Day: April 16, 2025

I have the slightest inkling to purchase and play NBA 2K. No, not park mode. That can be fun, but it isn’t my thing right now. I occasionally catch sight of my kid playing a season on his PS5 and it makes me wanna hop on and run it back. Basketball has largely lost its appeal to me, thanks in part to the Knicks. They are why I started with that game in the first place. I used to want to make a Knicks team and be a player who was carrying the squad. I wanted them to be good again so desperately. Now I do the same thing with the Giants and experience that same lack of real life hope.

They will screw up this draft.

I shouldn’t put that energy into the universe, but unless they make some trades or some talent falls far, they are not going to be getting the pieces they need. Take for example the suggestion that they should draft Abdul Carter. People are comparing him to Giants starter Kayvon Thibidieux. They are also calling Thibs an underperformer. So, why the heck do you draft that dude?! Is he Thibs? Is he Micah Parsons? How about you don’t and take a spot you have a need for. I’m thinking an actual generational talent like Hunter (if available) or trading back and getting two picks out of the deal that can stockpile you the talent you need.

Yes, the 1st round allows for the 5th year tag. That does matter. Still, it feels like the Giants are planning to either trade into the back end of the first and snag whomever remains of Sanders, Milroe, or Shough and letting them learn behind the two guys they got. Cam Ward is probably going #1. That means, based on what the pundits suggest, a QB to Tennessee or Carter or Hunter. The spot the Giants are in sucks, but you don’t want to trade up to 2 in order to control your fate, because ir really puts you on the hook down the line (losing a first next year at least).

I say take the best player available at a position of need or trade Thibs during the draft and see what comes of it.

Tomorrow is the last day of lesson planning for the week. That’s a good thing. It means I can get back to working on this novel. I haven’t hit the pages in a week plus and that doesn’t bode well for the deadline or the flow. I need to get back into it and get back into thinking about those characters. All I’ve been thinking about as of late is vacation. Sure there were some sporadic writing assignments and the well planned lesson here and there, but the key is entirely about the vacation. I cannot wait to get to it. This is a new experience for us–traveling this far to beach. We won’t have any of our stuff, which probably leads to getting more stuff. Among the toughest things to do when you travel is figuring out how to get the stuff you need. Fortunately, we are right next to a bus stop, so if that type of need arises, we can do what we do… which is shop.

At Uniqlo. There is always one wherever we want to go, save for possibly Victoria, Canada.