Justin's Blog

This time of year is bland for me. There’s no sports that I really follow going on. I don’t follow much hockey or baseball. Watching an NBA game leaves a bitter taste in my mouth from seeing people WVU played make millions, while former Mountaineers are in Europe or on farm league teams. I’m definitely not into NASCAR (is that really a sport?).

The thing that keeps me going is the build up and hype of the up coming Mountaineer football season. I can’t get enough of it.

You Tube has also helped over the last couple of years. Speaking of You Tube, here’s a movie to hold you over:

I decided to give Ubuntu 7.04 a try. One of the the biggest annoyances I’ve had since the switch is that when you hit backspace while in Firefox, it does the same as hitting the page up key. I have grown accustomed to backspace taking me back to the previous page, like it does on every other OS. I didn’t realize how much I used that until it was gone.

So I figured out how to fix it:

Now if I could only get my wireless card working consistently I’d be pretty happy.

I was listening to my ipod today while I was running some new coax cable (more on this later). As usual I had it on set to shuffle. After about 15 minutes, Blink 182’s “Stay Together for the Kids” came up. Given my family’s current situation it seemed eerily fitting.

Lyrics:
It’s hard to wake up
When the shades have been pulled shut
This house is haunted
It’s so pathetic
It makes no sense at all.
I’m ripe with things to say
The words rot and fall away.
If a stupid poem could fix this home
I’d read it every day.

So here’s your holiday
Hope you enjoy it this time
You gave it all away
It was mine
So when you’re dead and gone
Will you remember this night, twenty years now lost.
It’s not right

Their anger hurts my ears
Been running strong for seven years
Rather than fix the problems, they never solve them
It makes no sense at all
I see them every day
We get along so why can’t they?
If this is what he wants and this is what
she wants
Then why is there so much pain?

So here’s your holiday
Hope you enjoy it this time
You gave it all away
It was mine
So when you’re dead and gone
Will you remember this night, twenty years now lost
It’s not right

So here’s your holiday
Hope you enjoy it this time
You gave it all away
It was mine
So when you’re dead and gone
Will you remember this night, twenty years now lost
It’s not right.

Treah and I have been thinking about buying a house. Nothing serious yet, just browsing realtor websites. We did stop at 1 open house. I think the biggest hold up in my mind has been trying to figure out where are we going to be living in 3 years when Treah finishes her residency program. What happens if we have to move and sell our house? How much money will we lose/make?

Anyway, I found this on the NY Times website today. It’s a little flash based app where you enter in what you think your rent on a place would be, what you would pay for a house, and the mortgage info. It then takes all of this information and graphs out whether it’s better financially for you to rent or buy. It shows the cost savings/costs per year.

All of the rumors turned out to be true. Coach Beilein is leaving WVU and heading to the University of Michigan. The exact details of his new contract haven’t been released yet. However, the rumor is that he’ll be making less money at Michigan than WVU offered him following the NIT championship ($1.3+ million per year). He must have really not wanted to be here anymore. It will be pretty insulting if that turns out to be true.

If by some chance Coach Beilein happens to read my blog (I doubt it), I’d like to leave him with the following:

Thanks for the last 5 years. WVU basketball has really been turned around. Thanks for:

• Three 20+ win seasons
• 2 NIT appearances, including 1 NIT championship
• 2 NCAA appearances, including a spot in the elite and and a spot in the sweet 16
• Making it to the Big East Tournament Championship game.
• Actually winning a Big East Tournament game.
• I’m sure there’s more that I’ll remember later.

That being said, don’t let the door hit you in the ass.

Ever since you started winning and getting media attention you’ve been looking to leave. No one in there right mind believes you were “mowing your lawn” last off season. We all know you were at NC State negotiating a contract. If not for your large buy out clause you would have been NC state’s coach this season. Now a year later you do the same thing, except find a school willing to pay your $2.5 million buy out. It turns out that a “family trip” to Atlanta to watch the Final 4, was really an interview. Don’t treat fans like ignorant children, we can see past your fake commitment.

Hopefully Ann Arbor will bring you the happiness you couldn’t find in Morgantown. Some how I doubt it. If you thought you were at a football school at WVU, wait until you get to Michigan.

My only words of advice to Michigan fans is watch out. Syracuse’s Coach Boeheim is getting old and whinny. Coach B’s track record shows he doesn’t like to be any where longer than 5 or 6 years. He might just be looking else where before you know it.

Let’s move on Mountaineer fans. We have a Coaching spot to fill, and $2.5 million to spend on it thanks to Coach B and the University of Michigan. So Who will it be? Bobby Huggins? Jeff Neubauer? Some one else? I don’t care, just bring in some one who can win and is truly committed to being a Mountaineer.

Let’s Go Mountaineers!