Gonzai Gallery

No, not the movie (although I did recently watch 'The Girl'.) Not the local sports teams, either.

No, I mean the real live feathered kind.

I was getting the morning paper when I heard a commotion near the front porch. There was a large bird trying to get into the hedge and several small birds darting back and forth within the hedge, and everyone was making noise. Finally the small birds escaped out the back and the large bird dropped onto the lawn to contemplate failure. It was a red-tailed hawk. For reals. I've seen them flying, but never in my neighborhood and certainly not on my lawn! I hope he doesn't decide CJ is in his weight class. (The dogs belonging to either neighbor are definitely small enough for him.)

Then I stopped to pick up breakfast on the way to work, and a crow dropped a french fry on my windshield. I suppose he was tired of merely pooping on cars. But it was too early in the morning for it to be raining fried potatoes.

But Isner/Mahut is now up to 61-61. Yeah, you read that right. This match is now on its third day. I somehow suspect neither of them will be good for much tennis for some weeks after this. But in the meantime, um, WOW.

ETA 66-67 now.

It's finally over. Isner won, 70-68. One suspects he won't last long in the second round, he probably can't feel his legs any more.

Never have any Big East teams in my brackets.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to choke. Just like they did.

Didn't really do a whole lot other than laundry, vacuuming and cleaning up ITunes. And the vacuuming and taking out the recycling did nothing for my poor shoulders, nor did computering help my poor right hand. But I did figure out where the problem is in my ITunes library - the upper level folders are fine, it's the lower level ones that for some reason duplicated or triplicated the files - and started working on deleting all the extra files. I cleaned 30 GB of music off the drive over the weekend, 1-2 songs at a time. Yippee. Probably have another 60-70 GB to go, then redo the library and fix whatever weird stuff ITunes does to it. Did make it down to Alphabet Soup for a bit, where I learned to play Qwirkle and went from newbie to reigning champ at Ticket to Ride in 4 weeks. (I learned the game at the previous AS; yesterday I won two games, both by exceedingly large margins. That'll teach 'em to teach me a game...) And I conceded defeat and figured out a way to re-attach the DVD player to the TV so we could watch Being Human & Bill Maher.

Maher had the line of the week, BTW: "The health care summit was so boring, a curling match broke out."

Leave me a comment and I will give you a letter. Then, write 10 things that you love starting with that letter. Post the list in your journal. Give out letters to your commenters in return.

I was tagged by kradical , who has assigned me 'G'.

1. Going on vacation. Because I haven't. In years.

2. Gilmour, David. With the exception of Mark Knopfler, far and away my alltime favorite guitarist.

3. Genesis. I'm only a moderate fan of the band, but I do enjoy them. My brother and best friend are both obsessed with the band. And they were just on WTMD's countdown.

4. Great Pyrenees. I wish I had the physical and logistical wherewithall to have a big dog, because I love this breed. Ever so mellow big fellows, we have a half GP in the office and he's a perfect dog.

5. Gouda cheese. Love a good smoked gouda. That's a gouda.

6. George Carlin. I miss his genius and his sarcasm, his wit and intelligence. He was a great one.

7. Gallagher. I was a big fan in the day, to the extent I saw him at the Meyerhoff and had to wear a trash bag. Still picked mango seeds out of my hair for days after. Laughed my backside off, I did.

8. Galaxy Quest. Speaking of laughing my backside off...I think I know some of these people ;)

9. Games. Football, minor league baseball, ice hockey; or Monopoly, Scrabble, Can't Stop, etc. Game night is a good night.

10. Galactica. Cheating slightly here, as I of course mean BSG, the modern version, and all of the awesomeness that it was.

My hand is colorful this morning.

The boss' fish is looking worse, as if that were possible. ( How it looked on Tuesday )

In my two tournament pools, I went 13-3 and 14-2 (I don't always remember what I picked previously, hence the difference.) This puts me substantially ahead of the two Maryland/Michigan fans in the office, neither of whom picked Maryland or Michigan. (!)

The Baltimore Sun published a staff editorial this morning...on Battlestar Galactica. Yes, really.  ( Galactic Lessons )As for me, I'll be watching starting with the special at 8pm. Terminator & Dollhouse will be relegated to the remaining VCR. I'm skipping Terminator, people. This is serious.

Skipped Supernatural last night and just taped it because I was barely awake at 8:30. I'm pathetic. Will try to watch tonight before the BSG marathon and after the car goes to the shop. My windshield wipers aren't wiping. Or touching the windshield. Meep.www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bal-ed.galactica20mar20,0,637265.story