Gah, Cody Bellinger has a cracked rib. This is not the way I hoped to see Pete Crow-Armstrong in the bigs this season. #Cubs #MLB

“Tom Cotton has never seen a left-wing protest he didn’t want crushed at gunpoint.”. Brutal and accurate assessment from Adam Serwer.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/columbia-national-guard-tom-cotton/678163/

Well, hard to see how this could start worse for the #Stars. Gave up a power play goal in the first 2 minutes, got a goal overturned on an offside review, then gave up a second goal.

Vegas up 2-0 within the first 10 minutes of the game. Ugh.

Great: the Dallas Stars are the #1 seed in the Western Conference.

Not so great: their first round matchup is against Las Vegas, who they failed to beat in any of their 3 opportunities this season.

Here goes nothin’, I guess!

We have attended an Episcopal church now for a few months, enough times at least to get sucked into volunteering for small roles on a Sunday morning. A month ago Becky and I served as greeters/ushers for the service, which she noted might be the first time we’ve ever signed up for a service task that we did together. (Usually I’m the musician and she’s working in the kitchen somewhere.)

Then a couple weeks ago I did the musician thing and played the piano for a service. But we have a regular pianist on the payroll who’s not me (which is a good thing!) so this upcoming Sunday I’m trying something else: I’m gonna be a reader.

I have been assigned the Old Testament reading and the Psalm. I will be practicing ahead of time so that we can avoid any “banana” moments.