Hanging it up

We all do it. Sooner or later, it is inevitable. We all "hang it up." In some form or fashion, its either leaving work for the last time. Waking up for the last time, its a great day or an awful day and sometimes just a day that ends in death. For a few years in my life I thought i was going to be the greatest basketball player of all time. (Have a hung up the game, NO) But it brings me to a old friend of mine named bob Knight. Who was a mean basketball coach that just retired. He retired a few weeks ago, no press conferance no flair, no nothing. He just left. With some simple words, no chair throwing, no slapping players on the back of the head. A simple, im done and im going fishing. I saw him give an after game interview a few weeks before that where he sat mostly and talked to his grandson and didnt really pay much attention to the press but his eyes had grown old. the fire was gone and you could almost tell it was time to go on. I re read a book called "Playing for Knight" by one of his former players. He talked about how it was harder but knight did it right and I didnt understand that until now where kids are paid, kids parents are paid and all sorts of things influence a 18 year old kid to go to the right school. Knight just said these are the rules and we will play by those rules and we will yes we will win by those rules. We will do what is hard and we will do what is right, he seemed to live by those rules in a life when nobody else did. I can imagine Knight reading an old copy of "old man and the sea" while he and his grandkids fade off into the sunset on a rowboat.

With that: if you are hanging it up on your time or someone elses, do your best to fade into the sunset in your time. Happy,smiling, the fire not so much inflaming in your eyes


till next tyme

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Im not sure what i want to say today or if i want to say anything at all. I had a boring day. I worked a bit or alot of our budget for next year. Let me tell you thats no fun. I booked a ticket home for easter and a car. Ill be home saturday, sunday, and part of monday. I would stay longer but duty calls. I have a text document on my desktop that is usually open, its basically things i would like at somepoint to say something about. I didnt realize until a few days ago that I started blogging( wasnt called that then) a long time ago. In my infancy of college days, I spent alot of time at bars and alot of time watching people. In my days there i got bored an started people watching, and then people writing. I would put this on barnapkins and then type it later. which turned out to be the first 300 pages of my blog. No you cant see it. This freeflow unedited style of writing will be in great demand in the next 200 years so you guessed it ill be rich with my sisters talent or so she thinks

So today we talk about tom petty, defense wins champships, office sells tickets. and yes mom im right and your wrong. Im sorry that s just the way it is. why does tom petty get to play at the superbowl. He hasnt had a hit in like 20 years and the people in the crowd were like 15 and had no clue. Good movie on, be back another time to fuss at the tenny boppers

till the next tyme

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Things to think about

Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?
And lastly: Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the hemisphere, but call it a hemorrhoid when it's in your butt?