Thursday

There's a frost warning here tonight.  Glad I haven't set any of the plants out.  My Perfect Neighbor's wife has a bunch of things covered.  She couldn't resist getting an early start on her annuals with this warm weather.  Now she's grousing about the possible frost.  Another example of how doing nothing has worked out for me.

 I missed the show girls at the Marlins-Cards game last night.  By the time I turned to the broadcast, they were wheeling in Ali.  That was not a pretty sight.  And what's his connection to Miami?  I thought he grew up in Loo'ville?  He who used to float like a butter-fly, and sting like a bee, is barely a shadow of his old self.

Any guesses on the blow-back from the news coming out of Fayetteville that football Coach Bobby Petrino (age 50+, married with four kids) had a female passenger on his Harley when he lost control on a county road earlier this week?  Even if he's innocent, he's got some 'splainin' to do.  Doesn't sound like there are any DUI or other operator improprieties.  His walkback on this one will give the bloggers and comedians lots of material. I don't think that it's a fire-able offense in and of itself, but his bosses will remind him of just how much character counts.  A second mis-step and he'll be coaching the defensive line at D-II Directional State.

UPDATE:  Wow!  That didn't take long.  Petrino has been put on paid leave by Arkansas.  He admits to an "inappropriate relationship".  Hmmm.  Maybe he won't make it.  When the Philistines got to the gate, Penn State gave up Paterno.

Speaking of coaches with a wandering eye, Larry Eustachy, formerly of Iowa State, has made a solid home in Conference USA at Southern Mississippi.  He got his squad into the tournament this year, losing by 6 to K-State in the first-round.  (Now, he did lose his job by partying with the coeds, but those pictures went viral in a flash, and he was toast.)

Holy Thursday is a big day of ritual in the Catholic Church.  I think that the girls participated in the feet-washing protocol a couple of times.  Then we have Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday.  The markets are closed tomorrow, but we'll be working due to the crush of April 15th returns.  Does anyone still abstain from eating meat on Good Friday?

Good luck to 3 and Herky in their travels tomorrow.  I had the Buick cleaned up for their loaner, but I guess HOOPDRM has been the designated ride for the weekend.  Maybe we'll have pics here tomorrow from the doings in Tipton and IC.

Political correctness run amok:  some school in Massachusetts made a decision to remove the word "God" from Lee Greenwood's signature anthem, "God Bless the USA".  Unbelievable.  I don't hold out much hope for our country when we have leaders who seem so oblivious to the fundamentals that built our great nation.  Religious freedom was one of the reasons the pilgrims came here, right?  Does that now get twisted to mean that the Christians need to keep it to themselves so that we don't offend all the other who-knows?

Make it a good Good Friday.

BCOT