It Doesn't Work When You Both Have Balls

Chris "Speedy" Anderson uttered the above phrase while he, Curtis Goble, Heath Wilson, Chris Fletcher and myself were playing basketball this evening in Sheldon Clark's gym. I can't recall why it was said, and trying to come up with an excuse for it is needless, because there is no excuse for it. At no point in a basketball game is there ever a reason why any player on the court should be yelling out "It doesn't work when you both have balls". At all.

And yet, that phrase was among a multitude of laugh-inducing moments that occurred this evening in Inez, Kentucky that I'm thankful for. Making chuck-filled memories with friends is never a bad thing, especially when it's occuring within 25 days of our high school careers. We'll never be the same after May 29th. At the very least, we'll have the laughs to hold on to.

I had a feeling about there not being any school today before I posted last night's entry. I just said to myself "it'd be really cool if school got cancelled for some reason". I even stayed up until 2 o'clock in the morning watching "Wolverine and the X-Men" in the hopes that I'd wake up and find out school had been cancelled, but realizing there was no liklihood of that occurring.

My assumptions about liklihoods are officially bogus, turns out.

I woke up feeling surprisingly decent, considering I'd only slept about 4 hours, and took a hot shower, pondering why there was an army of steam building up around me. Our hot water can get pretty hot, but I'd never seen it generate so much steam during the whole time I've lived here. It was swell.

Continuing the same routine I do every morning, I went upstairs in the same clothes I'd slept in (this morning, a tattered "Family Guy" t-shirt and a pair of pajamas with poker cards on them) and proceeded to blowdry my hair. Every morning during this time, I attempt to listen to "Mike and Mike in the Morning" playing in the background over the sound of my hair dryer and make a quick web run to MySpace, Kentucky Sports Radio and Yahoo!, and check on any torrents I have going. About 5 minutes into my morning rendezvous with the internet, I saw the bulletin that would change my day forever. WSAZ was reporting no school for Martin County, and several surrounding counties, flooding the culprit. I felt partially guilty in my rejoice.

I never did go back to sleep, although I should have. I watched the remaining 3 hours of "Mike and Mike", during which they reported near the end that LeBron James would receive the NBA Regular Season MVP Award. This is where I congratulate "The Chosen One" for gaining this superb honor and laugh at Josh Stacy for thinking Dwayne Wade had a legitimate shot at the award. My only gripe is that he didn't win defensive player of the year aswell. There's always next year.

While Twittering the great news about LeBron, I checked out KSR and saw that John Wall had been charged with breaking and entering, at first thought to be theft but turned out to be probably just some guys checking out and abandoned house. Still, it spurred a wonderful MySpace comment discussion (need to come up with a with Josh Stacy about whether UK should be going after Wall as heavily as they are or if Eric Bledsoe is our point guard of the future. 

Up until the basketball playing, the two following videos were the highlight of my day. Again, KSR led me to them. Don't be afraid to do a "lol4realz". I did. Especially at around 0:26 of video one.

And with that, I'll bid all you fine readers farewell. Looking forward to see if the Rockets can play with the Lakers tonight, and am psyched to see the Cavaliers play tomorrow after over a week layoff. I hope everyone's day is remarkable.

Batman, AWAY!!!

Joshua Aaron Moore

Quote of the Day

"I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man." --- LeBron James, starting small forward for the Cleveland Cavaliers