Shalom (Hello) to the Blog!

If you are close to me, you are well aware that I have a lot of extra time on my hands now that I live in the motherland.  Lifting four times a week in the gym, and going to the court in the morning for extra shots still leaves an inordinate amount of time for me until our daily 8pm practices.  There are only so many American TV shows I can catch up on, or video games that I can play before I get pretty damn bored.  Constantly thinking of ways to keep myself busy, I came across some blogs on the Internet, and thought to myself, 'Why not??'  So from now on, starting with this first post on October 18th, I decided I am going to start my own blog, and talk about whatever the hell I want, when I want.  I titled my blog, 'Basketball and Life in Israel,' because that's what I'm going to write about.  I am not limiting myself to only 'hoops' related topics, because if I did that, I would be cheating everyone as well as myself in terms of sharing my different experiences over here in Israel.  My goal for this blog is to keep all my people back in the states a way to keep up with me, a way for me to share my different adventures as I acclimate myself with an incredible and different country, and most of all, a way to give my friends who have 'real jobs' a 15 minute span of joy as they sneak away to my blog at their work desk.  Thanks for reading, and come back soon.  Shalom.