Notes from a weekend

--If/when you can ever see a Cirque du Soleil performance--and can afford it--do it. Don't miss;

--To the hillbilly nuclear family of 3 that sat behind our group last evening at said, above, perfromance--get a freaking clue, people. We don't want to hear you, your child or your notes, thoughts, ideas and/or comments about the performance. At some point, you really can tell your daughter to be quiet and considerate of those around you. It works. It has worked for millions of us;

--The Spring Center is cool, yes, but only because of the glass bowl exterior. If it weren't for that, it would just be another auditorium;

--After last evening, I decided that if Rockfest is ever conducted in the rain again, I'm going to go down at the end of it and photograph the attendees. Driving by some of them last night, we all, in our car, got the biggest laugh, seeing these mud-caked people--one of them looking like an ax murderer, sans the ax--walking to their cars. It was a real hoot;

--This morning I searched a direct title of an article right out of this morning's Kansas City Star on their website AND IT DIDN'T COME UP. Note to Star website manager: make it work. It can't be that difficult. Note to Editors/Managers of same Star: you've improved the writing and local coverage of your paper, great. we thank you. If you want to engage, further, your readers, particularly and especially the ones who are computer-savvy (read: the upcoming generations), you need a website that relates from the paper to the site. It's just not difficult. And you have to do this, eventually, and the sooner for us and so, consequently, for you, the better;

--The title I searched was "Lobbyists want to shape federal health care rules" in the Star today. And it struck me that the answer to this should be---tough. So what? They want to shape it but why should they be allowed to be even in the room and/or have input, let alone shape the policy? The fact that this is a possibility is both obscene and absurd. Them shaping this policy protects THEM, the health care organizations and corporations, instead of the American people--the ones it's supposed to be created for, remember? ;

--The oil spill in the Gulf is one huge clusterpuck, obviously, and President Obama had better separate himself from BP by at least declaring the apparently truer,larger magnitude of the oil spilled or he's going to damage himself far worse by not doing so. He'll look like he's on their side and colluding with them to save their bacon;

--Aren't we all over the phrases "back in the day..." and "at the end of the day"? Holy cow. How overused can it be?;

--I guess none of us has to say we're tired of the rain and grey skies, huh? But there, I've said it. Put me on that list;

--They're predicting sun beginning Wednesday through Friday, at least, and finally in the upper 70's. Yahoo.

Let's have a great week, y'all.