Feeling bloggy

Look at me, blogging up a storm all of a sudden. I think this is my fourth post in half as many days. I rule.

I have several nonpolitical observations and thoughts to share with my 4.8 readers:

• This could be my very last blog post ever. I'm going to Colorado for the next week, and have resigned myself to dying on the slopes. All I'm hoping for is that I die cleverly and unusually. Running into a tree is soooo cliche. Instead, I'd like to die in a series of tumbles, rolls, and bounces that culminate in my wiping out some pain-in-the-ass teenage snowboarders before landing so unfortunately on the pointy end of a ski pole, which spears me through the heart. Kinda like how that scientist guy dies in the beginning of the movie Serenity (only without the creepy bounty hunter guy). That's my geek reference for the day.
• I just turned down a free one week trip to Ireland in March. My boss wants to send me an another guy out there to slap some people around. Unfortunately, I have some personal life conflicts that cannot be avoided, so I can't go. SUCK.
• "Sweet Jesus!" is my new catchphrase. Hopefully I can offend a few more crazy God-nuts this way.
• I recorded the two hour premier of Lost last night, but am still debating whether to bother watching it. When a show has gotten so confusing and convoluted that they have to run hints, memory-joggers, and clues along the bottom of the screen so the viewers aren't completely clueless, I can't help but question whether it's still a show worth watching. Besides, having recently become completely addicted to Project Runway, I have enough dramatic television to watch.
  
• Switching from Gay to Manly-Man mode... the Red Wings are freakin' on fire this season! Dare I dream that they'll at least make it to the conference finals? I just hope they don't get too full of themselves during the trading season. The team is kinda perfect just the way they are. Don't mess with a great thing.
• In other sports thoughts, I'm a little disappointed that I'm going to miss the Superbowl this year. I'm not a football fan, but I suspect this game is going to be one of those rare but special historic sporting moments. For what its worth, I hope the Patriots win. They deserve to end the season as perfectly as they've played it all along. (I'm also going to miss out on an even bigger spectator sport: Super Duper Tuesday. But I promised I wouldn't talk about politics in this post.)