THE TROUBLE WITH WEATHER FORECASTING

By Your HHI & 3P Athletics Supporter, Jack Strap

THE TROUBLE WITH WEATHER FORECASTING is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.  So based on the WEATHER FORECAST early yesterday AM as well as the dark & ominous clouds, HHI moved inside to Grace for some 4-on-4 Hoops.  During that same time period, the WEATHER ended up nice outside & actually less hot than inside.

Mighty Kerr will provide the full HHI report, but it will suffice to say that Captain Jack Strap more than "kept up with the HHI level of play" without the use of a "walker" or "oxygen bottle" (reference "vicious" email cheap shots by Swoop & Vath).  And ultimately left town under the dark of night (which reminds me of George Carlin's WEATHER FORECAST for tonight: Dark) with an HHI World Championship Tag-Team Belt with no requirement for a Title defense until HHI's 20th Anniversary Games on September 3. 

So while staying in town for the 3P (Poletti Pool Party), stopped in to check on Magnum (while there shot some hoops at the Mag-Arena) as he had texted Swoop that he was "vomiting diarrhea", although at the time he was at the drug store trying to decide on which anti-diarrhea medicine to buy.  Then on to the Poletti's for 3P set-up & a B&B shower.  Since the Hostess with the Mostest Diane-dretti was so efficient with organizing our set-up, we were done with plenty of time to spare which Steve [a.k.a. The Figurehead Boss with the Apple Sauce (& Brats)] & I spent driving her crazy by checking & belaboring over every WEATHER FORECAST we could find on the PC & i-Phone (a sign of the times was that we never turned on the TV to check The WEATHER Channel).  All of which were providing very different FORECASTS of the WEATHER for the 3P.

Then After all that WEATHER belaboring, the 3P WEATHER for the day & night Thankfully turned out be-a-u-tifully.  The usual cast of characters (& they are truly characters) were there to enjoy it all together & I bring to you some of the Highlights (feel free to Comment on this Blog with others) in no particular order as I recount them in my scattered brain:

* Speaking of scatter-brained, Brother Craiger was 100% sure that Reitzy had the Poletti's Tent from last year's PSU Road Trip, but as it turned out he was 100% wrong as Ross had it in & brought it to the 3P;

* Ross also brought "pink cap" stories of his triathlon race & impressively considered biking 47 miles to the 3P if Karen could have made it to drive him home (maybe next year);

* Craiger brought a "healthy" alternative to the 3P Grill: the Bacon-Burger-Dog & didn't have to twist Diggetty Doug Bails arm to try it to which Bails responded that it could use cheese;

* We had a new Chef manning the Grillmaster 5000 as Old School Bruce stepped up to sling brats & burgers while Swoop was off playing 3P Volleyball;

* Old School brought Commissioner "Dancing with the Wilson Stars" Collin to the 3P & Da Commish was his usual practical joking self including having Reitzy hide Quick Mike's drink, telling Bails to hurry up & eat his bacon-burger-dog so we could throw him in the pool, and accusing Britty of kicking him under the table;

* As for 3P Volleyball, the majority of 3Pers participated (Pure Carbon Corinne couldn't as she's still on Injured Reserve from last year's 3P Volleyball & Harvard Dad was still MIA) in two different spirited sessions with "Crotch Cry" Poletti "winning" the Gold medal noting Iron Mike & I drawing short straw assignments with the "designated losers" this year;

* Britty & I were psyched to play 3P Volleyball after watching Olympic Beach Volleyball and speaking (typing) of OBV, Amanda White got the "Misty May Dig of the Match" on a Swoop Spike;

* Another Swoop Spike nailed New Neighbor Frank (a.k.a. The Oak Circle Mowing Champion) in the face sending a lasting message on who is the Oak Circle Volleyball Champion;

* New Grandfather Quick Mike was at the 3P without Cool E who was with their grandson and Quick & Iron Mike made the 2nd 3P Volleyball session enjoyable for me with some very nice set-ups (also liked the crafty Lefty serves of LVD--Lebanon Valley Dave) while making our loss look good;

* In other 3P "Olympic" competitions, the Werley-Wongs were the last team standing for the Washers Championship which was marked by tremendous parity as all "countries" won & lost games in group play;

* And in Pool Basketball, which is now probably going to be eliminated as a 3P Olympic sport, the USA (Jack Strap) easily out-shot Spain (Swoop);
* Hockey is no longer an HHI or 3P Olympics sport, but no discussion of Goaltenders I personally know is complete without mention of "Kick Save" Christine Poletti who like me drove an hour to be at the 3P & also recovered her goalie equipment from the Whites (maybe they have that missing table also?) yesterday;

* Bails (who sent his kids to rival Pitt) surprisingly & semi-eloquently argued that PSU/Paterno got screwed regarding which Yours Truly agreed that JoePa was a good man noting he could have had me arrested when he caught me on his game day sideline eating a hoagie to which Reitzy responded "another PSU cover-up";

* If you don't think it was "Too Soon" for Reitzy's joke then tune in for Jeffrey Ross hosting the Roseanne Roast tonight on Comedy Central http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/08/05/jeff-ross-dresses-sandusky 

* Sue Reitzy, Mighty Monica, and Kathy Werley-Wong most assuredly advised Poletti & I that we were wrong that Greg Daloisio was in that black-and-white PSU Berks Bathtub Race picture on Facebook (being competitive, Steve & I will probably track down Dal to tell them girls they are Wrong);

* Also seen on Facebook late last night from Karen "Strap" Miller was "Had a great day catching up with friends!" at the 3P as like the Hokey Pokey--that's what it's all about!

On behalf of all 3Pers, our Thanks to The Hostess with the Mostest Diane & the Figurehead Boss with the Apple Sauce (& Brats) Steve/Swoop, as well as the WEATHER controller Mother Nature for a most enjoyable 3P!!!