A Spike in Ike Preparations

I refrained from putting stock in any predictions until 48 hours pre-landfall. But here we are, and the latest projected track from the National Hurricane Center has the "dirty side" of the storm pushing a surge right up Galveston Bay. Bummer.

• It's like "Black Friday" out there. But unlike the day after Thanksgiving, people aren't mobbing the mall stores, Wal-Mart, Target, and Best Buy. They're cramming into Kroger, HEB, Fiesta . . . and anywhere that sells gasoline.
  
• After a four-month hiatus from posting, Jon Walk at RunHouston passes along the word that Finish Line Sports will be closed this weekend. Well, there goes my plans for trying on triathlon swimwear during the hurricane!
• The weather applet on the right side of my blog layout should be fun to look at on Saturday morning!
  
• At a minimum, tomorrow's Astros game versus the Cubs has been cancelled. It has taken a hurricane to interrupt the hot streak that Team Procrastination is on. One of the inexplicable mysteries in life is how a team can drift along listless for the first half of the season, then "flip the switch," year after year. If the baseball season only consisted of August and September, there wouldn't be room on the left-field wall at Minute Maid Park for all the division banners....