"Big" win for Virginia

Well, we got a shut out, and fortunately it was not for the other team. Granted, we only beat Duke, but our quarterback, Sewell, looked like he is learning quickly, and I have hope for the future if he sticks around and stays healthy. It's funny to watch a game at Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham because the stadium only seats 33,000 and is never more than half full, usually w/the opposing team. There was lots of Orange & Blue there today, considering Durham's close proximity to Richmond, etc.

Nothing in the tropics except that there is a potential Joyce forming later in the week, and Issac got upgraded to a Hurricane.

Tomorrow is October, which means some new yard projects!

Also, we're taking our dog to church in the morning for the "Feast of St. Francis"...should be interesting w/all those animals in the sanctuary. Our dog needs some God though!

University of South Carolina v. Auburn & Isaac (& Joyce??)

Big SEC matchup tonight: South Carolina v. Auburn. I think Auburn will win, even though it's at Williams-Brice in Columbia. I'll be watching, and maybe having a cocktail or two....

Isaac formed this morning but as per usual a la 2006, it's going out to sea and will be no threat to land. There is another disturbance that might be forming (which would be Joyce), and this too might go out to land, but actually has a decent shot of hitting the U.S. Storm predictors are saying though that something could flair up near the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. That could potentially be bad for the Gulf Coast, and would be strange too, because depending on timing, this would be Kirk, or the "K" storm, just as Katrina was. We shall wait and see.

Big Duke/UVa Matchup this weekend at high noon on Atlanta's new CW (Channel 10 for the locals). I can't believe that the Duke game is the first UVa game I'll see on TV down here (since I was AT the Georgia Tech game), but I'm not complaining.

I still haven't seen Abrams & Bettes and because of the game it might not be tonight, but maybe I'll catch it Friday or next week.

Fulton County (where I live and where the City of Atlanta is (mostly)) has just been issued a Severe Thunderstorm warning until 5:45 PM all the way from Alpharetta to Piedmont Park. Should make rush hour awesome. Speaking of which, check out Atlanta's traffic here. Great resource for commuters that don't want to wait for the "Local on the 8's" on the Weather Channel or wade through confusing TV & Radio traffic reports.

Exhausted

Well, in the last week I've gone to 2 NCAA games, gone to a wedding in DC, flown over 1000 miles round trip, set up and attended a program for 300 potential UVa students, entertained friends and family, met a bunch of new girlfriends of my fraternity brothers, drank enough wine/beer/liquor to throw up (almost), and gotten not nearly enough sleep. It was all fun though, but I'm definitely looking forward to a quiet week.

However, I'm very excited about the Saints/Falcons game tonight. Unfortunately it doesn't even come on until 8:30 at night, and so there is no chance I'll be able to see the end, especially considering I'm almost falling asleep at my desk.

Nothing tropical to report....not sure if we'll get an Isaac or not. It is the anniversary of Rita however.

Football overload...

It starts today. My good friend/co-best man is coming into town this evening to go to the GT/UVA game tomorrow. The debauchery will soon start. He'll leave Saturday but we're off to Athens to catch UGa/Colorado. Right now for the UGa game it's 84 & some thunderstorms, and for the UVa game it's 65 & clear at gametime.

Nothing really in the tropics. There is a potential Isaac off the African coast, but it'll turn out & recurve to sea. No big deal.

There is turmoil in the Middle East, Hungary, Thailand, etc. etc. What's new?

The HUGE NFL Monday night game, Atlanta v. New Orleans is coming up. Even Al Jazeera will be there, which worries me a little bit because why should the Arab nations care about a southern rivalry football game? It will be the grand reopening of the Superdome however, so it promises to be lots of drama. The last time the Saints played in there, it was 2004 (although 2005 was the 1st season ever the Saints did not lose in the Dome!).

Argh

Just lost a HUGE post I was writing. In short though: no new hurricanes, Westlake is #5 in the state of Texas, UVa stinks, I'm wearing orange courdoroy & a bow tie to the GT game on Thursday, LSU lost, FSU lost (that's actually good), Mike Bettes & Stephanie Abrams are dating (supposedly) and have a TV show coming up soon together. Will write more later...

Florence, Gordon, Helene

Well, we've got a dying Florence, a strengthening Gordon, and a TD 8 that promises to be Helene (I feel like I need an accent for Helene since it's apparently French). Some of the experts say that Helene is nothing to worry about, noting it's location & historic September storms from that same location...however do you realize that Hugo is on that list???!!

Also, as you know yesterday was the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks...and also the 1 year anniversary of the day we got our dog. Five years ago yesterday I woke up early to go run b/c I didn't have class, only to open up my AIM and find the headlines reading "World Trade Center I hit...World Trade Center II hit..." Then I watched TV until about 4 or 5 PM, ran my hardest (esp. when there were false reports that we were bombing Afghanistan), and then went to Moes & Joes in the Highlands for super greasy burgers and some cheap beer...everyone there was quiet and glued to . It was weird to have commercials and shows back after that! Yesterday though KICKS 101.5 decided to play mostly patriot music in the morning but it was a little too much & I had to turn it off...CNN also showed the original coverage on Pipeline, which was kind of neat b/c it showed them talking about "The Big One" (meaning a hurricane hitting a vulnerable city...imagine that), and then a fashion show for maternity wear...they cut to commerical & when they cut back they showed the 1st plane in the WTC....from then on it was all chaos, & after the 2nd plane hit they pretty much knew it was terrorism. Crazy.

Columbia 2001

I can't wait to hear the strains of Space Odyssey 2001 when I get to Williams-Brice for the Georgia-South Carolina game on Saturday night. Unfortunately it'll be during the Ohio State/Texas game, but considering that we don't yet have tickets, I think we'll be able to keep up w/the score on someone's tailgate TV. I can't wait as well to have me some Carolina Bagel on Saturday morning. That's good stuff. By that point (early in the AM) we'll be tailgating.

Also it's this weird non-planned tradition that there's a tropical system always coming when I'm in Columbia. This time it's Florence, but she doesn't seem to be causing any trouble except to Bermuda. No other systems are out there...there was something near NC that was promising but that wasn't strong enough before it merged w/a Low Front, and there was something near Florence, but she absorbed that potential Gordon.

I think we could actually get through hurricane season w/o a major storm hitting the US, but too soon to tell.

News from the weird: Vince Marinello, radio personality for about 30 years on WWL is in jail tonight for killing his wife...they were going through a divorce & living in a FEMA trailer and he apparently did it & then sped up to Jackson to catch a Saints game. Crazy.

Ernesto, Florence, Gordon

Well Ernesto isn't really Ernesto anymore. It's moving over northern Virginia, Maryland & Pennsylvania. It made landfall near Cape Lookout, NC (the middle Cape) as an almost hurricane (4 mph from a hurricane at 70 mph) and did the most Virginia damage in Williamsburg (where my parents live), but basically spared Richmond except for flooding in Battery Park (but NOT Shockoe Bottom!). People put down sandbags just in case, and Jorma Duran was in Richmond to report.

There are a few waves to be "concerned" about, both of which could form into depressions and/or storms (Florence & Gordon respectively) by Sunday. We'll have to watch it, but obviously no threat to the Labor Day weekend.

I'm off to Tybee....the Gamecocks won last night! Go HOOS tomorrow...beat Pitt! (I'll be "watching" online because I'm sure the rental unit does not get ESPNU...who does (well my parents-in-law do w/the Dish)????