Helluva busy few days in front of me, but I don't mind at all. Do I always start out my journal entries with "I'm gonna be busy" or, "I've been so busy"? In any case, it's true.

What first. Um, CubsPirates game tonight. Just sorta waitin' around for it. There WAS a player meeting today, "optional" but, you know, all our individual coaches got ( Read more... )

Laptops are the greatest invention ever, especially for when you're gettin' iced up. Finally we have full facilities back. Yesterday was the first real day of voluntary off-season workouts, and I'd say pretty much the whole team is back in town. Which, according to Cedrick, who just came over from the 49ers this off-season, is not usual - ( Read more... )

( Lame. )

I'm definitely home, and I say this in only the fondest terms, even though I'm currently locked in a room with game tape (okay, not locked, nevertheless.) I'll be here for the next three hours, I think, so what the heck ( Read more... )

We knew it was comin' for awhile now, but it's always a shock when someone like the Pope dies. He was...a great man, although my family was never one to hang the Pope's pictures on the wall like family. I mean, Mom is not even Catholic; she's UMC (United Methodist) and I think Carlee might be following her lead. So me and Dad are the lone ( Read more... )

I'd just like to take a moment and thank everyone for their well-wishes, AIM and comments and calls and everything. It's been really appreciated. I'll likely share details later, but for now, I still don't really feel comfortable.

So, well, the family arrived today. And I mean the family - grandparents and uncles and aunts and cousins and stuff ( Read more... )

I got on a plane this morning, but it wasn't to Iraq, it was to Ohio ( Read more... )

Easter, for not bein' home and all, was passably good. Big Catholic service, then dinner at Jerome's house. Couple of our teammates were over, his big family, but more importantly I got to play with his daughter. She's just adorable. Two months, I think she is? Man I want kids. That, however, can wait, bein' that I'm hardly 23 ( Read more... )

Almost Easter. Man, my sleep patterns're thrown off right now.

So, Good Friday. I do hate to turn this into one of those reminiscient "as a kid..." posts, but I will anyway - I always hated Good Friday. It's one of the days Dad has always been real strict on. I'd never go to school, and it would be all kinds of church. Which was okay, except ( Read more... )

God and basketball - it must be Palm Sunday ( Read more... )