The other day I read that ESPN is going to begin televising dominoes ( “after the raging success with poker”) and in today’s paper I saw that this weekend in Las Vegas is the World Championship of RPS. Yes, that game you played as a kid, is now a ‘sport’ with a prize of $50,000. For rock-paper-scissors. Of course Budweiser is a part of it, but come on. Don’t gett me wrong, I love a challenging game ( we should be getting Word Wars from netflix today, a documentary about competitive Scrabble ) but is there no end?
I see in the little weather box on yahoo that spring has indeed arrived in the northwest, with Seattle the same temp as here, and Portland even warmer! Today Sunny and I took a long walk in the cool sunshine. It was nice not to wear a jacket over my t-shirt, this after the sky opened up on us the other day while we were still more than a mile from home, completely drenching us.
Today I plan to finish up the clothes on the rack for T3, then I can do some guilt-free sewing for myself in the next few days. I also need to finish getting stuff ready for the yard sale ( fabric and stuff ) that we’re having at Julie’s next Saturday.
I heard an interesting story on NPR yesterday on ‘Marketplace’. You can listen to the it here: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2006/04/06/PM200604068.html and then listen to the podcast of the actual tour – a 24 minute audio tour of Wal-Mart here: http://sweatshopper.org/podcast_listen.htm it is the last item on the page ( walmart standoff ). Kinda makes me want to do the actual thing ( but I have no mp3 player – boo). I’ve been in the walmart here a couple of times in the 8 or so years its been here, and I could close my eyes and see the whole thing as described, excepting the cameras, of course. Powerful stuff.
Looking ahead to the weekend of movies, we have coming: Word Wars, Mad Hot Ballroom, and we just watched Paradise Now. I guess you could say we’re in a documentary mode. Paradise Now was a interesting look in to the lives of two suicide bombers outside of Tel Aviv. worth watching.
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