Happenings In Charlotte

Greetings once again.  Just thought I’d share a few tidbits of info from happenings here, and elsewhere.

1. As usual, I did my normal Saturday morning shopping.  This went off without incident, but did find me shopping for coloring books.  No, not for me.  My coloring is fine, thank you.  This is for Corin, who has a birthday coming up.  And just for the record, Ann, she’s getting some stickers, too.  However, not quite the number Emma got a couple years ago.


2. I think I saw the world’s dumbest bee in the backyard this morning.  It kept flying headfirst into the house.  It would then fly about 8 feet away so that it could make another run.  It wasn’t even hitting the window (for the most part, though it did a couple of times).  It kept flying into the siding.  I figure if I go look outside again in a couple hours, it will probably be lying on the patio from too many self-inflicted concussions.


3. Speaking of dumb, earlier this week, I saw a comment from a University of Kentucky spokesperson that kind of blew me away:  “Fans are not allowed to interact with recruitable student athletes,” Kentucky athletics spokesman Scott Stricklin said Wednesday. “We had to report that to the NCAA.”  First off, isn’t any high school athlete considered a recruitable athlete?  Secondly, is Scott saying that high school athletes cannot have contact with fans or friends?  If so, shouldn’t high schools be playing in empty gyms?  You can click on the quote to link to the story.  So in other words, if I want to mess up some school’s reporting of a kid, I should try to interact with them, but tell them I’m a Duke fan.  Then Duke will need to report that to the NCAA as a possible recruiting violation.  This could get fun.


4. Earlier today, Floyd Landis pretty much wrapped up winning the Tour de France.  While there is still technically 1 more stage tomorrow, historically, this is a formality with no actual “racing” taking place.  For those of you who didn’t see Floyd’s comeback on Thursday, you missed one hell of an impressive comeback by a guy who looked dead in the water (or on the road) the day before.  I think I’ve even got Casey hooked on watching it now.


5. I got to spend a good part of the week checking statements at work.  This is about my least favorite thing to do at TNG.  There’s got to be a better way for this process to work.  


6. Papa John’s has been running a Buy One, Get One Free promotion lately.  Needless to say, I’ve been stocking up.  Sure, pizza isn’t the healthiest thing in the world for you, but when you can get 8 meals for $13.01 (assuming you pick it up yourself), how can you let that go?


7. Good news!  It’s not supposed to hit 90 today.  I think my air conditioner finally got a bit of a break after running for the better part of the last 8 days.

That’s it for this time.  I’m off to play a Boston-Cleveland game in my ’75 replay.  It’s the first game I’ll have played in about 2 months.  And remember:  BOSTON SUCKS!!