Ramblings

WOW, where has the time gone! It's been almost a month between blogs.....

Several random ramblings.....

1. I've secured my vacation spot in Key West for April! All is well in Stevo's mental land with a little KW on the horizon. It's marking my 5th anniversary, also, which brings us back to "WOW, where has the time gone!"

2. Life really does seem a bit emptier without NHL hockey this year. It's nice having an ECHL team to watch every now and again, but it's not the same. I've even seen my playing interest wane without having pro games to watch. One thing that I have noticed is that I still don't like basketball....

3. Parenting is both exciting and frustrating. I knew this for a while, but it becomes even more pronounced as your child gets older. The highs are much higher, and the challenges of a two year old become much greater. Of course I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

4. We are the people our parents warned us about. More accurately, we are all becoming our parents. Or at least our elders. I find it amazing how many things have changed in my life in the mere 11 years since I graduated from Millersville U. I noticed the other day that I'm actually listening to more adult contemp. stuff and less current stuff. I still have my ear to the airwaves, but I'm actually more content to listen to mellower things these days. It has nothing to do with intensity or quality of the music - I think I'm just so much more stressed and pulled in different directions these days, that I need more mellow things in my life to balance it out. Of course Buffett still leads the way. I'm listening to him now as I type this. It's also scary to realize that my priorities are so much different, and more responsible these days. Late nights are now midnight instead of 5AM. A night of "heavy drinking" is anything over 3 beers. Three beers used to be for breakfast....

5. U2 can still rock. We all knew about the power of "Vertigo", but I was just able to hear the album in its entirety last night. All I can say is WOW. I think it's for sure their best album since Joshua Tree. It has a sound that harks back to the early 80's days, but is much more refined, mature, and polished. I haven't gotten to get into all the lyrics yet, but knowing Bono, I'm sure they are deeply layered at times. I'm really excited. I hate seeing all of my favorite bands of youth getting older, but when they still put out top notch music, it is very exciting to see.

6. The 2005 Philly marathon is exactly one year from this coming Sunday. Or in other words, the 2004 marathon is this Sunday. But I'm not in 04, so I'm worrying more about 05. It's going to be a long haul from training. I've actually backed off for the past 2 weeks, partially b/c of a small injury. The break has helped mentally, and I'm wondering if that's a good strategy for the upcoming year. I know the highest intensity training won't start until late Spring/early Summer, but I need to keep a good base going. At any rate, I feel like celebrating Sat. night, as it marks T minus one year from an attempt to reach a very important goal for me.

Back to Buffett and dreams of beaches, bars, bimbos and bling-bling.

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