Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• Bridgeport and Decatur always played Whitesboro when I was a kid, but I had no idea they had never made the football playoffs. A streak which lasted until this year.
• I wonder if the town has ever thought about changing its name. 
• Trophy Club Byron Nelson high school made the playoffs in its second full year of play. And they won a playoff game last night. Throw in Southlake and we've got a White Boy 114 Football Corridor going on.
• Fox 4 did a feature on the new Omni hotel in Dallas. Man, that thing looks cool (i.e. a night light kicks on when your feet hit the carpet when getting out bed). But is that the one financed by the city?
• I've listened to a ton of sports talk radio over the years, but I've never heard the level of vitriol that I have this week over the Penn State scandal. 
• I saw a shot of Central Park this morning on one of the news shows. The trees have turned beautiful. I'll jog through that place within the next five years.  At least that is on my ever shrinking Bucket List. 
• 11/11/11
• Mrs. LL is going on a Girls Night Out tonight. Oh, my. (And I actually heard her on the phone say something about a "flash mob".)  I'm raising my own Terror Alert. 
• Baylor has a course called "Homosexuality as a Gateway Drug."  Gateway to what?
• I've been dreaming non-stop for the last three days. The type of dreams that aren't scary, but leave me stressed and exhausted when I wake up.
• If someone told me I had to re-live Middle School, I'd ask for a list of horrible alternatives and then choose one of them.
• It would take some miracle marketing, but it's possible Rick Perry could turn his memory lapse gaffe into a See-I'm-A-Regular-Guy-Just-Like-You positive. His campaign is at least smart enough to try and pull that off right now. 
• On CNN this morning, John McCain's wife, Cindy, said "there are over 18 suicides a day in our veteran's community."  If true, that would be more killed in one year than the Iraq War to date.
• Then again, she also said the GOP had a "great field of candidates" this year.
• The Fort Worth Court of Appeals yesterday affirmed the throwing out of a lawsuit against Wise County about a bridge. I lasted about four sentences before I got Tired Head. 
• There has been a Sports Illustrated reporter "embedded" all year long with Joe Paterno and Penn State in preparation for a book he was writing about the man and the program. Man, what timing. (But he wrote a column yesterday which indicates he may be too close to the situation.) 
• I changed how early I get to work about two years ago so I no longer get to see the beginning of The Today Show.  That's why my Ann Curry references have trailed off. 
• How not to run from the police. 
• Edit: Forgot to mention that the cat-in-the-wall guy in Dallas was found "not guilty" yesterday. I saw the prosecutor on the news talking about what a high bar "beyond a reasonable doubt" is.  Smart prosecutors think about that before they file a case. The bad ones only think about it after an acquittal. And then forget it just as quickly.