Rants and Ranks

My personal favorite awards have been handed out, and those awards are the All NBA teams.  We'll look at the other awards in a minute, but let's check these out first.  First team: LeBron James Anthony Davis Stephen Curry James Harden  Marc Gasol Second team: Pau Gasol LaMarcus Aldridge DeMarcus Cousins Chris Paul Russell Westbrook Third team: Blake Griffin Tim Duncan DeAndre Jordan Klay Thompson Kyrie Irving Unlike the all-star voting, which I bitch about constantly, the All NBA squads are usually pretty dead-on.  The most iffy guy to me though, is DeMarcus Cousins.  He definitely has the stats; statistically speaking, he is probably the best center in the NBA.  But, I feel it's hard to reward a guy on such a crappy team.  I don't have a huge objection to it though.   Here were my predictions that I made on the last day of the regular season (so I wouldn't be swayed by any playoff performances): First team Pau Gasol ...

This one and the one below are two different views of the suite were we stayed. The wife and I just took a trip for our "5th" anniversary, I say "5th" because we were a bit late (actually closer to 6th) due to our little bundle of joy that was ready to pop out on our actual 5th anniversary.  We traveled to Montego Bay, Jamaica and stayed at the Sandal's resort there.   I love the movie Cool Runnings (hold that thought), and I remembered that they were always saying, "no problem mon," or "yeah mon" throughout the duration of the film.  I wasn't sure if that was as common of slang as it appeared, or if it maybe it was a stereotype.   Well I can confidently tell you, that every man, woman, and child says it.  AND I LOVED IT!  I also found out they don't pronounce the letter "h."  (Sorry if I sound like an ignorant farm boy.)  So that made some of the words harder to understand.  Our favorite H-less word was "...