Love Thy Neighbor

An apartment is a new thing for my family and I.  It takes some getting used to.  Something we've come to learn.

No one likes a noisy neighbor and with a 22 month old son it's difficult to be quiet in my house hold all the time.  Add to that his three nephews come over and we can be the elephant in the room, well, in the next room.

We live on the third floor and yesterday around 4pm my wife and I are getting the boys ready to head to the pool when a loud banging noise comes from the floor, "Bang, bang, bang, bang!"

This isn't the first time this happened, but it sure was the last time it happened without a word to the wise being put in to the perpetrator.

I immediately grabbed my shoes and headed down the stairs where my neighbor that lives directly below me is headed towards the stairs to walk his dog.  Obviously this guy thought he was going to bang on the ceiling and try to get out of there in case I came to say something.

I bellowed, "Hey, Are you banging on your ceiling up to me?"  With a stunned, about to defecate in his pants look he stammers, "Uhh, uhh, yes."  To which I replied, "Do NOT bang on the ceiling towards us.  Be a man and come let me know if we are being too loud.  We have four boys up there right now."

He then says, "You have them over every day until 1am?"  Now obviously I don't stay awake until 1am every night, especially being loud, I'm too old, have a family and a career.  I replied, "I have a 22 month old so obviously if he can sleep we are not loud every night until 1 am.  And yes we do have four boys over at our house sometimes."

Now I give him some credit for having balls to say this, "Well you should be a better father then."  In my younger days this guy would have been in the hospital at this point, but for my son and wife I stared at him and simply said, "Yea you are a real good father banging on your ceiling because of kids running around getting you angry.  Maybe you shouldn't live in an apartment."

He then turned his head and walked down the stairs.  "Yea, you would walk away," I said.  Boo ya.  Defeated him without coming to blows.

I walked back into our place, the children, my wife and I then all went down to the pool and had a lovely evening.  Misery loves company and I'm happy as can be.

Ah, neighborly love. 

One thing I learned last night is something I'll be getting my son for Chirstmans... Stomp, Stomp, Stomp, Stompeez.

My Life Altering Last Year

Man, it's been a long time since I checked in here.  Over a year.  Since right before last year's football season began.

I think all this social media gave me ADD to where I couldn't concentrate on writing.  As I'm writing this I'm tweeting and sharing things on Facebook.

Anyway, I'm back and going to try and stay here now that I have some credibility to my name, somewhat, I guess.  Here's a quick summary of where I've been and what I do now.

In November my wife and I got married.  Then we moved from our hometown Fort Lauderdale, FL to Chattanooga, TN with our son this past January to start my business, Lookout Inspections, Inc.  Big change and it's for the better.  I'm a home inspector and meeting realtors and potential home buyers is the name of the game.

Leaving FTL meant putting my public address announcing job at FAU in my rear view.  In Chatt-town I announce for Cleveland State Community College.  The LA Dodgers Double A minor league team, the Chattanooga Lookouts, are in town and their P.A. just stepped down.  Wish me luck in getting that gig.

Something else I do in Chatt-a-nowhere, as I heard someone call it, is work for Bahakel Communications at their four local radio stations, Fox Sports, WUUQ, Hits 96, and Sunny 92.3.  Mainly I operate the board for football games and shows (Alabama & Boyd Buchanan) and represent the stations at events.  Sometimes I speak on air and eventually I'll have my own sports talk show, definitely, probably, hopefully, maybe.  We need some more advertisers for that to happen.

It's been a crazy life altering year and my wife, son, and I couldn't be happier.

I'll keep in touch more on here now that we're settled, I promise.

Miami Dolphins QB Ryan Tannehill's Shocking Admission

Miami Dolphins rookie quarterback Ryan Tannehill admitted to not knowing something about football that a lot of fans can rattle off the top of their head.

Last night on HBO’s series, Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Miami Dolphins, Tannehill told back up Dolphins QB Matt Moore that he doesn’t know what division each team is in.

"I'm so lost on the whole divisions," Tannehill said.  "I know our division and that's about it.”

Moore was shocked and asked Tannehill if he could name the four teams in the NFC north, even giving him a starting point with the Green Bay Packers.

“Green Bay, Minnesota…. the Giants,” Tannehill answered.

After a little chuckle Moore moved on to ask Tannehill if he can name the NFC east teams.
 

“NFC East… the Chiefs?” Tannehill asked.

Moore busted out in laughter and asked,  “How do you not know this?  It shocks me."

Tannehill explained that he wasn’t a big NFL fan as a kid growing up and never invested his interest in liking just one team, so he never got to know the divisions.  He said he does know most of the team's conferences.

Well, the Chiefs are in the AFC West, not the NFC East, so he still has some learning to do on which conference each team is in, let alone getting to know each team’s division.

At least Tannehill knows which teams he needs to be out in the Dolphins' division, so that can be seen as a good sign.

The Dolphins play their final pre season game tonight in Dallas against the Cowboys starting at 8:30pm ET.

Colts vs. Redskins; South Florida Rookies Steal Show

All eyes were on the #1 and #2 picks of the 2012 draft in Saturday's game between the Indianapolis Colts and the Washington Redskins, but two other rookies scored the first touchdowns for each team.

The first quarter ended scoreless with the #2 pick, Robert Griffin III, leading the Redskins down the field.  The drive was capped off with a 2 yard touchdown run by rookie running back Alfred Morris, from Florida Atlantic University. 

The #1 pick, Andrew Luck, responded by leading the Colts to a score on a 31 yard touchdown pass to rookie wide receiver T.Y. Hilton, from Florida International University.

Morris, a sixth round draft pick, and Hilton, a third round draft pick, are no strangers.  Both played their college football in the Sun Belt Conference meeting each year in the Shula Bowl.

Morris finished the game with 107 yards on 14 carries and a TD and may have locked up a spot on the roster.  Hilton caught 4 passes for 54 yards and a TD and may receive playing time during the regular season based on his productive preseason play.

Washington came out on top over Indianapolis 30-17.

RGIII and Luck both had solid numbers.  Neither are expected to play again until week 1 of the regular season.

Washington's last preseason game is Wednesday night at 7pm ET against Tampa Bay.

The Colts last preseason game is Thursday night at 7pm ET against Cincinnati.

Chad Johnson Missing From Twitter

It's been an astonishing 19 hours since Chad Johnson last tweeted.  Something must have happened to him.  He rarely goes half an hour without a new tweet.

Well, something did happen.  He headbutted his wife during an argument and was arrested on a domestic violence charge.

It's going to be rough for Chad in a cell while he detoxes from tweeting.

I'm sure he'll relapse and be right back to tweeting once he gets bailed out today.

It will undoubtedly be an interesting tweet.  The next most interesting one will be when he tweets about getting cut from the Dolphins.

Pittsburgh Steelers George Zimmerman Connection

Tonight the Pittsburgh Steelers open up pre-season play against the Philadelphia Eagles.

For the Steelers sake, let's hope they have a better year than the guy sporting one of their jackets in this photo.

LeBron James is Jesus

LeBron James compiled the first ever triple double in Olympic basketball history in USA's blow out win over Australia yesterday.

His out of this world play is quickly turning him into a basketball God.

I work for a Florida Home Inspection company and going through some reports today I came across the proof that LeBron really is the chosen one.