The Slant to Calvin is Always Open

If we're only ever looking back
We will drive ourselves insane
As the friendship goes resentment grows
We will walk our different ways
-Bad Blood, Bastille

Heard this today, and it stuck in my head for some reason.  I've got no bad blood for anyone or anything at the moment, as a matter of fact just the opposite, but it stuck with me.  I've actually learned the hard way that harboring bad blood can have some pretty terrible effects down the road.  I lost a really good friend brooding over some stupid shit as a young teenager.  It's one of the few things in my life I regret, and I know it's had a lasting impact on my life.  I never had an easy time making or keeping friends as a kid.  I was a bit of a shit, in a much different way than I am today, and friends were kinda disposable to me for a very long time.  The world was a much smaller place back then, and the friends made at school would still be around to try and rekindle a friendship with if I did in fact dispose of my friendship for one reason or another.

Anyway, that wasn't a tangent I was planning on going off on....nor am I ready to follow through with where it was going to go.  Maybe sometime soon I will be in the mood to talk about it, but not today.  Now, it's not like I had an actual plan of anything to talk about today, but that is surely not where this post is going to go.  Instead, I will slant it toward the football.

Wild Card Weekend starts today, and this is yet another year I'll be stuck at work when the first game starts.  However, unlike the last few years, I won't be able to watch any of it while at work, unless I leave our office.  Our cable is out, and will be for at least a few days, and even though it's usually just on a news station in the background, except for game days, I've come to learn just how eerily quite this office is on the weekend without it.  Luckily, I've now got Sundays off and can check out the Lions @ Dallas tomorrow from the comfort of home, while eating Primo's pizza and hanging out with some friends. 

I'll also get to watch all of the Baltimore/Pittsburgh game tonight as we cheer on the Ravens.  While she says she doesn't care much about them this year, it's always fun to watch my wife during a Ravens game, especially in the playoffs.  While I get a little shit here and there from her about how into football I am, it's quite obvious that watching her favorite team play in big games is a lot like when I watch either of my teams....except her team has actually won a couple Super Bowls in the 2000s, something I cannot say. 

While the football will be nice, just getting away from work for a few days will be nice.  There hasn't been much work to do the last couple weeks because of the holidays, but I've still had some pretty long days, and I'm still not completely adjusted to my new schedule.  While it gives me Sundays off and my weekend now spans 3.5 days, it's hard getting all my hours in within such a short period of time.  When I leave here on Saturday evenings, I feel a huge weight fall from my shoulders.  It'll surely be that way here in a few hours.

Time to end the rambling of the day and finish up my thing.  It's not a perfect thing, but there is now a thing where there was not a thing before.

Happy 2015!

It's not often I find myself here anymore, as illustrated by my lack of posting in the last 7 (nearly 8) months, but today I've found myself back inside my blog.  I don't have a point to make, nor a topic of discussion I want to get out there.  I just wanted to "make a thing", and here I am making that thing.  I used the quotes there because it's something I heard Wil Wheaton say that during his reboot of his podcast, Radio Free Burrito.  That, along with the current book I am reading (The Obstacle is the Way) and the fact that I have had a very distracted day today, led me to this post.  Now, since I used 3 separate links in the last two sentences, you know I'm serious about getting the info out there....even in my distracted haze.  That haze is pretty evident looking at how I switched from using a number (3) to typing it out (two) in the span of 7 words in my last sentence.  That's something I'm normally very mindful of, especially when the words/numbers are so close together.

Hey, whatever.  The point here is that I am making this post at all.  A single post on the second day of the year puts me at 50% for 2015 so far....and after 31 posts in the last 3 calendar years, that percentage is pretty outstanding.  Of course that percentage will fall between now and the end of 2015, for all I know this could be my only post of the year, but I got a kick out of it for at least a couple minutes. 

Now, while I was definitely putting in some more effort than I would in a normal post to include the above links, I did cheat a little with the picture this time around.  I normally would write out the post, then think of a title that fits what I just wrote, sometimes vice versa....but not often, and then do a google image search for what I'm using as the title, and pick the picture I like the best.  It might have absolutely nothing to do with the post, but for one reason or another I really like the image I use at that time.  Today, I just used the pic that I currently have set as my facebook banner.  Yep, I'm getting crazy with the Cheese Whiz. 

I know that Nick Saban would be disappointed in the fact that I didn't follow The Process, but after his loss last night to that team from Ohio, he's got plenty more to worry about with his Process than with mine.  I'm kinda disappointed that I didn't get to see any of the game last night, but the outcome alone, knowing that they won with a 3rd string QB to punch their ticket for the National Championship Game, just goes to show how effing good Urban Meyer is at building a team.  It's something that brings to my mind a scenario involving Nick Saban and a bunch of 'what ifs' that I've thought about a few times in the last few months or so, but haven't talked to anyone about just yet.  I think this might be a good idea for my next post, since I'm running out of time for this one and could always use some incentive to create a little more than I currently do....although that's not too hard at this point in time.  No matter.  This is where I leave it now.

Happy New Year, Douchebags.