2am on a Sunday night

No surprise here that I'm still awake. It seems like that's the way Sunday nights have been going lately for a while. I was actually tired when I got into bed around midnight, but couldn't quite fall asleep. I haven't been thinking about work even though I wasn't there on Friday.

I took off to play golf with Bill and Mike R at Spring Meadow in Farmingdale. We had a good time, even though I would not rate it high on my list (even given the fact that it's a municipal course). Most of the greens were a mess and it was next to impossible to tell where you were supposed to take your cart. After getting chewed out for driving on a par-3 last week (I was picking up someone's ball 125 yards from the green and apologized to the marshal, but apparently that warranted him following us for another 6 holes), I was a little gunshy about driving. Since there were only 3 of us in the group, I almost didn't take a cart so I could walk, but then I'd have no place to put my beer!

I watched Sunday Night Football tonight and complained to NBC Sports that Al Michaels was being an asshat on the air. He was just being cute by saying that the opening kickoffgot up in the jet stream, but not 5 seconds earlier, he told us that the wind was blowing east to west. That annoyed me for some reason, but I still kept watching since I was keeping tabs on Ben Roethlisberger for my fantasy team. It looks like I should have a decent lead on Chuck going into the Monday night game and I have to credit Anquan Boldin and Nate Kaeding for that, even though the Vikings' Ryan Longwell kicked 5 FGs to outscore Kaeding. I'd add the Bears defense to the list for blocking a punt and returning it for a TD, but they fell apart and allowed a bunch of points at the end of the game.

The news for Lehman Brothers isn't very good at the end of the weekend and it looks like bankruptcy is looming, possibly in the coming week. It was reported tonight that Merrill was bought by Bank of America for $50billion. I remember watching something on TV that Merrill sponsored when I was little and seeing the famous bull logo. I don't know if the bull will cease to exist, but I think I'll miss it.




I'd say I hope that this will start to stop the run of bankruptcies and failures of the financial institutions, but that would just be a waste of keystrokes. And in the time since I started this post, I see that Lehman will indeed be filing for Chapter 11. They've been around for 158 years, Merrill for 94, Bear Stearns for 85. It would be nice to hear some good news for a change.