Blog

Ok, so I've created a blog to get Jenny off my ass. That's right Jenny, I made a blog. Are you happy now? Some of my friends suggested I make a blog to share my random thoughts and rants. Why? I have no idea, but I think they find them somewhat entertaining. I'm assuming they intend to point other people over here because I could just continue to send them my thoughts in email. Maybe they don't want to hear my insane ramblings anymore, but I'll assume the more favorable notion that they want these ramblings out there for all to see. So, I'll write this for YOU, the hypothetical reader. Enjoy.

What am I going to write about? All of my various interests. What I'm doing, eating, reading, wearing, watching, etc. I'll give you an idea of what I'll be writing about. Probably have some martial arts/fitness training stuff in here when I get back to training. Currently trying to heal a knee injury, but when I was training, I was training pretty regularly and keep on a loose diet plan. I'm also trying to improve my rudimentary culinary skills. Currently working on recipes form a Rick Bayless book. I read comic books, manga, graphic novels, whatever you want to call them. Currently reading Matsumoto's Gogo Monster, Hornchemeier's All and Sundry. Trying to catch up on Love and Rockets and will probably reread Promethea as I recently got the first volume of the big fancy Absolute Edition hardcover. I might keep a bit of a log of my jeans as I break in the raw denim.

First up, Happy Chinese New Year everybody. Had a nice family dinner last night. We went ridiculously early to avoid the rush. The Chinese restaurant we went to had a couple of flat-screens on the walls and they were showing the Olympics. Short track speed skating was on and I feel kind of bad because I kept looking at the T.V. throughout dinner. I did talk to my cousin and my dad a bit, which is generally all I do anyways at family dinners anyways. Back to short track speed skating, that's always a bit of an exciting event because you watch that thing knowing there's the possibility that someone might get taken out and cause everyone else to crash leaving a lone aussie to win it. I also like the false start and it's like this with all races. If you're watching the event and a false start happens, they'll show a slow motion replay of it. Watch the skaters. There's always one guy that has that expression on his face, "Come on man, what the fuck? Someone pulled a false start? I was all ready to go." Hey, can I swear on this thing? I guess we'll find out when I try to publish this. Seriously though, that always happens. That was my pathetic attempt to write about the Olympics because really I haven't been following it.

Oh, I do have something else. I know everyone's probably sick of hearing about the opening ceremonies, but didn't John Furlong say that Gretzky wasn't going to be the final torch bearer? I thought I read somewhere that he said that. Maybe he said no one has guessed it and one of the papers had guessed Gretzky. It was something like that wasn't it? I might be wrong, but I thought that was put out there. Maybe he was denying it because it was not only Gretzky, but the four of them lighting the cauldron together, but Gretzky was the one on the truck bringing the torch to the waterfront cauldron. I don't really have an opinion either way on whether it should have been Gretzky or not. However, looking at it from a PR standpoint, if you're going to say no one has guessed it and the prevailing notion is that it's Gretzky, I'm expecting someone better than Gretzky. I don't know. Maybe that's just me. You wouldn't come out and say that it's not Gretzky and then have someone less popular. So, if you deny that it's Gretzky, I'm expecting someone better than Gretzky. When it turns out it was Gretzky, I'm a little disappointed because now that you denied that it was him, I was expecting someone better. Really, they shouldn't have made a comment either way on whether it was Gretzky, or whether anyone had guessed it or not. In that case if it was Gretzky, I would have been expecting Gretzky and gotten Gretzky. That's fine. If it was someone better, or more surprising, that would have also been fine. If it turns out to be Gretzky, or someone not as good as Gretzky, at least you didn't create the expectation that it was going to be someone better. So, really why wouldn't you just not say anything about the identity of the final torchbearer. That's just my take on it. It just seemed like an odd step to me that they came out and said that no one had guessed who the final torchbearer was when it pretty much was Gretzky.