Weekend Stuff that Devolves into Generic "I-Am-Getting-Old"-esque Tangent Topic

... and also some stuff that technically happened during the week.

- We won our first kickball game to bring the record to 1-4. We destroyed a (much) weaker team; the score was 9-0.
- We followed that up with a team party Saturday night. Wild times.
- Led by Gerry McNamara, Syracuse stormed through, and won, the Big East tournament. Yeah, that's right, Mac is overrated. Sure. NBA? No. But a great college player. The good guys are a 5-seed in the NCAA tourny now. I don't expect them to go too far, but it's good to see Gerry get one last shot.
- Sabres beat the Flyers 6-5 (scoring w/ 4 seconds left) and then dismantled the Bruins 6-2. This team is special.
- Watched the first 4 episodes of Season 1 of 24. I only started watching the show last season. It's weird seeing Tony and Jack not getting along.
- The Sopranos ruled. Big Love was interesting enough that I'll watch episode 2.
- I learned some Pogues songs on guitar in preparation for me getting too drunk to play them correctly this Friday (Paddy's Day). "Dirty Old Town" and "A Pair of Brown Eyes" are songs I guarantee I will screw up on Friday.
- Speaking of which, Guinness is good for you.
- Was informed by my friend Shaila that this August we will be friends for 10 years, which seems weird for 2 reasons:
a) My college friends are no longer my "new" friends. Double digit years is a big deal, and it doesn't seem possible I've known these people (i.e. college friends and even more specifically i.e. Shaila) for a decade. College friends : Los Angeles friends :: high school friends : college friends (8 years ago). I don't know what that makes high school friends now. Grade school friends?
b) Shaila claims August. But I think it's not until March or so of 2007 that we hit the 10-year-friendship mark. We're close friends, yet there is some confusion as to how exactly we know each other (well, more like confusion as to how we met). She says it's through her roommate, who I dated. And it's true we became friends because of that, but that would push our start date back to my March '97 claim. I feel like we had met before that, though, actually, as I think about it more now, seems wrong. So, to amend this point, I suppose I was erroneously informed by my friend Shaila that this August we will have been friends for 10 years. I will, however, have known Tim, Brian, Nevin, Chris, and Allison* for 10 years this August. (*Maureen, too, though I met her at a soccer tournament Junior year of high school and so, technically, I've already known her for 10 years. Even though we only played cards for an hour together at this tournament one night. And we didn't even really know each other, we just sort of vaguely remembered playing cards together at said soccer tournament a few months after we first (re-)met at college (which will have been -- this re-meeting -- 10 years ago this August.)
- X-Men 3 trailer looks sweet.