Before I Stab My Ears with a Q-Tip

I don’t want to get my hopes up, but earlier today I think I heard an NPR anchor say today is the last day of the fundraising drive!

If there’s a God, it will be over the next time I click my FM dial though the 80s and lower 90s.

Oh my goodness gracious!

Don’t get me wrong. NPR is great. I listen every day, but the constant pleas for donations get a little ridiculous sometimes.

Has the NPR money drive always been so aggressive?

Tennis anyone? Anyone?

UPDATE: This post is from when I thought about authoring a blog featuring my goofy amateur photos. This is too pathetic to delete.


I really didn’t want to begin my photography blog with a photo I snapped with my cell phone, but I will anyway… just to get things started. (Sometimes I can’t wait to get things rolling.) For the past few weeks, I’ve been waking up at 4:50 a.m. to either walk around the neighborhood or to drive to the high school tennis courts to smack balls off the painted red wall. Yep, I pay tennis alone at 5 a.m. I think I took this photo to send to a few people at 5 a.m. just to impress upon them that I was out doing stuff while they were still in bed. Trust me, no one was impressed. They all think I’m nuts.

More Stripes than Wins... No More

The Buffalo Bills may be a horrible team again in 2011, but at least they will look good while losing 34-13 to the Jets. The team has announced on its website that the four-time Super Bowl runners up will be “sporting fresh threads” for the upcoming season. Even if you’re not a fan of the Bills, you mostly certainly have to cheer that one of the most hard-on-the-eyes uniforms in the NFL is going away.

I first read about the uniform change this morning on Uniwatch Blog, which reports from someone in the know that the “new Bills uniforms are clearly modeled after the later Simpson-era design, including the white helmet, but they’ve been updated to include a tiny amount of navy blue trim.”

The Bills say they will introduce the new threads at a fan appreciation event later this year. Fans of the Bills, and even those of us who are just curious, can register on the team’s website to receive e-mail notifications about the uniform unveiling.