I won't be impressed with technology until I can download BACON.

We're at just over .8" of rain for the day and should hit 1" before midnight. The stream that runs through our property is high, muddy, and fast.

We got four playoff games over the last two days, and two were worthy of their billing, with one of them riveting. I wondered what I'd do if the Seahawks and Cardinals played each other next weekend, but that's not gonna happen. Seattle's loss removes that problem, so now I have to find a way to believe the Cards can beat Carolina. At this point I don't see that happening.

Our routine is to go from church to Carl's Jr. for lunch - cheap, easy, and paleo. While we talked Pam said something that had me asking, "Who is this woman? 'cause she's not who I thought I'd been married to for the last 44 years."
Out of the blue she said, "I just recently realized what the 'downs' in football are about."
Whaaat????
As I queried I learned:

• She didn't know about getting a first down, or that it required gaining at least 10 yards.
• She knew you got four downs, but not what happened after that. Something bad happened at #4, but what that was..."uhm."
• She didn't know what the center does, but I give her credit for figuring out he was in the middle of...something. 
• She'd noticed that sometimes the QB stood up right behind that other guy, and sometimes he stood way back, but not why. 

She grew up in a home where weekends this time of year were one football game after another. While I'm not a fanatic and rarely watch a game from beginning to end (ADD and all), I just assumed she'd figured out the basics. "Nobody ever explained it to me."

So sitting there in Carl's Jr. we talked football. She got a lesson and I think the lights went on. By the time we were done, and with the help of some food items representing players on offense and defense, she got the hang of the basics, and even grabbed ahold of the difference between a zone and man-to-man defense by DB's and how the QB figures out which he's facing. 

I told her there will be a quiz, thinking about this afternoon's game. But she had to work on a small sewing job she's accepted and I...fell asleep. 

Next weekend.