So I had a much desired reprieve from the normal hum drum of life yesterday when Joe White called me up to see if I wanted to play football with him and a bunch of guys from his work. I was thinking less than a week ago that after a long season of sucking at softball, a good game of football would really hit the spot. It’s a game I’m good at and unless the other team is composed of guys much larger than me tackling and breaking tackles is quite fulfilling.

The games was fun. We played for two hours and I got what I came for. In fact both teams I played on won at the end of the two games we played. Two more players joined us for the second game and one of these guys had disgustingly long fingernails. I’m not talking Lee Press long, I mean voodoo witchdoctor, I can cut your throat then shrink your head long. He was placed on my team and was forced by our opponents to cut them down. He left one pinky nail at about a full inch, exclaiming that was his ‘pimpin nail’.