Because of several circumstances beyond my control, I find myself a first-time homeowner. It’s fairly exciting and I’m glad to finally have something that I can put time and money into and actually expect some return. There are few things in life that even offer the possibility on the return of your effort. Sex and homeownership are the only two that really come to mind. Matter of fact, over the past few days, those are the only 2 things that have been on my mind at all.

The gipper behind this house purchase is that I have never seen the house. Never driven by it. Never seen a picture of it. Don’t even really know the road that it is on. My wife picked it out and told me about it and I trust her. Now to some, that would sound like 1) I don’t give a shit or 2) I am severely pussy-whipped. Well, neither is true. The fact of the matter is that we had to find a place and move all within the past week. The situation we were living in and that my wife was working in won’t sour overnight. We had to get the hell out.

I find myself sitting here at the office wondering how to get to my new home. It’s a bizarre feeling, but I have had it before when I found myself standing in the train station in Amsterdam. It’s a nice sense of empowerment to know that an entire city, a fresh start is laid out before and it’s yours for the taking. Opportunities like this come along once in a while, sometimes we are succesful with them. Sometimes, they crush us under their weighty possibilities.

But as my second religion, college football starts up, I am reminded of this phrase: That’s why they play the games.