Job Well Done

Thank your stars, Leo fans, that Edmonton has the boat anchor as Offensive Coordinator, and he is no longer dragging down the Lions.

I love it when the stars line up and the teams I detest also have the players I hate. In some way it is even better than the players I like on the team I like.

Derek Jeter on the Yankees. Kobe Bryant on the Lakers.

Jacques Chapdelaine is not a player anymore, not since he dropped what would have been a Grey Cup winning pass for BC when he had the chance. But BC won in spite of him, and now that he is at Edmonton, well., it couldn't be better.

On the flip side the Sonics hire PJ Carlesimo

I may never cheer for the Sonics again.

But = Dave Ritchie is a genius.

I'm going to be in a good mood for a week!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3tdHoj_VoE

Celebrate all the Rats in Sports:

The Walkmen: the Rat

Don't you just love the work the drummer does in this vid????

Day 3 of Part Two

"The Reckoning"

I reckon it's going to take a whole heap more work before I am done here.

I reckon I better just get used to it.

Canada 0 - Austria 2

It is really sad how we feature ourselves as a world class sports nation when we really can only compete in ice hockey and curling.

For some strange reason I watched the game tonight feeling a loathing for all things soccer and hockey.

We make such a big deal out of ice hockey when in reality it is an eight team tournament.

But soccer is worse. In communities all over the country it is almost cult like in its status as a youth movement. But what a sell job they do. For what?

We have soccer peeople in our program here and they lament all the same things that basketball and volleyball people do:

No money, poor organization, idiots at the NSO/PSO level making decisions that they are unqualified to make.

And we continue to pour money into the hockey hole.

Hockey is a good game, but Canadians are kidding themselves if they thing anybody else in the entire world gives a crap about it.

At least curling manages to pay its own way.

Sport in Canada needs an overhaul or I don't like where we are headed.

Take high school PE classes for example - did you know that your mark in high school PE is based on three criteria?

1. Proper footwear

2. Proper attire

3. Good behaviour

Imagine if we marked Math class or Reading the same way?

We just don't take physical literacy seriously, and we pay for it with obesity, increased disease and medical bills.

Here's some Canadiana "Hockey Style" for ya:

Tom Cochrane - Big League. Oh so Canadian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoDDnOUKDQI

enjoy.

I have decided that naps are now more important than ever.

In the past two days I have had four naps. Not long ones, powerful short ones.

Research on elite athletes

and elite musicians

tells us that the determining factor between "very good" and elite is that the elites tend to take naps in the middle of the day, usually between 2 and 5 pm, and usually for more than twenty minutes but less than two hours. Naps during performance are not considered good for the career regardless of how excellent you may become as a result.

Bingo - that's me. I am now officially "elite".

We can't always get the naps in that we crave. Some of you out there in cyberworld never take naps. It's quite okay to face your own inevitable mediocrity. In fact it is a respectable trait.

Teenagers take naps, too. They call it "sun tanning" to give it a special name. They lie on towels and beach mats, ignore everything, and talk to nobody except for cell phoners. (is that a term? It is now). The rest of their beach time is taken up with naps. See below:

I became an official "cell phoner" today. (The picture above is not me. No IM's PLEASE!)

I joined the modern world and accepted a call on my new cell phone while I was walking up Sinclair Road heading back to the Rez. Confidently, I talked on the phone, while I strode up the hill and into the future. What a multi-tasker I am.

And I owe all my prowess to my propensity to nap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEyQ8lDNOdw

not like this kid. Someone should arrest his mom for not picking him up and cuddling him for two minutes. He could have become an "elite"!

the kid looks like most of my students when they have to listen to me.

I was only encouraging them to be excellent.

Even B-dis recognized the value of a nap.

She would say,"I don't want to go to sleep. I just want to rest my eyes."

And she truly is an elite.

I know it is two days for Arcade fire, but the youtube version of the Walkmen doing their own "Wake Up" is pretty wretched. so here, on topic and in tune, Wake Up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEKC5pyOKFU

talk to you soon, about two naps from now.