Last weekend of September

Saturday Morning 25 September ... I saw my 1st Christmas decorations for sale in a store yesterday and it's still 3 months out. Give me a break, the first day of Autumn was two days ago.

I am checking out the news, both national and local, on the computer and listening to TexasExileRadio (and sometimes switching to RadioFreeTexas.org).  I have heard some Jimmy Buffet, Midwezt, and some Deadstring Brothers in the last few minutes, plus a cut from Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline album.


Two headlines in my "Seriously, who gives a shit" category this AM ... Lindsey Lohan freed from LA jail (AGAIN) after posting bail and Pictures (a slideshow in court, no less) show the last months of Anna Nicole Smith. Is this NEWS ??? If Lohan was a "normal" person, she'd already have served a year and would probably have a year still to do. And as to the late Ms Smith, she was an artificially enhanced Trailer Trash slut with no class, who would do anything for money and her 15 minutes of fame.


By WEATHER UNDERGROUND, For The Associated Press
     The forecast for noon, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010, shows a low pressure system skirts over the Great Lakes and pushes a front down the East Coast. Ample moisture from the Gulf of Mexico allows for scattered showers and thunderstorms to develop along the front. A cold front was expected to keep kicking up showers as it swept toward the East Coast. A low pressure system over the Great Lakes was forecast to continue moving eastward, and was expected to pull a cold front with it. The front was forecast to stretch from the Northeast over New England and into the Southeast.  You people really have weather. According to the National Weather Service:

The forecast for Tucson is:
Sunny ... at 9:02 am it's 81°F / Feels Like 80°F. For today it's High: 102°F / Low:  73°F / Humidity:  32%  (that's high for us) 

The Forecast for Baltimore [cousin Dean] is:
Partly Cloudy ... at 9:42 am it's 87°F / Feels Like 89°F. For today it's High: 85°F (but .. it's 87 already?) / Low:  57°F / Humidity:  44% They're calling for rain on Monday.

The Forecast for Ft Worth [Mickey/Valdez] is: 
Rain ... at 9:02 am it's 71°F / Feels Like 73°F Today - High 86°F / Low 65°F 

The Forecast for Apple Valley, Mn [Sheryl] is:
Cloudy ... 9:42 am it's 50°F / Feels Like 55°F. For today it's High: 58°F / Low:  37°F / Humidity:  87%  

The Forecast for Rocky Mount, NC [Jean and Les] is:
Sunny ... at 10:02 am it's 92°F / Feels Like 95°F. Today it's High: 92°F (and there already, I think it'll get hotter) / Low:  62°F Humidity:  39%   They look like Arizona numbers, but they're calling for rain the next two days.

Political leanings are much the same, the First Lady did call on non-profit organizations to utilize our nation's veterans' expertise. I think that they would rather have real jobs, I mean they ALREADY volunteered.

No new jokes have come in that tickled my funny bone beyond a smirk. But got a cute VW commercial from Europe about a Muslim terrorist who tries to blow himself and car up at a sidewalk cafe, but the explosion is contained inside the VW ... small but tough is the tagline.

Today is our weekly Shuffleboard Tournament at American Legion Post 36 ... w/ Jack and Trudy (our #1 Brit), Gary and Gert, Howard and Joan, Wild Bill, McQ, Jo and whoever else shows. Commander Butch and Ms Marie are still in Waxahachie, TX until Tuesday. After shuffleboard, it's home for movies and each other. I have been really busy at the Post the last couple of days. Our printer went down and the cost of repair would have been more than the price of a new one. So, I purchased a new one, got it set up, and showed the secretary the ins and outs of the new one. I still have to go in in the next couple of days to do my Finance Officer stuff.

The UofA Wildcats play the Cal Golden Bears tonight at 1900 hrs in Tucson. My UofA Flag is hanging outside the apartment as usual. We're 3-0 going for 4-0.

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Sunday AM ... the UofA is 4-0, but the offense played badly. Most of the fans had left the stadium when we marched 77 yards down the field for the game's ONLY TD and added an extra point to win 10-9. Getting ready for the NFL all day. Will the Cowboys lose to the Texans (gawd, I hope so) and go to 0-3? Yesterday's scores had a few surprises, but the biggest was Texas losing to (our PAC 10 member) UCLA. Also ... PAC 10 school Stanford beat the hated Irish of Notre Dame. Go PAC 10 ... next year's PAC 12!

My Picks for Today: upset of the week: Falcons over the Saints / Colts over the Broncos /49er's over the Chiefs / Ravens over the Browns / Texans over the Cowboys /... other winners - Giants, Dolphins, Patriots, Bengals, Tampa Bay, Vikings, Redskins, Eagles, Seahawks, and Bears (over Hilda's team, Green Bay). Check it out, I've been pretty good so far this year.

Well, must go GAMEDAY is on.