?Super? Super Bowl?

Hmmm, I just finished watching the Super Bowl about an hour and a half ago.

While I am very happy that the Colts won, I am a bit torn about the game itself.

If you watched, you will find that it may have been the most lopsided Super Bowl in many a year. While the score looked close, the Colts basically kicked the holy crap out of the Bears. It was ugly.

Now, why was I rooting for the Colts, since I'm a Packers fan? Well, one, Tony Dungy. I lived in Indy for a few years during the start of the Tony Dungy era at Indianapolis. He is truly a man who understands what football is: a game. And on top of that, he is a gentlemen. While I think it's cool that he is the first black head coach to win the Super Bowl, I think it's even cooler that he says "I wasn't the first that had the talent to do it." He's humble and just an all around good guy. He's someone I would like to have as a coach, I think. And not just for that silly game the grown up boys play.

Two, Peyton Manning. Seriously, it's hard to find fault in the football player named Peyton. I'm sure there are faults in the human named Peyton, but as a football player, he's someone that you'd like all quarterbacks to emulate.

Three, Marvin Harrison. There's little known about this guy, because he's just not good in front of a microphone, so he typically pays the NFL imposed fines and turns down interviews. One of his comments on media day was "It's all the eyes that bother me." If that ain't me, I don't know what is...it's cool that someone who has that kind of talent overcomes those horrible feelings and still goes in front of "all the eyes" and shares said talent every week during the football season.

Four, all the other "good guys" on the Colts roster. You don't have a good team that has a cancer in the locker room (I can only think of the Terrell Owens - he's a great receiver, but I think he drags his teams down with his idiocy in the locker room and other places off the field). And they haven't shown that kind of crack in the veneer, so good for all of them, from the "lowly" janitors and receptionists to Ted Marchibroda.

Anyway, here's to the Indianapolis Colts and their wonderful season.

PS Thanks for beating up on the Bears for us Packer fans! :)

Comment on the weather

Okay, folks who live south of here...it's f*cking cold up here!

Predicted highs for tomorrow? Zero degrees Fahrenheit. Yep, that's 17.8 degrees BELOW zero Celsius, and a very cold 255.4 degrees Kelvin. Tonight's low is predicted for -13 degrees Fahrenheit - good Lord that's cold!

Basically, I have a fairly simple scale:

85 degrees or hotter - f*cking hot OR the air conditioning is quite comfy, I believe I'll stay inside today

55 - 85 degrees - comfortable and livable

15 - 55 degrees - probably want to wear some level of a jacket

15 degrees and below - f*cking cold OR kiss my ass, I'm not going out there! OR please start the fire, thank you very much!

So I'll be staying inside for the next week or so. Venturing out only when starvation is an issue (I'm pretty chunky, I could miss a meal without too much draw down on my reserves :) ) and only when I have to go to/from work (can't buy heat without some cashola). And the gas fire is roaring in the corner right now - only thing I'll miss in my new house come April...

Weather report says a heat wave is coming next weekend (20 degrees for a high on Friday and 23 by Sunday). Rest of the week is predicted at 15 or lower for HIGH temperatures.

Sonovabitch!!!

A question of respect...

I was in St. Louis all week this week. I stayed in a hotel with one of those hot continental breakfasts (actual hot eggs, sausages, gravy, biscuits, french toast, plus all the yogurt, donuts, etc that all the old continental breakfasts seemed to have). Bland, but you could fill up on something hot and tasteless to get through the morning.

Well, I was struck by something this morning. The cook, who happened to be this older lady that looked like life had been a bit rough on, was cooking and smiling at all of us as we went through the line and saying "good morning". I was shocked when I noticed that I was the only one who seemed to be responding back to her. In fact, one "gentleman" basically just gave her a big old frown, as if to say "Why are you speaking to me? You aren't worth a response."

Have we slid so far in American society that all people who are "below" our standard of living no longer exist? WTF? I was insulted for her - I don't think she was bothered by it, but I was. I mean, where does this line of non-existence fall? Is it because she had dentures (it was pretty obvious, and she was only a few years older than me, maybe mid 40's)? Is it because she was our "servant"? Is that what we are going back to, a feudal view of the other people we live with, depending upon what they do, how much money they have actually sets their value as a human being?

If so, I really think we, as Americans (and for that matter, HUMANS), are on a very, very wrong path...