Game day

The KU basketball team is toughing it out at the NCAA championship game tonight. It's halftime now, and they're trailing Syracuse by an inexcusable amount.

I'm not a sports fan in general, 1.) because I can't play well and 2.) because it makes me nervous. However, as a KU grad, I've obviously followed the team here and there this season. They've made it to the championship. But now they have to win.

I'm rooting for them, but this is way too nerve-wracking. I think I'll wait until the game is finished. More then.

Worthy of note

Salon has posted a painful, yet delicately observed piece about a suicide. Read it here.

The ride illustrated

The car looks more or less like the one in this picture, only white.

Start your engine

The silence can end.

I'm now the semi-owner (thanks to Redacted Financial Corp.), of a 1999 Saturn SL1 motorcar. It has four doors, 21,600 miles, and is white. It's the new Claymobile.

As I've said before, and as I'll doubtless say again: Whoohoo.

Military poetry

A poem by Donald Rumsfeld, our secretary of defense (thanks to Slate, which figured this out).

Clarity

I think what you'll find,
I think what you'll find is,
Whatever it is we do substantively,
There will be near-perfect clarity
As to what it is.

And it will be known,
And it will be known to the Congress,
And it will be known to you,
Probably before we decide it,
But it will be known.

— Feb. 28, 2003, Department of Defense briefing

Profiled

Updating the obvious. It's time for the semi-sorta-regularly-recurring McCuistion profile.

Calm yourselves.

Name: Clay McCuistion.
Age: 23.
Height: 6'1.
Weight: 183 (according the scales at the doctor's office last week).
Occupation: Copy editor at a daily newspaper located in the steaming, sultry countryside of Tampa Bay.
Main goal in life: To finish that damned comic strip project I've been working on for two months.
Secondary goal: To arrange semi-sorta reliable auto transport.
Another random goal: To put paper in neat stacks.

Day by day

Howdy there. Just checking in.

Let's look at the calendar ... hmmm .... why, it seems to be April 4. What's that about?

I just came off my four-day vacation. I'll summarize it for you:

Day One (Sunday): Watched Spirited Away. A marvelous animated movie from Japan. Being released by Disney in the states. It won the best animated feature Oscar.

Day Two: I drive by some car lots, and walk past a couple of them too. I talk to my dad on the phone about possibly buying a car.

Day Three: Visit Ford, Honda and Saturn dealerships with Max. I picked up the DVD Brian Wilson On Tour. A nice collection of performances from the ex-Beach Boy.

Day Four: Take test drives of a couple of used Saturns and decide to take the plunge. Start working on financing.

That's the rundown. Today, I returned to the dealership and gave them more information. I'll be returning tomorrow. Let's hope for the best, eh?