He's great at it. Procrastination is one of his best things.
He ostensibly is trying to figure out what to write about here for today. Instead, though, he's been watching some YouTube videos of his favorite comedians.
For instance, he watched Richard Pryor talk about being in Arizona to film the movie "Stir Crazy" with Gene Wilder. Then it was George Carlin, who went on about things that annoy him. The list was extensive.
He heard Rodney Dangerfield offer this: "I come from a dumb family. In the Civil War, my great-grandfather fought for the West." He also mentioned how he gets no respect and as proof said "in my aunt's will, I owed her $20."
Then he went and got a cookie. Still he'd written zero words for today. Still nothing, so he got another cookie.
Then it was Brian Regan, the one where he talks about going to the ER, having to mail something through UPS and his eye doctor appointment, among other things. Never saw him? HERE you go.
Should he get another cookie? Figure out what to write? Nah. He folded the laundry instead.
Okay. He's back.
Wait. He might as well listen to Nicole Scherzinger's rendition of "Phantom of the Opera," along with four different Phantoms. Wow, she is good. And then after that, before he could think about a subject for today, the Corr's version of "Ruby Tuesday" came up. Have to listen to that, right?
He was going to tell the story about the time he went to a restaurant with a few people on "Wing Day." The menu said you could order wings with various different sauces and sides and all, and it was $1.09 per wing. TB has no idea where they came up with $1.09.
Anyway, one of the guys he was with ordered 10. The other guy ordered seven. For some reason, that made TB laugh. And he ate all seven and said he was full. The 10 guy only ate nine.
It was funny, but you had to be there to fully appreciate it. He decided not to tell the story, sort of.
And just like that, it was two hours later. And he was still looking at a blank screen.
Okay. What should he write about?
In situations like this, he'll sometimes go back in time to see what he wrote five years ago or 10 years ago. He decided this time to look back to this date in 2015.
Interestingly, he wrote about how it was in the 50s and 60s in Princeton and about to be 70 for Christmas. And he wrote about the women's basketball team's game at Ohio State that night.
As it turned out, Ohio State was ranked No. 3 in the country at the time. Princeton was on its way to getting the Ivy League's first at-large bid to the NCAA tournament, after going 12-2 in the league and finishing second to a Penn team that beat Princeton twice by two points before there was an Ivy tournament.
When Princeton played at Ohio State, the Buckeyes were ranked third in the country and played like it: The final was OSU 90, Princeton 70.
There were three players in the game who had at least 20 points. Princeton's Michelle Miller had 21 to lead the Tigers, who had two others in double figures with 14 each: Alex Wheatley and Annie Tarakchian (who also had a game-high nine rebounds).
Those three and the rest of the Tigers were a year removed from their 31-1 season and the program's first NCAA tournament win. If you're a Princeton fan, those three have to among your favorite Tigers. They were so much fun to watch and such great players.
As for the other two players in the game who had more than 20 points, that would be two from Ohio State. Ameryst Alston had 27 to lead everyone; she'd go on to play for the New York Liberty in the WNBA and still plays in Europe.
The other was Kelsey Mitchell, who had 25 points on 10 for 15 shooting, including 4 for 6 from three-point range. That's the same Kelsey Mitchell who currently is on the Indiana Fever and who has scored nearly 5,000 points in her WNBA career, including a career-best 20.2 this past season.
Hey, you never know what you're going to find when you look back in the archives, right?
Anyway, it might be time for another cookie.
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