My thoughts on Tiger...

As like most of America, I watched the Tiger Woods non-conference and was listening carefully to every word he was saying.

Whether he was true and contrite in his remarks, that's for much smarter wordsmiths and much more experienced media personnel than me to cuss/discuss/dissect.  However, here's what I take away from the non-conference.

As in my experience...what you want to say and what you do say are two totally different ballgames.  I sometimes write my thoughts down on paper (or in this case, in a blog) because sometimes I can get in less trouble if my words are written and not verbal.  And, most of the time my thoughts are what I label NFB (Not for Broadcast) because of the content involved.  My point is...I'm sure Tiger wanted to take much less time to say "yeah, I messed up, I apologize to everyone involved.  Forgive me." Period. End of Quote. "Rack 'Em" Done.  But, something like this needs the time it took for one thing he needed to cover all bases.

Another point...at least Tiger is trying to re-discover the tenets of his faith.  I know what you're going to say next.  "But Robert, he's Buddhist.  He should be learning the ways of God, not the ways of a lawn ornament".  And you're not any better off?  As they like to say on NFL Countdown, "C'mon Man!!!"  We all have our faults.  And we all have some spiritual foundation to call on to get us back on the right track.  For me and presumably about 95% of other Americans, it's a Foundation of Jesus and His teachings and how we should live our lives as Christians.  For some other people, it's other ways/belief systems/etc.  I'm glad that Tiger is going back to his spiritual foundation.  Whether it's the "right choice", it's not for us to decide.

Hope you understand where I'm coming from with this.  I'm just one person with one opinion...and these are my thoughts.  You can take them for what it's worth (which is probably not very much).

What Really Grinds My Gears... (apologies to Family Guy)

Here's a couple of things to get off of my chest.

First of all...I HATE TMZ WITH A PURPLE FRICKIN' PASSION!!!!!  Among their "topics" that they covered for this evening's "edition"...they got some "surfer dude" reporting that Kim Kardashian (you know, from "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" and Lamar Odom's sister-in-law) was reportedly spotted going through an In-N-Out Burger drive thru there in LA.  WHO FRICKIN' CARES!!! Yeah, she appears in a Carl's Jr. ad.  SO FRICKIN' WHAT!!!!!  Like the "Sonic guys" haven't wanted a Wendy's when they are not filming their spots.  DOESN'T TMZ HAVE ANYTHING BETTER TO DO THAN TO PEEK THROUGH DRIVE THRU WINDOWS?  I mean, I'm sure they can risk life and limb chasing Lindsay Lohan through the Streets of Hollywood or spot Tila Tequila necking another girl in Redondo Beach somewhere.

Another topic that Grinds My Gears...Fox 25's story on the Ada City Manager is intriguing, for one it was picked up by Fox News Channel and two what it involves.  In case you haven't seen the story, the CM of Ada was spotted on hidden camera gambling during his work hours at one of the casinos there in Ada.  When confronted by Fox 25, he basically hem-hawed and said nothing.  Well, the Ada City Council voted by 3-1 to just reprimand him and place him on probation.  Basically, he just got a "slap on the wrist".  Only one guy voted to fire him.  Now, I'm not a resident of Ada, but I do know people there, but I agree.  HIS ASS SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRED!!!!!  I know if our City Manager, Mr. Bottom or (God forbid) our mayor got caught at Lucky Star doing something other than city-related business during the time they should be working, they would be gone too!!!!!

OK...I feel loads better now.    Maybe I can give up being so uptight for Lent.  NAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!

After the storm...

Hello everyone!  Hope you are having an excellent day!

Well...we have survived the ice storm.  Luckily here we didn't suffer any kind of power outage on this side of town, but there were other parts of town that can't say that.  And thankfully we made off better than folks in Southwest Oklahoma.

Thank you for your patience.