Softball!!!

I heard where the Lady Vols were in the College World Softball Series, or whatever they call it. Congrats.

And in a weird coincidence...San Jacinto College, our local powerhouse JUCO got whupped in the JUCO College World Series by.....Walters State. This is the first time I've seen Walters State in our paper. But don't worry, the Ravens will eventually prevail. Any Team that can boast alumni of Andy Pettite and Roger Clemens can't be all bad.

Here's a sports shot that I "postcarded". It's my favorite photo effect these days.

I'm lazy in the posting department too. It's summer, give me some slack.

Postcard from the edge

A nice shot of the Texas State Capitol, and "stylized" to look like an old postcard. Not bad if I say so myself....

On This Day

In 1813, composer Richard Wagner was born in Germany. Later on in his career he went to work for Sears and invented the electric painting machine.

Would You Have Croaked??

I heard from one of my French friends at work about the Marie Antoinette post. He said back in them days the average life expectancy in France was 30. So the fact they got married at 15 put them smack in middle age. 30. That would make me....well....above average.

I suppose anything out of the ordinary killed you back then. A bad drink of water, a broke toe that gets infected, appendicitis, a beheading, etc...

We forget that modern medicine keeps us going long after normal things would've had us planted in the bone garden. For me, it could've been appendicitis, a broke arm, pnuemonia, and probably a few flu's. Would you have still been around in the 1700's???

On this day....

Way back in 1770, 14 year old Marie Antoinette married the future King Louis who was only 15. Who knew the French Royalty and Tennessee hillbillies had so much in common?

From the "Wow, I'm old" department... Olga Korbut turns 51 today.

And of course, the final three perform on American Idol tonight. Will it be Taylor, Elliot, or Katherine? I get goose bumps just thinking about it.

Whut?

Whew! I ate some really bad anchovy laced pizza late last night. And it didn't sit well. In fact, I woke up in a cold sweat about 3:00am. I had the worst nightmare that really, really scared me.

I dreamed that Chris got voted off American Idol instead of McPheever, Elliot or Taylor. And Reggie Bush was subbing for Ryan Seacrest. The Idol Panel consisited of Charley Casserly, Bob McNair and Vince Young. I bolted up out of bed screaming...

What's up with these choices? Chris was the obvious winner. Obvious. And now he's out? What's the world coming too?

Happy Anniversary

Just the other day (March) I passed a full year of doing this blog. Then it seemed I hit writers block bigtime. I'm doing some self reflection personalization now to see whether I want to continue. A year is a long time but it's become part of my routine.

The second part is I ramble a lot and I just don't think it's that interesting. We'll see.

Summer Coming

Baseball is winding down and we are headed for our full blown summertime here very soon. We had some hail yesterday and thunderstorms today. You can tell it's a slow day when I'm talking about the weather.

The lightning bugs haven't returned.

Amazing Lightning Bugs

Saw the oddest thing last night. According to my neighbors, we don't have many lightning bugs here because the fire ants eat the eggs that are layed on the ground. I have seen a lightning bug only once in Texas.

Last night my better half was headed to the store late and she hollered for us to come outside. There were two lightning bugs that we watched for about 15 minutes. But they were definetly different than the Tennessee version. In Big Orange Country they blink slowly and dimly. They sort of glow.

These two buggers blinked very brightly and fast. It looked more like one of those LED bicycle lights. You could see them a long way off and they looked much bigger than the Tennessee version. It would've been breathtaking had there been a field full of them instead of just two. Anybody ever heard about fast blinking, very bright bugs? They were the standard amber green. Anybody who ever lived down here seen lightning bugs at their place?

Sinus Surgery

Ok,....so the actual surgery didn't really hurt that much. Just uncomfortable. The nightmare part came yesterday during the followup visit. The Doc stuck the 7 foot probe up there and cleaned out all the packing and dried stuff. You know, cleaning the wound.

Sometimes he had a camera and tongs up there, sometimes a camera and vacumn cleaner, once he even inserted a small elf to pick up some pieces. The probe was approximately 7 feet long, it could've been a foot or two longer I'm not sure. Once I felt it bang into the back of my head when he pushed it a little too hard.

He'd do it for 30 minutes or so until I passed out. Then he'd let me rest a few minutes and start again. In the doctors office at 9:30. Out of the office at 1:30. Rod stuck up my nostril in between.

All in all...just like a couple of root canals with no anesthesia. And the best part???? He has to finish it up next week.

North Carolina Whut?

If'n you had told me 6 weeks ago that the Texans wouldn't get Bush or Young I would've been upset that they traded away the number 1 pick. But I was blown away that they actually decided not to take either one and took some guy from NC State. A nice fella mind you, but I hadn't heard of him 6 weeks ago. And he plays defense for goodness sakes.

It feels like we frittered away our pick. Like we really got the number 4 pick or something. I'm in shock and I don't really like pro football that much myself. Wow, this is going to be interesting to see how it works out. It will be painful every time Bush or Vince scores.

And nothing personal, but he made highlight reels in the ACC. Not the Big 12, SEC or even the Big 10. The ACC basketball conference. He sacked Maryland's quarterback. He sacked Wake Forest's quarterback. He might've been able to sack Vanderbilt's quarterback, or maybe one of the Kansas's quarterbacks. He would've been awesome in the Mountain West I bet.

I told you I was in shock....