Willie tournament

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So we went to one of the worst refereed games that I have been to in my career of watching junior Jazz. My belief is that as a referee you have to have a love for the game. Yet your love for the game should be if you can’t run up and down the court with those that you ref. you should not do it. I was able to see to old men that put a bad name to those that referee. I am not a referee, but do love to watch. Will I ever be a ref….. NO, because I love the game enough to not disgrace it.

Next, why do parents of another team have to start things with other players’ parents and then not own up to what they have said? Why do other parents seem to aggravate a situation when they are just as guilt of the confrontation? I have not had such hostile feeling in a long time. I guess I need not bring myself to their level.

Willie you played very good, and I see that you big-ness was used against you last night. All is not lost and I hope that you are able to play some more games that we can go watch. The best of luck to you in the future. We all know that you were fouled on the last shot. The referees just didn’t have the love for the game.

Reality check

So, I've been watching American Idol this season. Why? I don't know. It's sort of been this guilty pleasure. I don't really watch it faithfully, but if I don't catch my fill, I end up watching the youtube versions afterward. I had a reality check today, though, when I watched a few performances from last night. I realized that I have not been in a realistic musical frame of mind. I have been totally hooked-lined-and-sinkered by this crap fad. I'm sorry.

How did I recieve this revelation? It's all about the Beatles. The few (I literally mean 3) performances I watched were absolutely terrible. The Beatles and American Idol should NEVER have met and I hope this event NEVER happens again.

BEATLES = rock, original, the first of its kind, raw, real music, contemplative, inspiring, instrumental, genuine, revolutionary, creativity, psychedelia . . . no music has ever been the same since 1964. It has inspired generations.

American Idol = overproduced pop, semi-talented instrumentalists swell to cover up semi-talented vocalists, sequence and sparkles but no substance, equivalent to bad country music without the twang, all about the image, not the music, caters to the man instead of sticking it to the man, what are the judges for anyway? it's just a popularity contest instead of a music contest

So, yes, this is kind of a dumb post, but I just wanted to let everyone know that I have officially come to my senses. I'm done with American Idol. The end.

I'm Famous . . . .

Even if it is only the Tooele High School "Buffalog"

Pay Pal Scam

So, I haven't used Pay Pal in just about forever, but lately I have been getting lots of e-mails from them in my junk mail. There seem to be 2-3 per day. The e-mail was "paypal.inc.com." They seem to be official. I finally decided to actually view one of these e-mails and see what it was about. It says "we need to verify purchase for $523" or something like that, or "suspicious activity in your account . . . . login to verify . . . . ."

I got a little worried. Was someone hacking into my dusty pay pal account and buying stuff? What's going on? The e-mails seemed official. They had the Paypal logo and the e-mail had paypal in it. Something seemed fishy, though.

Well, I wasn't dumb enough to click the link in the e-mail, but I did log in to my Pay Pal account separately. I couldn't remember my password, of course, but when I asked it to remind me, it sent a password change e-mail to my inbox, not my junk mail - another sign of something fishy.

Once in my account, I tried every avenue I could find to verify my own information and look at my account activity and history. Lo and behold . . . . no activity in my account for a very, very, long time. Hmmmmmm.

So why all the e-mails? I think someone's trying to scam me. What do you think?

Congratulations James

James has had a string of good news in the last few days. If you see him, you should congratulate him!

* He got accepted into the IHC nursing program - to begin May 2008

* He got accepted into the SLCC nursing program - unfortunately to begin Fall 2012. (long waiting list)

* He was awarded a scholarship to Weber State University.

Way to go James!!! Keep up the good work!!