SEC 0-1

I'm pulling for all the SEC teams this year. It's incredibly hard rooting for Bama and Florida, but I'm willing to take one for the team. Alabama leads off losing to Oklahoma State, but they played a good game considering they don't even have a coach.

I love Christmas Break

One of the things I love most about Christmas break is getting to spend extra time with my hoodlums. One of the things we love to do is watch movies together. A couple of nights ago Hannah, who is home from Carson Newman, and I watched Little Mermaid. Quent and I always dig some Monty Python. He's watching all three Lord of the Rings movies tonight with friend Ben. I would be jealous that I'm not there if I were not enjoying watching Mary Poppins with Clara Grace. I love hanging with my hoodlums!

Log and a Stump

Flipping around the TV today it seemed like all anyone was talking about was the war between Rosie and the Donald. To me this is like a stump and a log arguing about who is more hollow. A war in Iraq, genocide in Sudan, Korea and Iran doing their best to split the atom, and we are focusing on these two lumps? Shallow? You put the depth of these two together and you don't get enough to fill a child's inflatable pool. They are the marshmallows of humanity, and its time we put them in the back of the cabinet and let them go stale.

Not so much good will toward men

Yesterday, Michael Silence posted reaction to Gov. Bredesen's Christmas card. You would have thought the man had shot the Pope. We Christians amaze me some times. Jesus was asked about his "target audience" once and this was his reply - "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: "I desire mercy, not sacrifice." For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners." Matthew 9:12-13 Who would Jesus have on His Christmas card?

Dead Frank Walking

Brother Frank has been known to proudly display the ole bonehead from time to time, but this goes way beyond "What the hell was he thinking?!" Frank not only taunted and mocked his beloved, and soon to be sainted wife Lisa, but he was stupid enough to send me photographic evidenced! Duh! He tries to hide behind his oldest daughter Lauren, and even entitles his email "Loren and I get revenge".

Every night she falls asleep at 10pm in her chair... Every night she claims that we leave her there when she comes to bed at 1:00am... Every night she swears that we would have awaken her if we had tried... Tonight. We proved that there is no moving... THE ZOMBIE MOM!!!!"

You know when the the dookey hits the fan Loren will turn on him like month old milk. "Mom, it was horrible. Dad made me do it even after I begged him not to. Please take me to the therapist, mom, else I don't know how I will cope with the pain."

I loved my brother Frank, may he rest in peace.

You don't know #%#$^&*!!

Quantum Physics was born today. On this day in 1900 Max Planck would help the world come to terms with the phrase "What the ....?!"

Thanks to my friend Andrew, I recently saw a really cool movie What the bleep do we know!? Down the Rabbit Hole. It deals with the mystic area where physics and science meets God and spirituality. It's a fantastic movie if you want to wade through an infinitely deep pool. Also Leonard Sweet is a theologian, Methodist of course, who's paddled these waters himself a time or two.

The Chief is Chief

Coach John "Chief" Chavis was named Assistant Coach of the Year by the American Football Coaches Association. It's an honor long overdue. BTW, where did Chief get his nickname?

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Dog Lovers

Sam Venable has written many wonderful articles, but this one had special significance to me.

Two of my favorite sayings about dogs:

"I wish I was half the man my dog thinks I am."

"Pet a cat, and it thinks it's god. Pet a dog, and he thinks you are."

I love dogs!

Whew!

The move is finally over, and the computer is hooked back up. Hopefully I will get back in blogging mode quickly.

Book Burning?

I'm moving and I've been packing my books. I am finding there are a whole lot of books I don't need any more and that McKay's won't take so I have no choice but to use them to roast marshmallows.

Here are a few examples of what qualifies kindling: All potty training books (I've almost got that down), anything to do with learning numbers, colors, or the alphabet (at 43 what's the point), the dictionary (who needs Webster when you have spell chekc!) and all books with Disney characters, Barney, Teletubies, Elmo, or Power Rangers.

Here's some idea of books that made the move: Hans Christian Anderson collection, The Stinky Cheese Man, I love You Stinky Face (I'm noticing a trend), old church directories, a financial calculations workbook (I spent 4 days in a cold hotel basement for that and I'm not giving it up), and my collection of Tennessee Football press guide 1983 - 2005.

Change in Power

Today millions of Americans went the to polls to prove once again that the great experiment in democracy started by our country's founders is alive and well. The direction of the country, the economic future of our children, the health of our seniors, and the lives of hundreds of thousands of our men and women in uniform hang in the balance. Now the votes have been casted, tallied, and America's choice is clear.

Britney's getting a divorce! Yeah, yeah, war in Iraq, health of a nation - who cares! Britney dumped KFed! Now that's news.

Oh, by the way, the Democrats took back control of the House.

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Skipping School

Friday, I was taking Clara Grace to school when it started. "Dad -cough, cough, fake sniffle - I don't feel good." Now I would like to say that I made sure that my daughter's education took precedence over my selfish desire to spend time with my daughter, but that would be a lie. I wimped out and told her she could spend the day at home with dad. No sooner than we get home, she's jumping around the house like Olga Korbut. I explained that when you stay home sick, you have to rest. You can't be playing around. Yeah, right. So I made the energizer bunny come outside and help me rake. We did the whole front yard, 26 bags in all according to Olga. After all the leaves, she seemed to learn her lesson. "Dad, next time I'm sick, I'm just going to go to school." Then we watched three episodes of Jimmy Neutron. It was a good day.

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A Day that will live in Smurf-infamy

On this day in 1958 a Frenchman (go figure) introduced the world to Smurfs. From that day till this the world has been covered in the blue darkness.

When the blue darkness engulfed the United States in 1980, I was old enough to be immune to its obnoxious brain sucking horror. However, my two baby sisters were not. To this day certain shades of blue, and any song with "la, la" in lyrics sends them back to the darkness they knew as children.

We can only hope that our children will not have to bear the emotional scars that come with horrific Saturday morning television. There have been other scares to be sure such as the Barney epidemic, and the Power Ranger plague of the early 1990's. Thankfully, neither reached the cataclysmic rage of the Smurfs.

Go Tigers!

Now that the Tennessee / Alabama game is over, I turn my focus to one of the day's lesser sporting events. The World Series starts tonight, and despite my affection for many friends like Stan Love who are life long Cardinal fans, I have to pull for the Detroit Tigers. I think the job that Jim Leyland has done this year could go down as one of the greatest managing jobs in the history of sports.

Go Tigers!

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John Parker Wilson and other thoughts

Bama's QB, John Parker Wilson, really deserves some respect. He was obviously hurt, but he kept getting up and coming back. He's going to another of Bama's great QB's.

Tennessee's defense won this game. They are putting together a season that would rank them with some of UT's best defensive teams.

Ainge. God love him. There are obviously still doubts running through the kids head. I dn[t know why or how, but if he doesn't gain some confidence in himself Tennessee is going to have a tough time against LSU, Arkansas, and South Carolina.

Beating Bama is always, always, always something to be savored.

Go Vols!!

SACKED!!! BALL GAME!!!

Two great sacks.

Ball game

Tennessee 16 Bama 13 Final

Great punt coverage

Nice tackle Robert Meachem!

Tick, tick, tick

This last minute is seems like its taking a couple of decades.

Punt Bama Punt!

33 yard punt. All we need is 1 first down.

But wait, Tennesse can't even get the huddle right.

Five yard penalty and stops the clock.

GIVE HIM SIX!

Touchdown - BIG ORANGE!!!

Tennessee 16 Bama 13