I have a couple or three topics to write on, but they all deserve more attention than I can give them at 8 PM on a Sunday night. \u00a0Maybe tomorrow I can gin something up. \u00a0In the meantime, I’m working on my playlists and my wish list. \u00a0It’s amazing what an optimistic turn the music takes when Vandy is headed for a bowl (although I don’t think I appreciated the fact in 2008 that we actually went .500 in conference). \u00a0It’s also noteworthy that my age-old plan – win all four non-conf games plus Ole Miss and Kentucky and that’s Big Six – worked out exactly like that this year.<\/p>\n
As for presents this year, I don’t know – I pretty much have everything I need and there aren’t many things I want. \u00a0Maybe a new pair of boots, definitely some Brooks Brothers Vandy gear, that watch I’ve been eyeing (although that might make a more appropriate thing for my 40th birthday, come to think of it) – to be honest, all I want for Christmas in 2011 is as happy a Christmas season as I had in 2008. \u00a0I definitely feel more optimistic about the football than I did then – you can read the post and see that I didn’t feel we’d turned the corner – and I’m happier with the iPhone as an all-everything solution than I was then (although long-form text entry is still a bugaboo, and ESPN3 has been added to that). \u00a0And I did break down and buy more outerwear – that was the December I acquired “Vandy III”, my old reliable Columbia soft-shell.<\/p>\n
One thing’s for sure – the netbook desire of 2008 has been quashed for good and turned into notional-iPad-3 desire…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have a couple or three topics to write on, but they all deserve more attention than I can give them at 8 PM on a Sunday night. \u00a0Maybe tomorrow I can gin something up. \u00a0In the meantime, I’m working on my playlists and my wish list. \u00a0It’s amazing what an optimistic turn the music … <\/p>\n