The DN

1  I'm officially into knitting. All this klanking around gets to a guy.

2   For instance, I love sports.

3   I do.

4   Playoffs? I'm not so sure.

5   The Giants' recent spate of championships probably aged me about a hundred years.

6   I lost count. 

7   I might BE a hundred for all I know. I might be nine hundred, but I am youthening.

8   The Warriors and Sharks each owe me about three lifetimes. 

9    Yeesh. 

10  Knitting. It's in the stars, I tellya.

11  Anybody listenin'?

12   Less and less. 

13   I should never take Spring Break off.

14   Or maybe I should.

15   The other night I saw some pop-up on Facebook that said, "Retire in Fifteen Minutes."

16  Almost did. 

17   I goofed on how amazing that would be. You're sitting around messing with your puter and within minutes you have a Spring Break for the rest of your life.

18  AND you're youthening.

19  Not quite ready for that one.

20  I am pretty ready for knitting. It seems so peaceful.

21  Speaking of which: yesterday the second my last class ended I plugged in my amp and played my eleven-string-twelve-string for a solid hour.

22  Sorry Granny.

23  That's WAY more fun than knitting.

24   I need more practice, but it was breezy and escapist.

25   Raspy voice. Too much sports' stress. 

26  Felt great.

27  Felt really great. You can't really rock unless your voice is raspy. It's the law of Rock 'n' Roll. It is. It honestly is. 

28  Moving On, Part One: Can you retire from watching sports? 

29  Nah.

31  It's too fun.

32  It shouldn't be a job though.

33   It's all good.

34   I keep a basketball in my trunk at all times. It is pumped and ready for a throw-down.

35   Uh...yeah.

36   Nothing is real.

37   And nothing to get hung about.

38   Moving On, Part the Two: I'm exasathperated.

39   

40   Anybody lookin'?

41   Ah it's all good.

42   Last night some movie came on teevee about two guys dating the same girl. That sort of movie inevitably has beach scenes. 

43  Summertime.

44  No longer a fleeting thought. 

45  I can see myself now.

46

47   Don't be ageist or sexist.

48   I pictured myself as the chick reading the mag.

49   That's the wonderful thing about being liberated. 

50   Ah, wilderness!

51   Well this was lofty.

52   Immina break away and get on with things.

53   Gottago.

54   See you again.

55   Peace.

~H~

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The DN

1   Crazy hockey game, but then when aren't they crazy?

2    Jonathan Quick appears to be a knucklehead. 

2   I'm befuddled.

3   Ah, we have the Kings right where we want 'em. 

4   Let's take this bloodbath to San Jo.

5   Nutso.

6   Did I mention I was befuddled?

7   I've pretty much lived in Befuddleville all year.

8   Nothing new.

9   Anybody lookin'?

10  Has anybody seen that teevee commercial where some guy takes a baseball bat to Windows 8?

11  Anybody who has had the misfortune of getting stuck with that lemon could probably relate.

12   It isn't that difficult once you get used to it, but I liken it to someone coming over to your house and putting everything in different cupboards.

13  Or something. 

14   I also had to switch to Mac Pro. Not as tough a switch, but a major adjustment nonetheless. That's a good switch though. No major complaints. 

15  Still. I'm about ready to go back to a yellow legal pad and paper.

16   This would give too many people a nosebleed.

17   Anyway it felt good watching that commercial. There's something about taking a sledge hammer to an inanimate object that brings tremendous joy to the befuddled.

18   I was relaxing on a bowl of hot pho at the time. 

19  It was pretty nice. 

20  fadfafdfdasffdf.

21  Trying to plan the end of the school year.

22  My head keeps doing three sixties. 

23  It's okay.

24   I just blessed myself even though I didn't even sneeze.

25   You can't be too careful.

26   Moving On, Part One: I just thought of that musical Stop the World, I Want to Get Off. 

27   Anthony Newley. 

28   The title is a poem. 

29   It calmed me down. Re-entry after a late Easter gave me the bends. Tough day. The Sharks' game didn't help. Thank goodness for April baseball. 

30   Baseball in late April. I didn't even care that the Giants were losing. 

31   It was nice to watch a ball game.

32   And I like San Diego anyway.

33   The town. It's a sweet place if you ask me. 

34   They just cut to this guy dressed like a real padre, prompting Kruk to say, "He might be THE Padre."

35  The guy coulda played Friar Laurence. Rotund body, bear-brown beard. And Kruk on his stuff. Can't beat it. 

36  Moving On, Part Two: I'm thinking of giving up being a sports' fan and taking up knitting. 

37    Iono.

38   Just a thought.

39   Just another thought: how come if bees are going extinct, there are still bees everywhere?

40  I claim it's the Man. 

41  fdfafdfdaffdf.

42  Anybody lookin'?

43  Thank goodness for the good ol' DN.

44   It's sort of like knitting, only you can eat pizza too.

45   I don't know that you could knit and eat pizza. If a renegade pepperoni were to plash on whatever it is you are knitting, you're probably done.

46   They're playing Don't Stop Believin' at the Yard. 

47   That's a nice thing.

48   I'll take that one into today.

49   WHOA.

50  Sports Net Central just shot up out of the water at McCovey Cove. 

51  You hadn't oughta do that to a guy who is late-night befuddled. 

52   <Cheshire smile>. 

53    I gottago. Have an unbefuddled day. 

54    See you again.

55    Peace.

~H~

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The DN

1   Are you seriously telling me that it's STILL not May?

2   <anybody lookin'?>

3   Oh for heaven's sake.

4   The loveliest part of having a Spring Break is that you forget pretty much everything.

5   And why not?

6   Like, "Is it REALLY not May?"

7   <shuffling around>

8   ARE YOU SERIOUS? <admit you checked> Is there a May Guy we can consult?

9   The May Guy just answered in the affirmative. The May Guy. Tough guy. Gottabe. He's the King of Spring.

10  Phoebe the Dog is sorta getting it.

11  I'm pretty much gone not getting it. So it is safe to say that I am gone. I think.

12  Or at least still not around.

13  Not an easy thing, being not around. You forget how to be around. 

14  Ask Presidents, noblemen, and most people who look at Once Upon a Time.

15  I won't lie. This is gonna hurt. 

16  That's a line from the above-mentioned Once Upon a Time.

17   Pretty stuff.

18   Dang. <blogger thingy decides to buffer for around an hour> Bleh. I forgot about laptops and websites that freeze up on you. 

19   It is much later and I am clearly starved.

20   Okay, okay. I have food. 

21   I'm not EVEN gonna lie.

22   <Looking around>

23   DAY-um.

24   The Daily News.

25   Who's down.

26   Insert all-knowing dog.

27   Ooooops.

28   Outta practice.

29   I don't know where the all-knowing dog is. 

30   I think he ran around the block.

31   Scary.

32   That's some dog.

33   <anybody lookin'>

34    Oh fer cryin' out loud.

35    Oy.

36   This is endless. Every picture takes a year to post. Endless I tell you. Oh sometimes I must go mad. 

37   Endless. Yet in a strange way necessary.

38   And yet...

39   dot dot dot

40   I refuse to apologize.

41   Juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust becuzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

42   zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...<thud> Is it May yet? 

43   <snore>

44   Same night.

45   I swear to you.

46   Ain't nothin' fair. Pretty sure it's from some other movie, but at this point I couldn't tellya dude. 

47   Seeeeeeeesly.

48   <everybody's lookin'>

49   Little Big Man credits are the only light in an otherwise dark house.  Great movie, just slept through it. 

50   Same night.

51   I swear to you.

52   I gotta go.

53   <Yet another attempt at inserting all-knowing dog> <computer frozen again> Ah vell. It's almost May, after all. 

54   See you again.

55   Peace.

~H~

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All-Knowing Dog

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The DN

SHARKS!!!!!!!

1  SHARKS!!!

2   Yeesh.

3   I love big game ones.

4   You don't have to stand up and scream at the teevee.

5   You can eat pizza in piece.

6   You can remember it is garbage night.

7    Yup.

8   And that today is Good Frideeeeeee!!!!!!!

9   I wound up not doing any theatre stuff yesterday.

10  I wound up hooking up an open mic for a sort of mini-coffee house poetry day.

11   I had the room looking pretty.

12  At the end of two of my classes I strapped on my twelve-string, which right now is an eleven string like most twelve-strings, and played Paul Simon's obscure Punky's Dilemma. 

13  Wish I was a Kellogg's Corn Flake, floatin' in my bowl a taken movies...

14   SUCH an underrated song.

15   I rushed it because the bell rang in both classes. I just didn't time it properly, but that was because students were going up to the mic and answering answerless questions. 

16   What is faster, K or Z?

17   Stuff like that.

18   What color is noise?

19   What is softer, cotton or a kiss?

20   They had to line up and answer each.

21   I played some Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck as a sort of Starbuck's backdrop.

22  It worked. The students became more and more engaged as the day moved on, because they are officially in Good Frideeeeeee mode.

23   They have been REALLY stressing, poor kids. 

24    My last class of the way jumped all over each other to get to the mic. They're a pretty passionate class, so I knew THEY would get way into it.

25   They trouble is they need a big volume knob to calm them down. 

26   I love them. They're a handful, but they all have really sweet souls.

27   I don't know what I'm going to do with them today. I thought of having them see if they could stay on a rodeo horse for over ten seconds and then write a poem about it.

28   Anybody lookin'?

29   Yeesh.

30   The Kings just scored. Boo.

31   I KNOW. I KNOW. I jinxed 'em.

32   Not too worried.

33   Moving On, Part One: Yesterday I had a hankerin' for a Lee's Sandwich. I  haven't had one of those in a bazillion years. A friend of mine told me that he had been going there lately. 

34   So I climbed over to our neighborhood Lee's.

35   I ordered up and sat down. The place seems to be losing money. The storefront has been cut in half.

36   The Kings just scored again. Boo.

37   Excuse me hockey game, but I'm trying to make a point about a sitch that happened at Lee's sandwiches. 

38  Do the Kings have a guy named Suave' Gonad?

39  Anybody lookin'?

40  Where was I?

41  Oh yeah. The Lee's storefront had been cut in half. It does have a large-screen teevee. That's the good news. 

42   The bad news is they didn't have the Giants/Dodgers' game on. 

43  They had Maury checking pregnancy tests. How is THAT schtick still flying?

44   That guy looks like Mount Rushmore.

45   I sat and watched anyway, trying to figure out what sort of tip I was going to leave the sandwich guy when I got my sandwich. 

46   Nieme HUGE save.

47   Back to Lee's.

48   After some crazy lady on Maury found out her husband was being honest with her, I heard a commotion over at the counter. 

49   The young sandwich guy was yelling at some smaller, older guy with a mop. The younger guy kept getting louder and louder, shouting at the other guy. 

50  He then started punching the guy. I swear to you. He kept saying, "Let's take this outside right now. Right now we'll settle this outside!"

51   I stood up and moved toward the counter, just to give some proximity. We automatically do that sort of thing at school when we see a hot spot.

52   It didn't stop the guy. He kept shoving the other guy. Some other guy came out and calmed the guy down, gave me my sandwich and drink. 

53   Once it looked like the situation was under control I booked it. 

54  I almost called the cops but it looked like things had calmed. 

55  AnywayZ...

56   I think the Sharks are okay. 

57   Good Friday. GREAT Friday. 

58   The Kings just scored again. The second I wrote that. 

59   Am I that bad of a jinx?

60   BURNS!!!  Empty net!!! SCORRRRRRE!!!!

61   I'll never do that again. I swear. Be still my heart. I just wrote that on Facebook. "Be still my heart."

62   Anywho, I'll be back in a week! I need serious bedrest and a beach. Have a GREAT Easter.

63   See you again.

64   Peace

~H~