Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
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What’s up, Doc? I fly to Albuquerque tomorrow morning. It is a business trip. I am uncertain as to its duration. It could be as long as a week, or it could be for only a day. I am at the mercy of schedule. Up until the close of business today, I was uncertain whether or not I would be going at all, but short of a last-minute cancellation, I should be good to go.
This is the time of year to go to New Mexico. It is cool, but hopefully not too cold. This will make any encounters with rattle-snakes and scorpions less likely. I will be working long hours, so future postings could be somewhat sparse. I could miss Dave, when he comes to town. Heck, I could even miss the Super Bowl, but life is an adventure.
Last night, Michigan State lost at Illinois, in basketball. State was rated nine, nationally, but has assuredly dropped precipitously since this game. I don’t know if Illinois was even rated? This begs the question of which team Val was rooting for, but I think that I already know this answer. I’ll “only” be a few hundred miles from her this week, I could just drop in, unannounced, and ask her. 😉
It was a low scoring game, 42-41, and even though it was an upset, Illinois came under some criticism for this. One excuse that was floated, was that ball was over inflated. I think that State losing one of its better players to injury and the Illini’s “ugly” game strategy had more to do with the final score. Except, in a similar low scoring basketball game last year, it was discovered that Illinois had substituted a women’s basketball. The women’s basketball is smaller than the men’s, which in theory should have led to a higher scoring game, carnival games employ an opposite strategy, but I guess that it just threw the players of their game.