Saturday, January 17, 2009
We get it. The plane crashed in the Hudson.
Nobody died, pilot is a hero (I gotta admit, it's not easy to crashland without killing at least one person). Why is the news still covering this 24 hours? Why is more than two stories necessary for this? Maybe four. "Plane crashed" "About the pilot" "About the survivors" "Cleaning up the mess". How long can we have a camera trained on a plane floating in the bay?
Disney Cruise, Part 1
We're going to leave to board the boat in a bit... I'll quickly write up the drive from Wisconsin to Florida.
I'm a second shift worker, working 4pm - midnight. So waking up at 4am to leave is pretty hard. Get everything loaded up, I'm in the passenger seat with my PSP and mp3 player. Little bits of sleep along the way, nothing too great.
The total trip is 1,400 miles. Two days, staying at a hotel both nights. Me, mom, dad, grandma, my 4 year old nephew. No surprise, I'm sleeping on the floor in the hotel rooms. This trip making it painfully obvious why I don't spend much time with my family.
I'm a second shift worker, working 4pm - midnight. So waking up at 4am to leave is pretty hard. Get everything loaded up, I'm in the passenger seat with my PSP and mp3 player. Little bits of sleep along the way, nothing too great.
The total trip is 1,400 miles. Two days, staying at a hotel both nights. Me, mom, dad, grandma, my 4 year old nephew. No surprise, I'm sleeping on the floor in the hotel rooms. This trip making it painfully obvious why I don't spend much time with my family.
Lance Armstrong is not a Hero
There, I said it. People wear those damn Livestrong bracelets acting like Armstrong is one of the greatest heroes of our time. He isn't. He's a cancer patient who rides a bike. An arrogant one, at that.
He has cancer. He loses a ball. This doesn't prevent someone from riding a bike. If anything, he gets an advantage; one less testicle means less weight... and professional bikers are more concerned about the weight of their lights than the price (down to the milligram).
He's won a number of championships, and does he gracefully step to the side to allow others glory? Of course not, he wants to own that spotlight until he dies. His refusal to just retire already is an insult to the sport and all his competitors.
Throughout the entire cancer ordeal, his wife stood by his side. Does he stay by hers? Of course not, he leaves her for someone else. Wow.
If you need to apply "Hero" to an athlete who had a health problem, why not try Jessica Long? Both legs amputated as a baby, she has prosthetic legs. And yet she swims in the Paralympic games. That's overcoming more than Armstrong ever will.
tl;dr: Lance doesn't have cancer, Lance IS the cancer.
He has cancer. He loses a ball. This doesn't prevent someone from riding a bike. If anything, he gets an advantage; one less testicle means less weight... and professional bikers are more concerned about the weight of their lights than the price (down to the milligram).
He's won a number of championships, and does he gracefully step to the side to allow others glory? Of course not, he wants to own that spotlight until he dies. His refusal to just retire already is an insult to the sport and all his competitors.
Throughout the entire cancer ordeal, his wife stood by his side. Does he stay by hers? Of course not, he leaves her for someone else. Wow.
If you need to apply "Hero" to an athlete who had a health problem, why not try Jessica Long? Both legs amputated as a baby, she has prosthetic legs. And yet she swims in the Paralympic games. That's overcoming more than Armstrong ever will.
tl;dr: Lance doesn't have cancer, Lance IS the cancer.
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