Here's what I saw this morning. I cut myself shaving -- my tissue was a red and white mess, a result of carelessness, rushed decisions and so forth. I shrugged it off and worked on a project for that place that, well, pays me and lets me log in here during the day far too much.

My notes seemed simple--seemed to flow--and were beautifully organized.

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That'd be behind the basket--well, not behind the basket. More off to the side. You know those three rows of seats on each end? Yeah, I was there. Maybe I should've tried to move to the fold-out seats that were about as unoccupied as the new Mackey lower bowl seats. But I didn't. Other people have more nuts and bolts but here are my cliff's notes.

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I want to get to the NU game, but I'd rather not pay the silly fees the NU ticket office slaps on you for reserving your tickets in advance. That, plus I'm grumpy that tickets cost $30 though they cost $5 when I lived a few blocks away from the stadium. I'm not that old--just, ticket prices outpaced inflation.

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Probably most Boilermaker fans who've wanted to read this book already have. For those who haven't, it's very worth reading. It's about the 1987-88 Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball squad, which had high expectations going into the year, and it chronicles all the games up to the Sweet Sixteen loss to Kansas State. It's a good read, though I found the last bit tough because I knew how it had to end. Overall, it's a really enjoyable book showing a team going through adversity, forgetting the lessons they learned, and even overcoming injury and a player or two going ineligible--much like the challenges this team faced. It seemed so smooth, watching the games or getting the scores back then. Purdue just seemed to pull out the close ones, except for at Indiana, but that was a rivalry game. It just seemed nothing could stop them, especially when they blew out Memphis in the second round. I guess when you're that young, even if you don't believe in luck or astrology, you believe your team deserves to get a little back after some bad draws--and outright misfortune (the description of the nasty '87 loss to Florida even made me smile.)

I've heard rumors Montieth is behind the bench for this season. If it's for the reason I think, I'll be putting a book on my to-buy list. But too much about me. About the book, after the jump.

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I noted the new banner for Hammerandrails and wondered--what if someone had already gone back in time to get Robbie's ACL un-torn in an alternate an now-gone reality, where he had it torn freshman year, then sophomore year? But the wormholes opened up by changing history like that caused the tears in Purdue's football players ACLs.

This seems internally consistent. It also validates the "no free lunch with time travel" and general entropy-makes-things-worse trope that any good sci fi plot must follow.

Or maybe I'm just babbling anything whatsoever to forget about today's whitewashing.