Tuesday randomness

I was so wiped after a long, active weekend, that yesterday at work, I found myself experiencing some dizziness whenever I leaned over - feeling quite faint. So, after going home (had no problems driving, thankfully), I cooked a quick dinner, watched the Sunday Dallas-Miami game on fast forward, wrote up the mystery blog (which has turned out to be quite entertaining for this Tuesday), and fell asleep at 10:30 pm, earliest that I can remember. Not only that, but I woke up at 8:45 on my alarm's 4th snooze. So this is what it feels like to eradicate sleep debt...

Although I'm rooting for the Mavs, here's hoping the Heat can turn this into a series by winning the next two games. It just feels like such a great playoffs ought to be capped by an outstanding Finals. Aside from a general lack of aggressiveness, Shaq did everything right in the post - his teammates just missed a lot of easy layups.

On the side of the Mavs offense, Coach AJ has done a great job making adjustments at getting Nowitzki and Howard more catches and looks on the move. Next time you watch a game, try not watching the guy with the ball. Every player is moving, cutting, setting screens, coming off a curl or double curl... it's a great offense that leads to an inordinate number of wide-open 12-foot jumpers or runners that their guards, wings, and Dirk can make.

On Sunday, a few of us went up to Golden Gate Park in the city for a free, Alice 97.3-sponsored concert featuring "Cake", best known for their song "Long Jacket" (ask Mike P to sing it for you sometime, he's dead on with all the lyrics). While I wasn't familiar with most of their songs, one of their band members was quite impressive:


The guy on the left, on the keyboard? Depending on the song, and even a particular section of the song, he'd switch between singing harmony, playing keyboard, playing a percussion instrument that makes a sound kind of like a frog's ribbit, playing a trumpet, and playing a tambourine. The versatility displayed, often within one song, was pretty awesome... he'd be holding the trumpet in one hand while playing a keyboard interlude, then back to the horn, etc. If only I could be that talented...