And then, Depression Set In

(Name that movie)

Thanks, Godfather, for those encouraging words. Your home must be on the range.

As you can probably tell from my absence since Saturday, my mind is in a different place. Along with the Mets' horrible fall from grace (go Red Sox), I'm finding this bitter pill to be very hard to swallow. At least I'll have my brother in depression (literal and collegial) next to me Saturday. Randy, my Penn State alum brother will be accompanying me to Pasadena Saturday. Look for us; we'll be the ones wearing blue and gold. Oh, wait, that won't work, will it.

I won't dwell on the details from Saturday; Don did a great job capturing the essence of that. But aside from our game, what a cool day of frenetic football fun. I was able to take in much of it, too. My remote is just now cooling down from all the action it got well into the evening. And given our 0900 start west coast time, there were a lot of snaps to digest.

Have to give California-Oregon the nod for most exciting. Don't know how much of the country got to watch that, but boy was that entertaining. And balls to Auburn; they hung tough in The Swamp, had the chance to choke in the second half but gritted it out. And kudos to their placekicker who had to win it twice when he was "timed out" of his first attempt by Urban Meyer and his co-conspirator referee.

By the way, I was on the Stanford home page tonite and there are still tickets to be had if we want to throw down any kind of mini-reunion over Thanksgiving weekend. Game is 1230 start, west coast time, so we'd be done early enough for folks to catch early flights out Sunday morning. Not that you all haven't already planned out your Turkey Days. I'm pretty sure Amy and I will be the percussion entertainment du jour again. We had such a good time two years ago and I'm really looking forward to playing again this year. If we make it to the Bend next year that will make a four year game playing streak. Great work if you can get it.

So there. Talking about fun things has improved my mood greatly. I'll get off the couch now; thank you very much, Dr Freud.

Enjoy the rest of your week. if anyone other than Don, Rosie and I are reading these things, PLEASE chime in. We'd love to hear from you. No, really, we would....

The Colonel