I am participating in a semi-competitive fantasy hockey league with a bunch of colleagues from work. My thinking is that nothing would get me noticed/promoted quicker than smokin' everyone in the yearly fantasy hockey challenge. Am I right or what huh!?

Much to my chagrin, I woke up this morning to find out my goalie had TEN saves last night and let in two goals.

(For the hockey illiterate, that's the equivalent of waking up to find that gas prices shot up ten cents overnight AND that little needle is pointing to 'E' AND your car smells because last night a cat came and peed on the door)

Then, it started to make sense. In fact, it all started to make sense, including these commercials, this universal law and this song.

(That song name drops Obama, but the song itself was released in 2004! That's crazy! That it oddly, in a two-degrees-of-separation way, ties in with the punchline of the story was by pure coincidence (I only discovered this while screening the song for safe blog posting))

You know what's really fun?

Crossword puzzles.

But a very close second is pronouncedly chewing extra-crunchy (in a crispy way, but not like the chocolate bar) grapes to the backbeat (learn things) of that iPod commercial song.

But only because when I win, and the interviewer asks me the question that seems to be so popular these days because inquiring minds like to know these things, "McOysty, before the game, when you were listing to your iPod, what song was playing?", I'd get to look at the camera, flash my winning smile, and answer, "Little Mermaid's - Part Of Your World".

Yes, I'd say "dash".