Welcome back to the 9 to 5!

So, life's beginning to settle down again...

Just finished all the training for my job. It was a lovely 3 weeks chillin' with great people, going up to Big Bear for a retreat, sharing life stories, investing in one another, hanging around a great college campus atmosphere. Life is good. Unfortunately, life had to start sometime...CLASS!!! Dun Dun Duuuuunnn...

Oh yeah! And they changed the title (and degree!) or my master's program!!! That should be illegal or not allowed...or rude or something.

Instead of a M.Ed in College Student Affairs, they're giving me an M.S in College Counseling and Student Development Orientation. I know! A freakin' mouthful! Dang...well, at least they tell me that I'll have a much easier time finding jobs, and better jobs too...we shall see...esp if I end up becoming an audio engineer. Maybe THIS is the master's for me!

Anywho...if you hadn't heard, just when the Warriors hopes of a decent season were within our grasp...Monte Ellis fell of the face of the earth...tight.

Also, I started playing fantasy football. I think I'll suck at it...but my roomies are doing it, so hopefully it'll at least be enjoyable and bonding-able...yes.

I Miss Barry...

If THIS article doesn't get you teary eyed or at least some goose-pimplage...you're not a Giants fan.

Illinois...made of soy? (...it's hard to rhyme with Illinois, ok!?)

So I went to Illinois this week (ALL WEEK) to visit the fam. Hit up St. Louis and saw the arch, a Cards game, took a tour of the new Busch Stadium.


Then the madre and I went up to Chicago and spent two days touring around there. Checked out the United Center, saw THE statue, hit up Wrigley field, did the whole boat tour thing down the Chicago river. It was sweet.


Had a lotta time to finally just relax, meditate on the whole summer and craziness of it all. Wrote some...mostly articles (below)...but some other stuff too. Contemplated a lot about my future...and present, actually.


Watched "Into the Wild" today. NOT a good idea when you're contemplating leaving everything you know that is safe and secure for an unplanned, unsafe path...unless of course, you know you need to take the latter road...hmph.

Comic-Con Articles POSTED

I just wrote a few Comic-Con articles for RedFence, czech 'em out:

- J.J. Abrams' new show, Fringe

- Joss Whedon's latest flick (Nathan Fillion from Firefly!!! and good ol' Neil Patrick Harris as well!)

I'm working on one or two more this week, so I'm sure I'll post those whenevsky....

Crazy 2 Weeks...

In the past two weeks, my bro (Jason) and I have:

• Hiked 30 miles in Yosemite (Mammoth Lakes to Tuolomne Meadows)
  
• Experienced some deep, emotional bonding time with our dad
• Survived a bear attack (yeah, that's how it went down)
  
• Met Kevin Smith (and Summer freaking Glau!!!)
  
• Survived an earthquake (just barely)
  

I know, weird. And in the two weeks before that I was in Vietnam, Taiwan, Boston, North Carolina, and moved into my new house in Los Angeles...wow.

Perhaps a book will come from all of this...

Dubs Updates...

Alrighty, as most everybody knows, the Golden State Warriors have made some slight adjustments this offseason...

We did lose a few players... (we'll miss each of you...hopefully not TOO much tho)
- Baron Davis left, and is now officially a Clipper (although they gave up both Corey AND Elton)
- Matt Barnes is a part of the Suns organization
- Mickael Pietrus is now on the Orlando Magic (among 10 other shooting guards, so sorry J.J.)
- And so sorry (for Jorge) to say, our dear, beloved, high-flying, definitively dunking, Austin Croshere is (most likely) NOT going to be picked up...by anyone...every again...amen.
- C-Webb's also probably done for


But we also added some key figures...
- The biggest of which being Mr. Corey Maggette (!!!). When he's good, he's very good.
- We also added some post presence as well by picking up restricted free-agent and ex-Laker, Ronny Turiaf
- Then we picked up free agent, Marcus Williams to help out Monta on his off nights
- Rookie-wise we got a few new players (and possibly more to come):
- Anthony Randolph (a star in the Las Vegas summerleague)
- Richard Hendrix (our second round pick from Alabama, that made a splash in
summerleague as well)
- Anthony Morrow (a late signee that actually earned himself MVP honors at the
Rocky Mountain Revue summerleague)


And the rest of the team is already looking solid...
- Luckily we signed back two key players in Monta Ellis and Andris Beidrins
- And then we also resigned bench player extraordinaire: Kelenna Azubuike
- Brandon Wright and Marco Belinelli both had great summerleague appearances...again.
- Stephen Jackson is ready and raring to go and be the veteran leader of our rather young team
- Al Harrington (despite being at the center of many rumored trade talks) has definitely got Stack Jack's back in the leading veteran side (and hopefully can produce better than he did in the second half of last season...oye...
- C.J. Watson is back as well, and will probably be a backup to our (new) backup point guard (sorry C.J.)
- Kosta Perovic is still around, but my feeling is he'll probably just be extra trade fodder (whether it's with Williams, Harrington, Wright, and/or Belinelli for a more solid power forward, which just so happens to be our the only hole in our lineup keeping us from our next NBA title...)

So if you've actually been reading this, our starting lineup (graced with the face of our veteran leader), will most likely look something like this:


Well, I'm excited, and I know you're excited, well, only THREE MORE MONTHS (only two if you include training camp and preseason exhibitions...and yes, I do!!!) till the start of the regular season!!!