Alice's Restaurant

For the older crowd...I heard this played on a classic rock station here in Boston a few afternoons ago and cracked up quite a bit. Presenting Alice's Restaurant from Arlo Guthrie.

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For the younger crowd...

Bunny rabbit trifecta

Lost in double-overtime tonight to Concord, 76-70. Their best player hit a three with 8 seconds left in regulation to tie the game. We got an open shot off of a sideline play after a timeout and missed. In overtime, under 10 seconds again, our "4" stole the ball, missed badly on a contested layup, the "1" got one outstretched hand on the carom, leading to another carom falling right into our "2"s hands for a layup. The defender that contested the original layup came back and blocked that layup--Coach King dubbed this the bunny rabbit trifecta. In the second overtime, they used their big guys to post up and got a number of shots near the basket. We stayed close for the first two minutes but drifted in the last two. Missed free throw to leave it at a four-point game proved costly, and that's all she wrote. I'm excited about practice tomorrow morning. I wanna get back in the gym.

Chalk one up for the bad guys

We played Pingree, the best team in the league, tonight. We hung with them until two minutes before halftime. It was a four-point game at that point and then Pingree put on a more rigorous press. We turned the ball over four times consecutively within 15 feet of our endline, each turnover leading to a layup. At halftime, we were down 14. Game over. Final score 70-46.

Random Bible reference

On our way to the Berkshires this morning, I noticed what I thought at the time was a clever slogan on the side of a semi trailer. The slogan? Kane is Able. After a little research, turns out that the slogan is actually the company's name. It's a trucking company that helps to distribute consumer packaged goods between warehouses. Anyways, thought that was ever so slightly clever!

Hawk sighting

Sylvia was looking out the back door this morning and noticed that their was a hawk in the backyard tree. After closer inspection, we saw that there was also a squirrel in the tree. Both of them just sat there waiting for the other to give up. In fact, I'm pretty sure they're still sitting there. Let me check...yep, still there.


I don't have a long-range zoom lens yet for my camera so this was the best I could do on getting some pictures. Sorry, no squirrel. I mentioned at Thanksgiving that a good zoom lens was going to be my next major purchase. Wrong thing to say in the present company. My mother quickly responded, "How about a house son?"

The Inauguration

I came across a pretty cool panoramic picture of the inauguration today. It's a large number of smaller photos pieced together, which allows the viewer to zoom in quite a bit. . Here's the link: Inauguration Panoramic. Because of how it was made, it's a large file so it may take some time to load.

On that note, my next youngest brother, Luke, is interning in Washington, D.C., this semester through the Witherspoon Fellowship after graduating from K-State in December. His apartment is only three blocks from the Capitol so he's right in the mix of things. He took advantage of that proximity to attend the inauguration. I wanted to see if I could find him in the panoramic, and sure enough, there he was. I've outlined him in these pictures cut from the panoramic. Please click on the pics to enlarge them.



It's pretty neat that Luke gets to spend a semester in D.C., but it's even neater that he was able to take in a presidential inauguration.

Changing the subject, tonight was the sixth annual Battle of Lexington-Concord. It's a fairly young tradition with Lexington Christian competing with Concord Academy in V and JV boys and girls basketball (4 games) and wrestling. Best-of-five wins an amazingly wimpy revolutionary-like drum! With that on, we actually had a large crowd (with a student section!). Girls varsity started with a win, followed by wrestling and concluding with our 67-61 victory. This gave LCA the drum for the fifth year in a row. Unfortunately, since the last time I posted about basketball (when we were 1-2), we have lost five games in a row before tonight's win. Do the math and we're a lack-luster 3-7. Sometimes we show up, other times, not so much. Tonight was better, but with three league games next week, we're looking at an uphill battle.