Patio, etc.

It looks nice. I generally think those things look easy to do, but whenever I see them doing something like that on TV, it looks like a bear trying to get it level, etc. We would have considered something like the frame of our deck hadn't been in such good shape last fall. Basically, we just replaced the top boards and removed the step that went 1/3 of the way around.

I realized yesterday that watching OT hockey is one of my least favorite things. Sure, if my team scores it is very exciting, but if my team doesn't, there isn't even a "miss it!" moment like during a FG attempt by the opponent. It just sort of....ends. I watched very little of the OT periods. I just kept coming back. Of course, I happened to see the game loser.

And this is exactly the opposite of how I am with M football. I want to know the score. I don't care if I watch it, but if I do I want to watch it as it is happening. When I was in Bosnia and I knew I would be watching tape delay, I didn't do that "don't tell me" thing. It was more important that M won, than for me to have the excitement of watching the game without knowing the score. One of my friends didn't get it. I guess I was a bigger M fan than he is a Washington fan. Or something. I really don't know. That makes be bring up this question: A genie comes to you and says that you have to choose one of two things. 1) not see any M football on tv, nor listen to it on the radio. You can read about it the next day, but that will be all that you know about the entire season. With that, M will go undefeated and win the MNC. or 2) You can spend as much time as you want watching, etc. and can attend all games (home and away) with great seats, etc., but M only goes .500 (pretend last year didn't happen and this year isn't going to). Which would you choose? I have to say I would feel much better to know that M wins the MNC. How about you?

If you tweaked the question slightly, it would get harder for me, but I think it still shows that I care more about M, than I do about my experience seeing M.