Day 126

Lets talk about how messed up this world is for a second. I saw on the news Tuesday night that Dana Reeve, the wife of paralyzed actor Christopher Reeve, passed away from Lung Cancer at the age of 44. She didn't smoke a single cigarette in her entire life. If life were fair, she would have aged gracefully into her old years, advocating for treatments for the paralysis that afflicted her husband and for more humanity in medicine. Sadly, that wasn't to be. She died only a short 15 months after her husband did. She left behind a 13 year old son, who is now parent-less at such a young age. What kind of world do we live in that would allow a woman like this, so loyal and such an unbelievably strong woman, to contract Lung Cancer when she didn't even smoke? I said it yesterday - what is god's plan on this one? This poor kid watched his paralyzed father die slowly the first 12 years of his life, and now loses his mother a mere 15 months later? The devil's advocate (I am quoting a wise man here) would say that god was reuniting Chris and Dana in the after life. The realist in me says they are both in there graves and there is nothing else.

On to happier topics - Yesterday was the start of the most underrated week of the year to me, college hoops conference tournament week. Games are on all day from 11 am through midnight. I am in hoops heaven. As I write this, I've got Syracuse/Connecticut on in the background and Syracuse's Gerry McNamarra hit a three pointer to force OT against the #1 team in the country. I will be continuing my basketball heavy schedule into the weekend, as I head for Las Vegas on Saturday. I have sales meetings, rep training, and client dinners in the Las Vegas market for Edward Don on Monday and Tuesday. I am heading there a day early and am meeting my boys Fritzer and Rafal for the night. It is Leah's final b-day present to me. We are staying at the Bellagio. Sunday I move over to the Excaliber for work purposes. When I get back we will be just a day away from the best sporting event there is, the NCAA Tournament.

There is something to be said about drinking good wine. Everytime I go out on business trips with my boss, we are drinking $150 plus bottles of red wine. I know very little about wine, but everytime he picks one, its great. We had a couple bottles of a 2000 Jordan Cabernet Sauvignon that was great on Monday night. Tuesday night we were drinking Caymus. This guys knows his stuff. I was once one of those people who thought there was no difference between a $30 bottle and a $100 bottle. There is. In addition to the taste being much better, there is no headache the next day. This is yet another of the various regions why being rich doesn't suck.

Song of the Day: "Above the Rim" by Bell Biv Devoe