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DeJuan Blair, 37th Pick, SA Spurs

Philosophical Meanderings, Too Posted on October 29, 2009 by JeanFebruary 11, 2016

I never heard of this guy before the NBA Draft last June, but from everything I’ve read about this young man, I think the Spurs done good.  Look at this face.

It’s kind of fun to see young men as they begin their NBA careers.  Not the ones who believe they’re entitled to it, but the ones who realize it’s not a given.  That’s it’s something they earn, and that there’s a responsibility that goes with the job.

Yes, you play basketball for a living, but the business side of the game is such that the large salary is paid because the team believes the player can make them that money and more.  Part of that money the team makes from the ability of the player involves the player conducting himself in a manner that does not cause the team more problems than the player is worth.  Young players who understand this, in my opinion, should be rewarded, and those that do not, should not be rewarded.

There’s a young man who was drafted very highly in last year’s draft who doesn’t seem to be “getting” that.  He doesn’t play for the Spurs.  When I read about this young man, he appears to have a lot of maturity and professionalism issues.  There’s another young man in this year’s draft who played overseas instead of doing the “one and done” thing at college.  I’ll be interested to see how he does — did the working for a living vice being an adored college hoops star help him on his road to maturity?

In some ways, it’s asking a lot of a young man in his late teens or early twenties to conduct himself in a mature, professional way.  On the other hand, if that young man want’s to command a six-figure  or a multi-million dollar salary, he needs to be mentally ready to conduct himself maturely and professionally.  If he can’t, he doesn’t deserve the salary.

I’ve observed Mr. Blair through summer league, the pre-season, and in last night’s NBA regular season debut.  I’ve followed him on Twitter and Facebook.  He projects that he knows when to conduct himself as a professional and when he can be a guy with friends to hang out with.

There have been whisperings that he could be a Rookie of the Year candidate.  Time will tell on that, but at first blush, I’d have to agree.  One speculation is that Coach Pop wouldn’t give him the minutes to be able to qualify, but if what I saw last night continues, he’ll get his minutes.  He got a double-double in his first game out and didn’t have too many negatives.  Sure, he has things to learn, but he knows that and is receptive to coaching and applying what they are trying to teach him.

Just one of many fine off-season moves the San Antonio Spurs organization made this summer to ensure they are competitive for a Championship run at the end of the season.

Posted in Sports | Tagged The Spurs

NaNo Preparation

Philosophical Meanderings, Too Posted on October 28, 2009 by JeanApril 20, 2025

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is just around the corner.  Are you ready?  Have you remembered to renew your information from  last year?  What are you working on?

This year, thanks to Valerie, I’m doing a category romance.  I haven’t done as much preparation as I’d hoped, but I have done more than I usually do for NaNo.

I’ve added an additional twist this year.  I’m also teaching a Back to School for Busy Writers class at Forward Motion on Ethics.  I think it will work out ok.

Still, I’d like to frontload the writing as much as possible.  Hubby’s in San Antonio until at least Tuesday, so I’d like to get a lot of words knocked out between Sunday and Tuesday.  It would be really cool (and highly unlikely) to have 30k knocked out by then.

I’ll be using a combination of Scrivener and other venues — the Mac Mini isn’t portable, and I suspect I’ll be spending some time on the laptop this month, so that will be an interesting back and forth effort.

I got the lawn mowed today and did a little work at the new building (no vine pulling, although I checked, and it looks like I hit a grand slam for poison ivy, oak, AND sumac.  Joy.  Laundry is caught up, and I have a few groceries — probably should stock up on a few staple items.  I’m behind on meal planning.

@InuittheBear and I watched the Spurs home opener tonight.  She got her own Twitter feed a few weeks ago, so if you’re interested, feel free to follow.  She isn’t tweeting much so far, but you just never know when she’s going to have something to say.  We were both pleased with the depth of the new Spurs and how balanced they were.  Of course, they have a lot to work on yet — too many turnovers, and the game was much closer statistically than the score indicated.  But when the bench can outscore the starters or at least stay even with them, it’s like having two starting line-ups, and you can’t go wrong with that as long as you have chemistry, and these guys seem to have good chemistry.  That bodes well for not having to play any one person too much, thus keeping them fresh for the long haul.

I think it’s time to hit the sack.  Good night, all.

Posted in Something's Fishy, Sports | Tagged Scrivener, The Spurs

Sloth

Philosophical Meanderings, Too Posted on July 12, 2009 by JeanFebruary 11, 2016

My husband has long been jealous of my relationship with the computer.  Lately, I think he’s justified.  I’d love to say I was using the computer to write riveting lines of fiction.  Or even revising klutzy lines of prose into interesting fiction.  Alas.  If only.

I have been playing Mafia Wars.  An My Zoo.  And someone roped me into Vampire Wars — I don’t quite get that one.  Then I added Farmville thinking it was FarmTown.  Then, once I learned the difference, I added FarmTown, too.

So, I’ve been rotating through those games, checking Twitter, and, frankly, just mindlessly checking a few different sites.  Naturally, I’ve been following the progress of the Spurs summer movements.  I still can’t figure out what the Spurs organization sees in Ian Mahinmi.  Since they seem determined to keep him on the payroll, I hope they’re seeing something I’m missing.

Of course, none of those things are particularly important to me or my hubby, so, naturally, he’s a little grumpy about all my time glued to the pixels.  Even I have reached the point where I can’t really disagree with him.  It becomes mesmerizing after a time.

I did drag myself away long enough to complete some household errands this week, but I have many more to do.  I can only tell myself I’m waiting for my hip to heal so many times.  I know that’s not really it.  Because, frankly, the hip will do better with a variety of gentle movements instead of either sitting in a chair or lying in bed.  And those would best be obtained by working around the house at various tasks.

I head back to Central Texas tomorrow for the week.  I have a medical appointment on Tuesday.  Since I have to be up there anyway, I may as well spend time up there working on various things around the house.

I’ll be preparing for a yard sale, sorting more stuff, and, hopefully, working on revisions that I alluded to at the start of this missive.  I’ll also try to get a little water into the yard to keep the grass from dying completely.

Posted in Health, Property, Sports, Twilight, Web Stuff | Tagged Central TX House, SA House, The Spurs

Shotgun Post

Philosophical Meanderings, Too Posted on April 22, 2009 by JeanJanuary 8, 2021

I should make multiple posts, I suppose, but I’m taking the shotgun approach and putting the current ideas all in one.

First, the upbeat part, Darlene Ryan‘s Five Minutes More is an excellent read.  Darlene writes YA novels, but I enjoy them anyway.  Five Minutes More‘s main character is a teenager whose father has committed suicide.  We enter at the funeral planning stage and continue from there.  We have multiple relationships in play from boyfriend to best friend to half-sister to new found male friend, to mom who’s devastated by the death too and too distracted to help.  Darlene seems to handle it all well.  While there’s a happy ending, it’s not a perfect future, and I appreciate that more realistic approach.  There are threads I’d like to know more about, but there wasn’t a realistic way to pursue them in the novel.  I have a minor quibble that the “five minutes more” theme did not continue or reappear after the opening scene.  It seemed like it might have a been a touchstone for D’Arcy to use or be reminded of to keep or bring her back on track as she faced some of her trying moments.  Minor quibble though.  I highly recommend this book.  It’s one of my favorite of Darlene’s works.

I’ve fought to disbelieve the notion that the NBA doesn’t like the see the small market Spurs in the playoffs.  I’m not saying the Spurs are necessarily contenders this year — but I won’t discount them either; I believe they have the talent and the heart to pull it off.  I see a lot of non-calls in the refereeing of the game that makes me wonder sometimes.  There’s also a dearth of reporting at the NBA.com level, including zero tweets from @nba (except for one tweet the day the Spurs announced Manu was out for the season and post-season).  Let’s just say my suspicion about the NBA’s disingenuousness is increasing.

Finally, we have Earth Day.  It’s been around for years.  It’s designed to encourage us to pause and reflect upon what we can do to take better care of our planet.  Now that there’s been an administration change in Washington, the people who want to take things over the top seem to think they have free reign to implement the most far-fetched of their desires.

On a small scale, at least locally, there’s talk of a seven cent tax on each plastic bag used for purchases.  I believe this is intended to encourage us to use reusable shopping bags.  I have several problems with this.  First, I don’t WANT plastic bags.  They’ve been shoved down my throat.  I prefer paper, and it seems the only place I can get them easily is the military commissary.  If my local authority decides to tax me for plastic bags I don’t want, I’ll be spending even more of my money at my local commissary, where I can get earth-friendly paper bags.  Second, if they’re going to charge me for plastic bags, I had better not find them doing the one item per bag and frequent double-bagging I see now.  I better not have the extra one that came off the rack by accident either.  Third, if I do use a reusable bag and happen to train myself to remember to bring it, impulse shopping will diminish.  If I take one bag in with me for the items I plan to pick up, I won’t have room for the three other bags I pick up as I browse the store.

What do I do for “greenness”?  Hubby and I maintain 100 acres of woods and hayfield.  Twelve of the one hundred acres are hayfield.  The rest are natural woods.  Eighty-eight acres of continuous birth, growth, death, and decay.  We have numerous wild animals:  racoons, deer, hogs, foxes, bobcats, snakes, armadilloes, squirrels, rabbits, numerous varieties of birds, and the occasional errant cow.  We collect the leaves from our other three properties and spread them on the roadbeds to mulch into the sand and reduce erosion.  We grind up tree debris (about half of it) to also spread on the roadbed.  We use fallen trees from the ranch for firewood in our fireplace. What has Al Gore done except have a “for show” Prius while he drives around in several SUVs kept running while he gives his “save the planet” speeches?

Which brings the whole carbon credit scam to mind.  Mr Gore claims he buys carbon credits to offset his jetsetting and other polluting ways.   That consists of claiming someone who isn’t polluting balances out someone who is.  It’s a joke.  For now, somone’s profiting from it, but it sure seems like a ripoff to me.

Our Central Texas house, built in 1900, has high ceilings and transoms designed to naturally cool the interior.  Modern “greenies” would do well to study pre-central air conditioning technology homes for the natural heating and cooling capabilities.  Instead of painting over the transoms and tearing out the adjusting mechanisms, they would do well to consider the advantages offered by those capabilities.

Mostly I resent the implication that only the radical environmentalists care about this planet and only their methods will save it from ultimate destruction.  Radical environmentalists seem to have some kind of god complex that only they can stop mother nature from her appointed rounds and reverse the natural tendencies of the earth’s heating and cooling cycles.  If everyone doesn’t do as they say, we’re all doomed.  I hate to break it to you, but we’re all doomed anyway.  If not environmentally by a leadership dead set on mortgaging our great-grandchildren’s economic future.

I’m not going to tackle my outrage at the apologists for America.  At least not today.

Posted in Property, Reading, Sports | Tagged House, Ranch, The Spurs

Farewell, 2008

Philosophical Meanderings, Too Posted on December 31, 2008 by JeanFebruary 11, 2016

This has been a roller coaster year.  On the up-side, I’m thrilled to have been able to retire this year after 28 years on active duty.  I never would have imagined I would be able to do so back in April 1980 when I signed my enlistment contract with the … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 Days to Regularity, Health, Not Silly Stuff, PBOTL, Personal, Property, Reading, Sports, Threads & Ties, Twilight, USMFW, Web Stuff, Writing | Tagged Central TX House, HTTS, Ranch, SA House, The Spurs

Working Title

Philosophical Meanderings, Too Posted on December 7, 2008 by JeanJuly 22, 2023

I’ve decided Twilight will be only the working title for the book.  My final submission title will probably be one of the two Tech suggested several months ago.  Twilight is an easy one word title, but several other books have been published with that title, so I’m going to wind … Continue reading →

Posted in Pets, Sports, Twilight | Tagged The Spurs

Sunday Musings

Philosophical Meanderings, Too Posted on October 19, 2008 by JeanMarch 28, 2023

In no particular order, here are some of the things I’m thinking about today. I’m wondering why I can’t find today’s front page San Antonio Express-News story about Henry Cisneros and his role in the current housing crisis on the website…. Maybe it won’t get posted until later — wait, … Continue reading →

Posted in Not Silly Stuff, Personal, Pets, Sports, Tech Stuff | Tagged The Spurs

The Week Ahead

Philosophical Meanderings, Too Posted on September 30, 2007 by JeanJuly 30, 2021

I’ve been doing FlyLady for a little over a month now — we’re back to the Front entry and dining room.  I think that’s where I formally began. Today I de-cluttered most of my kitchen counters.  Boy does that feel good.  Laundry is still on track.  I remember to swish … Continue reading →

Posted in Health, Personal, Pets, Reading, Sports, Twilight, Work, Writing | Tagged The Spurs

San Antonio. Finals Bound.

Philosophical Meanderings, Too Posted on May 30, 2007 by JeanFebruary 11, 2016

I hear time and time again that the Spurs are boring. Nobody wants to watch the Spurs. They play boring defensive basketball. Guess what? Defensive basketball, played well, results in turnovers and fast-breaks, and quick changes in game tempo. How can that not be exciting? Fabricio Oberto has been slicing … Continue reading →

Posted in Sports | Tagged The Spurs

NBA Playoffs 2007

Philosophical Meanderings, Too Posted on May 7, 2007 by JeanFebruary 11, 2016

Inuit and I are watching The Playoffs together, and shaking our heads. We are surprised anyone is shocked that the Miami Heat got eliminated in the first round. Obviously, none of those people who were shocked watched the opening game of the season where the Chicago Bulls dusted the Heat … Continue reading →

Posted in PBOTL -- the Blog, Sports | Tagged The Spurs

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