Monday, December 19, 2005

State of Mind

I was having weird flashbacks this weekend where I suddenly felt like I just finished the semester and I had a month off. Unfortunately I came crashing back to earth and realized that I work for a living and now I'm lucky if I get a week off where the office doesn't call me more than three times. That being said I think I'm ready for Del Boca Vista and retirement.

In other news I realized that I, in fact, cannot do three things at once especially if those three things involve a 6-star Sudoku puzzle (as hard as they come in the Red Eye), holding a conversation with Clare, and watching the Bears game. At best I could do two of those things, so as any normal guy would I chose Sudoku and the Bears.

Ok, actually I chose Clare and the Bears, and she was nice enough to endure me rambling on about the Cover 2 defense, the virtues (and limitations) of having as fast a defensive front four as the Bears have, Kyle Orton's neckbeard (yes I'm back on that again), and the dangers of having a quarterback controversy this late in the season. I'm pretty sure I lost her when I started explaining the run blocking schemes that the Falcons were (unsuccessfully) employing against the Bears D and Urlacher's role in that...then again glazed over eyes are a good thing right?

Seriously though, she was trying to understand something I love even though she's already said she'd never totally get into it and I appreciated it.

1 comment:

Clare said...

You're doing a great job of trying to teach me. It's the learning part I have to master. So far, I know that Vick's style of quarterbacking opens him to injuries, Orton's neckbeard damages his credibility, having a quarterback controversy this late in the season spells trouble for Da Bears, the position of "safety" is the last line of defense after 1) the defensive line, and 2) the aptly named "linebackers", AND (check this out, you're going to be so proud) a zone two defense is when there are two safetys. (right?) And you thought I wasn't listening...