Has the NBA Lockout Left You Bored?

If so, here are 5 things to do in the meantime...

1. Call a friend to chat.  You know your friends--no, not the ones on facebook; the others ones.  Give one of them a call. And if they're close enough, call to see if you can drop by to visit.
2. Read a book.  Once upon a time there were these things called books. They consisted of pages, and people read them... I bet that if you read one, you'd feel noticeably calmer after just thirty minutes.
3. Walk to Starbucks or to your favorite local coffee shop.  Reason #1:  You'll burn more calories walking than you would watching Kobe run. Reason #2: You're gonna need to burn those calories 'cause your favorite coffee drink probably has more calories than you care to count.
4. Play a game of pick-up basketball at your local community park or gym.  Or maybe join a league. My cousin joined a league to lose her baby weight, and she's becoming a lean, mean, baby-slinging baller!
5. Think...of something else that you could do. What would you like to do with the two hours that you won't spend watching grown men dribble balls for millions?