Odds and ends, 10/9/07

So oddsmakers say Al Gore is the favorite to win the Nobel Peace Prize this year for his work talking about global warming. Didn't Yasser Arafat win the same award a few years ago for bringing peace to the Middle East?

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The other night I wrote about deer coming out of the woods and into the front yards of people in the country. This morning I saw at least three wild turkey doing the same thing.

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My Jeep may have come to the end of the road at 217,000-plus miles. There was an accident his morning. It will take a few days, but I will see if it will be repaired or totaled. If it's totaled, I'll miss it.

I was so looking forward to hitting the 300,000-mile mark in a couple of years, too.

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The other day, I posted a link about how pigeon poop was bothering people at Paul C. Brown Stadium in Cincinnati, where the Bengals play (where the Bengals' offense plays, that is). Saturday I picked a Columbus Dispatch and saw parts of Ohio Stadium have the same problem.

Hmmm. I have a sister-in-law who's supposed to attend an Ohio State game soon. Should I warn her? She can be pretty gung-ho in her support of THE Ohio State University.

Speaking of which, I got a not-so-nice look from her a few years ago when I saw her on a Saturday afternoon and asked how Barely Beat Marshall was doing that day.

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By the way, I visited Athens, Ohio, a few weeks ago with my sons. I took a photo of one in front of a historical marker saying the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 provided for the creation of an institution of higher learning at Athens to be known as the Ohio university.

THE Ohio University? You mean, THE Ohio State University isn't the only "THE" university in Ohio with "Ohio" in its name? I'll have to check this one out.

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Confession time: I watched a little bit of Katie Couric on the "CBS Evening News" last week, and she isn't as irksome as she was before. She's still not my favorite, but I have a slightly higher opinion of her than before.

I get my satellite TV back next week when the guy comes to replace my dish. Meaning I get to see all those cable TV talking heads that I have been able to live without since the storm in August or whenever it was.