Friday

Well, I was just so busy yesterday that I didn't get around to posting anything. Being retired is a full-time job. The big news in my life is that I have been notified that I passed my gardening final test and am now an official Master Gardener trainee. This means that I am fit to work with the community through the garden center. The Seafood King, Seafood Jr. and I played golf yesterday. Some Guy Named Bob was away in a famous American city, where he was annoying his relatives. He will be back soon. Two things worth noting happened yesterday at the golf course. More correctly, didn't happen. I didn't start any trouble and I didn't suck. Our weather has turned cool, so we had a fabulous time. Of course, by cool I mean the high temperature was in the seventies, which most wouldn't think of as cool by November standards. Our coldest month is January, when the daytime high averages sixty-three degrees and the highest is June, when the average daytime high is ninety-nine. You have to take the good with the bad. My friend Greg and I went to the University of Arizona football game last night. It was played on a Thursday to accommodate ESPN, which really means to make a boatload of extra cash. The game time weather was cool and breezy and our team beat one of our arch-rivals, the University of Oregon, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Nike Corporation. Former University of Oregon athlete and Nike founder, Phil Knight pours millions into Oregon's athletic programs. In the end it was a joyous victory for our team, but a mini-tragedy for the quarterback for the Oregon team. The kid suffered a serious knee injury early in the game and may be out for the balance of the year. This development casts doubts on his future in the pros, as well as winning college footballs' highest award, the Heisman Trophy. This player, Dennis Dixon, is so good that after he went out the Oregon team never had a chance to win the game. It is rare to see one player affect his team's play so much. It takes away a bit from our hometown team's effort, to know that without this injury, the outcome probably would have been different. But, if one team had to get a horrible break, better Oregon than Arizona. Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky