The drive.
The shot.
The fumble.
The move.
The decision.

Add another dagger to the heart of Cleveland sports fans. If of course, tonight goes down like I expect it to. With LeBron leaving for Miami, or Chicago, or New York, or New Jersey, or wherever else he feels he best fits in.

The saddest part is that the franchise that did everything it could to win and win now has limited itself to being a spectator for what happens tonight. They're handcuffed and over the cap.

Regardless of what happens, I'm a Cavs fan and while I root for the name on the back, it's only because of the name on the front.

Happy anniversary to me and my wife. For some reason she chose me, and for that I'm a happy guy.

Yay wife!

If LeBron leaves on live TV it will be like Mark Price going back in time to sign with the 1993 Chicago Bulls.

It was just one scant year ago today that I last posted here. Has my desire to post more frequently changed? I guess we'll have to see. Was it some social experiment to withdraw from blogging for a year? No. Or yes. Whichever.

A lot has happened in the past year. Details? Forthcoming. Or not. There's no telling.

Will anyone notice this in a short period of time? I think one person will, but if more than that do I will be very surprised.

So now California is "too big to fail" according to the government. What a terrible precedent they set when they allowed any institution to classified as such.

There's a reason that one of the definitions of failure is "a condition of being bankrupt by reason of insolvency." Hmm, what's that sound like? Oh, how about a dozen financial companies and a half dozen states.

Make them feel the pain of recovery. They are the ones that screwed themselves up. Let them fix it. When you continue to bail out people who make the same mistakes over and over and over again, they simply don't learn. Why is that? It's because there is no penalty for them.

If I said, "Hey, I want a new car. Let's charge it. Oh sorry, I can't afford that Rolls Royce anymore. I'll tell you what. I'll keep the car, and you can bail me out. How do you like that plan?"

How do you think that would go over. I think the answer couldn't be more obvious.

For the last time: NOTHING IS TOO BIG TO FAIL!

According to this article in Forbes, if you're a married couple with 2 kids, it costs more for you to live in Cleveland than it does in Chicago. Does that strike anyone else as odd?

Other cities that it's cheaper to live in include Orlando, San Antonio, New Orleans, Las Vegas, Austin, and St Louis.

If that's true then it's no wonder that people are leaving Cleveland in droves. Not only does the weather suck, but it's apparently expensive to live here.

Our rental property is becoming one headache after another. I'd say more, but I probably shouldn't.

Who in the world has time to keep updating the world on your boring statuses (stati?) on the myriad of web sites that want to know what you're doing. What with Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and blogs, I just don't have time to update all the crap in my life while attempting to continue doing crap in my life.

Plus, to be honest, I'm just bored with updating people on the things I'm doing. Especially the blog...

Things have been busy around here. We just got back from traveling on Sunday night.

Monday morning Lindsay took me to work, went to the Lakewood house to wait for the duct work cleaning crew. When she got back home Max had deposited his lunch all of the carpet. About 5 times. It turns out he has the flu.

Add that to his list of ailments...

He has a yeast infection on his skin.
He needs eye drops 3 times a day.
He is taking anti-inflammatory pills.
He is taking anxiety medicine.
He has prescription shampoo.
He eats prescription dog food.

And now he has the flu.

Great.

Ahmadinejad released a largely conciliatory recorded statement on state TV, distancing himself from his past criticism of protesters, whom he compared to "dust" and sore losers after a soccer match.

"I only addressed those who rioted, set fires and attacked people," the statement said. "Every single Iranian is valuable. The government is at everyone's service. We like everyone."

Yeah. Pay no attention to him. He like's everyone. He wants to be your pal. Why don't you take off your green head covering so that he can shoot, err, talk to you face to face?

Pay no heed that he's trying to steal the election. Just go about your business and pretend that he's not rounding up anyone who thinks differently. Pretend that he's not trying to cut off all of your lines of communication.

Sure.