Lovely Day In The Neighborhood

Tuesday

If nothing else, I decided to post jut so I could change the top post photo from the dreary Indiana photo.

Jan and I spent the afternoon on the boat. Its blowing 20+ mph today, so we were tied up to the dock the whole time, but we learned more about it. There's a lot to know. We cleaned out the freezer/refrigerator and Jan took a nap while I spent some time planning some work I want to do on the boat.

All the stuff I want to do is small, but it's still the things that make the boat more personal to us.

It's been kinda cold the last couple of days. I even had to put socks on!

This coming week will be my last scheduled week of College Football games. I go to the Florida v. Florida State game this weekend - which is a big game for this area. My next scheduled game is the Orange Bowl on January 2nd. It should be cool to work that game - it's a big deal also.

I'll leave here on Thursday afternoon/evening and drive to Tallahassee for the game. I'll be back on Sunday - like usual.

Back home and happy about it

Indiana in the winter just was not my favorite place. The 'local' guy that they hired to help me this week lives in Indianapolis. While we were walking to lunch on friday, I told him that the area reminded me of Germany in the winter. The majority of the times I've been to to Germany - it's been wintertime and it was always cold and overcast - sometimes raining - sometimes snowing. He told me that there's many German settled towns in Indiana for that very reason. The climate reminded the German immigrants of home.

Not my thing.

With all the photos I've taken in Indiana - this week AND last week - I tried to go into photoshop and boost the colors a little and enhance the saturation. Still, looks very dreary. Here's a couple of photos of the Purdue stadium




So, I'm home until Thrusday night - when I'll drive to Tallahassee to cover a big Florida game. #4 Florida versus Florida State. It's an approximate 4 hour drive and so I won't have to deal with Thanksgiving air traffic.

My buddy Tim Ettridge has started keeping a blog. Tim is an adverturous guy who travels the world doing the things he wants to do. Currently he's commited a couple of years to sailboat racing and especially a 35,000 mile circumnavigtion race called the Clipper.

Anyway, Tim has a recent post about a night where the Dolphin were playing around his boat in highly bioluminescent water. Jan and I have experienced bioluminescent water in a lot of places including the east coast, costa rica and the Virgin Islands - but this story is awesome. For those who have never experienced it - it's reminds you of fireflies but in the water. It's a plankton that glows green when it's disturbed. It's a wonderful post and you can click below to read it.

http://international-bozo-of-leisure.blogspot.com/2006/11/six-hour-dance-of-bioluminescent.html

Hoosier Daddy

Back in Indiana this week. This time - it's Purdue University north of Indianapolis. The reason I live in the deep south is obvious to me here. It is so cold here (just above freezing) and it's overcast and dreary. Here's a photo I took out of the stadium window that illustrates the dreary feel of this area in the winter.


When we started work this morning, the field was not in very good condition due to the large amount of rain that has fallen in the area over the last 4 days. They had golf carts going around the field with blowers on them to dry the field out. Here's a photo of the field painting crew putting the hash marks on the field.



This school (a Big Ten school) has no lights for the stadium and so around 6 pm, we couldn't do any more work so we packed up for the evening. It's a noon game on saturday and so we have to be back at the stadium early. We'll finish up with plenty of time.

I'm enjoying my new phone and the camera ROCKS. Check out the photo below. It's pretty amazing quality for nightime on a camera phone.