Potpuri

Several things:
1. While I am pleased that the NBA is still dead to me (perhaps mostly dead) I am also pleased to announce that the two teams I picked at the beginning of the playoffs are the two left. I thought it would take the Cavs seven games to beat an aging, fractured shell of a team, and I thought that team would be Miami, but whatever. My pre-playoff prediction was the Spurs in 6 which does not look too bad, though the series could go much quicker than that.
2. Page 2's Mike Philbrick has put together one of the funniest things you may ever see with his ultimate sports movie commencement address. The address itself is funny, but the idea is brilliant.
3. While at Burger King the other night, Josh and I began talking about happy meals, and why we weren't getting any. Once in a while the kids get happy meals and get really excited about it, and sometimes the toys seem worth the money, but on the whole Happy meals just seem wrong somehow. My whole family, sans happy meals, was able to eat for $9.42, or less than $2 a person. This lead us to ask, why is it our other fast food trips are usually in the $12-17 range (for example, earlier that same day we ate at Chick File for a whopping $23.08), and the answer is usually that we are not careful in how we order or what we waste. While I am willing to concede right off the top that the best alternative would be to give up fast food entirely (this is a no brainer, but also a no happener), we have begun to discuss how we might eat more faithfully on the rarer occassions we do eat out. This birthed the idea of restraining from happy meals to raise money for missions. By ordering meals a bit differently, being willing to share fries and drinks, and not buying happy meals, we realized we can save almost $2-5 every time we eat out. The more careful approach to ordering and eating allows us to help stunt some of the consumerism involved in fast food, train them to say no to certain desires, and teaches them to share. Also, by putting the money we save back towards mission we can make a small dent in hunger around the world. Kick this idea around with friends and we'll see how it goes. Also, we could use a really cool name for the idea.