Saturday at the Rays Game.

Took my kids to see the Rays this past weekend.

My Kids remembered the Giant Hot Dogs they sell at Fergs, so I took them back and we wore those bad boys out.

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Rays Lost though, and that is always a bad thing, although It was exciting at the end. Two outs and down by two runs in the Bottom of the ninth and Zobrist hit a shot that at the very least was going to be a triple and maybe a home run but The Orioles Right Fielder made a Play.

wasting a blog post

Seems like some interesting things have happened lately, but I don't believe it is in My best interest to write about them here on my blog.

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So absent those couple of interesting things, My life has been pretty mundane. Just the basics, go to work, maybe get a run on, Read a book, Watch some T.V. - do some of those interesting things, Maybe drink a couple of beers at the Bar nearby. Just live a pretty mundane life.

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I would like to know why a Bird's Poop is white, and pretty much every other animal poops brown.

Sports are important and this is my argument why.

Tonight was just a great night. Hang on for just a second because I feel like I need to go out and buy myself an Ascot and a smoking jacket, because I am feeling all High Falutin and stuff.

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Picture me sipping on some 80 year old Grand Marnier while wearing my Ascot, and smoking jacket, while I sit in some leather upholstered chairs in my private Library.

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That is my impression of an aristocratic snob who thinks the Arts, and Opera and stuff like that are somehow above watching athletic competition.

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To be clear I love great Art, or great music and Theater. Truthfully, I do. I remember staring at, Van Gogh's "Starry Night" for 15 minutes straight and just thinking that as many times as I have seen a print of that thing, it still blew me away to see the actual painting itself. I have seen "Hair" on Broadway. I went in thinking to myself that it's a fucking musical, and left thinking -"holy shit, that was awesome"

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As much as I Know that the Art's and theater and stuff can move you, I also know there is nothing like watching great athletes play sports at the highest levels.

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Tonight I watched two really good College Basketball teams play a game for the right to play in another game on Saturday and it was just like all that other stuff.

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There were a lot of missed shots. Both sides missed a bunch, but it wasn't because they were not any good, it was because each team played with Passion and they hustled and that included playing defense.

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BYU had the best player on the court, but Florida had the better team. In the end, the Gators won but the back and forth nature and the passion that came through the television did some kind of Osmosis into my body. Damn, that was just a great experience. I honestly believe if BYU would have won, I would have walked away appreciative of the effort on both sides even though the Gators winning made it all that much more sweeter.

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Don't tell me sports are not important. When you see greatness in Sports, it's the same when you see it in Literature or plays or Art or Movies. When you see Awesomeness in Sports, it really is no different. It is something that touches you inside and is just as important as any other job. That is why I hate when people say sports aren't important. They are just as important as anything else is in life.

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It is a reason why I hated that after the World Trade Center attack, both the MLB, Pro Football and College football all quit for awhile. Their basis for doing that was that it just seemed trivial in comparison. I promise you it was no less trivial then My Job was and we damn sure went right back to work the next day.

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If anything, Big Time Sports are more important then the regular jobs, because when they are at their best like they were tonight they are uplifting to the human soul.

Car Maintenance

Had to take my car into the shop for regular maintenance today and the service advisor told me about a bunch of other problems that I didn't even know It had. It was like going into the doctor for a regular checkup and coming out sweating the biopsy and hoping it was not malignant. It was like landing on Chance in the game of Monopoly and getting that shitty card that says you get ten dollars for coming in second in a beauty contest. Good to get the ten bucks and know your car is not going to give you any problems, bad because second is really only the first loser, Plus, you know, spending the few hundred extra dollars that I didn't know I was going to spend when I woke up this morning.

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Anyhow, I listened to them and tried to figure out how much of what they were saying was bullshit and how much was important. It was especially difficult because the service advisor was smoking hot, and I wanted her to think I knew at least as much about car engines as she does.

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Deep down though, we both know, in that regard, she is more of a man then I am. Very Emasculating stuff, but I am still pretty sure She Can't pee while standing up. Don't get me wrong, I am comfortable enough with what I do know about car engines, and really see no need to become more knowledgeable because of the time and effort it would take. I will totally try to get that same service advisor the next time I take my car into the shop, because, well because, yeah, she was hot and competent and thats just sexy.

Stuff I hope My kids watch

Bill Gets disgusted

A little bit of a rant coming on. First of all, How stupid are pedophiles? You people are disgusting and when I say you people, I do not give you sick motherfuckers any credit whatsoever.

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This is a pedophile free blog. so if you bastards are reading this, get the fuck off. --You disgust me. Anything funny or witty, I write on this blog is not for your reading. Plus even the stupid shit I do to just document that I am alive. Fuck you guys.

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Pedophiles are just total shit. - secondly, how stupid are you to keep getting caught? You guys think you are talking to a little boy or a little Girl on the Internet, and then you think you are going to meet them? You people are fucking stupid. My skin is raging just thinking about your sorry ass.

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This all came up because of a 20/20 type sting that just went on in Tampa. Amazingly they caught like 30 sick fuckers this past weekend. You fuckers make me want to burn my skin because I imagine that you have skin, just like I do, ---and the fact that we share that trait sickens me. Death to all you fuckers. you are flat out disgusting.

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More rant -- I will kill a motherfucker that ever messes with my kids. Obviously I would try to get out of doing prison time for doing that, by hiring the best lawyers I could find, but I would instruct them that the defense I want to use is that the sick bastard that messed with either one of my kids needed killing, and I just did the thing that needed to be done. So Yes, could I kill another human being? Pretty damn sure I could. Plus, I could do it under the right circumstances with no remorse what-so-ever. Ummmmm yes, yes I could. --- Not even going to link the story I am talking about. just imagine 20 20 Plus, Imagine me killing someone with zero remorse....

sweet sixteen here we come

Had some tickets to go see Kenney Chesney this past weekend except I chose to go drink some beers at the Gator Basketball game instead. Kenny is just a Buffet wannabee, but the gators making it to the suite sixteen right in front of your face is something alltogether different.

Not alot of good pictures but none the less it was awesome

Getting Mocked for rocking the Red Razor

New thing lately is for my friends to mock me because of my outdated Cell Phone. I rock a razor. Its so very 2002. Everyone goes around with their Smart phones nowadays, whereas I still use the old flippy Red Razor. They treat it like a celebrity sighting.

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She wanted this photo like a Hunter wants a picture with a Wildebeast he just killed. Its like me and My Red Razor are so weird you just have to get a Picture with it!

Cowboy Son

It was ill advised. I was in the moment. I was in Texas, and not only that, It was the largest Country bar ever. They had a gift shop, and again, I admit it was ill advised, and not only that, I already had quite a few beers, so what the hell, when in Ancient Rome, wear a toga, When in Texas wear a Cowboy Hat.

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I tried it on and then bought it, but just like you should not drive drunk, you shouldn't buy Cowboy Hats when you are drunk either. It almost fit, but "almost" is the key word. It was to small. I wore it that night in the bar, but the next day when I sobered up, it was clear the thing was just to damn small. For me.

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Its just a little big for my son, but he will grow into it.

More on the Lincoln Lawyer

I Read in today's Gainesville Sun that the Character of Mickey Haller is based loosely on Dan Daly. Mr. Daly used to be The Author's roommate when they went to The University of Florida. Dan is now a Criminal defense attorney in Gainesville.

This Photo from the Gainesville Sun, and is of Michael Connely (the Author) on the Left. The guy next to him is an Attorney named Roger Mills, Dan Daly is next to him and then of course McConaughey.

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20110313/ARTICLES/110319953

Translation for rednecks!

This past Saturday I took my kids over to Melbourne to see my Grandma on her 91stBirthday. My Dad came up From Miami, and we all went to the Red Lobster for Lunch. She seemed like she really had a good time.

Then on the way back over to Tampa, We stopped at a camp on the St. Johns River to ride in an Airboat and saw this sign.

thats just good translation Right there!

A quote from Mark Twain

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain