Lazy Sunday +Addendum

Watching Quest For Fire with closed captioning on. Gems such as “man yelling [in prehistoric language]”, “aw, aw, aw” and “uh, uh, uh”. I kid you not. LOL

Breakfast at Fearrington Village. Omelet with spinach and onions for me, Nuke had the pancakes. As always, too much food so we got a raccoon bag. The critters are going to feast tonight.

Stopped and got some tulip and daffodil bulbs and some rock chips. I’m going to plant the bulbs in the pots on the deck and cover them with the rock chips to keep the squirrels and raccoons from digging up the bulbs (I hope).

I’m tired of planting stuff every spring. Or rather, killing stuff as Nuke accuses. Hopefully the bulbs will grow in the spring, propagate and keep on going. So I won’t have to mess with new stuff each year.

And it’ll be purdy.

I have to work this week out of town at ECU. It will be a busy week. Then Thanksgiving the next week and vacation to the western Caribbean the next – yaaaay!

Still ‘high’ after State’s win over Carolina yesterday.

Evening Addendum

Just watched The Lives Of Others. Put it on your Netflix rent list. One of the best movies you'll see all year.

State Wins Over Carolina

We tailgated with some (gasp!) Carolina fans before the game.



The stats will tell you that State beat the dickens out of Carolina.

The score – not so much.

We threw 2 interceptions – both returned for very long touchdowns. The one in the first half was for 95 yards. The one in the second half for 70+ yards. Both ending certain scoring drives for State and resulted in 14 points for Carolina.

It’s almost impossible to win a game where you throw 2 interceptions for touchdowns. But the Pack did not give up.

We should have won by a lot – but Carolina took their only lead late in 4th quarter on their second interception and run back for a touchdown. UNC by 3 points.

State promptly took the ball down the field and scored the winning touchdown to go up by 4 with 2 minutes left.

Carolina put together a drive to first and goal on the 7 yard line. The Pack stopped them on 4 downs and won the game with 2 seconds left.

What a great game.

Here’s some video I took of the final drive and defensive stop.



Thanks to Jason, Dave and Fritz for going to the game with me.

[Special thanks to fmr SGT Jason and LTC Fritz on this Veteran's Day weekend.]

Thanks to Geoff and his Carolina friends for inviting us to their tailgate.

Smack Talk

Finally, after the last 2 dismal years – NC State football gives the chance to talk some *%&# (poo) to our Powder Blue brethren.

Since I have but 1 friend who has the poor judgement to be a Carolina fan (he claims to have gone to school there) – here goes – This is for you Chip:

Yessiree Chippie – Come 4 PM Saturday, both the Tar Holes and the Flaccid Irish will have notched yet another loss (Chip also pulls for Notre Dame). Let’s see, Notre Dame was preseason ranked where?

Can it get any worse?

Why yes, as a matter of fact, it can!

Dook gets to finally end it's losing streak when they play, er, beat Notre Dame on 11/17!

And Then . . . . Dook closes out it's season with yet another win. Against UNC on 11/24!

Oh well, there’s always basketball. Should be a cakewalk for UNC. But wait – hmmm – what is that stirring I hear over in West Raleigh? The ol Wolfpack may just have a surprise waiting out there for Tyler Hanscrybaby.

Well, that's enough. Getting too close to an unsportsmanlike penalty.

Actually State and Carolina are playing pretty darn well considering the shape their previous coaches left the programs. Both schools have excellent new coaches. Both schools have the opportunity to become places where some pretty serious football is played. It’s very possible that in a few short years, we’ll have UNC and NCSU regularly highly ranked and coming together to play late in the seasons with all sorts of ACC Championships and post season play on the line.

It’s gonna be great.

This week’s game and atmosphere is just the start of things to come.

Here are 2 excellent links.

Carolina Week Is Finally Here

Pack vs Heels: The Way It Should Be

Since It's Football Season . . .

Since it's football season, here's THE all time world's greatest football trick play ever.

Note - turn the volume up so you can hear the kid and also when the coach says "Go".

It's been around for quite a while so most of you have probably seen this; but for those who haven't - enjoy.

Backsliding

Nuke'em is abandoning the Lord! [Street Apartments]


And moving back to Moncure.

I took the truck and trailer and made a one day trip down to Southport and back. Left home at 1000 and got back just as it was getting dark.

Jason is staying in St. James Plantation with his folks to tie up some loose ends and will be up next week.

He's got a job offer with an Oil exploration company. It's seismic exploration and rather high tech. The job will keep him in the field for 6 weeks and then off for 3 weeks. The postings are mostly overseas and the company will fly him to and from the States for his off weeks. His first assignment looks to be Algeria.

He's pretty excited. This sort of job appeals to him. Since he's spent his career up to now in the Army, it's nothing to him to pack up and head for some far off place. I think the sense of adventure and seeing exotic places appeals a lot to him. Plus, they are going to pay him some pretty decent $.

Since he'll be on assignment 2/3 of the time - it makes sense to quit the Southport apartment. So - he's moving back to base out of his apartment over the garage.

Even though it was 6+ hours driving today, it was broken up into 2 segments with loading and lunch in between. That made it seem more like 2 moderate drives. I'm a bit tired but not overly so.

Raccoons

As soon as I got home - mama raccoon showed up at the back door and demanded food. She now opens the screen door and lets it slam shut to call me out to fill up the food plate.

Getting ready to sit down and watch some college football.

Wolfpack

Listened to the first half of the State at Miami game on the way down. Listened to the 4th quarter and overtime on the drive back.

Exciting game.

State won 19 - 16 in overtime.

That makes 3 games in a row that we were supposed to lose but won.

Next Saturday (Sunday 11/4 Addendum)

UNC comes to Carter-Finley next Saturday - noon kickoff.

Both UNC and State are 'down' this year with losing conference and overall records. We both have brand new highly touted coached. Both fired alumni coaches last year.

Both teams won yesterday.

Both teams are starting to show some signs of life and the potential of better things to come. State should be favored - the first time this year (except for the Division II Wofford game).

Even though the game means nothing in the conference this year - or anywhere else for that matter - with the way both teams are suddenly starting to play a lot better - the anticipation and excitement is building.

I took a look at the on line ticket resale sites. Ticket prices for a game between teams with losing records are ridiculous. In the hundreds.

Carter-Finley will be rocking and intense.

Plans are to hook up with some friends for tailgating around 1000.

I can hardly wait.

Feels Much Better To Win

A beautiful fall evening for football.

There's been so much rain through this morning, the field couldn't be completely painted. The outline of NC State and Wolfpack were painted in the end zones, but they couldn't be filled in with red paint.


NC State upset #15 ranked Virginia 29 to 24.



The fans sell out Carter-Finley Stadium and show up for all the games. Even when going 3 and 9 last year – and this year when this game is only our second Division I win. And our only conference win so far.

The kids are buying in to Coach Tom O’Brien’s system.

We will have a solid contender football program. It’s only a matter of time.

Tonight, the stands were rocking and rolling.

Much hugging and happy tears.

It feels so much better to win.