Getting Back to Professional Sports with the Chicago Bulls

Posted by Darwin Garza

Because I grew up in a family where sports was emphasized so heavily, it was hard to move to a small town in Missouri where there are few professional teams to go see. The closest place to see any games is Kansas City to see the Chiefs play football or the Royals play baseball, but this is still about a three hour drive. That’s why I was so excited to spend several months in Chicago. Though I was there for business, I still made sure to schedule plenty of time to watch the Bulls play.

Since I was staying with one of my best friends from college while I was there, we would go to games together. To cut costs on food at the game, we would usually grab a pizza to eat at home before we left. Then, we would set the alarm systems and head on over to the United Center.

I loved being back in the atmosphere of professional sports, as seeing NBA games is something I’ve really missed the past few years. The NBA crowd is unlike any other group of sports fans — and Bulls fans are especially fierce. There is no excuse here for missed shots or bad calls. The whole stadium fills up with cheer and boos as everyone literally sits on the edge of their seats.

Ski lift failure

I was astonished to hear on the news that there was a ski lift failure at Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine earlier today.  I have skied Sugarloaf Mountain many times (it is my all time favorite mountain to ski) and it is very disturbing to hear that the lift cable slipped off of the wheels!  I’ve heard that several people were injured.  I hope that none of them are seriously injured.  And I hope that they can all return to enjoying skiing – it is such a fun sport!  What a scary thing to happen!

My Mother’s Green Thumb

My mother is exciting with the new outdoor planters that she received from us kids for Christmas. She has been itching to get an outddor planter or two for when the weather breaks in a few short months. Since moving into their new home she has been busy with the inside of the house and her indoor planters and is ready to make some changes to the outside come spring.

My mother has always been known for her green thumb. The house we all grew up in had the most wonderful window box planters that all the neighbors were very envious of, she really got a charge out of that. We also always had a nice vegetable garden in the back that we were known with sharing the harvest around the neighbor each season. The only indoor planter that I can remember back then was one that always held a nice and healthy mother-in-law’s tongue that ironically enough her mother-in-law bought for her shortly after my folks were married. My mother much preferred to be outside in the sun tending all of her beauties.

Christmas Cash

Now that Christmas is over with and some folks received cold hard cash or gift cards for gifts there are plenty of people that are now ready to buy some nice merchandise for themselves for a change. A good buddy of mine is now looking online for motorcycles for sale, he would like to be on the road come spring and that is hopefully right around the corner at this point. I can only hope that he finds a Harley Davidson and not some Japanese bike. Keep it American!

The Internet is a great way to find items, so it only makes sense to look for the perfect motorcycle or ATV or any type of transportation for that matter. I used to have a motorcycle but times got hard and I started running out of time for riding it and keeping it up each riding season and ended up selling it. That was before the Internet had made buying and selling items so much easier, I’m sure I would have taken advantage of it and probably would have made out much better than I did back then.

Adult Softball League

The Author of this post is Darius Boone

I just moved to the Dallas-Fort Worth area about five months ago and was looking for an adult softball league for mixed genders. The search took me three days and I was on a team with other people in the restaurant industry. The games have been a lot of fun so far and the diamonds we’ve played at have all been top notch. One of the local semi-pro baseball team has even allowed our league to play games so long as we keep everything clean and sell a couple tickets to their games. I make sure to set my HOME SECURITY alarm from before I go play softball because the slum I live in isn’t very safe. I just started a new job and am making a lot more tip money so hopefully I’ll be moving next week to a house with three other people from my team! Eventually our team is going to move up in the divisions because of a fast pitch pitcher who will be joining us from Alabama. She is getting hired at the place where I’m starting. The competition is fairly high in our division but once we move up we’ll really be challenged. A couple of the guys on our team can knock it out of the park. Our DL actually happens to be a woman because she can rack up the base hits consistently, even when it’s a man pitching overhand to her! The off-season is here but the league has been fun.