A Collection of Complete Randomness

This might be my absolute least favorite time of year weather-wise. March is the biggest tease of a month where I’m from. For months we’ve been pummeled with snow and bitterly cold weather, and all we want is the temperature to be above 30 so some of this snow can start melting and we can stop dressing up in more layers than Randy, the younger brother on A Christmas Story.

“I can’t put my arms down!”

But all March ever brings is a false sense of security and one big let down. Sure, every year we fall for the same old routine. It will get really nice for a week or so and everyone will get really excited thinking winter is finally over. People start running around in short sleeves when it’s still technically below freezing outside, but since it’s about a 40 degree increase from last month’s average it feels like a tropical getaway. And just when we start to really enjoy the vast improvement on the thermometer, Mother Nature backhands us right across the face. This week is when said backhand is expected to come. After about a week’s worth of weather that was actually nice enough that we didn’t have to plug our cars in at night, we’re going back below zero again. (Sigh).

On the other hand, this is an exciting time of year for sports fans. Selection Sunday is right around the corner followed by March Madness. The NFL draft is about two months away and that means Mel Kiper, Jr. comes out from wherever he hides in the winter to make an appearance or two per week on ESPN with those appearances increasing as the draft grows closer. Also in the NFL, free agency pickups headline the sports news as we find out who went where and how much skrilla they’re getting. Baseball teams are in full swing at Spring training and the Grapefruit League and Cactus League either make us think our team is destined for the playoffs or make us think we should hide the fact that our team is in fact our team. Even though I’ve learned to realize that pre-season is about as important as a screen door on a submarine – much like the NFL’s pre-season – it’s still fun have baseball back. Golf is underway and the Masters is only about a month away. Side note: I found out tonight that next year’s PGA Tour Championship is being held at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota, which is just southwest of Minneapolis and a very doable drive from where I live. I plan on assembling a cavalry and going down there for the weekend, so if I know you, and I like you, I’ll be talking to you about this soon. If I know you and I don’t like you, please forget you read that last sentence as you will not be invited. Well … this just got really awkward.

I’m especially giddy today because I was just offered a job making semi-decent money and I can finally get out of the retail businesses I’ve been stuck in since I was 16. I don’t know whose ass I slapped when I submitted my application, but I had about a five minute phone interview and was offered the position right then and there, so I must have done something right. The timing couldn’t be better because in about 10 months I am going to start getting bills from my student loans, and I really didn’t want to have to move back in with my parents at this juncture in my life due to the abject poverty I would surely be forced into. Also, the timing is great because I have a sneaking suspicion that if I had kept working at the place I was working at, I would have ended up completely losing it and cussing at all the customers before promptly walking out.

You tell ‘em, Julio

On top of the job-related giddiness, I am extra elated because both parts one and two of season six of The Sopranos finally went on sale at Best Buy and I scooped up. I’m sorry, but I can not see myself paying $83.99 for 12 episodes, I don’t care how good the damn show is. Due to my inability at the time to dominate life much like the way I do now, I didn’t have HBO while The Sopranos was being aired weekly, and by the time I did get HBO, it was about midway through season four so I knew I couldn’t pick up there and ride it out until the end. Hell, I feel like I need to keep a pencil and paper handy the way it is just to keep all the new characters straight every season. Nevertheless, I am expecting a couple late nights while I’m on my Spring pseudo-break (that is what I’m calling it) devoted to getting to the end of this magical journey I’ve been taking with Tony, Paulie, Silvio and the others. From top to bottom, this is television at its absolute finest. Not a show I’ve ever seen has better writing, acting, plot lines, or directing than The Sopranos. Also, the getting-sucked-in factor is easily a ten out of ten. The day I bought season three, I went to Best Buy in the morning to get it, and I came home and watched every single episode in one sitting.

Now despite the media’s attempt to blow the lid off the series finale, I have kept myself completely in the dark about the whole episode, so don’t be a douche bag and ruin it for me because even if everyone said it was horrible, I want to be my own judge. For now, I’ve been satisfied seeing one of my favorite characters, Paulie Walnuts (played by Tony Sirico) in the newest Denny’s commercials (seen here and here). If you’re a Sopranos fan, you’ll probably get a kick out of these.

I’m already through one of the CDs I bought and mentioned to you in yesterday’s post about music. By this time tomorrow, I will be through a second. I don’t mess around with stuff like this. If I was only half this motivated with my school work I could have my Doctorate degree by now.

Alright enough for now.  By the way, I am currently taking bids from anyone who wants to do my laundry for me.  I have been letting it pile up for far too long now and I’m almost afraid that there aren’t enough hours in a day to get this stuff done.  Ever let your laundry go for so long that when you finally sort it to wash it, you forgot you even owned some of the clothes that were at the bottom of the hamper?  This is a little game I like to play with myself.  What can I say?  Simple things amuse the simple mind I guess.

One love,

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