The 100 Year Flood

Yesterday we had 8 inches of rain, the most ever in one day. Or in a hundred years. It's all a little confusing. Channel 11 here is calling it the 100 year flood so maybe it's the most in the last 100 years. Whatever, there is a lot of water out there.

This is the Texas Tech football stadium this morning, The Tech-SMU game is scheduled for 6pm tomorrow. There is a drain under the stadium and the Lubbock fire department hauled water out today. There was a lot of water on the streets yesterday but very little on the road today yet they cancelled public schools, Texas Tech & LCU. Courts were cancelled. Garbage pickup was cancelled. But the game goes on. I have to say I'm happy...see, I go to 1 game every 3 years or so and that game is tomorrow. God Bless Texas!! No city services but football cannot be stopped.

My Favorite (almost) Fall Words:

Touchdown Red Raiders!!!




2008 Texas Tech Red Raiders 2-0

Gotta Love Youtube

Some interesting and fun stuff from Youtube:

Light Bulbs

Take your kid to work day

Cactus Cuties

Overwhelmed

On Saturday I went to Target to pick up a few things and walked into an aisle where the parents were with their college age daughter, picking up stuff for her new digs and I was overwhelmed by the memory of doing the same thing with my mom, getting stuff for my new dorm room. It's been 33 years since my first day of college and my memory made me feel like it was just yesterday.

I miss my mom.

Lake Day

Captain Kyle

Saturday Aug 9, 2008 ^^Robbie

A beautiful and relaxing day at the lake, a time to forget all of your cares.

I'm still recovering from the sunburn.

<< Deb

New Delhi Freight Train

This was at a street dance on July 3. The Maines Brothers Band is finishing up their show with 'New Delhi Freight Train' and a really good time was had by all. Steve is on the far left, by the monitor. Kenny is on lead, in the vest. Lloyd is on steel guitar and behind the pole Donny is on the drums. Richard Bowden is on the side playing his fiddle. We can't see Cary Banks or Jerry Brownlow. The original Maines Brothers band. The kids in the black shirts are next generation. What talent.

Speaking of talented next generation, Lloyd's daughter is Natalie Maines, the big mouthed but talented lead singer of the Dixie Chicks. Or as Larry the Cable guy calls her "that little fat chick in the middle".

Dr McDreamy is a jerk

I really like to Netflix entire seasons of television shows so I can watch without waiting. And I don't have to commit to a show so when it's screwed up by the networks and gone before I know it, I won't have wasted my time. Even without Netflix, I record everything I watch. But Netflix is a very good thing.

That being said, I did not watch Grey's Anatomy from the beginning but now I am speeding through season 2. I really like the medical stuff and most of the relationships and the characters but there are some things that really annoy me. Dr Sheperd aka Dr McDreamy is gorgeous, no doubt, but is a jerk. He picks up a girl in a bar (Meredith) and then finds out she is an intern who will be virtually working for him. Instead of stopping things, he continues the affair even though Meredith faces extra scrutiny from her fellow interns and bosses when they think she'll get special treatment. Then it turns out he's married to Addison. Addison cheated on him and they are separated but it turns out he did not even mention her to Meredith. She shows up at the end of season 1. Meredith is naturally shocked and hurt.

Fast forward (in Netflix-land) to season 2. Addison has asked McDreamy for another chance. He is torn. Addison hurt him but they have history. Should he try again with with his wife of 11 years or go after Meredith? In true 'My Fair Lady' fashion, he decides to have it all his way. He decides to stay with Addison to work on his marriage but doesn't put his heart into it. He talks her into giving up her practice in New York and moving to Seattle so they can work on things. She gives, he takes. Then he moons over Meredith the entire time. He won't tell Addison he doesn't love her but won't let Meredith move on with her life. And Meredith...OMG...what a whiny, selfish bitch. She can't walk away either...she sleeps with everyone along the way all the while bemoaning that she'll be miserable for the rest of her life without McDreamy. She has good friends that love her, a good career and all kinds of opportunity yet without McDreamy her life is over and she's gonna whine into infinity. Bitch.

There are now 4 seasons in the books and is this gonna happen for 2 more years? It was time to move on in season 2.