Quotation of day

"The Baylor coach has no class like Pat and Holly." --Tenn. fan blog

Hear, hear! Calls went Baylor's way all night, to tune of 24-14. So blame the refs. Right. An embarrassing champion, good riddance.

Baylor loses!

Rejoice! The mother of all dances! Nothing to top this. Of course, they are bad sports about it. No big shocker. B were 24 pt favs ha ha ha! And all their sour grapes at the press conf after, no class.

Tentative conclusion

Unless you are escaping from a burning building or leaping out of the way of an oncoming train, I can't figure out why anyone should be in a hurry to do anything.

Baseball!

Ah, the last slow dance begins tonight. Got my Fire app installed and ready to go, audio for all games. Ready!

Scrapple

Done and looking good. You know it's a good day when you make scrapple!

Magic mower

I have a classic Scotts push mower and, man, they don't make them like this any more. Got her oiled and ready to go - and mowed the tallest grass in the back forty. About killed me but the machine was working beyond the call of duty. Want to do another section today, two tomorrow, and I'll be caught up. And breakfast with Mark tomorrow.

Horse racing

Season now in earnest, Santa Anita Derby next weekend, always a biggie growing up ... the Triple Crown ahead.

The horse population has better manners than many human jocks ha ha. Swift notwithstanding.

WD-40

Time to oil the push mower and give it a test run. May have to hire a power guy for the first mowing.

Delaware lost.

New batch of scrapple on the stove. Take H to a funeral later.

Only dance step left that would excite me is Baylor losing. To anyone.

UCLA woes

The Bruins have a new bball coach. But the alumni blogs agree the problem, and in fball too, has been the AD.

There's a delicious rumor afloat: USC is courting the fired UCLA coach. Talk about revenge!

Time to root for Delaware.

Meet the Martian

So now they are talking about lowering the basket in women's bball. They should be raising the basket in the men's game!

Maybe I should start following chess again.

Bye, guys...

...it's been fun. Nobody left. 3 teams left in women's dance.

Come on, baseball!

Last chance

FGulf is my last interest in men's dance. Nike did better than I expected. 3 #1s gone. Weavers raised my spirits. Hope to do a bit of outside work tomorrow. Syllabus done. Onward.

Nike U

Not a chance unless they shoot sixty and L forty. Game try surely but out manned big time.

Funk

Just a wee one...at least did grunt work part of syllabus...a short hour left of small changes ... has Chris Connor put me in a funk? Never, or never before but she sounds especially sad today. ...need games to start and distract me...maybe it's how seldom I am warm in my old age - and iced coffee has nothing to do with it. Desert dreams, sigh.

Digital Grab: Corporate Power Has Seized the Internet | Common Dreams

Digital Grab: Corporate Power Has Seized the Internet | Common Dreams:

"“Most assessments of the Internet fail to ground it in political economy; they fail to understand the importance of capitalism in shaping and, for lack of a better term, domesticating the Internet,” says Robert W. McChesney in his illuminating new book, Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy."

No one should be surprised by this. It's a very old pattern.

The University Of Louisville Is Everything That's Wrong With College Basketball | ThinkProgress

The University Of Louisville Is Everything That's Wrong With College Basketball | ThinkProgress:

"Major college sports operate in a perverse system that generates billions of dollars a year off the backs of free labor, and both Kentucky and Louisville are willing participants. But if no basketball program does a better job of making the system look ridiculous than Kentucky, perhaps no basketball program is right now doing a better job of epitomizing the lies on which that system is built than Louisville."

I have yet to see anyone discuss the most simple and quickest "fix" for college sports: GET RID OF SPORTS SCHOLARSHIPS. Here's a switch: let's turn colleges into institutions of learning!

But what about the great jocks? Don't worry, they'll be taken care of by the pro teams that should be taking care of them in the first place. Right now pro teams love the free farm system handed them by colleges and universities.

15, 20

15th wedding anniversary, 20 years together this summer. A celebration at an Italian restaurant in Carlton, a little town we discovered on a drive through wine country some years ago. Taking Sketch, of course. He's family. A charming little town - and before the tourists (like us) invade.

A new book of poems?

If this rhythm continues through the spring, I may have enough poems for a new book. Need 50 good ones, about 75 to get them. We'll see what happens.

Home sweet home

Back from a full morning of health related chores from one end of the city to the other. Now for a little mellowness. Making blackeyed peas.

A very large Starbucks

Near the clinic...this place is huge and busy...rather like it this morning...H having a bad day...figures in a zero sum universe...I feel great, she not. What can you do?

Avoid negative energy. Today's mantra.

p.s. the reader not the Fire now, better suited for this.