From There to Here

I really wish I knew what was happening here, but I have honestly no idea.

Write your own caption, because I’m just lost AND because I can’t settle on just one that I like.

I forgot to post this with my last post. I think I’ve posted it here before somewhere, but I just had to watch it because I’m talking about the NBA again. Oh hell. Enjoy it.

The three best parts:
3. 0:55: Garnett raises his hands into the air to get the crowd pumped
2. 1:23: Garnett drums along with the song
1. 1:35: VEAL!

The Celtics put out their 2008-2009 schedule yesterday, along with the rest of the NBA. It took a few more days this year, thanks to the whole Seattle-Oklahoma City mess, but it’s done. And the Celtics have some pretty awesome games, with two at home against Orlando, Detroit and Cleveland (plus a third home game in the preseason at Providence) this year, the Lakers on Christmas Day in Los Angeles, two more road games in Detroit and what could amount to a fun postseason.

The games I definitely need to go to:
Oct. 28, Cavaliers (Opening Night, Banner 17, Rings, LeBron)
Nov. 20, Pistons (huge rivalry)
Dec. 1, Magic (brother Bob’s favorite team and a beast in the east)
Dec. 5, Trailblazers (Greg Oden’s first visit)
Dec. 12, Hornets (Hi James Posey, here’s your ring)
Dec. 15, Jazz (good west coast team)
Jan. 7, Rockets (this is going to be a sick game with Yao, TMac and Artest)
Jan. 19, Suns (last chance to see Shaq-Fu?)
Jan. 25, Mavs (simply because I hope Mark Cuban is there)
Feb. 5, Lakers (uh, yeah)
Feb. 8, Spurs (never seen Duncan play)
Mar. 1, Pistons (again, rivalry)
Mar. 6, Cavs (LeBron)
Mar. 8, Magic (see above)
Mar. 29, OKC (first appearance ever in TD Banknorth)
Apr. 15, Wizards (last game of the season)

I’m sure I’ll go to these and many more, but the schedule looks awesome, and I’m pretty excited about the NBA Season starting up in two and a half months. The Celtics have a great chance to repeat as no one in the east has really improved that much. The Pistons will come back with Billups/Stuckey for one more year before Rodney’s able to take over, and the Magic have made some improvements, but I don’t know if Courtney Lee from W. Kentucky is enough to put them over. LeBron needs, well, anything other than himself… and its Wally and Delonte still walking through that door. The Hawks have young talent, but it hurts losing Childress, who was a good role player. Raptors are still a year or two away, and the Wizards need to prove their more than just Agent Zero and UConn standout Caron Butler.

I’m calling it right now for the Celtics. 60-22 record, first seed in the east, narrowly edging the Pistons, who win anywhere from 55-59 games and take the second seed.

So to get it out of the way, yes, I know I haven’t updated in almost three weeks, but after I watched this clip this morning about Paris Hilton’s Campaign Ad (as a response to John McCain talking about her in his campaign ad), I had to post this. Normally, I hate Paris Hilton, but this made me really like her to see that she can poke fun at politicians and herself (”I approved this message because its hot.”).

Then again, if she can’t poke fun at herself, who could she poke fun at? I think a Hilton/Rhianna 2008 ticket would definitely make the debates more interesting.

Not too much time to update lately. Took some time off to go to Martha’s Vineyard with Jen at the beginning of the month and been pretty busy ever since. Had a four day weekend last weekend (Friday-Monday), and went out Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday afternoon, Sunday afternoon and night. And it really caught up with me this week, as I made the bad decision of staying up on Tuesday night to watch the all-star game and have felt exhausted ever since. But between taking some naps and sleeping a lot, I think I’m good now.

I did go see Wall-E Sunday night with Jen, and it was actually really good. Now I’ve got to get to Batman shortly. This movie is going to be incredible. In a nerdy way, I kind of want to go this weekend, just so I can say I was part of the biggest movie opening ever. Heath Ledger is supposed to be INCREDIBLE in his final role.

Just woke up and need to get to the office early. It’s going to be another long day today before a two-day (aaaahhh!) weekend. My normal three-day (or more) weekend is gone since I took Friday off last week and Monday off this week. I know, I’m getting absolutely no sympathy from anyone.

As Dan Rydell put it in Sports Night, “I’m down here with the rest of you.”

I was watching the Red Sox game earlier tonight on NESN (New England Sports Network), and I noticed an advertisement for the US Border Patrol.

Maybe it’s just me, but I’d guess there’s going to be an opening for a new director of Marketing & Advertising posted on their website pretty soon if they continue to advertise in New England. I’ll be the first to admit I don’t know a lot about Border Patrol, but I figure there’s probably a ton more jobs on the country’s southern border than its northern one.

I’d post a picture or a map or something proving me correct, but both times I’ve gone to their site after seeing the ad on TV, and hey — can’t get past the main page. Seriously, way to go on that one.

It might be a better idea not to advertise Border Patrol jobs as far away from the Mexican border as you can get? I don’t know, just a thought.

Just got back from Martha’s Vineyard after a few days away with Jen late Thursday night. We were in the Vineyard for four days, and we had a great time with wonderful weather.

Came back to go to a cookout at her parents place in Wilmington on Friday followed by a cookout at Sue’s house in Wilmington on Saturday. Then the Wilmington fireworks were Saturday night, and it was a pretty good time overall. Other than that, I’ve insanely loved my vacation, and I’m heading back to work tomorrow. More frequent blogging will be sure to resume this week, as I’ll be coming back into a more regular schedule.

In the meantime, enjoy the fireworks from Wilmington. Sure, the smoke sucked and blocked many of the fireworks after the first 30 seconds or so, but hey — that’s what you get for not staggering heights. Either way, still pretty good for a small town fireworks display.

Didn’t get a chance to blog recently because I was on the Vineyard for a few days and was driving around with Jen. She had to ask:

“So which way is the water?”

Yep.

I got my web statistics for the past month today. Apparently, five people went to google, searched for “Get me them socks!” and came to my website. I figured they must have dug pretty deep to get to my site to find this post.

Nope. It’s the number two result on Google when you search “get me them sox” without quotes, behind only YouTube. If you search the same with quotes, there’s two YouTube hits, then mine.

I’m second to YouTube with people who have questions about the Charles Barkley/Dwayne Wade T-Mobile commercial.

Also, this site has finally passed my Daily Free Press writer biography page as the number one hit for Bill Yelenak. So I got that going for me. Which is nice.

I shouldn’t do it because it will cement its place as the number one hit, but hell — here you go.

Thursday was another hell of a night in New Orleans, where we went to the House of Blues Voodoo Lounge for dinner and I ate a Po’ Boy Shrimp Sandwich, because if I’m not eating a Po’ Boy in New Orleans, it’s “not worth eating, according to the one New Orleans native in our midst. After dinner, I hit the casino to play some poker at Harrah’s in New Orleans, and then met up with everyone else at some jazz club on Frenchman Street.

After a while, some of us left and went back to Bourbon Street to spend the rest of the evening there, a little closer to the hotel. Had a great time, got to bed around 2 a.m. and made it back downstairs by 9:30 Friday morning in time for our session. We finished up, had some lunch, and around 2 p.m., we left for the airport. I got there in plenty of time, made it to the JetBlue ticketing counter and found out my 5:45 flight to New York had already been delayed until 6:15. Any more of a delay, and I was going to miss my connection to Logan in Boston. The plane didn’t take off until almost 7 p.m., and I thought I was pretty screwed.

But somehow, we made up time in the air, we got to New York in just over two and a half hours. I spent the flight watching The Longest Yard with Adam Sandler, and I was pleasantly surprised (I’d never seen it before). I made my connection at JFK too, with about 10 minutes to spare. Although then, we taxied at JFK for well over an hour before taking off, making me almost an hour late into Boston. What’s the deal, JFK? That airport is just way too damn busy.

Anyway, I made it home to Somerville just before 2 a.m. Basically 12 hours of traveling door-to-door from the hotel to the airport to the airport to the airport to my house, but I definitely had a good time, and I’d consider heading back to New Orleans again. That place is a lot of fun.

Now I’m going to catch up on sleep this weekend, read some e-mails, do some laundry and head back to work on Monday. Ah, good times.