Mark Knopfler has a new album, Get Lucky, due out in September. I'll have it.
Unrequited love. I think the Vikings and Brett Favre will eventually need a cold shower and I think both would be better off with one.
Would have liked to pick up some LSU baseball tickets for the Saturday or Sunday NCAA Regional games in Baton Rouge but all of the ticket books for the tournament are sold. Tiger fans will gladly part with tickets for non-LSU games, though. I can get tickets to the Baylor-Minnesota game Friday night fairly cheap.
I've picked 40+ grape tomatoes this season so far but no full-sized ones yet. Getting a little impatient here.
So far, so good on my right knee. I have considerably more range of motion and no pain. I doubt I've escaped arthroscopic surgery, though. I think the irritation, that caused the fluid build-up in the first place, is still there waiting for me to step wrong or over-exert.
Shrill rhetoric (I think it's the only kind they know) from the DPRK in the QOTD. I suppose we're destined to have a North Korean crisis every year or two for the rest of our lives.
Quote of the Day
Any hostile act against our peaceful vessels including search and seizure will be considered an unpardonable infringement on our sovereignty and we will immediately respond with a powerful military strike
North Korean army spokesman
Blog of the day here.
Quote from said blog: "Can you see anything else in this old bit of wood?"
Good luck with the knee. I'm glad it's at least feeling better for now.
China, and to a slightly lesser extent Russia, deserve a big chunk of the blame for the North Korea situation. They love having them around to vex the US and our allies, but they are playing an increasingly dangerous game.
I see that Chuck Foreman added his two cents on the Tarkenton-Favre thing, admonishing Tarkenton for being too harsh. I never figured that ex-Vikings would get in on the action.
If China wants warmer relations with the US and continued open access to US markets and I think they do, I think they'll eventually see the benefit of taming their dog.
Chuck Foreman was one of my favorite players of that era.