Well, about two months ago, we got word that the managers were moving out (he had a stroke a couple of years ago, and the stairs are just not manageable anymore). There's now a new family upstairs. With kids. Little kids. That run from one wall to the other. Repeatedly. Loudly. Then there's the one who doesn't run, but in a new level of hell, will cry uninterrupted at 3AM. Until about 4AM. In the crib in the room above my bedroom. Now added to the mix--a family who appears to be split into two different apartments. The kids (four of them, I believe) apparently sleep in the apartment next to mine, while the parents sleep in an apartment downstairs. I suppose some credit should be given that the kids' apartment is always locked. Which means that everytime one of the kids leaves and comes back, they have to knock on the door. But in this case, it's either pounding or kicking the door. Multiple times per hour. Any time of day or night.
At least the neighbors down the hall whose pot smoke permeated the hallways has moved out, and the neighbors who cook bacon almost every day have not, and the rent is cheap...
Lots of off-field football news coming from Montana this week. First, the president of the University of MT fired the head football coach and the athletic director last Thursday. Sending shockwaves throughout the state and country. There's all sorts of speculation as to the reason, because no explanation has been given. The consensus opinion is that leadership needed to be changed, due to the legal problems that the football players have found themselves in. Lots of possibilities, but again, no explanation. Regardless, a sad week for the Griz, and it's bound to affect things for a quite awhile.
Then on Friday, former NFL quarterback and Montana native Ryan Leaf was arrested on burglary charges and drug possession. Leaf was always a cocky kid, and couldn't wait to get out of MT. He went to Washington State and led the Cougars to their first Rose Bowl victory in decades. He then went as the second pick overall in the NFL draft, right behind this other quarterback named Peyton Manning. And then Leaf went downhill from there. Widely accepted as the biggest flop of all NFL drafts, he found himself addicted to prescription pain-killers. He had done OK with rehab. Or so everyone thought... As if things weren't bad enough with his arrest, he got arrested again on Sunday night! That's right. After posting bail on Friday, he promptly went out and got himself arrested again after being caught in someone's house on Sunday afternoon. Stealing their prescription meds. Montanans pretty much turned their back on the guy after he turned his on them, but one can't help but feel a little bit sorry for this waste of space...
On Sunday, the head coach from the University of Arkansas, Bobby Petrino, was involved in a motorcycle accident. No one else was involved, and the injuries aren't life-threatening, and alcohol wasn't a factor. So where does the MT connection come in? He's the little brother of the girl I dated at the end of my senior year in high school. He also dated my sister S2. The star quarterback dating the head cheerleader. Stuff that movies are made of. Anyhoo...
We're now in Holy Week. Maybe even better...it's Masters Week!!! More Masters stuff later, I hope...
Thursday will be the last time OHNT will be posted. It's been a fun six years! We might even have one of the original contributors in this week, too! There's still time for you to join in, if you're interested. Your last chance to show off anonymously!
It's time for Pomplamoose!
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