If they want people to watch football, why would they air the game on NBC? Even before the networks went openly Bolshevik I rarely watched them; these days they get the leper treatment. Right now Da Chimpz are outside where it's really friggin cold. They wanted to go out earlier but I stopped them -- it was only 8 degrees. Now it's a little better, but not by much.

I drove around just now shopping at various places -- included the most gigantic Giant Beagle I've shopped in over in Middleburg Heights. Big-ass super-duper-market. Bought some meat to make tomorrow's meatballs. And the wine to wash them down. Yum.

Oh, and let's hear it for the working class in the Sunshine State. Yes, here's a man who is attacked by a gator an dragged under water -- but he fights off the varmint and the... gets back to work! Just goes to show you: outside D.C. the work ethic is still alive and well. And strange (well, it is Florida).