Frig size, Buffman, Ransom Canyon Tri, Bushism, Movie reviews

Over the years I have made a list, and it keeps growing, of things that just simply amaze me. For example, when I go down a busy city street why can't I hit all of the signal lights green? In addition to that why is it that when I am in a particular hurry to get some where I can never hit them all green. On the other hand when I am not in a hurry I hit 90% of them green. Now you got the point and setting for my next, "what amazes me in life thing," the common everyday refrigerator. The reason I went out and bought a new one is to get a larger size, not change the color of the old one and discard the old one because it no longer worked, so I could put the food from the old into it and have more space. The older one seemed like it was always over filled and things kept falling out when I opened it. So, I went out and bought one of those large, two door things and then I would have plenty of space and no worry on things falling out. NOT!! What I have now determined is that you just continue to add more stuff, taking up the added space and then in the long run you have an over crowed frig with stuff falling out when you open the door. On top of that I even saved the old frig, put it in the garage so we could store adult beverages, Gatorade, ice, etc. Now we have two over filled frigs and I will not go buy another one. It reminds me of the saying, "if you had all the feathers you could carry, could you carry one more?" My dad use to trick me with that one when I was a teenager. Of course I could carry one more since I had lots of muscles! He just grinned!

At times I will kid Buffman about changing the name of the Buffman & Squeaky Triathlon if he doesn't shape up, but I am just kidding. Well the other day I went over to him and just gently rubbed his stomach with my forehead(kind of affectionate like) and he growled and bit the hell out of my nose. Boy did this hurt the nose and my pride. I am just too vain to walk around with an injured, bleeding, slashed open nose. Not only that it could leave a permanent scar. After the bleeding was stopped and Buffman went to his room I decided I had better get a doctor to look at it. Sure enough a technus shot was required and anti-biotics. Don't worry the Buffman is fine and I am not going to make Buffman Tacos out of him. I have learned that it was my error and I should not have aroused him from his rest and it startled him. So, his only defense was to chew on my nose for snack time and spit the remains out on the floor. What a dog? Now with nearly a week gone by it looks like there will not be a scare, it is healing very nicely and the Buffman is learning new skills.

This past Sunday was the fourth annual Ransom Canyon Triathlon. Since Marti was the race director I was allowed to race it. It was a great day for racing and my body responded very well. I was able to come across the line before my old time rival, Joe Howell, from Amarillo. In 2006 he cleaned my butt in every race we were able to do together, so it was about time he had an off day. When I passed him on the bike I felt that he wasn't having the day he would have liked. While I was having a good day and loving the head wind, I was excited. Bottom line, I took nearly 3 minutes off of my time for last year and really felt good. While I know I was racing on my home course, the feeling of feeling good is always refreshing. Joe and I will probably meet again at the 23rd running of the Milkman Triathlon in Dexter, NM. Better get ready!!

A tidy Bushism actually uttered to the Queen of England yesterday. In his welcome speech he suggested that she had celebrated the United States' founding in 1776(making her 230 years old), while he meant to say she had attended 1976 bicentennial festivities. What are we going to do without him in office after his term expires?

Movie Reviews: "Fracture" *****, Boy this was a good one. Anthony Hopkins is comfortable in his element of playing the part of a cuckolded murderer who sets the cops and legal system up for a fall. Ryan Gosling is the young deputy district attorney thinking slam dunk: murderer caught, signed confession, gun in hand. But, now you have to go see it to get the rest of the story. Twists are plausible, and the acting is first rate. Expect language, and some violent content(well it is a murder mystery), some sexual innuendo(goody, goody).
"Lucky You" ****, Very good movie even though it started out very slow. Just be patient with it, since it finally gets there. Eric Bana plays a professional gambler, Robert Duvall plays his gambler father, and Drew Barrymore becomes his girl friend. Very interesting story and angle. Even though it is fairly easy to predict what the bottom line is towards the end, it does have an interesting ending. Excellent presentation of just how Vegas revolves around nothing but money, chance, despair and dishonesty. It is truly, sin city and proud of it! Some language and sexual humor.

greerman