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July 14, 2007

New Golf Clubs, Sonics, And Photos Of Food

And the only reason I'm even writing this is that there's a game on that I'm interested in watching

Were it not for the US U-20s playing in quarterfinal of the U-20 World Cup this fine morning, I probably wouldn't have even gotten my act together for even this meager post. Such is the unique combination of too much salaried activities and the traditionally delayed commencement of summer here in C@L -- it's just been tough to find too much time to play with the electric internets.

(Actually, that's not entirely true. I spent a lot of time on the electric internets last weekend, but that was in the service of commerce. I finally dealt with myself and bought a proper set of golf clubs. My current clubs were fine, I guess, but they were older than I am, and, well, I wanted the new hotness kind that (a) go a lot farther and (b) are a ton easier to hit. And since I've recently decided that I do enjoy golf and would like to improve my skillz ever so slightly, new clubs seemed in order. And by "new" I mean "used and available on eBay." They should get here early next week, and I shall look forward to hitting them. Next up on the commerce list: a used bike. Baby steps.)

(I might also note that said purchase of golf clubs qualifies as my first rent-substitution self-indulgence purchase. That is, the golf clubs were rationalized under Section 4, Article b of the "Now that I'm paying less in rent I can afford to buy random stuff" by-laws.)

In addition to my marketplace commerce, life is pretty good. The sun is shining in C@L, I had a great trip back east for the Fourth of July, and I'm looking forward to a beautiful summer out here. Blogging's been pretty minimal, save for a couple entries on FC Camena in re: the recent spate of international fixtures. Though I might add that I'm pretty good about updating my del.icio.us; I'm thinking about making those a bigger part of the presentation here on ThatKid, if only to make it seem like there's more fresh content than there actually is.

Still, I do need to say something about the elephant on the blog here: the Sonics. In the past month, the Sonics have hired a new GM, a new coach, had their team president resign, moved their two best players out of town (Ray Allen to Boston in a draft-day trade, Rashard Lewis given a pornographic pile of cash -- $126 million -- by the Magic), and drafted two players in the top five in the draft, including chosen one (sub two) Kevin Durant. I don't even know these guys anymore! I mean, it's all pretty interesting, but I don't think that it bodes well for the team staying here in C@L. All these moves feel like the sort of thing you do when you want to clean house and start over before a cross-country move. Kind of like when I cleaned out my t-shirts before moving out to C@L.

And that's what I've got for you. The sun is shining, the game's at halftime, and I need to get me outside.