home happenings

mom

i just talked to my mom and caught up on all the random ongoings at what susan likes to call the "insert last name-pound." my mom has finally mastered the dragging and clicking of the mouse. she's on her way to becoming computer savvy for the sake of instant access to k-dramas. my brother has bookmarked specific sites for her and she's loving it. she's also learning just now addictive internet access can be.

years ago, she tried using a mouse to watch k-dramas, but it was a no-go. as a solution, she made andy find the site and start the episode for her. but after an episode ended, she'd wake him up to click the next one for her. hahaha...he was cranky about that.

i discovered that she has the k-drama that heidi recommended at home on dvd. i like that my love of tv has created a commonality for us. tv bridges gaps.


dad

my dad has played basketball weekly for as long as i can remember. i think in the last few years, it's gone to twice a week. months ago, somebody, maybe my brother or wendy, somebody, told me that my dad got in a scuffle with another middle-aged dude. i think it ended in my dad kicking the guy. kicking! he's 55! he's kicking people! i guess the other dude fouls excessively and does not call his own fouls and he just plays all sorts of bad - i guess he doesn't really know organized basketball. so anyway, i guess my dad had had it.

fast forward to this last tuesday. my brothers were at the lakers-blazers game at the rose garden (courtside! i saw them on tv on the LA broadcast) and were not witness to the on-court craziness. i guess home-dude had been committing bad fouls all evening and also on my brother's friend (also my dad's friend/neighbor's nephew) - possibly one too many times. i guess dad decided to say something, words were then exchanged, which somehow led to the other guy hitting my dad's face. i don't know if it was a punch or slap or something else, but either way, it didn't sit well with him. so, i guess his rage-o-meter spiked and was about to take a retaliatory shot when he was restrained by the same friend/neighbor. while he was held back, the other guy took a second cheap shot! so...my resourceful and angry father used his head - literally. he head-butted the guy! other dude's head started bleeding.

my stinkin' dad is 55 years old. i do not condone his behavior, but i still want him to kick the other guy's ass if he does find himself in a fight - is that wrong? and, i'm not above using the story as blog fodder.

blog roll call

i've abandoned former favorite celebrity news blogs in favor of sports and blazer-related blogs. some of my faves:

true hoop - total blazer fan

blazers edge

rip city rising - showcasing a nifty comic supporting lamarcus aldridge as most improved player

ball don't lie

garbage time all-stars

envious

even though the NBA season is drawing to a close, i've just discovered this guy's blog as he travels to all 30 arenas this season. i loved looking through his pictures/post about his time in portland, at the rose quarter. i've been to exactly 1 game at the rose quarter - a play-off game sometime after (right after?) high school. if i ever move back, i'm joining my brother as a season ticket holder. but mostly, i just liked looking at portland through somebody else's perspective and was very happy to find that he liked the city just fine. :)

two weekends ago, i was fortunate enough to tag-a-long with minjue and enjoy the blazer's win over the clippers from a exec suite at the staples center. so amazing - deliciously free food and a great view of the game.