Just can't top it All I have to say is that this was one hell of a weekend. I spent all day Saturday watching college football and all night watching the same highlights over and over. A storm came through on Friday and dropped temperatures down to the upper 70's with a steady breeze. Sunday, B and I went to Asheville which has a great college town atmosphere. We ate at the original Mellow Mushroom, sat outside in a semi enclosed gazeebo which had thick vines for a roof. All I could think of was being in Gainesville on a late fall gameday. The cool breeze combined with the street noise and the smell of good food. Needless to say, I'm very content with life right now.

New Logo

The Big-10 announced a new logo today. Although the change is subtle, the league feels that the new logo more accurately communicates that they are the Big "10"

I love college football

The first full day of college football is done, and it's time for me to hand out the grades for the day

C Time Warner Cable.

This was a hard one to grade seeing how the former Adelphia company now operated by Time Warner Charlotte until the towns of Huntersville, Cornelius, and Davidson can decide whether or not they want to incorporate the bankrupt company as a municipal utility. I called around 7:30 Thursday to order the HD tier that has ESPN so I can get the LSU game. Spent 45 minutes on the phone with some poor customer service rep who just couldn't figure out why the activation signal wasn't going out to my cable box. We set up a service appointment for Friday and left it as that.

Little did I, or the service rep realize, was that a storm that night knocked out the internet connection, but not cable, which is why he couldn't activate the channel upgrade. I was pleasantly surprised with my cable box rebooting during the halftime show, then greeted with a high definition close up of Lou Holtz. If you watch closely enough, you can acually see him decay.

Of course, I conveniently forgot to call the cable company back to tell them that the channels came through and I didn't need the service man to come out. Oops.

F My knowledge of the TV listings

It took a phone call with my Dad to find out that the Gator game was not on Pay-per-view, which the first game usually is. I found the game on a local Charlotte channel I didn't bother to check and only missed the first drive. So I watched the Gator game and kept tabs on the Michigan-App State game on the internet. I later learned from a Best Buy employee that the Michigan App State game was on another channel I didn't bother to check.

A+ US 321

The 88 mile strech of highway that seperates Charlotte from Boone, NC. Someone asked if Appalachian State would be ranked in the Top-25. The answer: No, because they schedule weak teams like Michigan.
Wow, just wow. This isn't just an upset, this completely wrecked the known power structure of college football. They just made it known that the top I-AA teams can hang with and beat the top I-A teams. That serioulsy shortens the vertical distribution of college football.

F Notre Dame

HA HA.

B Windows Vista

Bought a new laptop today. The old one was developing a short in the power supply and kept switching over to the battery. It was 4 years old and was a discontinued floor model when I bought it. So I upgraded to an HP Pavilion running Windows Vista. I really like it so far. I know this has nothing to do with college football but I AM watching Gameday final while I'm typing this up on the new laptop.