Basketball

I think I posted the other day that some players were leaving the Raptors to form their own rebel side and that I was probably going to retire and possibly only play part time to fill in, in order to focus on my football. Well that loss would reduce our playing list to 5 full-time players, with one of those players possibly being unable to play every week due to work committments.

There have been unconfirmed reports that Stephen Foster will play next season, which would bring the playing group up to 6. I have just "signed-up" a 6'1", 3-point shooting, point-guard / forward, Leigh Taylor. This brings the team up to 7.5 players. How awesome is that?!

Oh, the Raptors end of season Booze-Fest will take place this Friday (the 2nd of December), starting at the Arcadia Hotel (Cnr. Punt and Toorak Roads South Yarra) @ 7:30pm. The kitty is fat and must be purged. All welcome. See you there!

18 Days..

Only 18 days until Maddy, Sar, Maz and I fly to the UK!

Back to work..

Ahh.. back to the daily grind.

So Maddy and I had to frantically clean our place yesterday for our house inspection today. I was stuck in the study, because I took it upon myself to start unpacking and cleaning boxes that were stacked in the wardrobe from June or July. So naturally I had shit laying all over the floor of the study.

That was pretty much where I spent most of my 1.5 days off, either cleaning or bludging. During one of my many breaks from cleaning (aka bludging) I was surfing the IMDB site. I always find it fun to look up a particular actor, and then spider my way through the web of talent that each star has worked with or movie that they have worked on. For instance, I did a search for Angelina Jolie yesterday because I wanted to find out how old she was. I then went down to her body of work and saw a familiar favourite: Hackers.

Ahh, Hackers, you provided us with the first glimpse of Angelina's, erm, talents. So I was looking down the list of actors and came across another name, Fisher Stevens (he plays the 'bad guy' in Hackers. I was looking down his body of work and I was stopped in my tracks by one title..

Short Circuit

Do you know how long it has been since I saw that movie?! Like a decade or more! Memories flooded back of the dancing, tv ad quoting robot that captured our minds and hearts in the 1986 film that starred Steve Gutenberg, Ally Sheedy and Fisher Stevens. I loved Johnny 5 as a kid. So you can imagine my heartache when Maddy had no idea what I was talking about. So, later that day (actually it was in the evening) I dragged Maddy down to the video shop and hired the DVD. We only managed to watch half of it because we had to finish cleaning, but I plan to pick up where I left off tonight :P after the basketball grand final of course. That is, of course, if we don't get evicted first :P I'll keep yer posted &:)

It's only been a week, and I'm already sick of being sick!

I've been having difficulties breathing properly since last sunday when I went and kicked the footy with Maz and Cottie (Maz suspects the illness, which he is also suffering, was due to us touching Cottie's rugby ball, or so he calls it "Teh Devil". He's probably onto something there.)

Anyway, as I've never had asthma, I can only imagine that this is what it feels like: not being able to fill your lungs. In addition, I've been experiencing mucous build-up in my throat which leads to blocking and choking. JOY!

This lead me to taking half a day off work today, and missing footy training tonight.

So our basketball grand final is on wednesday at 7:30pm! It's the last time that the team will exist in this current configuration as next season some players are leaving to start up their own team and I am retiring to focus on my football (I might play a game here and there to help fill in if I'm needed.)

This also means that a changing of the guard will take place: Big LK will be taking over the coveted role of Team Manager, and with the title comes the legendary Black Folder. I will settle into a the cushy job of Assistant Team Manager, who fills in whenever the Team Manager is unavailable.. and knowing Lukey's addiction to WoW, I will probably end up being the full time Manager anyway :P

Footy Training

Man, talk about sore!

I started footy training again this monday (proper footy training) and I woke up tuesday feeling pretty good - the muscles were a bit sore in all the places I haven't been using in the last 12 months (ie everywhere) which I thought was a good thing.

So by wednesday morning I was still a bit sore, but rearing to go again in the afternoon for another session. I went hard. Really hard. And today I'm paying for it. I'm SO goaddamn sore! Under my arms from the push-ups and the dips, and my knees (yeah, that's right, both of them) are killing me.

I'm such an old man. But, you know what? I feel great for it! Despite all the pain and the complaining, I haven't felt this good physically (and mentally) since September last year! Let's hope I feel this way good, but hopefully better, by the time the first bounce comes along in 4 months time.

I'll be sure to keep you updated :)

WORK!

Hi there gang! Long time no blog.. I know, I know.. you don't care.. well you know what, I don't care that you say you don't care, cos obviously if you're reading this, you care a little.. :P

Anyway, I'm testing a blogging Widget I just downloaded from www.konfabulator.com and I'm seeing if it suits my needs. Hopefully it works, and I'll bring you up to date with my busy life soon!

Cheers