The good news: girls go on to state. The bad news: guys don’t.
Just a brief update on the high school basketball deal. The guys, once again, have proven themselves to be incompetent at getting a ball in a basket during the tournament. Other than that, the games were fun. We played a bunch of good songs and had a good time with lots of cookies. On the home front, not much else is happening. A boring weekend to be sure. Perhaps something amusing will happen tomorrow.
ARGH! I can’t believe we lost to Sedro, of all high schools! Well, okay, I saw it, so I believe it, but that doesn’t make me want to. I swear, they went to the McKenna School for Blind Referees to get the refs at this game. Either that or they were from Sedro. Whatever the case, they just couldn’t see it when Sedro fouled a Burlington player and they called at least three fouls on Burlington that were bogus. And on top of all of that, our guys seem to choke up at the district tournament. They did it two years ago, too. But I guess it didn’t help that Sedro was sinking threes left and right. They play Squalicum on Saturday (I think) so they still have a really good chance of going onto state. Tonight, the girls. They play Bellingham. Looks like it should be a good game for us.
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Shameless advertising out of the way, today has been so-so so far. I had a runny nose all day which resulted in me performing an impromptu experiment regarding the quality of tissues vs. toilet paper for one’s nose. Curse the lack of Sudafed in my house. I’ll have to make do with lesser known medicines, such as root of mushroom and the like…
Apparently the Burlington-Edison basketball teams (both guys and girls) are having a most excellent year. They’ve stuck it out so far and if they win on Wednesday and Thursday, they’ll both go on to state, which the guys haven’t done since ’82 and the girls have never done. Guys on Wednesday (I think) and girls on Thursday. If they lose, they play on Saturday. But I really hope they both win. That’d be awesome. So what if the band (including me) has to go up to Bellingham tomorrow and Thursday? I like it.
18 days until hell on Earth. In other, less offensive words, I have the (new) SAT on March 12. Perhaps that’s actually a little more offensive than hell.
Seattle is a very fun, very crowded, and very disturbing place to be. Today, my whole family had a little road trip to the Emerald City and wandered around. First, we went to the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in the EMP (Experience Music Project) building. Then we ate at McD’s and walked it off by strolling about Seattle Center. Fun stuff. There was this dude there with a puppet singing along to some songs. The puppet was singing. Not the guy.
Then we got fudge! It was good. But now I’m feeling slightly sick. I guess that happens after drinking a 20 oz. Sprite Remix, eating a Big Mac combo, and some Seattle fudge. Ugh. Must…lie…down…
Four day weekendness! Presidents’ Day is one of the best holidays ever conceived by corporate America! Oh wait, that’s Valentine’s Day.
My old Betta fish died recently. It was a quiet death not witnessed by anyone. He didn’t even float belly-up. One day he was swimming happily around and the next, he was lying on his side on the bottom of the tank drowning peacefully. So I got a new one.
Okay, okay, I’m not that cold-hearted. It made me feel bad that the fish died so soon and for no apparent reason. But he had been a good fish. So today, I cleaned out his tank and put in a new Betta fish. It’s hard to get attached to fish.