Weekend Notes

• It's funny ..... Everybody around here complains about the rain but when it's September or October and it's been dry for two or three months, everyone runs to get a look when the rain returns. 
• People who tailgate (while driving not the pregame parking lot football partiers) should be immediately banished to the deepest bowels of hell.
• Pet peeve .... Numerous people in the park, walking and gazing into their cell phones. A silent group of three .... friends? Side-by-side, each exclusively attentive to whatever was on their phones. In my mind, going against the purpose of the walk. How about getting away from the phone for a few minutes? Lift up your head and look around your world!
• Revelation .... Listening to then Classical radio station is not the worst thing in the world.
• Song Lyric .... "We were young and we were improvin'" .... Mellencamp.
• Watching the NCAA basketball tournament. So many little things in the course of a basketball game that can add up to influence the final result. A second's hesitation in footwork, a quick glance away from the ball that leads to a fumble and turnover or missed defensive assignment, a fingertip on the ball changing the path of a pass. Confidence vs. uncertainty. A blink of an eye lapse in judgement or intensity. And unless a team is just overpowering, so many of these games can swing one way or the other on just a few factors. It's so true that every possession is important. So many things that I see besides the obvious.