few days

Complaints about basketball players leaving college after one year for the NBA Draft have occupied several newspaper sports pages I've seen over the past few days. The NBA says players must have a year of college behind them, a change from when they were drafting prospects straight out of high school...

Oh, Sprint. Just when I thought I was rid of you, you keep coming back to irritate me.

So reports Knoxville News Sentinel chief Tom Humphrey with a current history of Tennessee’s budgetary conundrum.  Bredesen has “steered the ship,” as he described his management of state government some months ago, calmly and while working across the aisle.

Our whole clan +1 went to Bell Buckle this weekend to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. I had a extraordinarily good weekend, and I’d like to think Katie had a pretty dern good mother’s day. I’ve got a lot of pictures to sort through, and I’m hoping to post the best of them throughout the day today.

My father in laws heart surgery went well.  He’s expected to come home on Monday!  It’s amazing you can get your chest cut open,

My friend Corey has been listening to a great local country & western (emphasis on western) artist named Garrett Parris lately. He played me a few songs by him the other night and I really liked what I heard. Lots of interesting and clever wordplay with a lot of heart and beauty.

This afternoon is the Moment of Truth for my poor Macbook and for some reason, I don't have a very good feeling about it. I think it's going to take a little extra mojo to make the thing work. Details to come.

PlanetTrash was driving to work a few days ago and witnessed a smoker throwing a butt out the car window. Luckily I got the tag number and turned in the offender to TDOT. This is littering.

Cigarette butts take 7-10 years to disintegrate. I don’t want those chemicals in my water supply.

Philip Glass in parallel convergence on “Knee 5″: