Cheerleaders and Basketball Folly

Last Saturday night, Kellie and the rest of the BDHS Varsity Cheerleaders played in a basketball game against the female faculty team. This was supposed to be the girls varsity versus the teachers, but for some reason the cheerleaders were involved as well. Bear in mind that only the rising senior cheerleaders were involved, but those 10 girls comprise half the team.

Let's just say that the cheerleaders and the girls basketball team are cut from different cloth. The girls basketball team wore their varsity uniform. The cheerleaders were dressed somewhat differently. They had the jersey, but all 10 of them augmented the uniform with a pink T-Shirt under the jersey, knee-high socks with Tiger paws on them, and ribbons in their hair.

This is not meant to belittle them in any way, but after the first couple of minutes, it was obvious that the cheerleader's combined athletic skills are based in areas not advantageous to the game of roundball. It did, however, provide the crowd with a tremendous amount of entertainment. After much abuse and no pity whatsoever from the faculty team, the cheerleaders put all 10 girls on the floor and a Benny Hill episode broke out. This truly had to be seen to be enjoyed. I can thank the cheerleaders for a great laugh and a greater Saturday night.

I love my daughter to death, but a basketball scholarship is not in her future.

One key thing that I forgot was the cheerleader pyramid defense scheme. Under this daring plan, the cheer team set up a human pyramid under the goal, which you might expect provided a great defense. It's fairly easy to block shots when you are using the rim to balance yourself.

2010 Junior Prom

Kellie is currently enjoying her Junior Prom in Fairfax, VA, but I did manage to capture the moment digitally before she left for the evening. Interested parties are invited to check my web album for the 2010 Junior Prom.

The Google Earth Picture is live

The picture I submitted to Google Earth is live! To see it, do the following:

1. Start Google Earth
2. Search for 'Chisos Mountain Lodge'
3. Select the search result labeled 'A - Chisos Mountain Lodge'
4. After it zooms in, look at the lodge and select the photo icon that is in the Southeast corner behind the lodge.
5. The picture is titled 'Mountain Lion - Chisos Mountains Basin'
6. My picture is credited to 'locarakko'

Comments are now allowed

To make things easier around here, I have enabled open comments once again. Previously, you had to become a member of the blog to comment, but now it's wide open. Fire away.

I know a little more about the Bret Michaels incident that you may think

If you read People magazine, then you know all about Bret Michaels and his recent medical problems. If you don't know and remain interested, just Google it. Michaels recently suffered from a subarachnoid hemorrhage and had a hard time of it. On the way home from work tonight, someone on the radio said that only 10-20% of those inflicted make a full recovery. That number struck me as alarmingly low for a simple reason. I am a survivor of the same hemorrhage (in 2005) and by all accounts I am one of the lucky ones.

I have already wrote about the incident here and here, so I won't rehash old news.

Google Earth Approval

I have been playing with Google Earth of late, primarily to see how well they have rendered the Chisos Mountain Basin. Verdict: Extraordinarily well. If you zoom in on the basin, you can get a terrain-based view as well as an overhead view. Once you have zoomed in far enough, you can see little icons for photos. After I had processed all of my photos, I submitted one of my mountain lion photos to be included in Google Earth and I am proud to report that it has been selected for inclusion in the Google Earth database. It has been tagged for the next data transfer, but I don't know when that will be. When it's live, I'll let everybody know.