Ugh! What is it about Friday afternoons that I just feel like I could take a nice hour-long nap either just before or after supper? Come on, this is the start of the weekend. I should be full of energy and trying to get as many things crossed off my “To Do” list as possible.
I am not sure if this will be the last blog entry I make before the website goes live. I am toying with whether to have JohnMilner.ca go live on Thursday night after I get off work (as I have a four-day weekend coming to me) or Sunday night after the Talladega Cup race.
Maybe I will post on Thursday night and then log off for the weekend and return on Monday to see what kind of response (if any) I am getting. That could be fun. Quite honestly, I rather enjoy taking a break from the Internet just to give the platforms some time to produce some new content.
By the way, and this is the part where I come off as a jerk, there was a part of me that thought “I should just tell everyone that I’m going to reveal my Big News the weekend of Talladega” and then watched as everyone replied “What’s Talladega???”
I feel like, since I’ve been working on this “project” (and other things on my To Do list) I really haven’t been doing a lot besides my day job, of course. I always think that if I can get my To Do list under control, then I will be able to relax, watch a movie or two, read more, but that never seems to be the case. Oh well, maybe if I bear down this next week and my four-day weekend maybe I can finally get a handle on things. I mean, I have to at some point and preferably before I run out of days to be able to do so.
I actually chatted with a few people over this past week that I haven’t in a while. Maybe this weekend, instead of signing off social, I will surprise a few people by seeing if they respond to my chats. (Maybe I will be the one surprised.)
Last weekend was Wrestlemania and I kept in touch with the goings-on via Twitter, mostly through the hilarious WWF Prime Time Today twitter account, which gives updates on WWE events as if covered by the late Gorilla Monsoon and “The Host of Prime Time” Bobby “the Brain” Heenan. However, that was the extent of it.
It’s weird because I feel sad that I don’t watch wrestling much anymore, (although I just switched on WWE Friday Night Smackdown) and what’s even weirder is that I always feel like my parents might be disappointed because I don’t watch it anymore. (Ironically, my Mom was vocal a while back “You’re not watching wrestling again, are you?”) I think it’s similar to how my nephew was so hugely into Thomas the Tank Engine and then, on a dime, just began hating it. It was just sad that he turned his back on something that seemed so important to him.
And wrestling was very important to me. My Dad and I went to WWE and indy shows. I met my friends Chris, Dee, and Kelly because of watching wrestling. I became better friends with Jim and Jason because we could chat about wrestling. I wrote articles for various websites and I even like to brag that I worked in wrestling. (It’s not that impressive when you here the whole story.)
So even when I had my falling out with wrestling, I still kept tabs on it and so, even if I didn’t tune in this year, I still wanted to know who won and who lost. And it’s the same reason why I decided to bring back “Milner’s Mat Report.” I may not discuss current events (although you never know) but it’s still fun to watch old shows and recap them. Even if no one else reads them, I will from time to time. (Maybe I will post excerpts from my manuscript about being a wrestling fan from 1985-1990 “When Wrestling Was Golden.”
Well…by this time next week, perhaps JohnMilner.ca will be officially launched. Until then, stay safe.
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