So much for the “easy”

My son is playing football this year for the first time.

You know, smash-mouth football.

So you have to get a physical before things get going, and since
practice starts this week (see my “Jesus it’s hot out here” tweets
from yesterday), he went to his pediatrician today.

Just get the form so he can play, right?

Uh, no. We now have a cardiology referral, and he’s borderline
hypertensive. Oh, and check his cholesterol, too.

I’m trying hard not to freak the hell out, I don’t want him to see
that. But shit.

It’s just a game

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won’t succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

– Wayne Dyer

I wanted to post this as a reminder to myself. Too often I get wrapped up in “who is to blame,” and it really hinders the process of getting on with the business at hand.

This goes for everything from “who left the milk out overnight?” to “what will our kids think when they can’t afford gasoline and the only jobs are in Cheney’s Oil Liberation Army?” Blaming others only delays the inevitable having to deal.

But sometimes, it just feels good.

factoids

Wanna play with my Dolly?

check this out:

July 19, 2008, marked the first time on record that three July tropical storms were active on the same day in the Atlantic. Bertha, Cristobal, and Dolly were all tropical storms yesterday. (from Weather Underground blog)

Also?

Dolly a significant threat to Texas

and

The latest GFDL and HWRF models runs from 2 am EDT this morning have shifted significantly north, bringing Dolly ashore near Corpus Christi, Texas. The GFDL shows a very large borderline Category 1/2
hurricane, with tropical storm force winds extending from Galveston to Brownsville at landfall. Dolly will probably grow quite large and affect a 200-mile stretch of coast with tropical storm-force winds.
Like her namesake, actress Dolly Parton, Dolly the tropical cyclone appears destined to become a media star.

And the best part?

Guess who is headed to Galveston Wednesday morning for some much
needed R & R? If I see Jim Cantore, I’ll be sure to tell him hello.