BRR, CLOSE THAT DOOR!

RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME

Of all the pilots that could have been flying on that US Airways jetliner, it was fortunate that Capt. Sullenberger was the one flying that plane. Will let other talk about all the other 'stuff', because I am going in a different direction. Did want to salute the crew and the ability of all those on that flight, and the drop everything reaction of the boats that plucked them off that plane.

FOOTBALL, THIS WEEKEND

Last year's story line, was 'who's destiny is to be fulfilled.' This year, it is just real life at it's most basic. In the NFC, you have two teams propelled by destiny, karma, what have you. Philly and Arizona have their own negatives to have had to be overcome to get to where they are, and almost despite themselves, they are where they are ...

Between them, I don't have too great a personal preference. Both have things about them that need to be 'met' so that they can enter into history. Neither will win the Super Bowl, but more on that later.

Donovan McNabb can stand on the shoulder's of giants in a way, riding in on the Obama 'yes we can' black folks wave ... Kurt Warner's story has NEVER been an old one for me, as where McNabb was truly 'dissed' this season, Warner's career has been one of coming back from the scrap heap.

You could say I am leaning toward him, because of my personal feelings for his story, in his first incarnation as a big time football quarterback, and how the perseverance from that, could be what brought him back around again. Whenever you see the phrase "I never let go of my dreams", I got that from him, during his first incarnation as a big time quarterback. How hard must it have been, going from stocking groceries and playing in the dregs of pro football, to have the belief and faith that it "was gonna happen, someday".

Then his sharp descent to being a back up, a few years of people questioning whether he could still operate at this level ... but that saying, and the faith in him would not let him give up on himself. Good for him!

ON THE OTHER SIDE

Unlike last year, when you had nearly as much flash as you did substance with the AFC side, this year, you have the two flat out, face up, old school knock you in the mouth teams, Pittsburgh and Baltimore. Sorry MJB, but I do think that Pittsburgh is going to win it all. But either Pitt or Baltimore will win the Super Bowl.

The thing about the both of them, is that they let you know what they are going to do, and they don't mind doing it. Neither squad is interested in style points, and they aren't built to look pretty doing what they do. All year, they have been punching teams in the mouth, not that they are 'bullies' per se, but that the things they do, they do very well. And they do them better than you do what you do well.

Remorselessness, is what I feel from the Steelers and the Ravens. There is no fluffy storyline, no glamour players (though you could make the case for the Ravens Ray Lewis and the Steeler's Ben Rothlisberger), just two tough teams, who do the tough work, to get the job done.

I am looking forward to enjoying some good football ... and who ever wins, I will be good with it ..!

RUNNING

On these frighteningly frigid days, I have been running in the mid afternoon, so that the sunlight can help keep me warm. Layered up, and really, once I make it down my block, I am good. But I have to keep moving. Seeing men working on stuff, thinking about things like the rescue on the Hudson River, and my fave, what was going on in WW II, and some of those battles during the agony of the cold, I wonder what I would have been experiencing and how I would have made it through.

Oh, I know I would have made it, but the experience would have been something to put on my resume! One of the things about the 'greatest generation' is that they made stuff happen, and went to the next thing. So much self-aggrandizement nowadays ... makes me think of the 'Tower of Babel' or silly, full of himself Icarus. Sure others got their own stories to come up with ...

... but anyway, haven't been 'stupid'. This winter I have shortened up my run lengths, doing two and three's, rather than the 4, 5, and 6's (or more). Think I am showing enough charater just getting out there!

JENNY DAGLE'S PLAYLIST

I do enjoy my music, which is why I post of it in my blog. I also enjoy YOUR music, and those who have those neat players, I sit and listen to a song or two. A journal that I read belonging to Jenny Dagle (who in NO WAY resembles the 'Jenny' I speak of when I talk of 'her') had some songs that I took a listen too. We share some bands in common, one of them being Camera Obscura. So I took a flier and 'You Tubed' the ones in her journal.

Some of the artist/ songs were familiar to me. Several weren't, one of them being Fleet Foxes. So I have been listening to her songs for the past week and a half, and guess who is the musical guest on SNL this week ..? FLEET FOXES! So I have a reason to stay up and watch the show!

Speaking of 'playlists', 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist' was a cool movie. And other than a brief conversation, the last time I spoke to Tee Jay ...

SO IT WAS YOU WHO MADE YOUR DUE ...

I know what I feel, and I know how I feel. Don't know how SHE feels, but I do base my reaction to her choice of actions. She has a problem with returning calls, and does not initate contact (so she doesn't go to the free throw line too often!), so I have no real idea of what is on her mind.

That is okay, because I know what is on mine. I want to be happy, and right now, I don't think that is going to happen here in Detroit. I put in a bid for Valentine's Day, and I have already decided that the place I would have taken her, is best saved for Nebraska (should she find her way out her), KT (who will be here for two weeks this summer), or 'the man we all know and love ... ME!'

Might have mentioned this ... one of the things that have kept me from really going back after someone I have dated, is that because the relationship didn't occur in a vaccum, they had to have done something that contributed to its failure ... 49.9% or just that missing tenth that kept it from working ... have you addressed it?

In other words, I would ask people 'What's my motivation?' (actually, someone told me that ... and I gave it to 'em!) ... and until I was in my thirties, I did not have the motivation to want to see you after we've said 'see you'. In fact, my line which is borrowed as well, goes "See you later, unless I see you first!"

When I do the math and run the formulas and work out the equations, with respect to all the theorems and postualtes, I come up with the same answer, which is LEAVE TOWN AND LET THAT BE THAT. In short, I feel like she would have to give ME the reason to do some thing that would be extrodinary for me.

And even though I have blabbed about this (mainly cause it is winter, and I am bored), I haven't had a change of heart in the least ... prolly just felt more like writing than anything.