So it has been a week since I have last posted.<\/p>\n
Not a ton has happened, but a few things have \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
On June 25th, one day after I posted by last blog – it was reported that Michael Jackson was taken to the hospital. I looked up online for more information on this and some websites were reporting that he had died. What a trip. After a few more hours it was confirmed that he died. The guy was only 50 years old. I was just listening to his music the day as I drove back from visiting my brother. There was much anticipation for this concert tour he was going to have. He was titled it “This is it” low and behold it would never come. It is sad.. but it is a strong reminder that is the fate that we all must carry someday.<\/p>\n
All of the news stations were so slow to announce that he had died. I guess they were worried this was going to be a publicity stunt. Perez Hilton posted a blog on his website saying that it was just a publicity stunt. Later on in the day he took that blog down. People\u2019s reactions are crazy. Instead of mourning for a guy who was immensely talented people are just knocking the guy. \u201cHis heart just couldn\u2019t Beat it\u201d ; \u201cHis face probably fell off and he had a heart attack and died\u201d and there are countless other things people are saying. It caused such a stir online that AOL messenger crashed for 30 minutes, myspace had crazy lag, Google thought they were being attacked by a bot that searched random things on Jackson and yahoo and bing both had problems. In Iran, all of the traffic caused the whole internet to go down for a little bit of time while they figured out how to handle the traffic. Even twitter crashed, as everyone was logging online, to myspace and other places to spread the news. I think it really caught everybody by surprise\u2026<\/p>\n
The last thing I have to say on this is that I really feel for him. I looked up his religious background, and in November of 2008 in a superstar\u2019s home in LA he converted to Islam. He was abiding by the Koran and his new found faith. That just killed me to hear. His brother got him into Islam and just recently had he converted over to it. MTV\/VH1 both played his music \u2013 it reminded me of when Tupac had died. All day 24\/7 all weekend. And all of his records have sold out across the nation, its crazy..<\/p>\n
On to sports…<\/p>\n
The Blazers didn\u2019t do anything big on draft day, but they did get rid of Sergio Rodriguez. That was a great move on our part. He didn\u2019t fit with the team and it also gives us more salary cap space to work with to maybe sign a free agent in the off season \u2013 if we do sign anybody it will probably be a veteran, someone who can mentor some of the younger guys on our squad, and if not mentor than to just add some additional toughness. We have been heavily pursuing Hedo Turkulu as of 12:01 (when you can officially pursue free agents). Literally – we called him the minute after. Tonight the coach is having dinner with him, then we are flying him to Portland and hopefully we can close a deal with him. He would be a great asset to help us push further into the playoffs.<\/p>\n
I have been looking for jobs, but there are none to be had. It is very demoralizing. Very much so…<\/p>\n
On the up and up.. \ud83d\ude42 some positive news, for July 4th me and JJ are planning on going to Seaside, OR to see the fireworks. We have read a lot of people who have went in prior years and they all seemed to enjoy it a lot. So that’s that….<\/p>\n
I can’t believe it is July already.<\/p>\n
I got some books today written by John Eldredge (one of my favorite authors) so I might be posting some parts of his books, or at least quotes.<\/p>\n
just Pray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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