So UGA loses to Florida and Auburn and only has to beat Kentucky to become SEC East champs....how sad that is. Sure, it really is a good feeling for your team to be champion of something, but we're talking about being the champions of the East division, a division with a 3 (or 4?) loss Florida team, a 6!! loss Tennessee team and it now seems like the only threats we had were perennial losers South Carolina and Vanderbilt.....yeah, you read that right. Something's wrong when Vandy slaps a W up there in Tennessee's house (the last time they won anywhere against Tennessee, well, I wasn't even old enough to know what a football was....last time they beat em in their own house was even longer before that).

So yay! We're #1! The best of the worst! Ah.....I shouldn't be so mean, but when you lose 2 of 8 in your division, that has always meant (until this year) that you were out of the running, or waiting for everyone else to lose. Nope, Georgia, through it all, still controlled their own destiny somehow, though having Florida lose to South Carolina did help.

Okay, that's enough football for now....wait, this just in: Georgia Tech beat Miami IN MIAMI....the #3 team in the nation falling to the Trade School. Suddenly I don't really know how to feel about this week's upcoming game. I do know that all of the Gnats superiority complex just took a dive after last week's NCAA revelation of "academically ineligible" athletes (11 from the football squad). They have really enjoyed lording their high standards over us, but add to this news the increasing number of criminals on their team....well, time to pick up another instrument Bees...that other one's all out of tune. How about a sad, sad violin? I know just the tune....

My birfday came and went last weekend, the big 2-5, quarter of a century. We spent it at the Auburn game in Athens with nice all-afternoon tailgate before a late game. Even though we lost, we still had fun and I had a good birfday. Hilary got me a nice Palm Z22 organizer, since I can never remember anything. It's working wonders. Not the most advanced handheld on the planet, but it does everything I need it to, calendar and contacts and memos and such.

Here comes Christmas...already decorating the house for the holiday, and it's looking good. Gonna have to figure out how to get on the outside windows with some lights, and we're gonna stick a gigantic wreath on the big foyer window at the front of the house....still, no clue, because I don't have a ladder. I guess that's what neighbors are for....

TradeWind is wrapping up a few projects here for the end of the year, and I guess the last half of December is going to be reserved strictly for finalizing the books on the tax year.

I'd like to fix this bag of tricks
and hand 'em out with a fleeting greeting