The New York Giants just did the impossible, winning the Super Bowl as definite underdogs.  It was quite a close game from the first kickoff, so that made it exciting.  They proved that they had the right stuff, despite a 0-2 start.  Once they made the playoffs, momentum was on their side.  They made all New Yorkers proud. 

I watched the game at home until the 4^th quarter when Eileen claimed the good TV set (the only one hooked up to the cable).  So I drove to the firehouse to watch the rest of the game there.  Why start World War III over Super Bowl XLII?   Besides an exciting football game, the commercials were pretty good, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ half time show was quite entertaining too. 

Again, congratulations to the New York Giants for a fantastic season.

It’s also a sad anniversary today, since 49 years ago today was the “day the music died”.  Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens were killed when their plane – American Pie – crashed in Iowa.  RIP guys, we still miss you.

Since the 27^th it’s generally been SSDD at work, but we did wind down for the month end.  I am still following basketball, and watched the Georgetown-Seton Hall game (Georgetown won, 73-61).

 Mets fans are ecstatic that the Mets landed Johan Santana onto their pitching rotation.  Perhaps he is the last page to the puzzle.  Now that they puzzle is done, hopefully the Mets will make it to the World Series, again, and win this time.  1986 is a long time ago.

On Saturday we went to visit my mom & dad in Queens.  I decided to go for a walk thought Flushing Meadow Park and then past Shea Stadium.  I was hoping for a few cricket matches on the pitches there, but since it was Saturday, there were no matches, and only a handful of soccer players practicing and scrimmaging.  I then went past Shea Stadium and also got to check out the new ballpark, Citifield.  It is going to look like Ebbets Field (only larger and more modern).  I was able to make out the rotunda, and the sides of the new park look like what was along the sides of Ebbets Field.  I then went past the Iron Triangle, which is a right triangle shaped set of streets across from the Shea site, and the home of junkyards and other auto related businesses.  The streets are not paved and have no sewers.  Since it rained on Friday, the main street, Willets Point Boulevard, was flooded, as were the avenues that intersect it.  The point in the Iron Triangle where the long arm and the hypotenuse meet is at 126^th Street and Roosevelt Avenue.  Since that is also a corner of the Shea Stadium property, (and soon Citifield's) I made that the source of my main Yahoo address (roosevelt126).  That is where I am standing in the picture below.

After my walk Ellen and I went to dinner at our favorite Malaysian restaurant, Curry Leaves, which is located on 40^th Road across from the Flushing Long Island Railroad station.

We are all excited here in New York about the Super Bowl, especially since a New York team, the Giants, is in it.  Go Big Blue.

Since last weekend I have been hired by a new company, located on the East Side of Manhattan.  I was actually working there in a temporary-to-permanent capacity since Boxing Day (December 26).  That was because my prior firm forced me out in early December 2007.  It turns out that my old office mates were snitching on me continuously, for petty things like talking too loud on the phone, slamming the file cabinet doors, being on the Internet (as they were too); and other bullshit incidents.  They even claimed that I demanded too much space (more BS).  I had been making references to the doghouse in prior entries, as that was part of the thumbscrews being tightened.  That’s okay; I am not there any longer, got a severance package, proving that it was not my fault.  Monday the 11^th is my first day as a permanent employee at the new firm. 
We are all counting the days until Opening Day.  Most of us baseball fans think that it should be a national holiday, for the national pastime.  However, it’s not likely to happen.

Being an Internet junkie, I created another web-page about the trip to South Bend during December 2007.  The URL is http://www.geocities.com/four_and3/southbend2007.html.  Sorry, there is no guest book.  I was also able to figure out why the Yahoo Geocities web pages were being distorted.  It was because of the weather boxes.  They have increased in size and push text and pictures out of alignment.  While I always like to know what the weather is in Islip and other cities, it’s better to eliminate a cause of problems.