Sunday, October 23, 2016

The 2016 NBA Preview

Since the final buzzer of perhaps the greatest NBA Finals since Y2K, a lot has changed in my life. I got a new job, leaving the mundane and exhausting world of retail management for the desk job reality of the corporate atmosphere. Instead of cleaning bathrooms when I'm three people short, I now sit in a broken desk chair for eight hours a day. My wife has begun her first year as a second grade teacher in her ongoing experiment of a career I couldn't last five minutes in. We got our first dog together, which has been a roller coaster of a ride which is 35 percent her fault for being a neurotic and nervous pit bull rescue and 65 percent our fault for being over bearing and ridiculous. Ask me six months ago if I'd ever buy a five dollar pumpkin toy at a Shop Rite for a dog and I'd laugh at you. Ask me now and I'd tell you that they were unfortunately sold out, good thing I got an extra one last weekend. I've started a new blog, tried hanging Halloween lights outside our new home, watched McFarland, USA twice, grown a beard, watched the deterioration of the Baltimore Ravens franchise, caulked a living room and was summoned for jury duty in a county I don't reside in anymore. I'm hardly the Patrick that I was in June.

Saturday, October 1, 2016

Dr. Glows Week 4 Crystal Ball Picks

Week 4 of the NFL season also happens to be the first slate of October games, which means my second favorite month of the year is upon us (no one messes with Christmas season, folks). October, though, isn't just about Halloween, pumpkin everything pumpkin, backyard fires, 55 degree mornings and nights sandwiching an 80 degree afternoon, horror movies like Hunger Games, and stepping in dog poop covered by crunchy leaves. October is when the NFL season starts to take form. Pretenders are littered throughout September, and contenders in the form of duds start slow as well. October is when the year starts to get a bit clearer. We also get a full slate of grown men wearing pink.