Sports Show

One the harbingers of Spring, the Journal Sentinel Sports Show is on and I’ll be there today or tomorrow to collect all the marvelous brochures of those places I will never go, but dream about going on cold, rainy days in March.

I accomplished a few things in the midst of my fog-inspired depression yesterday. First of all, I decided to take a ride out to Brookfield Square. When I got in the car and it, too, smelled like manure, I determined that the barn smell I was smelling originated with my shoes. Apparently, I had stepped in some foul creature poo, either while cleaning the cat box or taking the trash to the curb. The house smelled better when I cleaned my shoes, so I’ll blame it on neighborhood dogs, not my annoying  cat buddy. On a lighter note, my copy of Modern Warfare 4 arrived and I got to kill a lot of terrorists and enemy combatants, which brightened the day even if they weren’t Nazis. I guess they might have been, who knows?

Then I finished a book, “Without Warning” by John Birmingham. Birmingham specializes in combining the military-techo geekiness of Tom Clancy with the alternative history sci-fi of Harry Turtledove. Unfortunately, as is the norm these days, everything he writes is one book in a series, this being the first in a new series. The premise starts out interestingly, “What if most of North America was inexplicably depopulated on the eve of the Gulf War in 2003?” It uses the rest of the series to examine the ramifications of such an unlikely event. His previous series showed that it’s hard to maintain the intensity of the initial events over three books. By the end of the previous series, I think they were trying to determine minutia such as the impact of White-Out if it had been introduced to 1948 America. Anyway, we’ll see how this goes. It’s been OK so far, short chapters so it’s easy to stop and start again. I like that in a book.

What else? Did dishes, watched basketball, read the notes of a presentation  Jeff Scrima made to the Waukesha BID in March of last year before he was a mayoral candidate which indicates that his vision for downtown Waukesha might be something along the lines of Bayshore in Glendale or downtown Delafield. I guess that would be nice, but how you do that without leveling buildings in downtown Waukesha and starting over is more than I can visualize. I guess I can’t see that far in the future.

I’m more about one day at a time, which is how I dealt with yesterday’s melancholia. I’m lucky in that I have places to go and people to talk to when I get down. I’m lucky because others who get depressed do not. It’s like I always say, it could always be worse.