Dust to diamonds

For lack of anything interesting on TV until the evening news, I stumbled across "Family Plots" on A&E. There was a bit about the funeral house owner who lost his son a year and half ago. He had some of his sons ashes made into diamonds. Curious, I checked out their website; and yes they'll turn your pets ashes into diamonds too. I gotta admit the blue diamonds are beautiful.

I still have the ashes of Wotan - the greatest companion cat I ever had that I never wanted. I was going to bury the ashes in the yard he enjoyed spending sunny days in (but now glad I didn't since I don't live there anymore). Guess I should buy my lottery ticket tonight in case I could win Powerball. Considering what you're getting (a permanent and beautiful reminder), the cost isn't that bad. Still it's something a poor scientist can't afford. If I could, I'd probably get a ring made with the diamond so I could wear it every day.

If you want to check it out, it's a company called Life Gem.

Wonder how they came across this as a good idea. I had heard that carbon given enough pressure could make diamonds. But I wonder who thought to use cremated ashes to try and make diamonds.

West coast teams suck!

Okay, the Padres fit that argument. The leader of the NL west, and had a losing record.

But as I'm watching the #1 football team in the country, it's on Fox Sports Net Arizona. Don't know if it's being shown nationwide.

Compared to last week when Arizona was shut out completely, scoring 21 points against USC is pretty good. I'm still not optimistic for a win, but it's been fun watching Arizona make touchdowns. Three quarters are now over, and Arizona has not had a good showing so far in the last quarter. So we'll see.

UPDATE: No big surprise - USC overran Arizona. They tried - make USC cough up a couple turnovers. But for every toughdown Arizona scored, USC scored two. Final score 42-21. The two good things Arizona can take away from the game was that Arizona scored this week, and Arizona made two touchdowns in the second half (Arizona State was shut out in the second half last week).

Not a typical Saturday

Well for starters I'm glad that I didn't decide to try laundry. It keeps pouring in spurts for the last half hour with the sun brightly shining. For starters the weather idiots didn't think it'd start raining until tonight, but mostly tomorrow.

The University of Arizona football team is about to start their three hours of hell again #1 USC. It'll be painful to watch - but I'll try and be a loyal fan and watch the game.