26 October 2024
The week caught up with me and I crashed today. My energy level is low and I seem to be depressed. I slept until 9:30 this morning and then had a 1 1/2 hour nap. What can I say? Bipolar disorder runs in the family.
The house didn’t get cleaned but I can live with it for another week. I did strip the bed, remake it and washed, dried and folded clothes. I told Jimmie I wasn’t up for FaceTime today nor tomorrow but we plan to connect sometime this week.
Yesterday, I did stop at Whole Foods and purchased a few heirloom pumpkins for the front porch to encourage Halloween trick or treaters.
Who knows? I might cut out the light and move the pumpkins inside and eat all the candy for myself.
Next week looks a little busy. There’s a play tomorrow, dinner with Michel and Nancy on Monday and a doctor’s appointment on Friday. Then there’s Halloween to consider.
While folding clothes, I managed to watch the last half of the Ole Miss/Oklahoma game which Ole Miss won 26-14. There was an article in the New York Times on the 24th that talked about how the college built a $10 million fund to “compensate” athletes for a run at the college football playoff. That’s the effect of NIL (name, image, likeness) that allows college athletes to be compensated for their time. It’s not quite like the football of the 50’s and 60’s. It’s more like semi-professional football.
Something like this has always occurred. It’s rumored that Adolph Rupp, the famous Kentucky basketball coach sent players to Itawamba Junior College in kind of a farm team system. The result was IJC had some pretty talented basketball teams for a small community college who just coincidentally transferred to UK and became superstars..
When the television did panoramic shots of Oxford during today’s game, I could tell the leaves had not changed on campus. Everything was still green. Usually, the first frost is the last of October so they should be getting close.
My freshman year at Ole Miss, I had a thermometer outside the window to check the temperature so I would know how to dress for classes (before cell phones and Apple Watches). It was in April and there was a Red/Blue spring football game scheduled for the day. When I checked the temperature, I did a double take. It had snowed! Not only had it snowed but it was about 6 inches of snow. Classes and the game was canceled (that was back when they had Saturday classes).
There’s not much more to tell from Fort Lauderdale. Stay tuned!