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Having Sirius has been a real treat. I've never heard of such an affectionate cat. Maybe after losing his first owner, he's just been desperate for some companionship. He's getting to the point where he's a little more independent and comfortable in the house. He does like staying in the same room with me, but he will wander off farther to snooze now. This is good because he's a little hyperactive when his around me, and he's more likely to tear things up if we're in the same room. He's not a kitten any more, but he certainly still acts like one. He wants to play with everything. I keep a cheap pen on the bathroom counter, so he'll have something inexpensive to bat onto the floor and play with instead of my contact lens solution bottles.
Last night the local news people missed the fattest straight-line I've heard in ages.
The anchor was joking around with the Weather guy:
Do they have names for the monsoon storms? This one would be the fourth one, so they could call it Monsoon Dave (which is the name of the weather guy).
Weather guy partly amused, partly trying to change the subject:
We're going to talk about winds right now. You got a name for the wind?
Now I know dollar signs would light up in somebody's eyes over royalties if he started to sing, but the news guy's got a nice baritone voice and the time was perfect for:
Away out here they've got a name for rain and wind and fire. The rain is Tess, the fire's Joe and they call the wind Mariah. Mariah, Mariah, they call the wind Mariah! Now, Dave, are we going to hit 110 degrees tomorrow?
The Big 12 is calming down from the excitement in June. Colorado, who some people didn't think had the money to pay the price to leave the conference, at least is not going to leave next year. Nebraska is willing to take off right away basically giving away its last year of TV money in the Big 12 to get out. Colorado won't go that route. So the PAC 12 won't happen till 2012. Colorado even sent a representative to the Everybody-But-Texas-Network talks, hoping to at least get a share of that money for the last year they are in that conference. I really feel a bit sorry for Colorado. I think their decision to leave was prompted by panic. With the closest thing to a rival gone (Nebraska) and the league seemingly about to fall apart, you can't blame them. But if they'd known everyone except Nebraska was going to stick it out in the end and that most of the reported dire concessions to get Texas to stay never actually materialized, I suspect they'd have stayed as well. They will eventually have a closer geographic rival in Utah. But they didn't have any problem giving those guys up in 1948 when they joined the then Big 7.
Last night the local news people missed the fattest straight-line I've heard in ages.
The anchor was joking around with the Weather guy:
Do they have names for the monsoon storms? This one would be the fourth one, so they could call it Monsoon Dave (which is the name of the weather guy).
Weather guy partly amused, partly trying to change the subject:
We're going to talk about winds right now. You got a name for the wind?
Now I know dollar signs would light up in somebody's eyes over royalties if he started to sing, but the news guy's got a nice baritone voice and the time was perfect for:
Away out here they've got a name for rain and wind and fire. The rain is Tess, the fire's Joe and they call the wind Mariah. Mariah, Mariah, they call the wind Mariah! Now, Dave, are we going to hit 110 degrees tomorrow?
The Big 12 is calming down from the excitement in June. Colorado, who some people didn't think had the money to pay the price to leave the conference, at least is not going to leave next year. Nebraska is willing to take off right away basically giving away its last year of TV money in the Big 12 to get out. Colorado won't go that route. So the PAC 12 won't happen till 2012. Colorado even sent a representative to the Everybody-But-Texas-Network talks, hoping to at least get a share of that money for the last year they are in that conference. I really feel a bit sorry for Colorado. I think their decision to leave was prompted by panic. With the closest thing to a rival gone (Nebraska) and the league seemingly about to fall apart, you can't blame them. But if they'd known everyone except Nebraska was going to stick it out in the end and that most of the reported dire concessions to get Texas to stay never actually materialized, I suspect they'd have stayed as well. They will eventually have a closer geographic rival in Utah. But they didn't have any problem giving those guys up in 1948 when they joined the then Big 7.