As long as I can remember, Lowell high school has alway been good at football.  And this year was no exception.

Last night, Lowell played there rival East Grand Rapids aka East.  Both teams went into the game 8-0 for the season.  Well, East is now 8-1.  I don’t want to say that it was a shut out but at 35 to 12 it wasn’t really that close of a game.

One of the highlights of the game was a 60 yard completed pass by Lowell with a run into the end zone.  In many respects these high school games have more action and excitement than some of the college games that I have attended.  And definitely more action than a Lions game (don’t get me started).

Anyway, Lowell is headed for the playoffs again this year.   Go Red Arrows!

Palo Alto is home to the Tesla. In case you don’t know, the Tesla is an electric two seater sports car that can go from 0-60 in 4 seconds. Not really a speed record but definitely a significant move for an electric car. Plus, it has about a 200 mile cruise range.

At $109,000 base price, I won’t be looking to buy one any time soon.  But, it was still interesting to look at.

On our recent vacation, we decided to cruise up Highway 1 in California. After leaving Half Moon Bay, we headed for San Francisco.

We were surprised to note that we were heading up into the mountains. The view was spectacular. We were driving on switchbacks, high above the coast. Suddenly, we came upon a highway project called the Devils Shoot.

They are literally cutting a hole through a mountain for a road. It seems that the old road washes out from mud slides, so they are eliminating that problem by eliminate part of the switchback.

The old switchback was fun to drive.

A co-worker of mine has a daughter in Syria. She is over there as a Fulbright scholar. The State Department last week announced that all Fulbright scholars are to leave Syria by November 6 and didn’t say why.

This makes me uncomfortable. I can’t help but wonder is some military event is going to take place. Stay tuned.

The church that we attend is fairly good sized.  Weekly attendance is over 6,000.

Since the church prides itself on being contemporary, it plays contemporary Christian music through out the building before each service.

Well, the other Sunday, we were hanging on the bridge with the band when the opening riff to “Sweet Home Alabama” came pouring out of the churches speakers.  Everyone look at each other and then started laughing.

Apparently the sound techs were have some issues on Sunday.

In keeping with the rules of reorganization and management, I had to move my office so that all of us in my section could be together.

Aside from the hassle of having to move everything from one location to another, I went from an office on a quite side isle to an office at the intersection of two major isle ways. Needless to say, it is quite busy and noisy.

One of the isles dead end into my office. In fact, sometimes people end up in my office when they fail to negotiate the turn. This tends to be extremely disruptive.

I usually sit with my back towards the doorway, but if I swivel around in my chair, I can see the full length of the isle way. There is definitely no privacy in this new office of mine. In many respects, it is like sitting in the hallway.

I guess this is going to be my home for awhile. I suspect that I will spend a lot of time in the library.

My chair at work broke. One of the legs snapped right off of it.

I have had that chair for 20 years and had grown rather attached to it. It was a cloth covered chair with a fiber and spring filling. It was comfortable to sit in.

I have a new chair now. It is a cloth covered foam formed chair. It is hot to sit in but everyone has the same thing so I guess I will have to adjust.

Speaking of adjust, the arms on the chair are adjustable up and down. The problem is that I don’t know how to adjust them and one is higher than the other. So, when I sit in the chair with my arms down, I kind of lean towards one side.

Maybe there is a class on how to adjust your office chair.

We recently went through a reorganization in the department where I work. It had been rumored for more than a year but these things take time.

The long and short of it is that I now have a new boss which is OK with me. The thing that concerns me is that I don’t really know what my job will be. Having worked on this reorg for more than a year, I would have thought that they would have had everything nailed down but that appears not to be the case.

So, I guess I will keep doing what I have been doing until someone tells me different.

I saw something today that I had never seen before. It was a fifth wheel trailer outfitted as a mobile vet clinic for neutering.

When ever we took our pets in for neutering, they had to spend the night. I don’t know if the same applies with the mobile clinic or if you take them home the same day.

Lowell doesn’t have a shortage of vet clinics so I am not sure how successful it will be. Maybe they only work on farm animals.

Some art museum in northern Italy has a 3 foot high sculpture of a green frog crucified on a wooden cross. It has been in the museum for some time and is the work of a deceased artist. There is nothing special about this piece of artwork except for the fact that the pope hates it and has requested that it be taken down. Of course, the art museum wants to keep it up.

While I can sympathize with the pope, I think that there are bigger problems in the world than an obscure piece of art in an obscure museum.