Wednesday Wrap: Movie Time, Cubs, Schip Veto

Good things that happened today:

-initial planning for a Loogootee-Washington Golf Challenge
-watch a good movie: The Barbarian Invasion
I gave it a rating of 4. Touching and enjoyable. These comments from a review at the link:

"The Barbarian Invasions" documents the last days in the life of a middle-aged man with cancer. He is intelligent but not wise, passionate but self-absorbed, hypercritical of others but quite tolerant of himself. An unfaithful husband, absentee father, uninspired teacher, he leaves the world having accomplished little besides indulging his senses.

Hmmmm, wonder how come I enjoyed it so much?! Reviewer does mention Life as a House as a much better movie about a guy doing things with the last year of his life.

-Cubs are playing in Arizona in the post season! Hurray!

Not so good things in the News today:

-Bush says no to more health care for kids. Jeesh...

President's Cup and More

President's Cup

Americans pretty much trashed by the International squad on Friday. Woods and Furyk faced a hot duo in Singh and Appleby, but hey, come on guys, rise to the occasion! How about the old guy, Woody Austin, doing so well and having a ball. And what's with Steve Stricker, still playing like he owns the planet.

Saturday Scramble

Starts at 8am today. Cool start for the day then warming up nicely. Should be a wonderful day for golf and other outdoorsey things. For those wanting to stay inside, how about eight hours of President's Cup coverage on NBC? (Wonder where the Irish are playing today; do I remember Wayne Pearl saying West Lafayette? Update: yup. Noon kickoff with ESPN tv coverage.)

Cubbies Clinch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow! Just went to the ESPN site and there it is, the big flashing, startling Cubs Win. Wow again. Have been watching them every now and then these past few months and these past few days have been checking the scoreboard to see how they and the Brewers were doing. Losing is how they were doing, both of them. But not last night as they beat up on the Reds. Hey! Hey! Go Cubbies! A little history from the linked story with a reminder of what happened the last time the Cubs were in the playoffs:

Instead, the reference point is 2003, the last time the Cubs made the playoffs. They reached the NL Championship Series under first-year manager Dusty Baker, only to collapse when a fan interfered with a foul ball in Game 6 against Florida.

I remember that now. Ouch, still hurts.

Enough hurt, on with the celebration and yes it's time for me to mosey. See you at the golf course just up the road and around the corner.