Swimming With The Dolphins

"HOW HARD IS IT TO FIND A SPURS SHIRT IN CA?!  Texas, I miss you..." -Gabby Contreras-

"Most exciting moment of the day:  getting a notification that my cat tree has been delivered!  Belle is going to love it!" -Alyssa Macias-

"My son comes home from school this afternoon and says it was the worst day ever.  We asked why - he said because three girls have a crush on me...  LOL  Oh, the life of a nine year old..."
-Catherine Robbins-



Good afternoon everyone.  As you'll see shortly, this post will have a little bit more to it than those updates that I'm been giving you from lunch this week.  I feel like starting off with my friends today, and then we'll get to me.  My friends never cease to make my day, and the number is sitting on 777 (of course it is, it's my account, right?  #luckysevens) right now at facebook.  This means that I see a multitude of different things on a daily basis.  Gabby's quote at the very top up there came from out of the blue and had me laughing earlier in the week.  Gabby is a true San Marcos product, and she's living on the left coast now.  I told Gabby that her status made me laugh, and to post a photo if she succeeded in getting a shirt.  When all was said and done, Gabby came through with this shot...

HOWEVER, Gabby and myself know that this isn't the whole story.  FIRST, Gabby tagged me to this photo...

My response was laughter of course, because I could pretty much go to Amazon and find a random photo of a tee shirt...  :)  Gabby, Gabby, Gabby...  Well, Gabby and her new gear put up a valiant fight as the Spurs squared off against the Clippers at the Staples Center...

The Spurs ended up losing by four to L.A.  I think that Duncan scored THIRTY in this game??  The Spurs also lost at Golden State last night, and we may be nearing of the end of the title-run line with Duncan and Ginobili.  San Antonio is currently fighting to hang onto a playoff spot in the ridiculously loaded Western Conference.  Hopefully we can hang in there and find a little postseason magic.  Kudos to Gabby for hunting down the gear for the trip to L.A. though.  :)

Coincidentally, Gabby's partner in crime Alyssa happened to light up my facebook page this week also.  Alyssa even posted a photo to facebook of the UPS phone notification for the cat tree mentioned above...  :)  As I did with Gabby, I requested a photo of this thing when it came to fruition (Alyssa had to assemble it you see)...  It looks at though Belle does indeed love it...

    

Brandi..., Chad..., maybe if you got one of these for Callie, it would totally fix everything???  :P Oh, how I miss being harassed by Gabby and Alyssa and Gisele and Kim and Chelsea and Mo and Amy and the rest of the gang that I'm failing to mention because I can only tag so many people to one facebook post...  :)

I've also got another quote for y'all today in addition to those provided by Gabby, Alyssa, and Catherine, but I decided to include the whole meme that Kourtney shared because of the rabbit...  :)

    
And since we've seemed to transition to an animal theme here, I wanted to give a long overdue shoutout to 'The Onion.'  If you've never seen their site www.theonion.com/, 'The Onion' does an outstanding job of providing the world with fake news.  Yes, they just make stuff up and pass it on as real news.  You can also 'like' the facebook page of 'The Onion,' in addition to following them on twitter.  It was on the facebook version this week where I read about how you can go to Florida and swim with the dolphins...

Errrr, the Dolphins I mean...  ;)  Let me transition to family now.  I've recently mentioned my brother Pete, who has been beating up Red Rock since he returned to the Las Vegas poker scene.  Well, I've also got a stepsister who has been crushing the pavement recently.

I'm not sure if Whitney just wanted to get into better shape, or if she wanted to try out running, or if she was running low on wardrobe, but she has been collecting t-shirts from all over the area recently, in addition to medals and everything else that they give to race finishers.  This is a shot of the hill that her and her friends attacked today while doing training for a Spartan Race...

 
Great job Whitney!  This hill would have been fun when I was younger if it was covered in snow. Oh yeah, we had one of those, and it was at Remich Park...  ;)  While sledding was a good way to spend an afternoon, I have no desire to be anywhere near that stuff they call snow...

My friend Brigette shared this photo from Massachusetts that was posted by Fox 13, and I still say NO THANK YOU...


"So what about you Coach?"  Well, I'm still inside on this beautiful Saturday, for one thing.  I looked at the long-range forecast this morning, and it looks like today (high 75, low 51) is the nicest weather that we're gonna see for the next 10 days.  I have the Texas/Iowa State game playing on the t.v. beside me, and going to the commercial break, they showed a shot of the Capitol Building from the campus of UT, and there's all these students laying out on the lawn, and kids in the foreground chatting, and I literally got up from this chair to look out the window.  I'm all, "is it really that nice outside???"  We actually have a Tuesday forecast for a high of 38, low of 32, with a 60% chance or rain, so there appears to be our best chance to see ice.  Remember, it's 75 today...  :)

My new blog has ended up taking up a lot of my time this week, and one thing has become clear:  being the new blog is like being the youngest child evidently (or so I've heard, since I'm the oldest)...  :)  While my younger brother has the benefit of all of my sports wagering and poker wisdom to pull from (AHEM...), 'Coach Goes Viral' coachgoesviral.blogspot.com/ will be the beneficiary of the "blogging network" (for lack of a better term) that is already in place here for 'Bikini Hill.'  Thanks to my blogging friends who have been kind enough to link to my blog here and to the new one, and to those of you who follow this blog regularly (in addition to sharing your lives with me), the new blog is going to benefit from somewhat of a built-in following.  When I started 'Bikini Hill,' I didn't have close to 800 facebook friends, and my twitter following wasn't over 3,000 people.  Let me pass along to you what I shared with my brother this morning...  When I started writing this blog at the end of September in 2011, it received 48 views in that month, and 247 in October.  'Coach Goes Viral' is currently sitting at 179 pageviews, and it was just born on Wednesday...  In line with the "oldest child" receiving less attention, I'll probably be writing more entries for the new blog just due to its nature.  'Coach Goes Viral' is a place that I've created to vent and rant (mostly about sports, but by no means limited to that), and it's pretty easy for me to type about what's bothering me on the spot (why Jameis Winston shouldn't be talking about winning the Super Bowl next year when he doesn't even know what team he's going to be playing for yet, for example)...  It usually takes me a little more time to prepare entries for this blog (whether that involves predicting the outcomes of sporting events, or compiling all of the things that my friends are kind enough to let me share with you,  etc...).  It's definitely going to be interesting as these siblings learn to adjust to each other.  As I've said recently (either here or there, I already don't remember), this is most likely going to end up being my "happy blog" (where I'm pretty upbeat, telling you about my life, and my friends, and chatting with you in general), while 'Coach Goes Viral" is going to be my "angry blog" (and I'm not saying that witty and sarcastic isn't going to be amusing), but I'll usually be writing about things that have gotten under my skin for one reason or another at the new site.  Today I already had a girl on twitter telling me that Jameis Winston can talk about the Super Bowl if he wants, so I have a feeling that the new blog is going to be fun (you know, after the venting and the ranting)...  ;)

After I post this I'll be going back to Bovada to finish out my micro betting for the day, and then I'll have the t.v. tuned into those specific college basketball games and hockey games (I LOVE betting hockey - two games on tonight) that I have action on while I get more done around my apartment.  I'm mulling over whether or not I want to venture down to 6th Street tonight, because if I decide not to, I probably won't be able to go next weekend either due to the weather.  I refuse to go to 6th just to be cold and miserable...

Well, like I said, a little bit longer than my lunch updates from work this week...  :P  I hope that all of you have a great weekend and I'll see you soon!