1. I hopped into the Sube this morning and blasted out to Kingston where Ed and I leapt into his and Nancy's road warrior Legacy (291,000 miles!) and rocketed up the North Fork of the CdA River and drove to Murray and back. We enjoyed premium car yakkin' coming and going, noted the larger amount of snow on the ground up river, and, as we did several months ago, surveyed burnt out areas caused by last summer's fires. When we head up that way, we like to stop in at the Prichard Tavern, but we discovered it's closed Mon., Tues., and Wed., so, once we got back to I-90, we roared west to Cataldo and enjoyed a beer and an order of delicious street tacos at Timbers Roadhouse.
2. Debbie and I decided to also go out. We were going to try the Depot and see if we could sit some distance from other people, but the Depot is closed on Tuesday. We knew we could sit in an almost private area near the front windows on the south side of Radio Brewing, so we grabbed a table. I wasn't in the mood for beer and ordered an apple cobbler cider. As a cider on the sweet side and one intended to equate the experience of eating apple cobbler, it was very good. I prefer dry ciders, though, ciders that are less sweet, but as I always say, "Love the one you're with", and I surrendered to this cider's flavor and enjoyed it.
Debbie and I started figuring out our lives over the next few months and, while not ready to go public just yet, arrived at some tentative conclusions about what we might do this spring and early summer.
3. Because Debbie and I joined together for a summit meeting at Radio, I missed seeing Marquette's loss to UConn. I did, however, catch the closing minutes and the overtime of Arkansas triumphing over Auburn. Auburn was rated #1 in the Associated Press poll and had won their last nineteen straight games. But for those of you uninitiated to the realities of college basketball, winning on the road is difficult for these college teams. Arkansas' home court was a deafening chamber of partisan roaring tonight. Auburn's team is hampered by injuries. It looked like Auburn was tiring out, especially in overtime, but they valiantly hung in there. Arkansas, however, converted a string of crucial free throws, defended Auburn pretty effectively, and hung on to win, 80-76.
I thought this evening's intensity would continue in the Purdue-Illinois game. For a half, it did as Illinois shot out to an early lead, Purdue came back and wrested the lead away from Illinois, but Illinois surged at the end of the first half and seized a two point lead.
Let me repeat: in college basketball, winning on the road is very difficult. Purdue's home crowd, like Arkansas', was deafening and Purdue crushed Illinois in the second half and cruised to an 84-68 win. Wisconsin also won this evening, beating Michigan State, 70-62 (ON THE ROAD!) and now the Boilermakers and the Badger sit atop the Big 10 standings, tied at 10-3. Both teams have several games leading up to their March 1st tilt in Madison. It promises to be eye-poppingly intense.
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