Long Island Calling

Wow.  Even for my standards I’ve been really bad about updating this blog lately.  I haven’t blogged since my grandpa died a couple of weeks ago, but even I can’t blame it on that.  Maybe its:

• laziness
• too tired to write after work
• a sheer lack of narcissism

Regardless, it stops now.

Tomorrow a new post. But until then,  in honor of my brother-in-law Mordo, a video clip of this year’s Euro 2008 team of destiny.  Go Turkey!!

SU Freshman Donte Greene enter the NBA Draft.

Mistake.

#1. Blog more!

#2. Stop blogging solely about SU basketball.

Well, one of these took care of itself tonight. In the quarterfinal round of the NIT, SU blew a 20 point lead and ultimately lost the game to UMass in the last 30 seconds. On one hand, I’m stunned. On the other, I am not because the same issues tripped them up this game that have all year- lack of bench and experience.

Sigh. Now I can stop paying attention to sports until football season.

But I can always look back on happier time, like this evening below, the night SU won the championship.

This is what happens when I’m feeling sick:

1) I go to sleep two nights in a row around 8:30 p.m.

2) I totally forgot that SU played ball last night

Of course, it doesn’t help that they keep putting my team’s game on the one ESPN station Cablevision doesn’t carry- ESPNU. I don’t know who to blame on this one- Cablevision, because generally speaking, they suck or ESPN- because they need to keep my school’s “favored nation” status going. Come’on…aren’t half of the staff there Newhouse grads?

Either way, despite TV programming irregularities, SU triumphed over Maryland yesterday. From what I read at this recap here, these kids are playing like they really want to win this thing, despite the fact that it is the NIT. Good for them and good for the fans! This bodes well for next year.

Oh yeah and um…March Madness started yesterday. It’s amazing how much I don’t pay attention to it when SU is not in. Though this game from last night caught my eye, Belmont almost beat Duke!

Now where me pills.

As predicted here earlier (and throughout the SU nation),  SU faces off against Robert Morris at the Dome for the first round of the NIT.  Robert Morris is a team? Sounds more like an accountant .  The game is on at 8 pm on ESPNU, which means I likely won’t see it, since Cablevision does not have this channel.

Get yo game face on

Okay, so my hiatus from blogging took a little longer than I expected, but with good reason…the wifey and I have moved!

Remember- the origin of this blog was to chronicle my transition from city life to the suburbs, but I left out a key detail when I started this thing back in December. Until about 3 weeks ago, the wifey and I were living in my in-laws’ house.

Now don’t get it twisted! My in-laws are fantastic, most likely better than yours and they were the most accommodating of hosts. We were newly married, the lease was up in the city and we had no place else to go. They let us stay there until we we got our act together and for that, I will be forever grateful.

So in that downtime, we were able to continue saving money and finally fulfill our true objective in moving to the burbs, which was to become homeowners. We were both sick of renting and for us to stay in the city and upgrade to a bigger place, it would have been lots of costs, but little return. We figured out that we had enough for a down payment to buy a place. Don’t get me wrong, I still miss the lifestyle accouterments of the city, but as much as I liked Luigi’s, it was time to move on.

So now, at long last, we are proud home owners, buying at the right time in this market and able to enjoy the benefits of living in Long Island - like um…a comfy train ride, mad food at Cheesecake Factory and driving.

As for where we livin’ now, see the picture below:

HOLLA!

That says it all.

…one of my all time favorite Super Bowl commercial campaigns.

Terry Tate, Office Linebacker.

Cause when it’s game time, it’s pain time!

Pats over the the lightning bolts 21-12. No huge surprise, but big up to the SD defense. They played well.

Now…(sighing) the Giants just beat the Pack with an overtime interception and a 47 yrd field goal. 23-20.

So it’s the Evil Empire vs. the Manning legacy.

This is proof that that there really is a Gehenna.

And just when I thought it was safe to watch football today…

If anyone needs me, I’ll be sitting shiva for the Cowboys between now and the Super Bowl.   Also, if anyone sees Tony Romo’s betzim,  please return them.  He’s going to need them to deal with the media for the next couple of weeks.