at least I will be coaching during Nationals for the coaches who get to swim.

Some of the worst pain ever.

Back Spasm Pain

A muscle spasm occurs due to a variety of reasons. A spasm is a powerful contraction or stiffening of the muscle. When a muscle goes into spasm, the person is unable to stop the forcible tightening of the muscle and surrounding tissue. Muscle spasms are designed to protect the injured area by limiting motion in painful tissue. Muscle spasms can be brought on by injury, advanced degenerative process, or most commonly, oxygen deprivation.

Let me tell you, this is the second time this has happened in the last year, this is not a severe as last time. Last time I could not even stand, I had to crawl in the house, my brother-in-law had to help me in. It took over six hours before I could get out of bed.

Well today is not going so well, I have been having a spasm for 9 hours. I had a small reprieve after the muscle relaxer and the Aleve kicked in, I just cannot stay in one position too long. It is rough to stand-up straight.

Man let me tell you it is one of the most painful injuries to have and I still have no clue why I have gotten this spasm.

I cannot take off work again, and I got to take my kiddos to school.

I hope this will be resolved by the morning.

Still not blogging a happy blog.

We are a country of fat lazy bastards!

Who ever this person is, you gotta be KIDDING ME!!!

Get out of your car and walk you dog, man what a lazy S.O.B.

Hire a dog walker for goodness sake.

Anyway, this is why America is so fat, we cannot even walk our dogs anymore.

I bet you this person is eating a Big Mac with a jumbo Diet Coke.

Ouch!!!

Man, what a weekend. I couldn't even make it through an easy Saturday practice without my shoulders hurting.
Then on Sunday I started feeling really bad, I was cold then hot, my stomach was so upset, I did not even sleep.

I had to stay home yesterday, I know it sounds like fun not to work, but being sick sucks.

I had to get to work today, but I feel like crap, I am not going to swim, since I have not eaten since Sunday and I have no energy.

I hope I feel better tomorrow, and I will blog a happy blog.

5 months ago

It seems lax is not even the world for my blogging. Nonexistant seems more like it. For all my faithful readers, all 3 of you.
SORRY!

Well lots going on since November, my daugher turned 4, my son turned 2 - Yeah Kids!.

Launched a site redesign Fort Lauderdale Aquatics.

Worked on two nice video projects for the International Swimming Hall of Fame.

Swimming again after my surgery, going slow, but I am up to 3 days a week. Hopefully the shoulders hold up.

No triathlons for this year, oh well.

That is the update for now.

The Pressure

Well it seems I have been slack on the blogging, since Da Hoop has pointed out my non-blogging since Oct. 13th.

Kinda busy around here, plus been fighting a bad cold the last couple days.

Well I finally started getting back to swimming a couple days a week since my surgery, YEAH!!!!!

I rode my bike again, and the shoulder is holding up, a little sore, but I am happy to be active again.

Then this damn cold has knocked me for a loop, hopefully I will be better soon, I am swimming to try and win a turkey on Thursday, more on that later.

My daughter's 4th Birthday party is Saturday, it is hard to party like a 4 year old.

Well onwards and upwards.

Paraskevidekatriaphobia: Fear of Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th - The Most Widespread Superstition?

The sixth day of the week and the number 13 both have foreboding reputations said to date from ancient times, and their inevitable conjunction from one to three times a year portends more misfortune than some credulous minds can bear. Some sources say it may be the most widespread superstition in the United States. Some people won't go to work on Friday the 13th; some won't eat in restaurants; many wouldn't think of setting a wedding on the date.

Just how many Americans at the turn of the millennium still suffer from this condition? According to Dr. Donald Dossey, a psychotherapist specializing in the treatment of phobias (and coiner of the term "paraskevidekatriaphobia"), the figure may be as high as 21 million. If he's right, eight percent of Americans are still in the grips of a very old superstition.

There have been a number of events known as "Black Fridays" in history. Usually, these events are devastating. Some historians propose that the origin of the "Black Friday" was the simultaneous arrest of hundreds of Knights Templars on October 13, 1307 (Friday), to be later tortured into admitting heresy.

I say is is all in their heads!

So Soon?

Wow, almost a month since I have blogged. SO busy and really have not much to write about. Been kinda bummed, I have been so busy at work I have not been able to start back swimming, I went only once LAST week. I really need to get in the pool. I need to try out Hoop's new chute, nice job to Hoop on the Swim Miami 10K, you could not pay me to swim that far or for that long ever again. Only a really good or fun bet would MAYBE do it.

Well the fall TV season is underway and shows are getting cancelled. Smith is already gone, and it looks like Kidnapped is on it's way out, been banished to Saturday night and told to wrap up the show by the 13 episode order. Happy Hour, a show I have never heard of is on it's way out as well.

It looks like my Tivo can take a rest on two shows for now. I kinda liked Smith, Ray Liotta is cool, and so is Simon Baker. It had a good concept, just no one watched. Amy Smart was annoying though.

I watched the Nine, do not know if I like it yet, but Heroes is AWESOME! Plus my usual shows I watch!

It's Back

Fall TV has made it's way back to our screens. What a relief, there were some good shows this summer, but I cannot wait for all the shows to be back.

Fox and F/X have started their shows, thank goodness for Nip/Tuck, makes our troubles look like nothing compared to these two guys. Prison Break is getting good, and House made a great comeback.

The new show Vanished is not looking so good, Justice is not so bad, and I Tivoed Standoff. I missed TV on Monday because I was working at the FSU vs Miami game, two great teams looking like crap.

Oh well, I will catch up soon.

Pluto’s no longer a planet??

Capping years of intense debate, astronomers resolved Thursday to demote Pluto in a wholesale redefinition of planethood that is being billed as a victory of scientific reasoning over historic and cultural influences. But the decision is already being hotly debated.

Officially, Pluto is no longer a planet.

Scientist decided Pluto is no longer a planet, WTF?

OK, I mean it is ok to make a mistake, but a whole planet?

I wish I could make a planet sized mistake and keep my job.

The Next Great Movie

Beerfest, how could this not be a great movie. You have to see the trailer This is gonna be funny.

The guys from Broken Lizard make some of the funniest movies around. Yes it is dumb humor, but that is the best. There is time for the smart humor of John Stewart, Dennis Miller, or George Carlin. This is the movie I want to see next.

There are some other films that are coming out soon which should be good:

The Prestige
The Black Dahlia
The Departed
Employee of the Month
The Fountain
Hollywoodland
Jet Li's Fearless
Invincible

Run one way or another

The dumbass of the week, they make it easy for us to pick on them.

The legal morass that has ensnared Maurice Clarett since he was Ohio State's star running back mounted Wednesday when police found four loaded guns in his sport utility vehicle and couldn't subdue him with a stun gun because he was wearing a bullet-proof vest.

It was just the latest in a series of problems for the beleaguered Clarett, who hasn't played a game since scoring the winning touchdown in the Fiesta Bowl as a freshman for Ohio State's 2002 national champions. He already faced trial in an armed robbery case next week, and his bond on those charges was raised to $1.1 million after he was jailed on the new weapon and traffic charges.

Clarett hid one semi-automatic handgun under his legs in the driver's seat and had an AK-47-type assault rifle on the passenger seat, police said. They said they found two other semi-automatic handguns, including one in a holster in a backpack.

Now Mo, I guess staying in shape and making millions of dollars running from 300 lb lineman was not enticing enough for you. Running from the cops is much more fun.

Too many hits the the head or the bong, maybe when you get out you can hang with Ricky Williams and Jim Brown, or even O.J.

Way to High!

OK these gas prices are totally getting out of control. But at least I am not driving a total gas guzzler. Imagine those suckers driving a huge SUV, ouch. I saw Shaq driving a modified semi, guess he is going from gas station to gas station leaving his money behind.

America needs to wake up and start making cars that do not rely on BIG OIL. They have been able to make these cars for years.
The rich oil magnets have never seemed to let his happen. Check out the movie Who Killed the Electric Car?

Hopefully this gas issue gets solved before we are paying $5.00 per gallon. Eventhough I read a story about how expenisve gas might help the country. How you might ask? By having people who are working on alternative fuels, to work harder and smarter to get their ideas out their and viable.

Whooooo A little to much!!

A blitzed Mel Gibson launched into an obscenity-laced tirade when he was busted on suspicion of drunken driving early yesterday, threatening an officer and making anti-Semitic and sexually abusive remarks, according to a police report.

Wow, it the funniest thing I have heard in a while. I though Mel has lost it a while back, but this proves it. The whole make two movies in Dead Languages thing, and the crazy beard, nice Mel. You have proved you are a supreme ass.

According to the incident report obtained by TMZ.com, the Road Warrior embarked on a belligerent, anti-Semitic outburst when he realized he had been busted.

"Fucking Jews. The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world," the report quotes him as saying.

"Are you a Jew?" Gibson asked the deputy, according to the report.

The actor also berated the deputy, threatening, "You motherfucker. I'm going to fuck you," according to the report.

Mel, Mel you have finally made it to the I have lost my mind catagory, I will never see a movie with you in it, or directed by you. I guess it took too much drink to show your true hatred.

What were they thinking?

Whoa, Stan Lee this is just not working. I mean Monkey Girl, Fat Momma, and what is with Cell Phone Girl? This is almost to laughable. The steroid freak was pretty funny as well, he wanted to kill people. Not what a superhero does.

This summer's tv programs are either full of crap and some really good shows. But are the crappy shows are way to awful to watch and the good ones you cannot miss, I guess this is the only one to fall into the category of watch it cause it is so bad, it is funny.

At least the summer is almost over and the regular shows begin.

On a side note, depending how much of a tv junkie you are, the pilot episode for Aquaman is availabe on iTunes for $1.99.

Also NBC will be putting pilot episode of some of their new tv show Heros on iTunes for free in September.

TV Show/Movie - Movie/TV Show

Why do they keep making lame ass tv shows based on movies, and the other way around?

Blade the TV series, did they screw the pooch on this, come on Sticky Fingas cannot act his way out of a parking ticket.

The Dukes of Hazzard, Starsky and Hutch, Æon Flux, and the live version of the Flintstones were such a waste. I heard they a making a Knight Rider movie. Please do not screw up the Transformers, but they probably will.

I think M*A*S*H* and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the movie was horrible) did it right coming from the movie screen to the boob tube. Now they want to make a 24 and a Sporanos movie. WE SEE THEM FOR FREE!!! Why would we want to pay to see them on a movie screen.

Now Serenity was a way to do it, Joss Whedon makes good tv and movies.

Please Hollywood, stop the remakes and redos and come up with something original.

Eureka!

Well the Scifi channel has come up with another gem, Eureka. What a fun pilot the other day. Basically here is the jist of the show "Nestled in the Pacific Northwest, Eureka is a seemingly ordinary town whose residents lead ordinary lives … at least to the naked eye. Shrouded in secrecy, the picturesque hamlet is actually a community of scientific geniuses assembled by the government to conduct top-secret research".

Why the big networks ever come up with great ideas I will never understand. The best shows on tv are not on the networks, they are on SciFi, HBO, and F/X.

24, House, Lost and Veronica Mars are the best network shows, but come on they cannot touch Battlestar Galactica, Rescue Me, Nip/Tuck or Deadwood.