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Yeah, it was a good game. Nice to see some offense, but our signature defense (go figure) was a bit awol. Probly a lot of SEC teams hoping to see UGA drop one. Maybe we can start firing on both cylinders in time for UT and shake that lingering demon. And snag a 3rd bowl game.. Good luck on Sat with Tebow. When he's on his game, he's pretty incredible.

I second that. Alabama looked plenty beatable yesterday.

Owlbama 08.

Introduce her to Flick, Mick.

I like to have Radiohead's Electioneering at full crank in the car as I drive by all the yard signs this time of year... that is an awesome song loud.

bump... will be interesting to see how many of us actually vote. Tweedy calls notwithstanding.

Around 6 this morning ("new" time), the hot water line to the washer decided to burst & spray all over the place. This was not how I had planned to use my extra hour. The laundry area in the basement looked like a rain forest, and the steam set off the smoke detector. Quite a rousing morning. Makes me glad we have the laundry area in the basement... floor drains are a beautiful thing. All better now.

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Happy Birthday and have a great weekend, Kim!

Yeah, LAST Monday was the normal routine here. Yesterday was the surreal version.

yeah, I'm still kinda in shock. Not unusual for the Monday after a UK game here, but it's a different kind of shock than what we're used to here. It's not often that we hear opponents say things like "they just made the big plays at the end".

Happy Birthday Wendy!!! Great to meet you this summer. Hope yours was outstanding!

Clearly you people have never had a Ho with cheese and hash browns in the wee hours of the morning at Tolly Ho. Bonus points if it was the old Ho location where the bookstore is now. They are good, and good for you. I voted, and I'm proud of it.

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Turning 39 on a Monday. That calls for something. Maybe two somethings. Happy Birthday Flick.

Happy Birthday Sue! Have a great time at whatever you're doing.

UK - Bama was a pretty good game all in all. Downright respectable. I'm liking that Big Blue defense. I'll take 17-14...

The thing I worry about is that Saban has raised the market price for college coaching to an exorbitant level. That can't be a good thing. It just can't. That said, I'm not looking forward to our chances (UK) in the game tomorrow. I'm not one for whining, but this is a pretty tough opener for on-the-road conference play. And our 4-0 record isn't quite as menacing as it looks on paper. We'll see...

So, I was listening to the YHF Demo on the way to work this morning, and I had a question that I know someone here will know the answer to. On the demo version of Poor Places (the one I have, anyway), there's no "Yankee ... Hotel ... Foxtrot" radio thing at the end of the song. So, when did the album get its name? What was the demo called when it was made? This is probly in a book somewhere or buried deep within the catacombs of VC, but I thought I'd just ask...

Well, you both get to play Kentucky in there somewhere (10-11 for SC and 10-18 for Ark), so things are not all bleak. Seems like we always either get the hard SEC teams, or teams who come in with "must win" situations after other SEC thumpings. Life in the SEC, indeed... We were able to hold off a non-cupcake Middle Tennessee on a last-second shoestring tackle at the 1 on Saturday... not pretty.

Today is bill-payin' day, and I noticed for the first time that our newspaper will now has a "Fuel Surcharge" of two dollars and something added on to the usual subscription price. We also had some gas lines around lunchtime yesterday, but it was back to normal when I came home from work around 6. I topped off. $3.75 here. Seemed like the prudent thing to do.

Fifty pages in eight days. You people.

indeed...

Good post - it's easy to poke holes but harder to find real answers. And congratulations on 23 years of teaching... I'm curious how you all have dealt with the issue of hiring principals there in FL. Here in KY (not an education mecca, to be sure) we have implement School-Based councils at each school which consist of the principal, 3-4 teachers, and 2 parents. When there is a principal vacancy at the school, the council (sans principal, obviously) interview and decide. Obviously, there are more teachers than parents on that, so it's essentially up to the teachers on the council who hav