Harley Sportster

Rode a motorcycle for the first time in the 2 1/2 years since we were hurt. It felt good.

I'm thinking about letting this blogspot die off and shifting over to Facebook. My blogspot audiovisual wizard has lost interest because she has two jobs and a life, and I'm not smart enough to do it myself. So....if you haven't already,let's move to Facebook. Thanks for caring.

Major League Baseball

I'm no MLB fan, but this Oakland pitcher, Dallas Braden, who pitched a perfect game the other day is my kind of guy. He is a blue-collar journeyman player who throws in the low 80's and calls it a fast ball. I love it when a regular guy does something huge. You can have your Tiger & Michael Jordan and all the other superstars who deliver awesome performances. Give me Dallas Braden, who gets it done with limited tools in his toolbox...with no warning it was coming. To top it all off and seal the deal with me, Dallas yelled at A-Rod the other day to get off his blankety-blank mound when A made the mistake of jogging over it. You gotta love it.

Octopi

Saw the coolest thing on TV. This guy put a freshly captured octopus (A) in a tank with a crab in a clear plastic box. The octopus didn't even try to get at the tasty morsel. Then, the guy put the crab-in-a-box in an adjacent water tank with an octopus who had figured out how to open the plastic box, which he did immediately, and happily crunched on the little crab. Octopus A jumped to the side of his tank with a WTH look in his bulbous eyes. When the guy gave him another chance at the crab-in-a-box, Octopus A was on it like he had seen Octopus B do...and was able to pop a cover and get at the crab. Amazing.
I can't look at octopi on a Chinese buffet without thinking that maybe we shouldn't be eating something that teachable.

Willie Nelson...

...is an icon in the business and we all love him. I mean no disrespect... is it just me...or is he almost always ahead of the music by a half-beat when he's on-stage ? You ever notice that? His recordings are dead-on perfect and will be playing 50 years from now, but his producers and arrangers can't control him on-stage. We watched a live performance last night and I have to say...the American Idol judges would have found him "pitchy" (which he isn't) and most likely would not have voted him on to Hollywood.

Rescue dogs

We've been looking at dogs that are available for adoption. It is hard on me to look into a dogs eyes that are full of hope that I would be the one to take him out of that cage. Some of them have figured out that good eye contact increases their odds of being picked. But what about the ones who won't look up, even when talked to ? They won't waste the energy on what they believe is a useless effort at attracting an owner. They've lost hope. That ain't right.

Pop tarts...

...come with cooking directions which is one minute in a vertical toaster. As an alternative, it says on the box you can stick one in a microwave for 3 seconds. If a person cannot spare ONE minute in his morning to brown a poptart, he might want to think about loosening up his schedule. Just sayin'.

Sunglasses indoors

I don't understand sunglasses indoors. Professional entertainers love 'em. Cool athletes love 'em. I've heard Bill Cosby has a sensitivity to light and I totally get that. Absent an eye problem, sunglasses indoors seem pretentious to me. If that is the ultimate goal, we need to aim higher.