Look, Ma, No Walton!

1. Today should be an absolutely perfect day—for Thanksgiving. For nine days after Mother's Day however, not so much. Expect a partly sunny day with a high near 66 degrees and a steady breeze between 10 and 15 mph and gusts to 20 mph, the National Weather Service says. Overnight, you'll see lots of clouds and a low around 46. At least the high school kids at spring football practice should be comfortable. I'm hoping for a sale on turkeys at on Wednesday to complete the mood.

2. Speaking of spring sports, we're down to exactly one, baseball, and only one East Cobb team still playing, the . They're at home for a doubleheader against Whitewater today in the quarterfinals of the GHSA AAAA state tournament, starting at 4:30 p.m.

3. Meanwhile, is looking ahead not to football in the fall, but wrestling in the winter. Wheeler wrestling coach Matt Brickley is launching a Junior Wildcat program this fall and is looking for students, girls and boys, younger than high school to wrestle and for adults to coach. Wheeler will hold open-mat practices in June, accept registration in September and start the season around Nov. 1. Contact Brickley at matt.brickley@cobbk12.org or 330-774-5471 for more information.

4. Did you receive one of the 64,000 or so CodeRED alert phone calls that went out to East Cobb early last Wednesday because a 12-year-old boy with diabetes went missing at East Cobb Middle School on the afternoon of May 10? Well, enough people got angry about the robotic calls as late as a few minutes after 1 a.m. to force the Cobb County to change its policy on making those alarming calls, the Marietta Daily Journal reports. Yes, it was alarming, confusing and even bewildering to receive a phone call at 1 in the morning. On the other hand, if your diabetic child were missing in the middle of the night, would you be worried about disturbing a few people's sleep? Is the best solution raising the threshold for such late-night calls, increasing public awareness of the CodeRED reverse-911 program or some combination?

5. It's National Cyber Security Awareness Day, and that could be our fifth thing today. East Cobb's Tim Lee, the chairman of the Cobb Board of Commissioners, received a withering letter from the clerk of Superior Court on Monday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, and that could be our fifth thing. But we've made an educational commitment through the end of the school year. So here's what History.com has to say about May 17 through history: This was the day in 1954 when the U.S. Supreme Court announced its landmark ruling in Brown vs. the Board of Education, declaring school segregation unconstitutional and propelling the civil rights movement. That was just a little bit more important than the day 11 years later when the FBI announced that the lyrics of the Kingsmen's "Louie Louie" were unintelligible. (See, we made it through five things without any mention of , which all but took over East Cobb Patch the past few days. We knew we could do it!)