* Former Bengal Domata Peko's Father-in-law owns the store that sold the winning Powerball ticket and gets a cool Million for the effort.
* Chief, have you reached out to that poor girl who ruined her life by making racial slurs yet? She looks like she could use a shoulder to cry on right now.
* My Dad (84) flipped his ATV and broke his ankle and got banged up pretty bad. He's in great shape for his age, but he needs to chill just a bit. His biggest worry is not being able to go to the gym for a while. "That's how you get old and die, when you stop getting after it. You gotta live." Good advice.
Almost as good as the advice he gave me when he dropped me off at EKU... "Hit the books, don't get arrested, don't get in any fights but if you do keep punching until they stop punching back, (attractive black girl jogs by wearing extremely short shorts)... and don't knock up any black girls."
He is terrible on crutches. Fell 4x, including once while I was there. My siblings and I have been taking turns staying with him at his house down in Crittenden in the middle of 80 acres. He refuses to come to any of our houses. Tough old bastard. Love him and hate seeing him get old.
* He finally helped me perfect his Air Force chipped beef gravy recipe (shit on a shingle) for biscuits & gravy. I like sausage gravy, but this is what he made every Sunday growing up and eating it brought back a lot of memories.
-Please note, I said sausage gravy. 80 and Rob please keep any "Willy Likes Sausage" jokes to yourselves. TIA.
* Going to a bourbon event this weekend to raise money for Diabeeetus research. Should be a good time for a good cause.
Also looking forward to seeing some of you at the Big Pope & Friends Black Tie event in about a month.
* Lost a coworker this week. He had battled a horrible rare form of dementia for a few years. Attacked his body and mind. He was a great man. He was heavily involved in the community and Chad's old HS. His wife asked me to make his funeral program cover and back. One of the hardest things I've ever had to do.
* On a more positive note, the political signs and ads will go away for a while. Imagine if we spent as much time and money on the actual issues as we did on the elections.
* Stoops has elevated this program so much. It's weird being disappointed in a 8-4 football season, but I certainly am. And that is with Vandy and UL not being guaranteed dubs anymore, either.
If this NIL nonsense doesn't get fixed/cleared up and we lose Stoops, we march on Mitch's probably sensibly humble house.
* As horrible as Scang has been, I'm not sure what plays work with this OL. Gotta hit the portal hard and get some game ready quality bigs.
I scream about the play calling every game, but then I watch the Van Hiles breakdowns and see that the plays are there but we don't make them. But scoring points is the bottom line and we suck at it.
* I love the looks of the basketball team. I hope we see CJ and Reeves together for good chunks of time. What a luxury it is to have great shooters like that and 2 playmakers in Wallace and Wheeler to go with Oscar & Co.
Some good players are going to be sitting, but that is a good problem to have.
* Go Big Blue! Take care of yourselves and each other, man. This thing doesn't go on forever.