Hours of ping
Today Auburn played a doubleheader against Vanderbilt. There’s rain in the forecast today, so let’s play two! … Against one of the best teams in the country and the defending national champions. No...
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I re-define spring
Happy Good Friday. Productive morning. Reasonable lunch. Nice chat with the dean. Two classes this afternoon, talking feature story generation in one class and profile stories in the other. And, then,...
View ArticleFlipping for gymnastics
Tonight was the NCAA Regional gymnastics meet. There were six teams, with the top two advancing to the NCAA Finals in Texas later this month. I was going to shoot a whole bunch of video, but the...
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Wednesdays move swiftly
Another Wednesday, another full day. Class stuff in the morning, lunch, and then a class, which is immediately followed by another class. And then advertising phone calls and emails and faxes. (That’s...
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A quick note on a busy, and slow, Friday
A full and busy day. Didn’t get home until 9 p.m. and there was baseball after that. Led one class on data gathering. We talked about 990 forms and financial statements and online resources and text...
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Day at the park
Enjoyed a doubleheader of baseball today. The first game was at noon, and A-Day was going on across the street. It was a busy afternoon, with people still filtering in at the end of the first game and...
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A tiger of a start to the weekend
The life of a costume character is pretty weird, if you think about it. The life of a costume character is pretty good, if you think about it. That all started because she pointed out that Aubie seemed...
View ArticleSleepy Saturday
I’m not ashamed to say it. I slept in. Very, very late. We went to a baseball game. Before the game I sprawled out on the floor to stretch my back and shoulders and promptly fell asleep. At the park we...
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Last day of class
Last two classes of the term today. I gave a quiz consisting of when their finals were due and so on, the traditional end-of-term easy few points. I gave my not-at-all famous end-of-term speech. The...
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Brown shoes in my size, the second hardest thing to buy
This morning it was laundry. This afternoon it was errands. I had to buy shoes. Buying a specific kind of shoe in my size — and at a price I want to pay — is sometimes very difficult. This is one of...
View ArticleTwo podcasts and a breakthrough two years coming
Here’s a podcast I did with my old friend Chadd Scott earlier this week. He’s launching GridironNow.com tonight, a site that will cover SEC football like crazy, and he’s asked me to take part. I’m...
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The new scoreboard
Everyone seems to have opinions about this, and they seem to vary widely. I think an excellent promotion would be to superimpose an old version of the scoreboard on the screen every week. The previous...
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Some Auburn weekend notes
Back at it again, then: Brian came down this weekend. He pronounced the scoreboard large: That’s been the attraction this year. The football team has struggled and continues to do so. They got outpaced...
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A meaningful header would make see past maple leaves
It is a shareable age, but you just can’t express autumn in any of the formats yet available to us. But if yours hasn’t passed yet, go outside and enjoy it some. May the weather be great and the leaves...
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Stuff from the weekend
There was a football game, and a flyover: I took this picture: And that’ll be the last of it, one way or the other. It is a sad thing in its own way, which I didn’t expect. Also I snuck up on Allie and...
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The Iron Bowl
So one of these guys is my second cousin. The guy on the left is his high school buddy. They play football together. The friend has been to big time football college football games before, SEC games...
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She stuck the landing
Went to a gym meet tonight. On our way out they had one of those cutout photo stands. The Yankee decided to re-live her gymnastics days. Not a wobble nor a misstep; perfect 10.
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At the baseball game
My mother-in-law is been down for the week visiting and helping us do stuff. We are introducing her to new and exciting people. Aubie is a ladies man. I think she likes him.
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Pics from the weekend
A friend was sick and complaining on social media. I leaped to the rescue! With milk and chocolate sauce. She looked pretty good when I dropped it off at her place, though … Autumn shows off the rally...
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Anybody got a good cold-weather hardball metaphor?
Feels great if you’re sitting in the sun. Pretty chilly everywhere else. But, you’ll sit through that if you enjoy baseball. February baseball.
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