Something I can't understand

For some reason, it is the minor annoyances that I find the most troubling instead of the big life and death things. While I was at the hospital last Wednesday for my chemotherapy treatment, the port that they implanted in me didn't work the way they wanted it to. The whole thing behind the port is supposed to be a place where with one needle they can inject me full of cancer killing goodness and they can also take some blood out to test it. They were unable to take the blood out with the first try, and were forced to do it the other way. After the nurse took my blood, she put a cotton pad on it and taped it down. The tape they use is the stickiest stuff that I have ever dealt with in my memory. I have been going through all this medical stuff that long, so I don't consider myself an expert on medical supplies, but this could be the worst tape ever. It has been more than a week since I took the stuff off (8 days) and I still have a mark on my arm where it was. It looks almost like a burn scar. It is really weird. I never knew of tape that ripped off part of your skin. As if it isn't bad enough that I have cancer, now I have to worry about the tape they use. Maybe I should steal some of the tape and use it on some people. That would be funny.

Nascar is not a sport

With all the hype and attention that is surrounding NASCAR recently, I would like to remind everyone that it is not a sport. I refuse to put people who drive cars in a circle for hours in the same category with people who run around and throw a ball around a field. People who drive cars around in a circle for hours are NOT athletes. NOT athletes. I understand that it takes some kind of skill and practice to drive at high speeds around the track, but they are not athletes. People who exert some kind of physical ability like running, jumping and throwing are athletes.
I don't understand the whole NASCAR thing, I'll admit. I don't understand how people could watch on TV or live cars driving around in circles. Especially cars that are no more than moving billboards. I especially don't understand why they have NASCAR on the radio. Where my dad lives in Virginia, they cover the races on the radio. With real sports I can understand listening to it on the radio, but in NASCAR the cars are always in motion, and it wouldn't be exciting unless there is something happening (like a crash). It seems like it is almost a completely visual experience.
Another thing that annoys me is arena football. Arena football is football played by guys who couldn't get into the NFL or CFL or NFL Europe. Saying that I can't get into any of those leagues, but would you watch me on TV? Then why watch second (maybe even third) rate football played on half the field and indoors. It just seems wrong. The quarterback will have 5 touchdowns a game, but the field is so small that all you can do is pass.
I used to play soccer when I was younger, and during the winter the thing to do was to play indoor soccer. Something seemed wrong with that, and the same thing bothers me about arena football. It is weird and I don't like it. Yes, that is what it all comes down to. Canadian football is weird also (with it's 55 yard, or centre line and it's 3 downs) but I've gotten used to it. And their players do try to play in the NFL, the Jets signed Ricky Ray of the Edmonton Eskimos a few years back after they won the Grey Cup. He didn't play, but at least he got the chance. I can't think of any arena football guys who got a chance besides Kurt Warner, because the quarterbacks in arena football have inflated passing stats because of the nature of the game, unlike the CFL.
Canadian football is a sport, arena football is not. Fuck arena football.