Weekend Thoughts

Some thoughts from this weekend:

Lori's Official Saturation Point for Basketball is...
..about four days, or ten games. At that point, all the games seem to look the same. You know, some guys running back and forth, every once in a while this is broken up by a foul of some sort or various media time outs. Saturation does not seem to be alleviated by eating different vendor foods, nor by sitting in another area of the arena. I think if we hadn't left before the Alabama/Minnesota game on Friday I would have combusted during the final "Are you ready to RUM-BULLL?" on Saturday night. By the way, the Huskies won over Alabama, and UAA miraculously beat High Point to take 7th out of 8th, which is a positive.

A few cool things that I hope I will remember:
- My favorite players, including Nate Robinson (short guy on Washington), Double-0 (big Honduran center for High Point), Bogut (7 footer at Utah State), and Severson-Severson (UAA guy who got his first shot at playing, his fan club shouted "severson-severson" every time he went across the field).
- After completely missing every shot possible for multiple prizes, Vito's auto sales gave the contestant another shot to win an antique Ford Mustang, which he made. I thought that was really nice.
- How the high schools gave up practice space, cheerleaders, entertainment, and pep bands to perform during the Shootout. What a great gesture of hospitality!

Next time though, we will probably only get a few session seats instead of the entire thing.

Grapple
Do we REALLY need an apple that tastes like a grape? I guess someone thinks so. I for one, don't get it.

Is it Winter yet?
Despite all the winter storms in the lower 48, the weather here has been terribly warm. This weekend, we had highs in the 50s, melting practically all the snow. Then, on Sunday morning, we did get snow, but it was too warm. This makes a huge mushy mess in every parking lot. Our nordic ski lessons were cancelled today because here, in late Nov, there is not enough snow to ski on. What gives?