Sunday

The Thanksgiving weekend got off to a good start here on Saturday with 4 arriving for a week's visit to her old stomping grounds.  She is Daughter of the Day!  With 2 coming over for a function on Friday night, it was a mini fff.  We are all looking forward to the Harvest Path contingent getting here on Wednesday.

My weekend was dominated by my scheduled colonoscopy at oh-dark-hundred on Saturday morning.  Understand that this was not my first rodeo.  My pal Pete and I had been talking since late Summer about taking up the offer from my pal Cal to do a double header, and Saturday was the day.  Let me just say that the experience was everything that I remembered it to be from the last time.  The results: no problems, no worries.  "Nuff said on that.

Hard to believe that we were on The Strip this time a week ago.  Another vapor trail.

4 had requested Bloody Mary's as her drink of choice for watching the Hawkeye game yesterday afternoon.  Obviously, a good Bloody has always been one of my fav's.  So we loaded up with the fixin's at Hy Vee, including the fresh lime and celery.  @srh4 had a stray bottle of hot sauce in the fridge left over from a 1.1 effort.  Pepper. I'm thinking that we should add Worcestershire sauce next.  We had success.  Reinforcements were already required at today's grocery run.  Those go-cups that went to the movies last night with 2 and 4 might have been the reason for the vodka shortage today.

1 has volunteered for a Total Wine stop on the way to Bettendorf Wednesday.  I may take her up on it.

Yesterday was November 22nd.  The 51st anniversary of the Kennedy assassination.  Never saw it mentioned in the news reports or Internet pages yesterday.  For us Boomers, its a day that we don't forget.  Freshman biology class.

This is an article on a guy that Augustana College brought in for some Liberal love-fest to dump on the wealthy.  Among his professional credentials is a stop at the NYT.  Of course.  Now I agree, the tax system is totally screwed up.  I'm all for taking out the tax breaks for special-interest groups.  And get rid of all those obscure deductions and credits.  Lower the rates.  Tax more stuff.  But raising the minimum wage and opening the immigration pipeline will not help the long-term income disparity.  Socialists like this guy make me sick.  And where do they bring him to give him a forum?  To impressionable students who want to save the world.  No wonder our colleges turn out so many wimps.  http://www.qconline.com/news/local/tax-system-redistributing-wealth-to-the-wealthy/article_de700f99-fe8c-5d3e-8dc0-ff4a5b27e2a9.html  I, of course, have no opinion on this.

ND is on target for a 5-loss season...6 if they draw a credible opponent in a bowl game.  (I think I said here on the blog that 5 losses were possible even when they were still undefeated.)  The loss to Louisville yesterday was not really an upset.  ND's defense can't stop the Little Sisters of the Poor.  Then Coach Kelly threw his kicker under the bus in his post-game comments.  (He'd better walk those back this week.)  The game this week at USC will be one of two struggling programs.  That may not draw much of an audience.

(Side bar.  Louisville is coached by Bobby Petrino.  He's the guy who got caught in an affair while coaching at Arkansas when he had a motorcycle accident...with his substantially younger girlfriend on the backseat.  His subsequent firing led to 4's favorite coach, Bret Bielema, leaving Wisconsin for the Arkansas job.  Petrino is as prime of an example as you can get that winning is the only thing that counts in D-1 football.  The Louisville Board of Trustees had to swallow pretty hard when they let this guy come back.  At least I hope they swallowed hard.  Not that that matters.  Winning is the only thing that matters.  And Petrino can win football games.)

Hope everyone has a good start to the Turkey Day week.  Thanks for reading.

BCOT