Thursday 3-25

I have had several run-ins over the past couple of days with people walking, jogging and biking. I think they're teaming up on me. Last night I was coming back to work to finish up a few details and at one intersection a jogger ran right in front of me. He didn't even slow down. He went from the dark, into my headlights and back into the dark. He's lucky I didn't give him the chrome horn. Maybe that would have knocked some sense into him! Then this morning before the sun came up, I came upon someone walking in the road even though there was a perfectly good sidewalk not five feet away. I have seen this especially with young people. They'll walk two or three abreast down the middle of the road and then be upset when a vehicle wants to get through, One good case of road rage could reduce the excess population in no time! And finally not two minutes after that incident I saw a guy riding his bicycle the wrong way down a one way street in the dark! These people must have a death wish!

Have you got spring fever yet? The weather is getting warmer, with rumors of 70 degree temperatures next week! I have noticed some plant life starting to stir at my house. There is this one plant that regenerates itself every year and it is starting to sprout again. I haven't heard a lawn mower yet, but if the weather is decent this weekend, I bet I will.

It looks like the economy may be starting a small recovery. I see that stocks are on the rise again, the Dow Jones Indusrial Average approaching 11,000 today. Like a lot of others, my 401k took a big hit a few years ago and it sure would be nice to get a little of that back. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

More basketball is on tap for tonight as the NCAA tourney continues. The Butler Bulldogs try to knock off one of the #1 seeds tonight...Syracuse. Syracuse will play without their center tonight, so maybe we'll see an upset. Speaking of upsets, one I would really like to see tonight is Cornell topping Kentucky. That would make my day. One of the other games featyres the team I picked to win the tournament, West Virginia. The Mountaineers will be without their point guard who broke his foot in practice earlier this week, so they will have ther hands full with a red-hot Washington team looking to make the Elite Eight for the first time ever. Four games tonight and four more tomorrow, let's get it on!