Hammer Time

My friend at Turner Broadcasting is doing the music again for the Braves commercials. This week he is in LA to tape MC Hammer. Maybe he’ll have some stories when I see him on Friday. Farnsworth didn’t like the direction the Braves were going in…towards lower priced youth, who were just as productive as the higher priced old guys like him. Good thing the Hawks didn’t go after Darko. If they couldn’t make a player out of Boris D, then Darko would’ve been in the same boat. Will they trade a Josh along with Harrington? Who should they get in the draft next year…Reddick, Gonzaga, a big man, or point guard (who?). If they draft JJ or Morrison, they’d have to do something with Joe Johnson…but who would take him at his salary? They missed out on Chris Paul…hopefully Marvin becomes a player. Woodson isn’t the answer. They have a better record this year, but with the improved roster, they should. But they should only make a change when they figure out/land a coach who is the answer, and not just fire him in mid-season just for the sake of firing him.

Lunchtime reading included some NBA lottery picks, including some 6’11” youngster from Europe. The 6’8” UConn phenom is losing ground…a good thing, since the Hawks have a glut of guys that size. See the SI comparison of Reddick to Jon Barry? Others thought more of him.

Lang exaggerates his career a bit, though he was ok. Saw little time playing for North Fulton. Played against Bow Wow in rec leagues.

No one in the north Macon suburbs played much basketball, so I didn’t start playing pickup games until college. Did play one or two years of rec ball when I was 11 or 12, but I didn’t get it. Career high was ten points in an intramural game. My sister played high school ball, back when it was six to a side, when two stayed on offense, two stayed on defense, and there were two ‘rovers’. Public school.

The girl from C’s home course is holding her own on the Big Break, but she doesn’t get much face time because she’s not an outspoken quote machine. Or they’re editing the show in such a way where they give more time early to the girls who don’t hang around as long.

This new GT AD from LSU got the job over Bill Curry...because he has come out of ‘nowhere’ to be a finalist? GT hosted Duke…it was close for a while! Every year the AJC has the contest to design the Peachtree road race t-shirt. The finalists are always graphic artists. Many of the runners every year never like the designs. Jeff, this young guy at work, studied graphic design at GSU. I always vow to enter, so I sketched out some ideas I think the masses would like, and Jeff is going to put them on his Mac. We’ll see what happens. I’ve run it about 20 years now, and just when I’m ready to quit, W is fired up about it. A wants to enter a design for the Peachtree Junior, as a student always draws it’s design. My thoughts of a blog, or a big Word file, is to copy over emails with stories, so they can be compiled/saved for kids/grandkids to read…should they be interested. I made a year by year timeline with events, and I’d like to write short essays about those events…courtship, wedding, honeymoon, trips, college, teams, etc…like my years as a kicker. Cute things kids do and say…throw in pictures as well. I know I’m completely self-absorbed, but I love having all the old stuff that belonged to my grandfather, including old documents. He had an old notebook he put letters his grandkids wrote (not many). It included the time my sister had made some long distance calls from his house, so she had to write and apologize. A West Virginian walks into a hardware store and asks for a chain saw that will cut 6 trees in one hour. The salesman recommends the top of the line model. The West Virginian is suitably impressed, and buys it. The next day he brings it back, complaining that it would only cut down 1 tree and it took ALL DAY! The salesman takes the chain saw, starts it up to see what's wrong, and the West Virginian says, "What's that noise?" Do you have one of those health insurance saving accounts, where they deduct before taxes? This is the first year for us, and I seriously under-estimated our medical expenses. At least there won’t be any left in the account. I’m still learning the ropes. C doesn’t go to SC alone as much as when W and A were tiny, as now we have more going on during the weekends. Always a nice break…I try and do things that take me away from home, as well as projects. Perhaps I’ll suggest they take a trip, but these days all the cousins are really turning into negative influences. C’s dad is giving us his old PC, which should be an upgrade, as he had it reconditioned. We’ll put our current one in A’s room, probably. I didn’t take notes, but the ‘Pause’ finale was addressed to driven achiever people, whom Andy said ‘must be attracted to this place’. The main point was that when someone does something outside of God’s law/will, just a one-time thing as a shortcut to success, they miss out on both the ‘real’ success as well as closeness to God. Get the NPCC email about new elders? Elder candidate Rocky Butler is an acquaintance of mine…he is friends of the Hurts…the ones impatient with small groups who aren’t committed. Rocky was at the super bowl party we didn’t go to because we were sick. C is doing that in this women’s bible study she’s in, and enjoys it. She had stopped taking her drugs when she started feeling better not long ago, and is getting sick again. May have something to do with Friday’s small group being a game night.