Man, it's amazing what one can get done on Sunday when errands are out of the way by the end of the day on Saturday.

I've got several articles in the queue and some Web work for my No. 1 client to finish, and I just need to get my p's and q's together for the week. While doing so, I listened to OU beat Texas in Austin (baseball) for the first time in 10 years, 5-2.

I also listened to the Martinsville race on the radio. Yep, NASCAR. It got me to thinking about the sport's demographics ... again. While NASCAR is America's No. 1 sport in terms of fans, it's still stereotyped terribly unfairly by people who fancy themselves to be intellectually elite, although that too is a pretty hefty stereotype.

Well, Google Answers had some links to some interesting statistics, which all support my contention that the income base of the average NASCAR fan is way higher on average than most folks would believe. Even if it's still a working-class sport at its origin, the folks who attend NASCAR races are no more working class as a percentage of the whole than who attend NFL, NBA, MLB or NHL games, I assure you.

Heck, I've attended everything but a NASCAR race, and the only thing that keeps me from one of those is the crowd ... as in how big it is. I can deal with 75,000 people at an OU game, but 300,000 people is way too much for me.

It's funny, I think about the folks who dress up in jerseys and OU shirts and all that garb to watch the Sooners play, and I wonder why people make fun of NASCAR fans for showing up in the garb of their favorite driver. Isn't it the same thing? I assure you that I see as many missing teeth at an OU game than one would at a NASCAR event. Hell, at the softball game on Saturday, there was an old dude in overalls who looked like he was dressed for Hee Haw.

The PRN and MRN broadcasts of NASCAR are just so well done, so exciting, and they don't require that I invest my time watching the race. I can just keep an ear on it.

So, baseball and NASCAR. That's what's been on this afternoon.

Now that I'm writing this li'l post, I opened up my iTunes podcasts and decided to re-listen to a Fresh Air NPR episode from this week, when Terry Gross interviewed a credit card expert and Harvard law professor named Elizabeth Warren.

This woman (Warren) has the most soothing voice I have ever heard. If she were a pastor, I would attend her church. If she were a dictator, I could be her subject. Her sex slave. Whatever. Her voice has me completely hypnotized. I'm seriously considering listening to this again.

If you ever watch the Food Network, you know how soothing Ina Garten's voice can be. Warren's is more soothing, but perhaps not as soothing as the ultimate soothing voice ... Bob Ross.

Fluffy little clouds. Repeat after me. Fluffy green cup of Kool Aid.

*** From Wikipedia about Bob Ross: Ross was spoofed on the Fox television show Family Guy. In the opening of the second season episode "Fifteen Minutes of Shame," he paints a bush and tells the viewer, "We're just gonna put a happy little bush down in this corner, and that'll just be our little secret. But if you tell anybody that bush is there, I will come to your house and I will cut you!"

I can't really top that line, and -- frankly -- I'm too buzzed from listening to this professor woman.