Good As New..

Picked up my car from the body shop today....FINALLY!  That would be one and a half weeks it took them to fix and paint the rear quarter panel and the bumper.  I have never done body work on a car, but come on...that is 8 business days to take off and paint a panel and a bumper and put it back on.  Seems like too long.  But it may have been a blessing in disguise.

I had to go to the North Shore today to pick up my car so I figured, what the hell, I'll give C a call and see if she wants to have a drink.  She did :)  We met up for a drink and ended up talking for hours and staying for dinner.  It is nice to meet someone who is so easy to talk to.  And it seems like this may be going somewhere, but it is too soon to tell I guess.  She said she wanted me to meet her friends (only fair since she knows 70% of mine), and for me to take her out for sushi because she has never really gone.  That sounds good right?  I'm sure in the next few days I will find a way to spin it in my head into something other than good.  But I'm happy now.

In other news, the Celtics got screwed by the same officiating that gave them the victory in game 2.  It is just insane to me that NBA referees can be so egregiously horribly inconsistent based solely on the venue that the game happens to be in.  A foul in Boston is not a foul in L.A. and vice versa.  It makes no sense.  It is either a foul or it isn't, regardless of where you are.  The bigger problem is that the NBA as a league sits aside and doesn't address the issue at all.  They deny it exists.  Well, sorry David Stern, but the truth is, every referee you have has throughout their career displayed a home team bias.  It doesn't matter what home team, just the team that is playing at home (or one of 5 or 6 current superstars including Kobe Bryant and Dwyane Wade).  The referees for the most part have more effect on who wins the game being played than the players do.  Just ask the Dallas Mavericks.  It is a joke.  It is one step above professional wrestling.  Yup.  I said it.