Monday morning status report: Kids at school on time (that's always worth noting with our feet-draggers), husband's crutches delivered, work e-mail checked, two chocolate doughnuts devoured and one cup of coffee drank, with one more begun on my day off....
Saturday's Cinco de Mayo Celebration in Reagan Park
I don't know about you but I thought it was great to see the park filled with people enjoying themselves at a family-oriented festival Saturday. What a terrific idea, and implementation! I didn't bring my kids to it - I usually don't to events like this because it's much harder to do my job while worrying about who's wandered off where - but if I'm not covering next year's event, I'd love to bring them. The food looked and smelled great, the music was good and the elementary kids dancing were fun to watch. It made me wonder - why have we waited till 2009 to do this?
Saturday's scary roof collapse at the Cowboys' indoor practice facility
With the violent wind and hail storms they get in the Metroplex, you would think that something like this would have happened before now, not six years after this facility opened. I read the accounts on the Associated Press Saturday night while putting together the Sunday paper, and I just finished reading the Dallas Morning News' stories and blogs, particularly those by Todd Archer. Archer was the DMN staff reporter who was on the field when the structure collapsed, and was pinned to the ground under some of the door frame. It was interesting to read his first-hand account of what happened. It's amazing more people were not injured, or killed. Whatever your opinion may be of Jerry Jones' management style or draft day involvement, he stepped up to the plate Saturday, leaving the Kentucky Derby early to fly back and spend time with those hospitalized. From one report I read, he's expecting Rick Behm to continue on with the team once his recovery allows. Behm is the 33-year-old employee with the scouting and video end of the organization who was paralyzed from the waist down. Good for you, Jerry. That's putting the special in special teams.
From the "They don't make 'em like they used to" department:
Something our youngest daughter said this morning while getting ready for school reminded my husband and me of those old Joe Isuzu commercials from the late '80s. Remember him, the sleazy car salesman who'd tell lies about the products while the car company would put up "He's lying" across the screen? When we tried to explain to the child why we were laughing, she didn't get it, so I pulled up You Tube and found some of the commercials posted there. She watched while putting on her shoes and laughed as hard as we did, then asked why we bought an Isuzu pickup with that lying salesman on TV. Click the link above to watch some funny clips.
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