Saturday

Very low-key day up here in the TC.

Anyone notice the "wolf" moon last night? There were several stories on the wires about the why's and wherefore's. Check out News on Google for the details. No question that it was bigger/brighter than average. The pic is not mine. (Duh!) Pretty cool.

1.01 has been the star of the weekend. She sleeps a lot. 1 had her at the doc this morning for a routine follow-up check, and the report was 100% positive.

The Woodbury Gold's is a big place with lots of equipment and facilities. On a Friday night, I had to hunt to find an available treadmill at 5:30. And this morning, the place was packed. Predatory trainers. I'm going to try to do a spin class at 0800 tomorrow.

There's a little controversy on the PGA tour this week. And it doesn't involve Tiger's extra-marital activities. The Rules Committee made a change last year, effective for 2010, to bar wedges with square grooves, in an effort to control some of the technology that took lesser skill to work the ball. But they also had to recognize a 20-year-old ruling allowing the square-grooved Ping wedges manufactured prior to 1990.

Phil Michelson and a few other players are using the old wedges this week and are being called out as cheaters by some of the other players. The argument is that they aren't following the spirit of the new rules. I disagree. If the old wedges are okay, then it's not cheating, for crying out loud. I'm sure that Rick Reilly or others will opine on this in a column soon. You heard it here first.

Our wine last night included an Italian sangiovese that we had to take back this morning. The store that we shopped at had a real good selection, and I purposely picked out three bottles from Italy to tout my visit there last Fall. Unfortunately, none we especially memorable, and we should have stuck with J. Lohr. They gave us credit for the returned bottle, and we did replace it with J. Lohr.

Erin is in the house for the KU - K-State game tonight in Manhattan. Looks like I'll be finding out the score on-line as the TV has been switched to Miss America. My sight-unseen-prediction of Miss Texas stands no chance. (Spoke too soon...she made the semi-final 15.)

I normally have a good sense of direction, but I have not found True North for the stores and roads around 1's house. It's almost to the point where I feel like I should take the route in direct opposite of my instincts. Maybe Google Earth could help.

Toyota has some problems. Their PR guy took a page from the political book and has blamed George Bush.

More from the road tomorrow.

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