No NFL football, I'll settle for snow instead.

Tonight is a typical Saturday night waiting for Sunday...it won't be just a typical Sunady since the NFL season ended last week.  Now NBA and NHL will fill in the time until MLB season starts in April as flurries are hanging around the cold city. 
The 1inch of snow reminds me when I was very small while attending Quebec Heights CAMAS elementary school (which will be closing down at temporary school on White Street where the former South Fairmount school stood) walking to school in 3 ft of snow as I always assumed school would be open regardless of weather.  Average child between 6-12 would be relieved that school would be close so that person can have his/her friends around to have snowball fights or get a sled and zoom downhill, but I treated school even when I was that young as a job so I showed up very often in the snow.  I usually didn't watch the news because the news in my mind regarding weather crisis is usually wrong.  Almost every time I did so, staff members would look at me and tell me, "school is closed."  I often felt sad then hearing those words as the staff would call my mother to tell her that I came to school anyway and told her to pick me up.
As age caught up with me to a certain degree I laugh when people sometimes get lost or don't know how to maintain patience in driving on 1 inch of snow as the city news channels freak out as if it were 3 feet of snow.
I tried to get photos of Route 41 in the bitter cold yesterday, but Sorta coach 916 broke down by the time I arrived.  The picture of Route 41 below is Sorta coach 2111 on Thursday afternoon.  At least the weather was dry and wasn't unbearable like a polar bear...brr!  I'll survive the next several  cold and hot Sundays without football for a while.
Last night I watched new phenom Jeremy Lin scoring 38 points while picking the Los Angeles Lakers apart last night, what a show he put on.  The run won't last for very long as long as he keeps his head upright as he already has he will represent himself well in the NBA.  On that note his Alma Mater Harvard won their basketball game today.
Lin Show
Photos of buses since last blog entry.

Sorta coach 9050 near Center of Cincinnati Mall layover mid Thursday morning.

Sorta coach 2111 on 3 year anniversary of coach being wrapped with Metro's new look and Identity.  Took photo on Thursday.

Sorta coach 4002 in the bluster cold yesterday.  Coach was 2nd to last coach in 4000 series to be wrapped with Metro's new look and identity in May 2009.

Ice is to 9004 as Fire is to Gold Star Chili

My mouth, nose and ears are recovering from the bitter cold as snow came in earlier today.  Snow covered grassy areas but made the roads slick like rain normally would.   I took a bus photo of Sorta coach 9004 (see below) when snow was falling.  I don't like this coach because it reminds me of sad memories when the bus was ordered in late June of 2009.  In the day the coach made its debut on June 25, 2009 Fara Fawcett died after long battle of Breast Cancer and later reported (but verified his death was earlier in the morning then first announced) the death of Michael Jackson.  After taking the photo, my anticipation of feeling warm eating Gold Star Chili was on my mind...I knew how hot I would be. 
My mouth, nose and ears had to recover from being on fire after eating a 3 way from Gold Star Chili since today was $3 dollar coney mania.  I ordered my 3 way with the habanero cheese to match the cheese that the hot mett coneys have on top.  I never had a shake from Gold Star Chili before so I ordered one to see how good it was, even though I was given the wrong shake.  I ordered Cookies n' Cream shake was given chocolate...but it was smooth and helped stop the burning.

Sorta coach 9004 in the snow.

Gold Star Chili 3 way with habanero cheese, 2 hot mett coneys and chocolate milkshake.

Update of entry Clip Show verses Showtime.
Los Angeles Clippers hopes to reach the same heights of greatness as their Staples Center co-tenants the Lakers takes crumbling hit as shooting guard Chauncey Billups blew (torn) his left Achilles tendon in overtime thriller verses the Orlando Magic in overtime on Monday.
Update of entry as Autistic Man
If my readers have relationship stories  living with Autism, check this link out.
Love and Autism

4 years ago again, not quite but Giants are champs.

            New York Giants showed their muscles in defeating the New England Patriots 21-17.  What does this mean?  Giants have the worst season record of all time in a 16 game season 9-7 to win a Super Bowl.  Meanwhile for the Patriots, Quarterback Tom Brady is closer to the end compared to being in his prime when the Patriots won teams last Super Bowl verses the Philadelphia Eagles at the end of the 2004 season.  Also any doubts of Giants quarterback Eli Manning as a leader and a manipulator in the line of scrimmage should be erased even though many fans will always compare Eli to second older brother Peyton. 

Four years ago the Patriots had carried the world of hate like Talpa did in the Ronin Warriors to fuel the team psychologically after “The Spygate” scandal which turned the respectable franchise to nothing more than villains in the eye of sports fans.  Giants at that time were just fighting off the Washington Redskins for a playoff spot….both teams eventually did reach the playoffs.  Giants ended up stunning hated NFC East rival the Dallas Cowboys in the Divisional Playoff just 2 weeks after throwing kitchen sinks and everything else trying to stop the Patriots perfection crusade 16-0 fell short 38-35 in 2007 regular season finale.

Patriots at the same time were planning on humiliating the Jacksonville Jaguars not that long after a resounding win verses the Pittsburgh Steelers in the snow.  Patriots did humiliate the Jaguars upside down including a pump fake statue of liberty by Tom Brady spelled down for Jaguars secondary.  Patriots in the AFC Championship game struggle with the injury written San Diego Chargers.  The Patriots this time around were a touchdown pass and a clock malfunction verses the Baltimore Ravens to losing AFC Championship game.

Yes the same 2 teams played in Super Bowl 46 last night, but the circumstances are different.  Eli was just a naïve kid of a quarterback who is the younger brother of Cooper and Peyton as Tom Brady was not that long removed lead the Patriots to a dynasty to start the 2000’s.  In Super Bowl 42 there was a miracle scramble out of the grasp by Eli and the concentration of then Giants wide receiver David Tyree to catch the ball using his hand to keep the ball pinned to his helmet.  No miracle this time around, a perfect thrown pass by Eli in a short window late in the 4^th quarter to wide receiver Mario Manningham.

Giants had a cliffhanger of a game in the cold rain 23-20 in overtime to reach Super Bowl 46.  A week earlier in the NFC Divisional round the Giants won in dominating fashion 37-20 versus the Green Bay Packers.  In defeat to the Giants the Packers became the first team to have a 15-1 record and losses NFC Divisional round.  Giants defeated Packers in Brett Favre’s swan song as his final game as the quarterback in Green Bay in 2007 NFC Championship game.

As a loyal Philadelphia Eagles fan since 1995 it is hard to understand how did they missed the playoffs by 1 game, but the Giants made unprecedented run to finish the 2011 season.  Giants had an easy schedule as the team had a 6-2 record, then after defeating the Patriots in Foxboro the schedule became harder just as it always have been every year for some reason as the team sunk to 7-7.  Giants came from an incomplete pass from Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo to wide receiver Miles Austin from missing postseason play, also were swept in season series to NFC East division foe the Washington Redskins.    In the following week the Giants were pushed to the edge by MetLife Stadium co-tenants the New York Jets which enabled the team to defeat the Dallas Cowboys yet again in the following week to win NFC East title with 9-7 record.  Eli Manning’s story isn’t finished yet, but Tom Brady’s story might have changed as I see both of these guys playing quarterback.

Giants had a poor record and sometimes their confidence was arrogant throughout the season but the Giants showed precision and toughness when the 2011 NFL season ended as Super Bowl champions.

Pictures of the day 

Sorta coach 9043 near Center of Cincinnati Mall.

Buffalo Wild Wings ad in Norwood, Ohio.

Edmondson Road bridge I'm walking through in Norwood, Ohio.

Sorta coach 4022.  Coach was the last Gillig phantom ordered in 2004.

Love as an Autistic Man.

This is a poem I wrote yesterday.

The Seed

I see a world of uniqueness in all people, seeds of social construction regardless of race, class and age is listed covering the seed up.

I see a judgmental world based on levels of intelligence or lack of it regardless of seed.

I see a big seed in small world that seems to get bigger which seems as big as the titanic.

I don’t have a seed of hope relating to people of the opposite sex, not a dark seed similar to the Sailor Moon pure heart days which turns into an evil plant, but the seed of loneliness and abnormality.

The seed of loneliness is attached to the seed of a world that has no one that have a similar world like yours.

I see myself as just like another blob walking down the street like anyone else, people who come across me see nothingness or a naivety

The seed makes plants and people different, looking for a person that has the same seed as I do.

I have been isolated because my seed says I have a first aid sign on it because I have a disability. I’m trying to become as close to a normal man but many people especially women since reaching adulthood measure me like I was LeBron James or Tom Brady, move on to the next guy feeling like a branch waiting to be fed by water.  That guy doesn’t satisfy their needs and come back asking for me.  I have a disability that people can’t see unless I act out, all because I might be slow on social issues like love doesn’t make me less of a man or an idiot.

I really haven’t met a girl with the same disability see since she move away when I was nine years old.

I have tried to relate to people who don’t have the same seed as I do, but most of my friends I had didn’t have the seed as girls who grow into women don’t had the seed either.

Women tried to date me, but I really didn’t feel comfortable trying to make a relationship work with a person who might understand my seed, but can’t live or see the struggles I have relating to my disability.

I accepted my seed regarding my disability but the world is slow to catch up to people like me living with adult Autism.  Granted there aren’t too many people with my seed talking, trying to love and trying to live somewhat independent life.

Makes me feel really sad that I feel completely alone and lonely as many people with my seed are around here but I don’t know anyone with my disability.

I want to find a person who has the same disability or has some connection with Autism in some way to understand I do have my weaknesses and still developing, penalize me because I did something bad, not my disability

Buses, sports, Art makes me human, Autism is the seed that I was given and I want to find A woman who doesn’t necessarily like the things I do, but lives or understand the seed I was given and I’ll give this lucky person love that she might have never experienced with a person who has her seed.

Autism seed won’t leave me even in death, but I want a chance to create a plant in the world and I can have help to raise him or her on my own as my seed of loneliness slowly disappears and have the happy seed I had when my childhood friend moved away long ago and kept trying to grow a love seed for someone else to water me down and sprout out like a cabbage but ended up a ripened tomato which rotted that other people forgotten about.

The seed is like the brain that helps the core grow to become the fruit as the branch hopes to be attached to other seeds are left alone in the wind as winter cold arrives…the plant is the child I hope to create with a woman who has the same seed as I do, fed up felling sad and lonely. I hold onto hope to find her and have love I never had before.  

My Strong Opinion

Here is a link that should help fellow readers who know someone who is an Autistic adult regardless of how young or how old.

I don't understand why does the medical and media worlds talk about the struggles that children are living with Autism and don't really talk about the adults living with Autism as I do.

Love and Autism adulthood.

Here are my photos from the last few days. 

Sorta coach 9049 at Fairview Loop on Tuesday January 31, 2012.

New bus Sorta 1201.  Coach was purchased by Metro in January 2012.  Gillig built this bus.  Coach is sitting near Center of Cincinnati Mall layover yesterday on February 1, 2012. 

Sorta coach 2135, I absolutely hate was sitting shut-off near Center of Cincinnati Mall layover today as Route 4 Ridge Road today.

Sorta coach 946 in the rain as Route 4 earlier this year.  I took this coach on Route 51 earlier today to arrive at Center of Cincinnati Mall.

Return of Sorta coach 2130

Last night before I went to bed after taking my shower, I predicted that coach 2130 would run tomorrow.  Tomorrow obviously was today, the coach was out roaring in the cold as I watched the bus run in and out Fairview Loop from my mother’s window.  For readers who have read deleted post of 2130 and Miranda Cosgrove photos I’ve used and uploaded before you might have an idea where I’m going with this.

 Today felt like a day I can redeem myself respect after I lost it over 3 years ago.    The coach broke down before the season of winter on December 16, 2011.  I feared the coach would have been retired and the long quest to go forward in a losing battle wouldn’t come around again.  I walked to handle errands as I usually do on Friday mornings, I took a picture of the Stetson Square complex.  Right across from the street has nothing but grass, but my grandfather lived in a house close by a long time ago so I said to myself, why not take a photo of the complex.  Later on my walk I stumbled on Channel 5, 9 and 12 news vans and cameras around the University Hospital area.  I remembered a friend of mine told me before I left the house the casino construction site roof collapse on some workers including a friend of his.  I was glad to know that all of the workers weren’t seriously injured.

 I waited near University Hospital as 2130 arrived. The ride was smooth, but the accelerator and the safety systems were faulty as usual.  I did a very good job during the ride telling myself a bus is a bus, a girl is a girl, too young of a girl.  I did get photos of the coach lost in the wintry clouds today.  Unfortunately the run for the coach didn’t last long as the coach broke down and was replaced by 924 not too long ago after I departed to Center of Cincinnati Mall Shopping Center.

I’m very happy after trying to fight my demons regarding coach 2130 and Miranda Cosgrove I’m doing a great job and winning in the mess I got myself in years ago. 

Stetson Square near University Hospital.

    

 

Sorta coach 2130 returns after 1 month being shelved for repairs.

Bus Stop in front of Sorta coach 2130.

Sorta coach 924 in the rain in October 2011.  Coach replaced 2130 later in the afternoon.

Sorta coach 2100 at Marburg Avenue cut-off.  Coach was originally numbered 2000 ten years ago.

The Clip Show verses Showtime

Lakers defeated Clippers 96-91 last night.  Another game of pushing and shoving as Metta World Peace (formerly Ron Artest) had to be restrained from coming after Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan after hustling for a jump ball in mid court in the 3^rd quarter.  How in the world could bad blood start in all places, Los Angeles?  NBA told the Lakers essentially you guys are becoming the New York Yankees of the NBA as the team can get any player they wanted attempting to trade for point guard Chris Paul.  The Houston Rockets were also were involved in the deal that was nullified. 

In this case the Lakers needed a point guard like Chris Paul but the league said no to the trade for the former New Orleans point guard.  Lamar Odom who played PF off the bench was a piece in the proposed trade up to the league telling the Lakers “no.”  Odom was hurt enough to ask the Lakers to trade him to the Dallas Mavericks.  Odom played 7 years as a Laker before the trade. 

The players and fans around the league were shocked about the deal being nixed.  The NBA however said yes to the Los Angeles Clippers version of the trade for Paul who leads the Lakers having 2 old point guards Derek Fisher and Steve Blake and 2 young point guards Andrew Goudelock and Darius Morris playing with a tomato ripened Kobe Bryant.

The trades the Clippers made and the trade the Lakers couldn’t make made me wonder how good were the Clippers as a franchise before moving to Los Angeles, Clippers weren’t that good.  Clippers had a descent run as the Buffalo Braves.  The franchise was born in 1970 along with the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Portland Trail Blazers.  Then the franchise would move on to San Diego after the 1978 season.  Right before I was being born in late summer of 1984 the Clippers moved to Downtown Los Angeles playing games at the Sports Complex.  Lakers were still in Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood playing at the Great Western forum at the time.  The Lakers and Clippers since the move were in a parallel universe until the L.A. Riots after the Rodney King trial verdict in 1992 angered so many people around the city; both franchises had to move playoff games to Anaheim, California and Las Vegas, Nevada respectfully.

Championships are a must for the Lakers.  The franchise has won 16 NBA titles including 8 since I was born in 1984 Lakers won championships in 1985, 1987-88, 2000-2002, and 2009-2010.  Clippers reached the playoffs only 4 times since then in 1992-93, 97 (with losing recorded 36-46) and 2006 seasons. Also the Clippers have finished ahead of the Lakers in the final standings only 3 times from 1992-93 and the season the team finish one game short of reaching the Western Conference finals in 2006 season.  Both franchises do have players in common, such as Lamar Odom, Ron Harper in the not-too-distant past and Bob McAdoo from a long time ago to name a few.  

Even though I can’t stand the Lakers, no matter how many games the Clippers win the main focus for every franchise is to win an NBA tile someday in time.   Lakers still have the key to Los Angeles riches and glamour, but the Clippers have finally entered the 21^st century with a team that can be good for a long while.  Who would have though the Clippers @ Lakers games would be filled with energy, passion and hostility?  Welcome to the new age of basketball in Hollywood.