The madness of King George

It's really strange if you spend some time a bit mad, or under the influence of very strange medicines, you understand that you may be a bit mad but feel there is a very strong difference between being totally insane and being fairly straightforward.

When the madness passes you realise that the space between sense and madness is really a very very thing line indeed, in the last few years we've all been exposed to the likes of Barry Egan and Brendan O'Connor on one hand, George Lee and David McWilliams on the other and Simon Cowell and Kerry Katona on a weird one and they have all been lauded as icons of sanity in a mad mad world.

It's a thin line alright, the thing about all mad people including King George is that they will never feel mad, Brendan O'Connor feels he's a rock of sense, maybe them weird medicines had something going for them after all.

and that's it!

It was interesting to watch Kilkenny obliterate Waterford yesterday, not interesting in a hurling sort of way but how it rewarded the Waterford players who shafted their manager Justin McCarthy back in June after refusing to try hard in their previous game against Clare.

It's also a credit to the Waterford county board who accepted this form of player power back in June and appointed the players nomination of Davy Fitzgerald and then took all the credit as they reached an All Ireland final, we now have an interesting situation, Cork will go on strike if they don't havbe a say in who the manager is, Waterford won't break a sweat unless they are happy with theirs, and this morning the Donegal footballers issued a statement about the county boards treatment of Brian McIvor and insisting that they should be involved in the selection of the new manager.

So the teams who are not screaming for their choice of a new manager would be the Kilkenny crew with Brian Cody and the Kerry lads with Pat O'Shea...... Interesting.

Full circle.

Ah well, to pick up where I left off I'm now heading for another Connacht game, it's interesting cos they are playing Ospreys so we'll get to see Jones, Williams and captain Hook.

Looking forward to it, I enjoyed the Ulster game too even though it took me a long time to get home.

That last post!

Holy God, the future is a strange thing!

I had little idea when writing the last post about leaving a philisophy to your kids, that little over a week later I'd be in a coma and having priests giving me the last rites.

Thankfully (I really mean that) I'm well on the road to normality and I don't appear to have anything ultrapermanent wrong, so my girls can feel the slight relief of having to put up with me for some years to come.

The philisophy is not as platitudinous as I would have feared, my current thoughts are

Appreciate things as much as possible, be careful what you take for granted.
Life is a combination of choices and chance, and we only have control over the choices.
The middle ground works a bit, overdoing something is not a good idea, but neither is neglecting it completely.

oh and pass no heed on those who are lifes "experts"