SNOW...

It's supposed to snow from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today.

A little after 11 a.m. it finally got under way.

It's snowing.

And at a pretty good clip too.

Sticking to the ground.

I'll keep you posted.

You're welcome.

NCAA March Madness

I made this for my family's March Madness bracket group:

TODAY...

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

And just because it'll make you smile, here's a fun little video of baby elephants playing in a rubber kid's pool:

http://www.dogwork.com/elp7/

And an interesting Luke Winn piece on Jimmer Fredette in S.I. ...

... again, if you're interested:

NCAA Tournament – Luke Winn – SI.com » Posts What We Learned: Two Days From Selection Sunday «: "was being relegated to a Las Vegas sideshow. He was stuck with a 9 p.m. tipoff on a semi-obscure cable network (CBS College Sports); he was stuck playing a New Mexico team that had already beaten the Co"

Nice Tim Lincecum piece in NYTimes Magazine...

...for those who are interested:

Tim Lincecum, Little Big Man - NYTimes.com

Indy native dies in military shooting

Indy native dies in military shooting

Wow. The last American WWI doughboy dies at 110...

Amazing.

And more amazing that there isn't a national memorial to their sacrifice.

WWI was a horrible war. (And that's saying something, for wars.)

A number of the recent books I've read recently concerned WWI (including the one on George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm and the one I'm reading now on T.E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia"). The carnage the European governments of that age were willing to let their people suffer and the stupid decisions the military leaders made make anything done today pale in comparison. 

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