This 'n' That News

This morning's newscast included a bit about whether or not communication between local governments and the federal government is improving. There wasn't a consensus.

In local news: this is homecoming weekend for our high school. The bonfire was rained out last night and changed to an indoor pep rally in the HS gym. The band played, naturally. The football game for today has been postponed until Monday evening. Right now the band is at the school, practicing again. The homecoming dance is tonight, and there are gangs - uhm - groups of ninth graders going sans dates. That wasn't done when I was in high school, and I think it's great. First dressy dresses for my two girls. Bookworm wants to go to a salon and have her hair done. Goa'uld just rolled her eyes at the suggestion.

It has been raining since the early hours of Friday morning. Our front yard, torn up from the sewer work, is a quagmire of mud. So attractive.

Tonight we'll be watching the Penn State - Ohio State game. It is really a very big deal here in Pennsylvania. Back when DH and I were at Penn State, in 1978 PSU beat Ohio AT Ohio, 19 to 0. (This was when Woody Hayes was still the coach.)

There we were: 30,000 students on campus and "downtown", and the game was away! Huge numbers of students (my DH included, as it turns out, tho' I didn't know him then) went to Beaver Stadium, tore down the goalposts and paraded them around campus and then downtown. Turned a few cars around on the one-way streets. It wasn't quite a riot - good spirits ran high - but there sure was a lot of people involved. I remember staying in the tv lounge in my dorm and being able to hear the roar come closer, go by and then move on to College Avenue