Feeling like I feel!!!

Does it get any better than this?

Cold pizza, Astoria cookies, NPR on the radio, NCAA basketball tournament on, and I am wondering if for this stage of life, does it get any better than this?

State looked like State. They play a hard nosed, 'real bully' basketball, meaning that they pound the ball on the inside until the game is over, and make you try to stop it. Been a very successful formula, as they are one of the leaders in the stat that shows a teams toughness, rebounding margin. Along with Pitt, no one questions who is the toughest team on the court when the Spartans step on the court.

Doesn't mean they are the most talented team, and they rarely run away and hide from the opposition. But they are going to pound you, for sure. Yes Angela, 'they are who you thought they were'. Michigan, in their first game, stood tall. In the Freep, the columnist Mitch Rosenberg wrote the follow about the start of Michigan's game with Clemson: A few minutes into the game, Clemson's speed, length and leaping ability were so overwhelming that the Wolverines weren't just in danger of losing -- they appeared to be in actual physical danger. I pictured the game ending with ambulances at courtside and Manny Harris wandering through a cloud of smoke looking for his teammates.
Apparently, I wasn't alone.
"You know, the first couple of minutes, I was like, 'DANG!' " U-M freshman Zack Novak said. You could see in the first half we struggled with it. I feel like I'm boxing out. They're getting rebounds. We came in at halftime and said, 'Look. They're athletic. But we just gotta be fundamental.' "

And that they were able to hang tough, was something very 'un-Michgan like'. I have never thought of the Wolverines as a tough, character program. But their new basketball coach, came up the hardscrabble way, winning with the players he could get. At Michigan, he should get better players. And I do think he is a good, solid coach.

'ELI STONE' IS A MEMORY

Sometimes a television show fills a niche, but the niche lies outside of a marketable demographic. For instance, I have watched '30 Rock' from the start, but at first, I was among a small group. Fortunately, the rest of that group was a segment that advertisers wanted to reach, and the critics loved the show. So it lived to grab all the Emmy's within it's grasp, and is a strong performer at water coolers.

'James at 16', was not so fortunate. Neither was 'Square Pegs, 'My So-Called Life','Joan of Arcadia', all shows that I thought were really shows made for people who shared more than a few of the same feelings as I do. Feel that way about 'Secret Life of an American Teen'. Would love to sit and watch that with my ... well, you know.

Anywho, I definitely thought that about 'Eli Stone'. Not only did I love the songs and the musical scenes, but there spirit of the show appealed to me as well. Getting 'visions' to lead him to do the right thing ... doesn't that sound like what I am doing out here, bumps and warts and all the mess involved with making a big change in a life?

Not to mention my 'challenges', which spring up on occasion. I deal with them as everyone else deals with theirs. Again, I look at it as something that 'like a few billion others' on the planet, are doing. Got problems? Issues eating away at you? Can I suggest this fine dish of 'GET THE HECK OVER IT' to go with that whine you are drinking?

Because, if you aren't doing the former, more than likely you are doing the latter. Meanwhile, life is going on, and the spot that was possibly yours, is being filled by someone else.

WHAT, ME WORRY?

Oh man ... haven't had to put this disclaimer in for awhile, but not that it meant that I wasn't ... but I am a happy cat! I feel a little guilty, because people will (and have!!) told me I should be 'this' instead of being 'that', like they are related to one another (again, when has 'this and that' ever BEEN related?). I don't worry about what people say. Why SHOULDN'T I be happy? It's 'a wonderful life', and it can only get better.

It makes me feel for people who have a life, but I guess they don't know what to do with it. There are some folks who are miserable, no matter what good things they have in their life. They go and deliberately find stuff to feel bad about, remembering and living in the hurt that they have lived beyond. And then they justify why they feel bad ...

... that is something I can't do. Can't do it. I suffer through disappointments, to be sure. But I shake it out, and get after it one more again.

Anywho, I am looking forward to 'sticking to my script', and tightening up stuff around here. I go thru stuff, a little at a time ... won't have to worry about getting things up for travel until my birthday. First window should be opening around then, and I would like to be ready.

OH WOW ...

Did say that I would talk about my 'spring song'. I will, promise. Wrote enough for the weekend.