Sunday....UPDATED

Had to make a change in the Home Page photo again.  That snow is depressing!  I considered the Coors Light twins in honor of my Big Game (non-Super Bowl) party, but why needlessly poke the sexual harrassment pinata?

The Augie game last night was a bummer, but it just goes to show that you need to bring your game every night.  Way too many empty possessions (15 turnovers), and no solid answer to Carthage's zone defense.  Not too difficult to project that Augie will see that 2-3 zone (or varieties thereof) the rest of the year.  The boys will need to consistently make some three's to make the other teams pay for packing it in in the paint.

The Winniferous and I did fine during her visit.  Probably 8 miles of walk/running over the 23 hours she was here.  But she's way too needy for me.  I'm thinking that 2 may spoil her.

They've been making noise this week from Dallas that the Super Bowl belongs only in warm-weather climates.  That observations begs the question, "What qualifies as a warm-weather climate?"  I'm thinking that Glendale would qualify, but the Phoenix Open has been fighting frost delays all this week at the TPC course in Scottsdale.  Does Orlando make the cut?  Iowa fans froze last year at the Orange Bowl.  I'm guessing that the reports are all being fed by the San Diego Convention Bureau. Maybe New Orleans.

A bit of conversation in recent days at coffee has been the opening of a new shop just down the street from my regular Starbuck's.  Dunn Brothers is a chain (not one I have heard of), and the local franchisee is a client of my pal Bill.  The shop serves some fresh sandwiches in addition to all of the coffee drinks.  I'm sure that they will pull some customers, and they have a drive-thru which some people like.  The owners are good people.  I hope that they make it.

4's post from yesterday mentioned some of our tenetative travel plans for August.  Bilbao, Spain looks like the preferred port-of-entry for our trip.  Pau (pronounced "Po") may be our staging point for our venture into the Pyrenees from the French side of the mountains.  Lourdes will be one of the towns we check out, maybe on bikes.  Airline tickets may be purchased as early as this week.

I'm going ahead and posting this with the idea that I'll add a little more later this evening. 

LATER...

I failed to watch much of the Big Game, or the commercials.  So Green Bay wins.  Does this mean anything to anyone?  Does anyone care?  Anyone?  Bueller?

Next up on the national sports stage will be the progression toward March Madness.  The power conferences are now in the second half of league games, and then you have the conference tournaments, followed by The Big Dance.  Sure, there'll be a few stories on NASCAR, Tiger, and the low rumbles of Spring Training, but in the next couple of weeks, all the talk will move to, 1) Who's on the bubble?, 2) Where will Duke be seeded?, and 3) Which is really the toughest conference?  Pretty sure that I couldn't care less to the answers to those and dozens of other equally inane questions.

Had a friend/client scheduled to tour the pyramids in Egypt next week.  Cruising the Mediterranean.  Now headed to Turkey in the alternative.  All travel is a pain in the butt.  (2 may differ on that point.)  The farther you have to go, the more variables come into play.  Doubt if Richard had an uprising in Cairo on his radar screen when he made the reservations.

OK.  Off to bed.  Busy week ahead.  Lots of balls in the air this time of year.  Good luck to all.  Play some Glad Game when it seems like the lions have all the Christians on the run.

BCOT