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In honor of Shark Week, I’m taking a few days off from the job to work on some personal stuff. Let us discuss Shark Week for a few moments.

Sharks are fascinating because they are killing, eating machines. They have no qualms or guilt about eating.

They are the Chuck Norris of the sea.

I am very odd about the ocean and lakes. I love the water but fish weird me out.

When I was a kid my parents took us to Paris Landing. I had a $1 scuba mask. Now, if you have been swimming at Paris Landing, there are these jagged, angry rocks that are in the shallows that tear the hell out of your feet. But I went bounding in anyway with great enthusiasm and abandon with my little mask sitting atop my face.

And then I went under and saw all the catfish. I have to tell you, I walked on water getting out.

Fish freak me out. It’s their world not mine.

And catfish are UGLY.

You may be saying, “Newscoma, how can you discriminate against catfish?”

I can and I do discriminate against them. So there. Sue me. You also may be wondering why I’m comparing catfish to sharks when there is no known connection.

I don’t know but in some odd yet disturbing way, it makes sense to me.

But I still love shark week.

A therapist would have a field day with me.

Image credit from National Geographic

Badger and I watched Barack Obama’s speech yesterday. We livestreamed it and sat in the advertising office. Usually with things like this, I keep one eye on the computer and one eye on tasks that I’m doing.

I didn’t work on the other tasks as I watched Obama’s speech in Berlin. You couldn’t help but just sit and watch.

I cannot recall in my lifetime a speech from a candidate for any office give a speech like that. He didn’t sound like a candidate at all.

He sounded like a leader.

Obama is smart. There is no doubt. He has the world’s stage this week. And he did well.