Fair weather, finally

It finally stopped raining in West Texas, and we've just about dried out from last weekend's monsoon conditions at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.  Weather is partly sunny, winds out of the north at 6 and a comfy 80 degrees for this Lone Star Conference crossover game with Southeast Oklahoma State at Shotwell Stadium.  The Savage Storm is 2-1 and the No. 2-ranked Wildcats are 3-0 after escaping with a 20-14 win on the first play of overtime last Saturday night in a soggy game with Texas A&M-Commerce.  What rain in mid-September really means is that the West Texas Fair is in town, which it is, just in case Savage Storm fans think ACU throws a tailgate party with a carnival midway and a rodeo next door.  There's something comforting about watching the Wildcats play in Shotwell to the distant sound of kids screaming on the Tilt-a-Wheel and the aroma of both fair-time food being grilled and manure being clean from the livestock pens.  The lights of the carnival rides provide a great skyline to the overall scene.  Some Wildcat fans may opt to stay home tonight to watch Texas Tech play Texas in a fairly important football tilt for Lone Star bragging rights, but they don't know what they're missing.  Isn't that why they make DVD recorders?