Jumper cable walks into a bar. Bartender says, "I'll serve you but don't start anything."

Leadership means taking risks.

For fans of Boston Legal...
I heard a story on NPR today about research that has found a link between Alzheimer's and Mad Cow Disease.

Finished the drywall repair this morning. Sanded and primed, and it came out looking good as new. At least I think so. I never saw it new. Oh well.

Charles Barkley has the worst golf imaginable. (see it here) The Golf Channel is starting a new mini-series in which a golf pro will try to correct Barkley's hack. If you get the Golf Channel it starts next Monday night.
Barkley is serving a 4-day jail sentence here for his drunk driving conviction of a few months ago. To his credit he insisted on serving it in Sheriff Arpaio's "Tent City" lest he get any preferential treatment.

Here's an article about fossils from fish dating back 380 million years. What surprised the scientists is that the fish fossils had embryos - fertilized eggs - inside, proving that the fish had sex. This is evidence of sex 30 million years earlier than scientists thought it occurred.
I don't know where to start with this story. So many angles. But I think the better part of wisdom is to just let it go without comment and let you consider the possibilities for analysis and editorializing.

Is Tiger Woods phenomenal, or what? After the first two holes he was three under. He said in the press tent after the match that he would never enter a tournament he didn't think he could win. "What's the point in that?" Should somebody tell him that 80% of the golfers in any given tourney don't think they have even a remote chance of winning?

This is not a favorite time of year for the locals here. Yes, the weather is near perfect - low 80's and lots of sun. But it's also baseball's Spring Training, and with two new complexes in the West Valley we now have 15 teams in the Phoenix area. (Two more are relocating here next spring.)
Add to the seasonal residents - the refugees from the frozen north - the fan-addicts who have come to see their spoiled boys of summer get ready to earn $100,00+ per at-bat, and the traffic is a mess. Go into a restaurant and you can tell the diners who have come for Spring Training by their team logo clothing. Interesting.

I met Vince, a friend from Michigan, for dinner tonight. He's in town on business. Turns out Vince has had several VW's and rebuilt one of them, so we had lots to talk about. It was fun to catch up on family news too.
But as a result of our easy conversation it's creeping up on 11:00 and that's way too late for me. I'm headed to bed. We'll have to do the story about that guy who filled his swimming pool with cream of mushroom soup tomorrow night.