Heard they played college football in Stillwater this weekend and that it was interesting for 92 seconds. Yikes! My favorite play, though, was the flea-flicker interception by O-State in the first half. Don’t see that very often. After all the yadda yadda yadda, a Big 12 championship game between OU and Nebraska as the conference breaks apart is something I anticipate anxiously. Sounds like a rivalry game with great possibilities for football lore. I was prepared for and expected the Cowboys to win at home and some part of me wishes it were so just so the Texas A&M fans would shut the hell up.

Since I was playing a little cards with my 10 buddies at Soartstar’s house, I didn’t pay all that much attention for most of the game, but both tables came to a stopping point and started watching during the fourth quarter and there was much yelling and gnashing of teeth and jumping up and down. As to the card game, I walked in with $20 and walked out with $20 and was lucky not to be down a bunch after the drubbing Tall Ed’s girl, J, gave me early in the evening. Considering the brownies and potato soup I ate, I feel like I came out way ahead. ‘Sides, got to see my homies. I was sorry to once again fade early, but three hours was an hour more than I should have been there, all things considered.

Thanksgiving meal for me this year was with Mom’s octogenarian set and we had an organ recital: pancreas, slipped disc, heart, gallbladder, thyroid and my lung and adrenal gland. Just like Wednesday night dinner with the crowd, we slipped from that to grandkids and gossip (although gossip with this crowd is more about funerals than adultery).

Pretty strong likelihood that I’ll have Christmas in Tucson again this year, according to the invite I received in the mail this weekend from the daughter. Hope it’s bunches warmer there than here, I tire of cold weather very easily these days. Now, it’s a matter of transportation arrangements, etc., and budgeting. I’ll let you know how my schedule looks as we go along, since I’ve got some stuff like CAT scans and court dates to deal with.

In other family news, my Charleston sister, MindOverMary, became a grandmother again, making me one grand uncle to a bouncing baby boy; my Las Vegas sister was moved to tears by a YouTube performance of the Hallelujah Chorus at Macy’s; my local sister was mysteriously absent from Thanksgiving dinner but we’re a “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” family so I don’t know why; and, son Jack and I had a long phone chat about the mysteries of employment compensation. MCARP’s dog farted and it really really really smelled bad — who woulda guessed?

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