NBA Lockout: Logic and Reason Prevail, Finally.

Saturday the 26th of November was the first day of Christmas that my true love gave to me.

It’s all any of us die-hard NBA fans really wanted this holiday season. There will be professional basketball played this season, albeit a truncated, 66-game schedule. The elation and joy is so palpable right now that I seriously don’t even care that the league won’t play a full 82. Basketball is back, and we’ll all have three Christmas Day NBA basketball games to enjoy with our loved ones after the presents are opened up on that celebration-filled day.

Reason wins yet again. It took them nearly five fucking calendar months to get a deal all hammered out, but the “tentative agreement” between David Stern and the NBA Players Association (who will soon be dropping whatever lawsuits that were to commence in early 2012 because of this malarkey) was laid out. Hands were shook, and the energy and spirit of all that drives the magical community of the National Basketball Association began to show its true form. Because the league itself is such an awesome force in the wide world of sports that us citizens of the world enjoy. It would have been one of the biggest regrets in this life if there would not have been a basketball season of some sort.

So we get all the teams, and most of the players. December 9th will be the start of training camps and free agency. Talk about smartphones blowing up all over the place. It’ll be a madness like none of us have ever seen. And then on Christmas Day, the league will open up its 2011-12 season to fanfare and incredible athletic spectacle. This is all milk and honey right now, and every bite is truly delicious.

It’s very possible too that LeBron will be so happy to see NBA fans attend his games that he’ll actually show up in the fourth quarter.

Had to do it.

I love this game. All of it.

And that’s my giving a damn.

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How To Prevent A Potentially Shitty Situation

There comes a time in a person’s life where they cannot take a certain kind of stress anymore.

Oh sure, one of the big achievements of life should be to learn how to deal with every little type of stress that may come at a person. Because a person with strong character is defined as one who knows how to respond to adversity, as it doesn’t really matter how they got knocked down in the first place.

The time has come that we all fold the toilet paper over the top of the roll. The underhanded dispensing method has got to stop.

Imagine yourself on the toilet. Could be your toilet, could be your neighbor’s, could be your grandmother’s. And you know Gramma has her toilet paper dispensing correctly. Gramma does everything right, that’s what makes her the Gramma.

Now you’re sitting there, right? In all your bottomless glory. You’ve done your filthy business, you’ve gotten through your magazine article, checked all the email you had waiting for you on your smartphone, and the last thing you want to have to deal with is the potential “crusting over” issue. If it hasn’t crusted over already. And this tends to happen when you have available toilet paper…except you can’t unravel it, because the available end of the roll isn’t exactly available due to the fact that it’s been shoved back behind the casing that houses the very roll you’re trying to attain a few factory-quilted squares of toilet papery goodness so that you may wipe what needs to be wiped.

The ease of access means that you had one less stress in your day. And that’s what it’s really all about. Fold the paper over the top of the roll, and allow it to hang, ready to be accessed by the next person that uses your fucking toilet.

And that’s my giving a damn.

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