the fellas are back

well this is the greatest time of the year to follow sports in my opinion. football season is in full swing...baseball playoffs are here,and all of a sudden baseball is a lot more interesting...and of course, basketball season is nearing its beginning. the spurs reported to start training camp yesterday...it's great just to see the fellas and here their voices. manu sounds like he's feeling pretty good after the ankle surgery...tp is in his prime and timmy...well he's timmy. i'm stoked for the team this year. we kept together the main pieces...and infused some young talent...hopefully this will carry us back to the top where we belong. plus there's no way we can lose when pop's sportin a rowdy beard like that. may this be the first of many a "GO SPURS GO" chants.
santa clause? nope...coach pop...timmy d says it's intimidating, coach pop says he'll shave,trim, or do whatever timmy wants him to do to it. ah...the good times.

where were you when the world stopped turnin...

well before this day is actually over, i feel the need to write about september 11th. i was watching a fantastic episode of FRIENDS today...in season 5...and they showed the sun behind the new york city skyline...right behind the twin towers. i paused the screen,took a good look...put on some music and just wrote in my journal a bit...i suppose this is my chance to reflect in a slightly more public forum. we'll never forget where we were or what we were doing that day. i remember mom waking me up telling me the pentagon was on fire...that sounded pretty serious so i popped right up out of bed (that in itself tells you something is up)...i remember watching the news and seeing the towers actually falling...i can still see the news reporters just stop talking and start crying...i remember the sky seemed so empty...and eery,yet almost peaceful. i remember driving to school...my first semester at utsa, i remember seeing the flag flying at the whataburger at blanco &1604...it brought tears to my eyes. i remember my texas history professor would only allow us to discuss it for the first 30 minutes of class...because we absolutely had to cover some material...as if anyone was thinking about texas history that day. besides alan jackson's song that came afterwards...there are two songs that i remember from that day..."overcome" by live...and "hero" by enrique iglesias. well i suppose this has gotten longer than i thought it would. i guess this would be the appropriate entry to end with something besides "good times"...what comes to mind is...God bless America...the land of the free,because of the brave.

we will never forget 9-11-01

in response

i came across this poem (actually it's just an excerpt) and thought it was cool...it'd make john denver or thoreau proud i'm sure.
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;
There is a rapture on the lonely shore;
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music its roar;
I love not man the less, but Nature more."

some dude named lord byron wrote it. i really like the last line there...good times.

are you ready for some football?

i've always enjoyed monday night football. it's a great way to welcome the week and softens the blow of the weekend's end. in sunday school a few weeks ago, the teacher asked..."what do we do every monday night?" i immediately got giddy as the monday night football song played in my head and i thought to myself, "monday night football baby!!!" i honestly wasn't thinking of fhe like the teacher assumed we would. but what a treat tonight to kickoff mnf with a double header...should be solid. funny that i'm still stoked to watch football...i watched it for 11 straight hours on saturday...from the byu game beginning at 2pm...to the end of the texas game at 1245 am. crazy huh? i did take a dinner break though. then i threw in a couple more hours yesterday and will probably be watching some recorded football here shortly. ah...it's glorious. my teams were mostly successful...the niners began to erase that preseason hope that all fans have as they turned the ball over 5 times. even w/ the crimson and gold struggling...these are truly some good times.