Lou Pickney's Online Commentary
Superbug
Thursday
February 12, 2008
Last week was not fun. At all. There's apparently some sort of flu/bronchitis superbug going around that I caught. Then my roommate Dustin caught it. I feared that my bro Matt would come down with it, but he's been able to fight it off for the most part.
How bad was it? So bad that at the worse of it on Tuesday/Wednesday, the highlight of the day was when I got to go to sleep and temporarily escape the pain. Though, even with NyQuil powering me, I was waking up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night. The big Q never failed to put me to sleep, but then again the only time that NyQuil hasn't put me to sleep was when it I took some the morning of 9/11/2001 after working the overnight shift at WTSP and the adrenaline from watching the horrific events of that day play out kept me up.
I took a bit of a break from writing on here, for no small part because things inside of my head went a bit screwy for me there for a few weeks. Flashback to late December, and I had refilled my prescription for Effexor XR, an anti-depressant that has worked wonders for me. Somehow, and I don't know exactly how this happened, but somehow I lost the bottle. So I figured, okay, here's a chance to find out if I really need the stuff to get by.
The result? I sure do still need it. I became nearly impossible to live with there for awhile, yelling at people for no reason, and becoming generally miserable to be around. So I've re-upped on the meds, and things went back to normal, with normal meaning good.
Draft King is rolling right along, with the hours and hours of effort that I've put into it paying off. I had somewhere between 1.5-2 million hits on the site last month alone, and the feedback has been tremendous. With the football season over now, the interest toward the draft is picking up, and it's great fun to be part of it all.
This past Saturday I went to see my cousin Patrick play in the Williamson County freshman basketball tournament championship game. Never mind that Father Ryan High School isn't in Williamson County, but one of the impacts of the horrible public/private high school sports split in Tennessee in the 1990s is that even on the freshman level (which happened because tiny Brentwood Academy won the 5A state title in football in 1995 and 1996) is that things that don't make logistical sense.
So, whatever the cause, Ryan took on Ravenwood in the finals of the post-season tournament. Somehow I got it in my head that the game was taking place at Independence High, so you could imagine my shock/surprise when I arrived there and found that a wrestling tournament was going on. No, it was at another Williams County high school that opened after I went to college, Centennial. As a result I missed the first half of the game. Ugh.
As it was, the second half proved well worth attending. Ryan, which lost twice earlier in the year to unbeaten Ravenwood, took advantage of Ravenwood playing an aggressive, rough defense to expand a one point halftime lead to double-digits. In two separate incidents, a player from Ravenwood was ejected for a flagrant foul on Patrick. With amazing cool for his age, Patrick didn't let it get to him, and it seemed that his calm demeanor served to make Ravenwood even more furious (and thus out of control.) FRHS took the tournament win, an impressive performance over a very rough team.
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