Celtics tickets and Beatles tunes

Read 'em and weep, boys! My tickets for the Boston Celtics-Philadelphia 76ers basketball game on March 24th arrived in the mail today. They're not cheap (though the cheapest I could find), but I gotta get my NBA fix every now and then. I'm positively giddy about the remainder of this year's NBA season: there have been a host of spectacular trades (Kidd to the Mavs! Gasol to the Lakers! Shaq to the Suns! Ben Wallace et al to the Cavs!), and for the first time in a few several years I feel there's no clear favorite to win it all. I'm hoping for a Celtics-Lakers vintage rematch in the Finals (which would be Commissioner David Stern's wet dream for marketing purposes), but logic would dictate that we are more likely to see a Detroit Pistons-San Antonio Spurs matchup as these are still the teams with the most playoff experience.

In other news, I'm looking forward to rediscovering the Beatles after the recent announcement that the full Beatles catalogue will be hitting iTunes shortly. I just purchased the "Across the Universe" soundtrack and though it's pretty good, it's still a far cry from the originals.

Life is good this week. I'm on the outpatient V.A. service, meaning that I mostly see veterans in an outpatient clinic setting. And therefore have time to catch up on the important things in life, such as following NBA basketball and making mental lists of my favorite Beatles songs (Blackbird, Hey Bulldog, Dear Prudence, Rocky Raccoon).