Wow, look at those poll numbers. Very nice.

Sorry for the lack of writing lately. School ended last week and Erika and I are spending our summer watching Daniel and our friends' baby by day and catching up on our reading and television watching by night.

I also just haven't been all that inspired to write lately.

To make up for it I thought I'd share a couple of sites I have been taking advantage of lately.

The first is LibriVox.org, where you can find a treasure of free audiobooks. Because public domain works have no copyright in the United States, it is legal for anyone to use them or distribute them freely. The people at LibriVox volunteer to create the recordings on their home computers and offer them up for free. And because public domain status in the US is extended to pretty much all books published before 1923 (and some since then), there are a lot of great classics here to choose from.

If you still prefer your literature in wood pulp format, there's a way you can get your books for next to free, provided you have a supply of old books you don't want anymore. At BookMooch you can trade books with other users, one for one. There's no money involved--just a simple point system. You create an inventory of books you're willing to give away on request. When you send one off you get a point, which you can then redeem by requesting any book from anyone else's inventory. This simple economy doesn't recognize any difference in books' monetary values: a book's a book. So if you're selective enough (and quick enough at checking your e-mail notices), you can get away with trading your old paperback copy of Jane Eyre for a hardcover volume of The Lord of the Rings. Or you can forget how much the books are worth and just get yourself some good reading material.

Happy hunting!

Wow, I am still alive for those of you who may be wondering.

So to start today I will want to point everybody's attention to what took place last night in Detroit. Complete domination of a basketball game by Lebron James. I will say this, I am not a huge fan of James, yet I was mystified by his play last night. Did anyone else out there think there was any way one player could score all his teams points in two overtimes, against a team as good as the Pistons, and still win the game. That is the type of performance every kid dreams about. Leading his team to victory.

The most amazing part to me was the way Lebron handled his victory. He handled it with a lot of grace and seemed to understand that they had to win one more game. When he was interviewed after the game he gave the pistons absolutely no bulletin board material. If you didn't know the score you might have even thought that Cleveland had lost. His interview was filled with grace, humility and maturity. Pretty good for a 22 year old who had just put together one of the greatest playoff performances ever.

Now of course I will move from Lebron, something I enjoy, to Boston fans, something by which I am annoyed.

Please shut up Celtics fans. I know, you completely tanked your season. You did whatever you could to end up with one of the top two picks, but that wasn't good enough was it. You waited all draft day to see which pick you could get. You dreamed all day of Oden and Durant. Oh, the places you could have gone with them. You were thinking you may get another Russel or Bird. However the lottery balls did not go your way. Instead they went to my team, Portland. Of course all you hear now is how the Celtics and the Grizzlies, who had the best chance of getting the first pick and slipped to fourth, say how horrible the lottery is and that it needs to be changed. Of course those teams are quick to forget who had the worst record last year and still managed to slip out of the top three. Of course what team was that? Portland.

So while Boston fans, because really I don't hear much from the Grizz, talk about how the lottery may have been the worst day in sports . . . ever, it really wasn't. So Celtics fans need to chill out. I suggest maybe you jump off a bridge to do so. I mean you were planning on doing that anyway, right? Well the Red Sox are first in the division.

Next, does Stephen A. Smith annoy anyone else. While he was talking about Kobe Bryant asking to be traded and then not be traded or desiring to be traded or then not wanting to be, Mr. Smith decided that the best way to make his weak point was to yell louder. This has got to be the worst method of arguing ever. Michael Wilbon, who I love, made a good point that Kobe needed to stick with the Lakers because the Lakers stuck with him when he was charged with Rape. The Lakers made every accomodation they could for him even though they could have easily told him he was on his own. Now, Kobe sees things getting difficult in L.A. and he wants out. Kobe is selfish and doesn't want to have to be in a tough situation. So he wants to get everything his way like the spoiled child he is. Of course Mr. Smith wanted to make his point that Kobe should bolt, because he could yell louder than Wilbon. So please learn how to argue Stephen A., and don't make your point by yelling louder.

Lastly, is anyone else excited for college football? I sure as heck am.