Dr. Feelgood

Wow...That's all I can really say...Wow.

About having friends that I'd consider moving in with, I do, but I've already decided that I want to be on my own. I turned down Jake and John. I love Oregon, it's a great state. It does rain a lot in the Portland/Gresham area but it's still awesome. I will always live in Oregon all my life. Plus, we have, like the 2nd highest minimum wage at like $8.40.

The Weekend Chat 2-25-10 So on Saturday (2-20-10), I'm in the family room playing Rock Band drums, Snow ((Hey Oh)) by the Chili Peppers and my cousin Jake was on the computer right next to me. I'm about half way through the song and my aunt comes in swearing and yelling saying "Let's f***ing talk right now!!" and all I say is "Pfft, riiiight" while still in the middle of Snow ((Hey Oh)). Jake tells her to hang on a second until I finish the song. She tells us to call her when I finish. I'm doing a 10 song set list and have two more songs after Snow ((Hey Oh)), but when I finish the song, my cousin tells me to pause the game. He calls her down and we all discuss what's needed to be discussed. At this point, no one knows for sure if I'm moving out or not. My cousin did most of the talking, about how I had asked for Anthony to be around for 2 weeks, then go home for a week, then come back over for 2 weeks, have him go home for a week, etc and how she wasn't even willing to do that. It was a lot of arguing and swearing going back and forth because all three of us were frustrated as hell. I then told them that April 15th will be my last rent check that I give them (2 months). I plan on moving out April 24th, one week later. Then Anthony came down and joined the talk in which Jake told him "You have three weeks to find a job, if you do not, you go home for a week. That's the consequence for this. After the week, you can come back and keep trying, repeat process" and you could tell that Anthony didn't really like that but he went with it. My aunt asked me that if Anthony were to get a job and start paying rent, would I stay. I told her no, my mind is made up and I need to do what's best for me, and at this point, my goal is to move out on my own come January 2011. Jake also told him that he needs to find a job, and fast, because he wont be able to afford a third of the rent and if it comes down to that, him and John would be moving out into John's parents house in his old bedroom. After this whole chit chat between the four of us, everything seemed cool. Seems like everyone is on the same page now and the house has been just fine. So that's great. I just can't wait until I move out with my mom and sister, I'm seriously looking forward to that. Sunday was awesome. I went and played basketball for about 3 hours or so. I, as a person, went undefeated the entire day, regardless of who was on my team. I think the first game was the most fun. It was a two on two. My friend and I taking on these two other guys. Playing by ones and twos going to 11. The start couldn't have gone any worse, we went down 0-5 right away and at one point, it was 1-7. We made a little come back and we could tell they were getting tired (they were both smokers). Keep in mind, this entire time, I've been playing with my Blazers hoodie/jacket on, as that's what I usually do. Well, as soon as I took it off, it was a whole new game and we ended up winning, 11-7. All of the games though, were really fun and it was something that both my friend and I needed...which is exercise, hah hah. Tomorrow is pay day and I'll probably play basketball, I can't wait.

My bad man, I misread your post. All is good, lol.

Eh, he's still got potential but he's just way to raw.

Yeah, why not? Pfft.

Not having Bosh isn't really an excuse though, we went about 15 games or so without Roy and managed to compete with the better teams of the league.

A much needed win for us. Two in a row on the road.

I've never really like Nate and I still don't like him. I thought the Knicks should of gotten rid of him along time ago, just a headache. Resign or extend Lee and build the team around him. He knows what's up.

Actually, I think he's just fine. He said he would play where ever and that he actually isn't uncomfortable at all, just a rumor going around.

Uh...How about Joel Przybilla? He didn't back down from Boozer, not from KG, not from Shaq. He plays tough, takes beatings from the bigger centers (swinging elbows and crap like that).

Good news for Al Thornton, he should flourish now. Foye, Miller, Thornton, I really like that. A trio of underrated players.

I guess it's being a center in Portland isn't a good thing right now...Camby went down with a sprained ankle in the first quarter...jeez. At least we were able to get the win though.

Houston too, he just forgot to mention them. We'll make it, I'm not worried at all.

I could of sworn this was known by everybody. Very old news now, lol. The TNT crew (EJ, Kenny, and Charles) once blindfolded Caron, gave him three different types of straws (apparantly McDonalds straws are the only ones he'll chew) and he was able to figure out which one was the McDonalds straw just by chewing on it.

Damn...We really needed this win BAD.

No, he got into foul trouble, had 2 early early fouls. Portland looking good so far tonight. 58-39.

Finally Friday! 2-19-10 The great thing about my job, besides being able to slack off for almost half the day and still get my work done, and having a great boss who actually slacks off with me as well, I get paid every Friday. So of course, I look forward to Fridays, not only because I get the next two days off, but obviously because I get money in my pocket. I love it. So the past month or so, my friend and I have been meeting up every Friday to play a nice game of one on one. It's been real nice as I obviously love playing the sport. At first, we were going to do a best of seven series, but now, we just keep track of the record. So far, it's 4-1 my lead. We play to 11 points and with us being somewhat out of shape (we're both overweight for our height, but we aren't obese or anything like that), we always play to six points and when someone gets six points, that's half time and we take a break. Usually, he'll get to six points first and that's when he'll start feeling really confident, to the point where he becomes slightly cocky and starts taking shots he doesn't need to take, like two pointers (we play by ones and twos). That's when I pick up my game. I'm a streaky shooter. Either I'll be really on and make like 5-8 shots, or I'll shoot 1-10 and choke away the game. I like dribbling a little bit and then driving to the hoop against my defender for a layup or the foul. That's usually my bread and butter, driving in for the basket. I don't like shooting very much but lately, my shooting has gotten a bit better. I think it was during the second or third game, the score was six to two his lead. The way we play, is whoever scores the first basket, gets to pick if it's losers or winners after each basket scored. I was the one that scored the first point and I picked winners. Well, during this game when he was up two to six, I got into my streaky self. I hit a two point shot, four to six. I drove the ball in for an easy basket, five to six. I shot another two, seven to six. I nailed a mid range jumper, eight to six. I made my last two point shot of the game making it ten to six. After that, I had trouble scoring, my shots weren't falling at all, I couldn't get a good look close to the basket as he was always there contesting very well. It got to the point where it was ten to nine. The rules we play by, is you've got to win by two points. I know you guys know what that means. Lucky for me during that game, I was able to hit a lucky turn around fade as it danced around the rim, bouncing at least 3 times before going in. That was probably my favorite win against him, though when he won his first game, that one was super competitive as we were driving at each other really hard when clearly there were fouls on both sides but we weren't calling anything unless it was an obvious slap to the arm or something. But yeah, that's my blog tonight. I plan on playing basketball tomorrow (assuming the weather will be nice again on my day off) and I may write another blog tomorrow, or Sunday. Thanks, Dr. Feelgood

Poland? That's awesome man. I wanna go to some other country like that. You gotta try to keep up with this blog while you're in Poland (if you have internet access). Or at least take pictures and things like that. I'm always curious about places like that.

Either it's a glitch or someone hacked it,

Tough loss for us, but we've got to move on. We played terrible, flat out terrible.

All players in the league have to find out the hard way that the NBA is a business. Another great example of this, is the trading of Travis Outlaw and Steve Blake, two of Brandon Roy's best friends, especially Travis Outlaw. Things like this hit players hard. They'll eventually learn that it's all part of the business.

Thanks for the feedback guys, really appreciate it. I'm posting from work, so this post will be somewhat short but I'll get more into it later on tonight. I guess one of the reasons why I don't have a car, is because I don't want to pay for one and have to pay insurance. I just changed my forms at work to take more money out of my paycheck because I had to pay federal and state taxes this year. I graduated back in 2007, went to a community college for a semester with only two classes part time while working a full time job. After the semester was over, I never registered for new classes. I do want to go back to school but right now, I don't really have time or the money (as everyone knows, the books are quite spendy). Anyways, thanks a lot.

I couldn't think of anything clever for the title, I'll probably change it later on. The Beginning... 2-18-10 The past 4 weeks, there has been a lot going on in my real life, which has ultimately effected how often I post here on the forums. This is going to be somewhat of a long blog for a first time, so make sure you've got time. I've posted very very little about my real life here on the forums as I like to keep things to myself. But sometimes, you just need to get things off your chest. This is more of a rant of how things are going for me right now, so when you got time, check it out. Here is some things about myself. I'm 21 years old, I don't have a car nor do I even have my drivers license, though I do have my permit. I work at a company called "Roadmaster Inc", you've never heard of it. We make tow bars to tow your car behind your motorhome. I started in customer service, was moved to the warehouse to replace the UPS shipper, that never happened, was moved back to customer service because business was picking up, and then just recently, was moved back to the warehouse for good to finally replace the old UPS shipper. I get to work via a ride from my mom as she works at the same company but in a different building. Back in September of 2009, I moved out of my mom's apartment and into a 4 bedroom house with my aunt, my 20 year old cousin, his 19 year old boyfriend (yes, you read that right), and my 15 year old cousin. We split the rent 4 ways and I pay $1.25 less a month than when I was living with my mom in the 2 bedroom apartment but now pay other bills like cable, internet, garbage, electric, etc. My mom didn't move into the house because she felt it'd be to crowded in the house (seven people total) so she moved into a one bedroom apartment. Things were going great at the new house. I hadn't lived in a house before (always lived in an apartment or a duplex with neighbors RIGHT DIRECTLY next to you so you couldn't make much noise after dark). At the new house, I'm able to play my guitar as loud as I want when I want, I can play Rock Band with my cousins anytime I want, crank up my music as loud as I want, jump around, wrestle around, anything. Well, about a month ago, my aunt met some guy online. They scheduled to meet up in person and when he came over, they were planning on having him stay the night despite this being the first time they ever met in person. Gonna state this now (via fake names), my aunt's name is Kathy, my 20 year old cousin's name is Jake, his boyfriend's name is John, my 15 year old cousin's name is Jim, and her new boyfriend's name is Anthony. Jake and John are in a relationship, John drives but Jake does not (similar to my situation except his job is walking distance). So during this meeting, my aunt Kathy invites over my other aunt Jessica and her boyfriend. They all drink and get really smashed. My aunt Jessica doesn't like Anthony at all, she stated that pretty much to his face. She and her boyfriend ended up leaving (her boyfriend hadn't been drinking very much if at all). My aunt Kathy got really really smashed and was throwing up. The guys of the house (me, Jake and John) pretty much said that Anthony had to go home though we found out that Anthony doesn't drive or have a car. So my cousin Jake was getting really irritated with Anthony and told me to go with John to drive Anthony home. Well, it turns out that Anthony lives freaking an hour in a half away and by this time, it was 12AM. So we ended up driving Anthony home (who was very drunk as well) and on the way to his place, he would not shut up about how he felt he should be there with my aunt, how 10 minutes before we told him he had to go, my aunt said she wanted him to stay with her. It was like "Dude, we all agreed that this is moving to fast and that you need to go home". He was making us out to be the bad guys in the whole situation and we had never even met this guy. About half way during the car ride, I get a text from my cousin Jake asking "Ask Anthony if mom drank any hydrogen peroxide", I ask him and he says "Yes she did". I guess she drank some to help make her throw up because she's a vet tech at an animal hospital and that's what they give to the animals to help make them throw up. So now we're a bit worried but knew she would be okay because Jake took a year of college to be a nurse. He knew exactly what to do and handled the situation great. Back to the car ride, it got to the point where about a mile away from Anthony's place, John told him to get the f*** out of the truck and walk the rest of the way home, it got really heated between them. John said something that he probably shouldn't of said but what's done is done. So a week later, Anthony comes back, says he's sorry for how he acted and Anthony and John forgave each other, both admitting they were wrong. Well, Anthony also doesn't have a job. So he's been staying at the house for the past 4-5 weeks, not paying rent or anything. There was one point where we told my aunt that he had to go home in which she pretty much lied that he went home, said she'd be right back to go to the store and comes home with Anthony and his big [expletive] dog. Didn't even ask us if it would be okay for them to bring over his dog, just did it. Now don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against Anthony, he's a nice guy, but he doesn't have a job, doesn't have a car, doesn't pay rent (though has gotten groceries here and there) and for the most part...doesn't LIVE HERE. The four of us (the ones paying rent) had a talk with her and told her how we felt. It got heated between my aunt and I and we were at each others throats about it. The next day, I wanted to talk to her one on one, I said I was sorry for the way I acted and she said she was sorry. I told her that he needs to go home and that it'd be nice if a week went by with out Anthony around the house, then he can come back for 2 weeks, leave for a week, repeat process. He's a boyfriend, he does not live at the house. I asked her to take him home on Tuesday (her day off), she does not. She ends up taking him home on Thursday. Then, not even 24 hours later, I get a text from John and he says that Anthony is back at the house. Now I'm getting really frustrated with the whole situation. It pretty much felt like my aunt just said "f*** what they think, I want to be happy and that's all I care about right now", I know that's not how she feels but that's how she's coming off. Plus, it now seems like my opinion doesn't even matter now at the house because she makes decisions without even asking us. "Hey, would it be okay if Anthony came over and stayed for a couple of weeks" or "Anthony has a much bigger dog than the other two at the house, would it be okay if he came over too?" as before we moved in the house, we told each other that we'd communicate and make sure everything was cool with everyone before making decisions like this. But nope, hasn't done that. So I've been thinking about moving out (thankfully, we are on a month to month basis and not a lease). Actually, I am going to move out. I don't know when but I'm going to give them plenty of time in advance before doing so. I'm going to move back in with my mom at her one bedroom apartment with my younger sister. She told me that as long as I paid for food and electricity, she wouldn't charge me rent. This would help me save up money quicker to move out on my own. I figure if I lived with my mom for 5-6 months, that I would have plenty of money saved up to move out on my own. I've been talking with Jake and John about finding a two bedroom apartment and moving in with them but I think at this point, I want to be on my own with no roommates, friends, or family living with me. I mean, I love everyone in my family to death as well as all my friends but I've just had enough of all the drama and bullcrap that comes with living with other people. I currently do not have a girlfriend, so I would be living completely 100% on my own (after I saved up money). I would move somewhere close to my mom so that it wouldn't be to our of her way to pick me up and drop me off (I do alternate with her on filling up the tank in the car, every other week I fill it up). I don't have many bills to pay (my phone, my loan that I took out, my gym membership). I would just need to stop lending out money to people (there is at least 4 people, family and friends, that owe me money, I think I have about $400 bucks lent out right now). Lucky for me, Oregon has one of the highest minimum wages in the country (I make more than minimum at my job but if it wasn't as high as it is, I'd probably be making a little less) and my boss has been saying that he's going to try and get me a raise at least up to where the previous UPS shipper was getting, which is great. So there is a little bit about myself. I haven't ever opened up this much at once on a forum. There is still much more to me than this but I will get into that later with this blog. Hopefully I'll have thought of a better title for this blog. Thanks for reading and if you have any suggestions on what I could do to help better my current situation, I'm definitely open to that. Don't worry about hurting my feelings on anything, I take things very lightly. I don't expect a whole lot of people to read this as it's quite long but oh well. Look out for more of my blogs and don't worry, they wont be nearly as long as this one, promise. Thanks, Dr. Feelgood

I think this is a good pickup for the Bobcats. Tyrus should fit in nicely for them.