Sunday Morning Coming Down

Guessing the "wordle" in three tries is good.  Less than three guesses is blind ass luck. I don't care about streaks, and I really don't want to spend too much time pondering an answer. Sometimes I just stop and go away and take a break. Sometimes you just need a timeout.

 In the middle of the night, I heard a program from Las Vegas that discussed in serious detail gambling related stuff regarding the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship. You could bet what conference will win the tournament, or what #2 seed will go the furthest, or the combined seed of the final four: will it be over or under 12.5. And finally: What will be higher? Sister Jean's age 102 or the most points scored by a team in the round of  64. And they gave some advice: only one time have all four #1 seeds made it to the Final Four.  (2008). Some people bet for entertainment and some think they can make serious with their brackets.

 This is a movie slash story about leaving your really rural roots for a job up north.  This movie hit home with me because I listened to a lot of fiddle and banjo music doing my time in Morgantown, WV. The setting of the movie was depression times in Kentucky and there was no mention of coal mining.  The family left a bucolic but poor in money existence for the chance of a job at a car plant in Ohio. As in most memoirs but not all the good outweighs the bad.  The family knew they were leaving a way of life that wasn't all that bad, but it was limited.  I'm reminded of "The Waltons" but in comparison the Waltons were upper middle class compared to the folks in this movie. Very little of the move to Ohio is covered and the flashbacks to the way things were was at times a little confusing, but the music was something that kept me from switching to the Golf Channel.  You can watch it on Amazon Prime.

Edwin Starr sang "War" in 1970.   I'm not a military expert and am surprised they are still fighting. Three things that I hadn't thought about were 1) the refugees the war has generated, 2) the war seems to be generating a lot of coverage on TV that was almost invisible in comparison to Iraq and Syrian conflicts and 3) how this will end. How this war will end is troublesome because Putin may be the only person that can stop it and he may lack the motivation to end it. Last night, it seems there was fighting and a fire at a nuclear power plant. A million plus refugees are another humanitarian issue to be addressed.