Random hits....

I started to watch a Ren & Stimpy DVD last night. Apparently "adult" episodes. Well, definitely...like cartoon nudity with rather pornographic overtones. So they weren't exactly funny, like the old "Space Madness" classic. And I'm just about sure they won't be back on Nickelodeon any time soon, either. Oh well.

I had a homemade beer last night. It was good. It seems as though different individual bottles got different levels of the priming sugar -- I had a relatively flat bottle the other day, this one had a normal head on it and bubbly.

I got a shoulder injury this summer. It manifests itself in basketball mostly when I try to rebound, the strength to knock the ball loose from others isn't there. Oxford's new high school gym hosts pickup games on Monday nights. The court is pretty nice....the school only has 9th and 10th graders this year, as I suppose it would have been bad to have residents come back to a new high school just for one/two years, if they're already established at out-of-town high schools. I think my high school did that in the 1960s....started with just a freshman class in 1961 and kept adding to it.

In the valley of the forwards, the one-eyed point guard is king. I'm like one of four people in town, apparently, who can run an offense. Watching a fast break from the other end of the gym is an eyesore, and sure enough nobody seems to know what they're doing. I don't claim to be Steve Nash....but if the ball runs through my hands even ONCE on a possession, our odds of getting a hoop increase dramatically.

I get it, when announcers say something like, "that was a big out" in a baseball game. But I want announcers to say, "that wasn't really a big out," some other times. 10-1, ninth inning, a pop-up to start things off. That wasn't a big out, although probably good to get.

I tried making my own buffalo sauce. I screwed it up, though. I'm not sure I needed to heat the ingredients, and the butter separated. Also, I sliced the cayenne peppers that I'd grown, but I would have been better off grinding them to a powder. It still tasted okay, but wasn't really any good.

We've got a few bald trees, and yet plenty that are still all green. Not a lot of in-between so far this autumn.