The Superbowl Pre-game show

For over 2 hours I listened to the pre-game show for the Super Bowl. The Indianapolis Colts were in it so I wasted plenty of time watching the endless experts discuss the game. Something became obvious. It seems that most people who were cheering for the Saints were doing so out of sentimental reasons. Because New Orleans suffered tragedy with Katrina we were supposed to cheer for them. Apparently Drew Brees became the patron saint of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. In an interview they ask him who was helped more, Drew by New Orleans or New Orleans by Drew? They didn't mention how much he donated to the city but hey, that's his business.

As I sat there I kept thinking, weren't we talking about a football game? Why is New Orleans the only city to benefit from a football player? Oh wait they aren't. Didn't Peyton Manning donate MILLIONS to an Indianapolis children's hospital? Can't we interview some of the kids that benefited from that? Is New Orleans the only city that ever suffered a loss? Granted their loss was large but cities have terrible snow storms, hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, flood, etc. For better or worse New Orleans isn't special for the tragedy, yet that's what the commentators continue to shove down our throats.

My team lost and I'm not bitter. The Saints played better and deserved to win. I am upset that we are supposed to feel sorry for New Orleans. It is a city in a bowl below sea level. It's not a matter of if a hurricane strikes but when. It's difficult for me to have sympathy when you KNOW what's going to happen. The town will flood again. It's like someone in Canada being surprised that it snows in winter and then I'm supposed to feel compassion. The people of Haiti are suffering and they didn't know it was going to happen. They couldn't have done anything to prevent it. They had no idea. That's a tragedy.

Rant over,
Ron

The new puppy and Fabio seem to be getting along lately. They play tug o war with a stretchy toy which looks pretty funny. A 30 pound dog vs a 3 pound dog. What is that over used sports saying...It's not the size of the dog in the fight it's the size of the fight in the dog. Surprisingly the puppy will only get us up 1 time during the night. That's pretty good for a 10 week old puppy. He almost potty trained too. I know, shocking. Cavalier's a wonderful dogs, great with kids, loving, cuddly, friendly, well behaved, not barky. Can you tell that I've had 3 Cavaliers and I love the breed.

Over the weekend Mallory had a band thing. She and 2 boys performed in a contest and they got the gold medal. Just to put this in perspective a lot of kids got gold medals but I was still proud of her. She carried the trio. One of the boys was good and the other was...well...nervous? The funniest part of that 3 hour experience was when I couldn't find Mallory. I was looking and looking for her, finally I asked one of the other parents that I'd been sitting with. Have you seen my daughter? "Oh, she was walking around with a little boy with a saxophone" The little boy with the saxophone is her "boyfriend" Ryan. So it gave me the opportunity to tease Mal mercilessly about leaving Dad for some boy with a saxophone.

2 of my bigger websites set records in January for the most visitors ever. Both had a 1000 more visitors than the previous record. That's exciting when you put so much time and effort into a site for it to take off. In case you're interested the two sites are www.FindRescuePuppy.com, a site dedicated to helping shelters and puppies, and www.ComicBookGeeks.com, which is pretty self explanatory.

Ron