Saturday Morning: Divisadero, College Football, etc.

Notes to get a day started:

-Well into Michael Ondaatje's Divisadero and enjoying the story telling very much. About a group of three who grew up together, were separated, and now going about their separate lives. Coming back together? At least two of them at the moment. They are leading very different lives, one an academic doing research in France; a second a gambler; the third an assistant to a public defender in the LA area. Each of them alone and violently separated by circumstances. A goodie...

-Number One team, LSU, loses. College football is definitely topsy-turvy this year. Over at cbssports.com, a West Virginia-Missouri championship game is predicted. Notre Dame is mentioned, in passing, as it was the team WV lost to in its last foray into a championship game. Remember when? Hint: Eric and Danielle were both students at Notre Dame at the time. That would be a little bit beyond a day and a half ago.

-IU and Purdue expected to have a bowl date. That's cool, especially for the Hoosiers.

-Diane and Lucas getting ready to fly west for a week in the desert with Danielle, Naomi, Leah and Phil. They head up to Indy very early Monday morning.

-Making up my winter's reading list. Greg Waggoner recommended Vengeance by George Jonas, a true story telling of the Israelis selected to hunt down and blow away the PLO terrorists responsible for the killings at Munich during the 1972 Olympics. BTW, do you have any non fiction books that you loved? Any exceptional fiction that you know I should read? I'm open to suggestion.

Guess I'll get ready to head over to the golf course. Expect the temperatures to be around 40 by noon. Might be good walking weather.