SUN 1:00 PM EST (9) Eagles At Ravens – YES !
Texans At Browns – NO ! Buccaneers At Lions – YES ! Bills At Chiefs – YES !
Bears At Rams – ‘SHOW ME’ A SHOCKER ! – NO !
Jets At Titans – NO !
Patriots At Dolphins – NO !
Vikings At Jaguars – NO !
49ers At Cowboys – YES !
SUN 4:05 PM EST (1) Raiders At Broncos – NO !
SUN 4:15 PM EST (3) Panthers At Falcons – YES !
Giants At Cardinals – SHOCKER IN THE DESERT SPECIAL ! – NO ! Redskins At Seahawks – YES !
SUN 8:15 PM EST (1) Colts At Chargers – NO !
MON 8:30 PM EST (1) Packers At Saints – YES !
THIS WEEK – 8-8 (.500) – ‘PATHETIC’
OVERALL – 115-60-1 (.656)
Be sure to check out my fresh new picks for this upcoming weekend’s games EARLY TOMORROW MORNING !
That’s the actual score card from this afternoon’s much-anticipated match-up between me and my brother (‘Bunky’). We determined and agreed that this was his best game in the entire 15-year history of us playing miniature golf together. He shot 3-over-par for a total of 39 points, and that included an unbelievable record-shattering six holes-in-one ! I on the other hand registered a very mediocre performance shooting 14-over-par for a total of 50 points. That included ten holes-in-two that I was very proud of.
A vacation is simply not a vacation until me and my brother have played a spirited round of miniature golf as well as a near-violent game of table air hockey. My brother scored a come-from-behind win at that this afternoon nipping me 7 to 6.
If it’s Tuesday night then you just know what I’m up to – no matter where in the world I may be located at:
1. I don’t have a cold yet. My 9TH cold in 13 months has not yet materialized. Give it a few days. It’ll make its presence known. I guarantee it. North Texas is full of germs. So are airplanes. I fly back in one this Saturday afternoon.
2. I’ll be flying to South Florida this weekend on the 21ST anniversary of my very first flight to South Florida (from the Washington D.C. area). I landed at MIA on the 30TH of November in 1987, and I arrived so late in the night that it wasn’t until the wee hours of the 01ST of December that I actually arrived at my new home at (then) Homestead Air Force Base. I was 20 at the time. That was more than a half a life ago.
3. Remember this family vacation of a lifetime that I identified in an early-September edition of these ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’ ?:
Magnificent National Parks - Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, And Nevada
It’s not gonna happen. The trip has been cancelled due to a variety of logistical reasons. Now we’re planning a replacement trip for sometime during the Spring, Summer, or Autumn of 2009. I cast my vote for Bermuda (which I just mentioned this past weekend on the ‘Saturday Night Retro’). Maybe we’ll take a 5, 7, or 9 day cruise from the U.S. to Bermuda and back ?
4. Yesterday was quite the ‘Tex-Mex’ day for me. For Lunch we ate at Chili’s (not my choice), and then for Dinner less than 5 hours later we ate at a place called Mexi-Go. I delighted in the ‘Guadalajara’. That – mis amigos – is a chicken enchilada, a cheese enchilada, a grilled chicken fajita taco, rice, and beans. Oh yeah we enjoyed the standard appetizer of chips and salsa at both joints. I can’t deal with anymore Mexican food until I return back home to the Mexican restaurant capital of South Florida – Homestead 33030.
I’ve never done it, but if I did it I would drive through 5 U.S. states to get from South Florida (south of Miami) to North Texas (north of Dallas). It would be over 1,400 miles of Interstate highway shenanigans. Maybe some year I’ll do it. But for now I’ll just blog about doing it – and the 5 states I’d travel through to get there.
5. Florida – More than half of the 1,400-mile excursion would be from Homestead to Pensacola. That’s about 12 hours of driving along Florida’s Turnpike, I-75, and I-10 just to get out of Florida. I think that reaching the Alabama state line would be cause for celebration – and time to call it a night at a nice hotel just across the border.
4. Alabama – It’s where it all started for me. I was born in Selma on the 05TH of June in 1967. There was once an Air Force Base in Selma – Craig. The USAF isn’t there anymore, but it’s still operational as a local-use airport. Alabama has it all – beaches along the Gulf Of Mexico, big cities dotting the state, and the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains to the northeast.
3. Mississippi – I’ve been to Keesler Air Force Base (near Biloxi on the Gulf Of Mexico), and I’ve driven along I-10 along the south coast of Mississippi. That’s pretty much my entire life history of the great state of Mississippi (in 1994 and 2004 respectively).
2. Louisiana – I’ve been there once before in my entire life – during the Summer of 2004. I spent a week in New Orleans on U.S. Government business a year before Hurricane Katrina wrecked her havoc on the region. Guess what ? I’m going back in about 2½-months. This time I’m flying there instead of driving. I’m taking a Carnival cruise out of New Orleans straight to Mexico.
1. Texas – It’s too hot and dry here in the Summer. It’s too cold and dry here in the Winter. They have long droughts here. They have tornadoes here. They have blizzards and ice storms here. I couldn’t live here. I adore humidity. My skins demands moisture. My brother and his wife live within the northern suburbs of Dallas. I don’t like this part of Texas. Actually there’s no part of Texas that I really like a lot. I’ve been to San Antonio a bunch of times over the past 23+ years – most recently this past Summer. That’s a fun place to visit on vacation. I don’t think that I could live there either. I belong on the U.S. East Coast. I need to be within eyesight of the Atlantic Ocean. That’s my ocean. That’s where I rock and roll.
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