What a Week!!

The Steelers are headed to their second Superbowl in four years and Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States.

First things first, wait which one is first? I cant decide?

OK, Steelers. I watched the Steeler game at a local Steeler bar with about 200 other fans dressed in head to toe Steeler gear. The bar is called the 'Outta the way Cafe' and is located in Derwood, MD. Apparently for playoff games you have to get there at 11am and get a ticket to get admitted into the area where they watch the game at 4pm. We got there at 10:30am and there were like 60 people ahead of us in line. The game was amazing, beer was drank, good food was consumed and hugs and high fives with random Steeler fans were exchanged after every good play.

The Superbowl festivities are already planned, here is an outline:

-Arrive in Pittsburgh on Saturday morning, make a stop at the parents.
-Meet with friends in early afternoon and head to bars
-Leave bars at 2am and become part of an impromptu Steeler parade in the streets of the South Side until 3am.
-Wake up around 9am and commence drinking beer,eating food and throwing a football in my friends backyard with about 30 people all day until game-time while Steelers songs play in the background.
-Watch the game on one of two Big Screen HDTV's (one of which is being imported for the event) with 30 people in a space that fits about a dozen.
-When the game is over, have a good celebration cry and grab a backpack filled with Beer and depart for Carson Street to celebrate with 20-30 thousand other intoxicated fans in the streets.
-There is an 'alternate ending' which also involves tears but we shall not even speak of it.
-Wake up on the floor of my friends house at 8am and drive back to MD.


I feel that I have to include a postscript that I am not an alcoholic, quite the contrary in fact. In my youth I could drink beer excessively 5 days in a row and never bat an eye. In my old age however I have lost my ability to drink excessively. In fact, I probably only drink in excess once every few months, but when the Steelers are in the Superbowl I pull out all the stops and am ready to pay the price for my actions in the form of decreased ability to function properly as a human being for the next two weeks. That's Life..

Now onto Obama. Not as much to say on this topic except for, WOW!!! How great is this? It gets me really excited to be proud of my country again. The video of Bush leaving Washington in the Helicopter and Obama raising his hand and taking the oath gives me goosebumps.

There is an amazing website that one of my co-workers turned me onto. Its run by the Boston Globe and simply publishes sets of high-quality photos on different topics every few days. The Set of the Inauguration is great and so is the set on "Earth, Observed" as well as the "Scenes from the Gaza Strip". I would advice you all to check it out on a regular basis. It provides a myriad of desktop background photos as well as some insight to the world. Its called the "The Big Picture" and can be found here. Let me know what you think.