Ka-POW!!!!

The majority of my office building is occupied by some sort of Health Care Service. One of the signs in the lobby points towards an "Intoxicated Driver Resource Center". I really hope that when one opens the door for that facility it's just a huge boxing glove on a spring that pops out and clobbers the person. Plus a sign that screams, "DON'T DO IT YOU THOUGHTLESS, SELFISH ASSHOLE!!!" because, really, what else needs to be said?

(the long awaited)Cereal Review: Nature's Path Optimum ReBound
I've been gettin' all healthy-shmealthy with my cereals of late. The healthiest & shmealthiest may well be this cereal which consists of freeze-dried bananas, almonds, flax seeds, raisins, matcha green tea, and all this other organic/oaty/nutty/wheaty stuff. I don't even know what a bunch of it is but it must be healthy cuz there's pictures of marathon runners on the box. Anyways, it tastes great if you just let the bananas rehydrate a little prior to your eating them.

Oh yeah

And I have a lot 'on my plate' as they say. Busy times! I gots like a 20 box backlog of cereals I must go through.

color us bronze (unfunny basketball talk)

The recently completed World Basketball Championships saw the US women's team fail in their usual fight to the gold as they managed but a bronze medal! This is the same 3rd place finish as the US men's accomplishment earlier in the summer in their WBC, however the difference between the two is drastic.
The men were lucky to medal at all. Though their players were more committed than in recent years, USA basketball's approach for the men is still completely wrong. They're still slapping superstars together with a very short training period and the players continue to underestimate other countries' teams.
The women's loss is a bit of a shock though. I know they're bringing in new, young players, and they lost Lisa Leslie, but they've been the best for so long it's unreal. The Aussies beat them this year in a scrimmage or something, but the US women's team has ~50 straight international wins in tournaments over the last decade.
Now, Russia and Australia are both powerhouse teams who compete very well against the US, but Team USA women's approach to international competition is exemplary. They barnstorm together, keep the WNBA season complementary with FIBA rather than flout them, etc. (though this year was a little rough). It might have just come down to the fact Lisa Leslie wasn't there because that is how phenomenal she is. Well, they handled themselves with class and grace which is always a question mark with the men. At least, I think they did. It's tough to tell since the goddamned TV channels didn't broadcast a single game of the women's WBC!!! Pure crap.
Anyway, I'm still proud of the women. And I'm amped about the upcoming NBA season, despite everything wrong with that league. With hoops on the mind then, and to celebrate the women, here would be my WNBA favorites/dream team starting 5:

Center - Lisa Leslie (still the best)
Power Forward - Lauren Jackson (I'm finagling here cuz she's gotta start, should be a center, D-Nasty a PF, and Tamika the SF)
Small Forward - Delisha Milton "D-Nasty"/"Sunshine", 2 great nicknames, tells you how her game is (she is my favorite. Period)
Shooting Guard - Diana Taurasi (I like her game. If I were basing a team on looks then she'd have to be subbed by Becky Hammon though, who's very good regardless. And somehow Stacey Dales would have to be in there too.)
Point Guard - Sue Bird (my 2nd favorite)

Honorable mention - Tamika Catchings (she's just a beast, in a good way). Candace Parker will be an absolute monster (again, in a good way) when she turns pro also.

I don't wanna jinx the Nets this year but I'm feeling good about 'em. Can't fucking wait!

Awful!

It took the band Soul Asylum 8 years to come up with this??

You might be right
You might be wrong
You might just think your life has gone on for too long

Your knees get weak
And your heart grows cold
And youre tired of doing everything youre told

And nothing can take away from you
What you take and what youve been through

Stand up and be strong
Stand up and be strong
It wont take long
You cant go wrong
Stand up and be strong

You might have to fight
You might have to cry
You might have to cry
You might have to fight
Stand up and be strong

If you live in the hills
You take too many pills
If youve lost the thrill
Against your own will
Stand up and be strong

And nothing can take away from you
What you take
Well you know what youve got to do

Stand up and be strong
Stand up and be strong
It wont take long
You cant go wrong
Stand up and be strong

If you get all depressed
When you get undressed
If youre lifes a mess
Remember youre blessed
Stand up and be strong

The good thing about this song though is you can extend it indefinitely with your own lyrics:
"Your breakfast was small, don't trip or you'll fall, stand up and be strong".
Or "You went out for a stroll, You stepped in a hole, Your girlfriend's a Pole, stand up and be strong".
How about "You wish you could fly, You ate too much pie, You ate too much pie stand up and be strong". I think I could do this all day actually!

It doesn't inspire confidence...

driving on the freeway behind a sewage tanker transport truck. Especially one with a port-a-pottie precariously strapped to its back via one bungee cord. "Nosir, I don't like it."

Thumbs down are also in order for when drivers chuck their chewed bubble gum out their windows. 'What's the big deal?' you might ask. Let's just say, once upon a time several years ago, you spent a good deal of your earnings purchasing your first new car. Nothing fancy, possibly a black Nissan, but it was yours and it was shiny and clean. Then, perhaps on the 2nd or 3rd day of ownership, during your work commute in the blistering summer heat, you rolled through a gooey piece of said discarded gum and it sprayed all over your fender and wheel-well causing you to have a massive conniption*. And only after months of bitterness, when your new beauty's bumpers were completely trashed by poor NYC parallel parkers, and your doors dented by old suburban NJ farts parked next to you in the supermarket lots, folks who should've given up the ghost years back, and you realized what true new-car-owner misery was, only then could you ease up on the gum litterbug. But just a little bit, you fucker!
The end.

Moral of the story? I'm gonna git chu, sucka!!!*

^{*I love the 80's!}

I have rebuilt my computer system (again x ∞) this time for good. Right?