Note to self: do not get hair cut short because it accentuates the size of ears. And said ears need absolutely no accentuation.

The words "abstemious," and "facetious" both have all the five vowels in them in order. This could be the quintessential useless fact.

Tonight after we got home from Seattle I lingered around home like…like my girlfriend was there. But it was my family instead. That's nice.

The psychology of a football fan.

In the paraphrased words of that wise Mennonite farmer Lowell Kropf, “It’s just a football game. A football game is not something you get depressed about.”

He’s right. I don’t think I should get depressed about something as eternally meaningless as an athletic event.

So I’d been wanting to visit my friend Barney in Seattle for a long time, and finally I got the chance when my brother and a friend decided to go up and visit Barney’s younger brother who’s attending the same University. Also involved was this eternally meaningless athletic event, also known as the Ducks vs. the Huskies. It wasn’t pretty, if you are a Duck supporter. For some reason the debacle set me off into this really gleeful mood, which rather annoyed Barney. Sorry Barney.

I forget where I was going with that. Maybe I was going to wax high and mighty about how sports shouldn’t take too high a priority in our lives. If that was the case, I should shut up, because me waxing high and mighty on that subject would be like the Walton clan getting on a soapbox about the danger of wealth.