Jasper Jones

Well Alex is going to be on crutches for at least 6 weeks. He had surgery yesterday and I brought him back to the dorm last night so he could sleep in his own bed. It’s really hard to sleep in a hospital - too much activity and noise.

His parents flew in from California yesterday and I stayed with them in the surgery waiting room till the doctor finished putting four pins into his leg and stitched him up. His parents are going to stay over the weekend and spend some time with him. He’s lucky they could drop everything and rush out here. I’m sure my folks would do the same, but they are just a 2 hour drive away - not a 7 hour flight away.

Anyway - he looks great and the worst problem he has right now is an upset stomache from the antibitoics and pain meds that he’s taking.

Of course, these crutches and the cast are going to put a big crimp in his Halloween costume plans. We’ll have to figure out something real creative to work around that cast.

What should have been a quiet night at the hospital emergency room turned into a bad time for me tonight. Usually midweek is not much going on unless there is a car wreck or something unusual. But tonight the ambulance brought in someone I really didn’t expet nor want to see. My roommate, Alex.

We play softball in a recreational league and as much as I love to lay, if they have games that conflict with my work schedule, then I can’t play that game. So I missed tonight’s game and Alex went without me. He was running to third base toward the end of a close game, and slid into the base to avoid being tagged out. Well, something went terribly wrong in that slide and he ended up breaking a his leg. So they hauled him here.

Alex is in the back getting x-rays and I’m waiting to see what’s next. I get off work in a few minutes, but I can’t leave Alex here by himself.

The Titans game today could not have been any sweeter. We used a backup quaterback and he lead the team to a huge victory over the Bengals.

I think our QB, Kerry Collins, did a great job and really racked up the points with an almost flawless game.

We don’t miss Vince Young at all. In fact, I’m sorry he’s hurt but I’m glad he’s not playing right now. The team deserves a strong leader and a good player and he’s not been able to give the Titans either one of those qualities.

It was interesting to see how they played with having to adapt to the strong winds on the field in Ohio. The weather was ugly but the game was a good one. Way to go, Titans!

Yesterday’s game with the Titans taking on Jacksonville was a very physical game and a hard earned win for the titans. We hit hard and so did they. In fact, we lost our quarterback at the end of the game to a knee injury and I suspect he will be out of the line up for at least 3 or 4 games, depending upon how serious the injury is. But we had a back up quarterback ready to rock and roll, and sure enough he came out throwing and won us the game. Personally, I like Chris Collins better than Vince Young, and although I don’t want to see anyone get hurt, I’m glad that Chris had the chance to play yesterday and bring home the win. I don’t think that if Vince had continued in the game that we would have won. He had another crappy game, full of mistakes and I’m sick of the hype saying how great he is. He’s NOT great - he sucks. I’m waiting for Coach Fisher to realize that and put Chris Collins on the field.

Was talking to my dad over the weekend about maybe changing my college major from sports administration to something more medical and less sports. I’m even thinking about maybe social work, to help adolescents that are in trouble. I didn’t realize that there was such a need for people to do this until I’ve been hanging out with my buddy, the Metro cop.

Well, my dad wasn’t too happy with the idea so I promised to think it over some more. It’s not too late to change anything on my schedule if I decide to make the change. In the meantime I’m looking into what it takes to be qualified to get a job in this field after I graduate next May.