Archive for February 2nd, 2004
by Tom on Feb.02, 2004, under Uncategorized
First off, lets get this out of the way.
- She knew it was going to happen.
- He knew it was going to happen.
- It was set up.
- MTV knew about it.
- CBS didn’t know about it.
There. Much better. Now, if you took my advice that was on my away message as I spent the big Sunday at my brother-in-law’s (next year, it’s home for me), you made money. I actually called it right three different ways, and if you were in Vegas and followed my advice (Carolina with the spread, New England straight up, and the over), you won each time.
Sometimes I wonder if I’d be a straight-up addicted gambler if I lived in Vegas and could bet on football legally. Football’s fun to bet on, and it’s not to hard to make an educated guess. Other sports are a crapshoot. When you play 80-160 games a year, one doesn’t mean too much. But when you play 16, there’s a lot of preparation, and the best team usually wins.
I’m probably not making it to Vegas this year, which is sad. It’ll be two straight years without my fav-o-rite place to visit, and my second home (I swear, I’ve never felt so comfortable there for whatever reason.) Then, looking ahead to future years, the kid comes into play, and there’s talk of things like Disney World and the such. I’ll admit there’s a part of me that would like to see Orlando, but I don’t want to be one of those who goes every year. My thought though is with kids, you don’t get to make that choice anymore.
Driving home last night, I drew up a story idea. Made it pretty clear, too. Defined characters, style, outcome, things I didn’t necessarily have with other stories. My main issue with my literature is outcome. For whatever reason, I can’t usually think of an ending. I write and write until I run out of things to say, and then it just sort of hangs with a non-ending, and it ends up getting scrapped. I’ve got a few good pieces of work that if they had endings, would be done by now, including a screenplay.
Oh well. The horrors of ADD.
