Rants and Randomness - Mother's Day edition

• With all of the quality journalists out there now looking for work, why do some sites, particularly ones that have some credibility, find it necessary to publish the inaccuracies of an irrational individual.
  
• Watching "Scrubs" finale right now. I'm really going to miss this show. Not a big fan of spin-offs, but can Janitor please be considered for one? Glad to see "the penny" made its way into the final episode. Lots of sitcoms never really end strong, the "Cheers" finale stands out in my mind. Kudos to ABC for resurrecting Scrubs for one last season after NBC's half-hearted attempt last year.
• I have yet to do a full blog post on the Astros this season. Why? Because I'm trying hard to make sure this blog stays family friendly. I started this blog a couple of summers ago to use it as an outlet to vent about the Astros and in their current summer of sub .500 mediocrity, it would seem that I should be vent/blogging a lot. Trying to determine if this means that I just don't care anymore or I've just reached a point of accepting low expectations with the team.
  
• BUT, I really wonder what is going on with Lance Berkman. Confidence? Too busy planning his career after baseball? OR, perhaps his wrist really is hurting and perhaps this is how he hurt it:
• My new favorite singer: Glen Hansard. I saw the movie "Once" that he starred in and won Academy Award for best song. Very simple, well-done movie with great music. Check out "When your mind's made up" and "Say it to me now." I never realized until recently that he played Outspan in one of my favorite all-time movies, "The Commitments."
  
• I really wish Tim Floyd would have taken the U of Tucson hoops job
• With all of the real journalists out of work, I find it sad that some credible web sites find it necessary to give freelance gigs to someone so irrational and biased. Particularly when they say things like AMD killed true 64-bit computing. That should tell you everything you need to know about this individual.
  
• My son and I saw Star Trek this afternoon. I loved it. I do think however that based on the current season of "Lost" and now Star Trek that JJ Abrams does have quite the fascination with building stories around time travel.
  
• Manny using performance enhancers ... yawn. Given that the Astros consistently made the playoffs during the steroid era, I'm advocating that baseball start looking the other way on it again.
  
• The way my namesake has been pitching this year, I'm thinking I may not be traveling to NYC anytime soon unless I can under a fake name. Maybe I can change my name to another MLBer when I'm in NYC. Johan Santana seems to be pitching well for the Mets, maybe I'll go with that one.
• Cover 3 is quickly becoming one of my favorite places in Austin to eat.
  
• So the Dallas Cowboys spent less (4 million) on their indoor practice bubble than the Sun Devils (8 million) did.
  
• Happy Mother's Day to my beautiful wife Tricia. Her patience with not only my children but her moody husband is nothing short of incredible. She was definitely worth "waiting" for.
  
• Happy Mother's Day to my mother-in-law Patty. I'm so thankful for the values she instilled in Tricia that have helped her be the mother she is today.
• And of course, happy Mother's Day to my mom. Her unwavering faith and commitment to keeping her family together is why she will always be my hero. I love you mom, continue to stay strong.
  
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