12 days in...

Wow. It’s not quite 2 weeks into the New Year. We’ve had a pretty eventful two weeks though. Let’s see, where to start.

    I went back to work on the 3^rd, after a two week vaca that was a bittersweet homecoming. I wanted to stay home and have a real vaca, (see the children are sick) but I was half afraid to. So I went with a working vaca at work. That is what I told myself at least. My nephew can home from Iraq, which makes me very happy. If he goes back, and I think he will, it will be to Afghanistan. Please end the war so he won’t get to go there.

   It snowed in Alabama, again. That’s a pretty memorable event. It snowed on Christmas Day. This had never happened in my memory, if not lifetime.  But it snowed in January. It was a really real, show that you could see, and it accumulated. I got mostly ice where I live, but there were areas of AL that got 3 to 5 inches. Unheard of! This is an event that happens once every 15 years or so, and usually later in the year. So much for global warming, Al.

   Auburn won the BCS National Championship. This hasn’t happened since 1957. Alabama won it last year, and that means that 2 universities from the same state has won it back to back. My understanding is, this has never happened. Cam won the Heisman. So the Heisman is back in Auburn, where it originated from. Last year it was won by Mark Ingram, from Alabama. The SEC has won the BCS Championship for 4 years running.

 A portend of things to come? A really great year for eveyone or the end as we know it?

   I’m not a superstitious person, really. But I have to admit, they are some things that make you go hmmmmm. Maybe the ancient Mayans have something.