I can’t believe that it’s been so long since my last entry but I guess the calendar doesn’t lie!  Promise to do a much better job of posting from now on.  I’m embarrassed with how I’ve let this fall to the side the past couple of months.
This week has been a couple of “firsts” for me and I thought I’d seem pretty much all there was to see that would make me go “hmmmm”. The first of the surprises: I’ve never seen it rain dirt before! OK, maybe a better way to describe it is mud balls. Apparently there is so much dust in the air that when it rains lightly it’s actually raining mud! Driving to/from work this week it was “raining” and I had to use lots of the water in the windshield washer just to be able to see. You know it’s bad when the wipers make a scratching sound as they move the dirt from side to side. At first I thought this was car splash but then I noticed that there were no cars around me and it was still covering the windshield.
Now the second thing: I’m sitting here in my apartment flipping through the channels and what do I find??!! It’s Arabic girls wrestling!! They appear to be wearing abayas under the white martial arts suits with head coverings and all!! GIRLS….in abayas with head covering….rolling around on a mat with a referee and screaming fans!….. When a head covering gets pulled off they have to stop and put it back on then continue. Wow….I just don’t know what to say…  The really awesome thing about it is that when the match is over these girls, almost without exception, hug each other with genuine affection and walk off the mat smiling ear-to-ear.  How cool is that??

I ended up watching this event for a while.  It was so refreshing to see how much fun these girls were having and how much sportsmanship they exhibited!  I think if guys could approach sports (on all levels especially the “professionals”) with this level of sportsmanship I’d be a fan.  As it is…..well, never mind, I’ll not go into my rant about  “professional sports”!  Trust me; you won’t want to hear it!