Some sports thoughts

I love sports traditions. I can really get sucked into them. So I get excited every come Memorial Day Weekend. I love the traditions of the Indy 500. The row of bricks, the drink of milk, the singing of Jim Nabors... Wait a minute! Jim is sick and won't make the trip this year. For the first time since 1986 or as long as I can remember the race, Jim Nabors will not be singing "Back Home Again in Indiana". That was my favorite part of the prerace activities. Instead they are going to encourage the crowd to sing it. All I can say is get well soon Mr. Nabors I look forward to when you are back home again. You can hear Jim sing here.

The Pacers don't have a draft pick this year. They traded them all away. They also don't have a coach. I think it's the lowest they've been since I've been a fan. I don't really see things changing anytime soon either.

Nick Saban is showing his true colors at Alabama already. Looks like he's committed a recruiting violation already. It sounds like he was trying to talk a kid out of an early commitment to another university as well. That bugs me when coaches do that. Here is the story.

Problem

Our school has a new problem that I've never dealt with before. Some of the kids are video taping themselves doing stupid things. They are selling the video tapes. One of the stores in a local town is even renting it out. The kids seem to be doing things that are very dangerous. And other kids from the area are doing copycat stunts. Some of the kids from our youth group have admitted to stapling themselves, lighting themselves on fire, and branding themselves. The kids on the video have gone as far as nailing their elbows to blocks of wood. Somebody is going to get seriously hurt.

Dairy Queen

Yesterday I took one of our Jr. High boys out of school for lunch. We ended up stopping at Dairy Queen on the way home. They now have a chocolate dipped strawberries Blizzard that was really good. But anyways as I'm at the counter to order I notice a syringe on the counter. Talk about making me uncomfortable. I do not like syringes. Much less someone else's syringe. I poked at it with my dollar. It said something about insulin. I pointed it out to the girl working behind the counter. She was as uncomfortable as I was. She went to make a phone call but didn't touch it. Can't say that I blame her. It did have the point covered but I still wasn't touching it.

It's here and it's not as expensive as you think.

The technology for cleaning up cars is right under our noses. It shouldn't be about the price of oil but we should be finding an alternative fuel now for our environment. Unfortunately, if we change it will cost too many influential people too much money. I'm not much of a conspiracy guy but this is something that boggles my mind. If the capabilities are there why not change? This link has the story.

It's fun to stay at the...

Far left Brady Quinn. Second to left A.J. Hawk. I'm guessing the guy up front is Ryan Hawk(EDIT: Apparently that's Bobby Carpenter of the Dallas Cowboys). And the bride is Laura Quinn. I don't know on the rest.

Makes me glad there aren't any incriminating pictures in my history.

Worms

I'm going on this men's fishing trip that our church does the end of the month. It's a week of fishing in the UP. We've been picking worms so that we don't have to buy them. I'd rather buy them. It hurts my back to pick worms. I was out there an hour and a half last night and picked just over 100. We're supposed to take up 10 dozen per person. That's a lot of worms.

Happy Mother's Day

Thanks for coming up and going golfing with me mom. It was good to spend some time with you.

By the way for the rest of you. I beat my dad for the first time when we golfed Saturday.

I'm a nerd

Yesterday we went to see Spiderman 3. I'd heard that it was dark and stuff like that. So I was a little worried. It wasn't dark. Nothing compared to Batman Begins. That is a dark movie. Spiderman was long though. I'm not such a fan of long movies. I don't know if it's my attention span or that I hate sitting that long. So anyways the nerd thing. I was the only one in our little group that went to see it that recognized Stan Lee. The creator of Spiderman. If only I could remember something useful.

I also played golf yesterday. I had one of my worst rounds in a long time.

Race Results

They are finally online. Click on the 5k button at the bottom. I finished 39th overall.

Arena football

We took the sr. highers to an arena football game Saturday night. I was interested in seeing how many players I would recognize from their days in college. I really only noticed one. Michael Bishop. Remember him? He played quarterback for Kansas State. I felt a little sad when I found out that he wasn't the starter. In fact he didn't play the whole night. Anyways the game was more fun than I thought Arena Football would be. It didn't hurt that they gave stuff away like crazy. I left with two little footballs, two sports water bottles, a towel, and a t-shirt. So I guess I'd go again.

It's a Beautiful Day

Yesterday was great. I slept good. First time all week I have. Then I went golfing. I shot a 97. That's ok for me. Then I played soccer with the girls. After soccer I grilled chicken on the free gas grill we were given. After dinner we played more soccer. I ended the evening going out with some former youth group kids and we saw a little porcupine while we were out exploring and offroading through a friends woods. It was a really good day. The only negative was the pretty good sunburn I'm suffering through today.