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I just read about this thing called the "Ewing Theory" that puts the idea out there that a superstar player isn't as important when he plays as when he sits.  Patrick Ewing never won a Finals trophy with the Knicks and it can be argued that the best they ever played was without him because of a torn achilles tendon.  It's a really cool thought.  It probably happens a lot.  A team will get totally psyched up and actually "overperform" with the star player on the sidelines.  It happened a few times with Lebron James this past season.  The Heat did fairly well with him on the bench in the finals only to blow it when he returned.  It doesn't happen every time but there are definitely times when the Ewing Theory makes sense.  I can see that happening in a lot of different things as well. Not just sports.  Single parents accomplishing the seemingly impossible tasks of raising children on their own comes to mind.  There's not a chance I could survive on my own as a single parent.  My wife does so much that it would be impossible for me to replace her.  I couldn't.  I'm not even talking on the emotional level of ever trying to "replace" her.  That's a totally different argument.  And I'm not in the mood to argue right now.  More in the mood to eat actually.  Woke up starving, still starving.  Not literally starving but metaphorically.  I'm not going to die because I haven't eaten.  On the contrary....I have enough reserves to last a couple weeks I'd say after the weekend I had, capped off by some delicious Mexican flavors from El Maguey.  Love that place.  Salsa = good.  Cheese = good.  Service = good.  Never had a bad time there.  At any location.  That's hard to do for a restaurant chain.  Very difficult indeed.  There are many times one location is better than others.  White Castle is notorious, in my opinion, for this.  The one in downtown St. Louis is probably one of the more dangerous places in the nation but dammit can they sling a slider.  So much better than a lot of the others in the St. Louis metropolitan area.  Don't get out of your car though.  Bad idea.  You're not going to killed (most likely not going to anyway) but you might think you could.  No one should feel safe in there.  And if someone does I feel sorry for them.  That's not a good way to live.  Living oblivious to fear and danger.  Yikes.  That would suck.  Life should be easier than that.  You should like your life because it's nice, it's safe, etc.  Not noticing you're in a shithole is okay, I guess, because you've accepted your way of life and made the best of it.  But you shouldn't.  It should just be better than that.  Not easier, but better.  Working for it is definitely part of the plan to being happy.  But working too hard can be bad too.  I'm definitely a fan of leisure.  Leisure makes me happy.  Doing nothing can be the best thing in the world.  Might do a little of that right now actually.....