Soccer season starts

The spring soccer season has started for our family. It's co-ed in the spring and usually the girls are a little better than the boys on these teams. It seems to be that way, anyway. One of my sons is on a team with 7 girls and 4 boys. The other guy's team is split 6 and 6, I think. Games start in about 9 days. It looks like one team may be competitive and the other one may be in it for the fun.

Lakers moving up

I'm not sure that the Lakers can win in the long run with Kobe Bryant scoring half their points every game, but they are looking much better now. With Lamar Odom and Luke Walton in the lineup, there is much better ball movement as well as two other guys who can score. And Kwame Brown is playing good defense and rebounding, so the team looks more like it did early in the season. Maybe it was just the injuries that caused them to lose so many games recently.

Candace Parker

I don't watch a lot of women's basketball, but I did see some NCAA tournament highlights this morning. Candace Parker looked very good -- she had 30 points, 12 rebounds and seemed pretty dominant. I think she was the same player who won the high school dunk contest a few years back. Ian Thomsen says she may be able to turn pro early, which would be interesting. I thought the WNBA only drafted women who had completed their eligibility, but apparently that's not the case. When I saw the headline I thought maybe she was leaving early for the NBA, but I guess we'll have to wait a little longer for that to happen.

No glitter on Twitter

I don't get the whole Twitter thing. I have no desire to be connected all day long and updating every little thing that I am doing. I can see some use for it, but it seems ridiculous in most cases. If you had a device that updated your location and that could be shared with a group of people, that might have some use, but not if I was an employee and my employer was tracking me. Maybe not if I'm a child and my parent wants it either. So maybe it's not clear to me what use it has.