Random Thoughts Monday

*Went to my first Thursday night high school football game, a Ashley Ridge victory against James Island - tried to get on tv by letting Aubrey run on the field but had her over the fence but she chickened out - she can probably tackle better than most of those kids

*The silence of no kids, not changing diapers and not taking Aubrey to potty is renewing

*LA and I can be extremely lazy given the right circumstances (for example, a couple of nights away in Savannah, GA or pretty much any night after 8:30pm at home)

*Savannah heard we were coming and had a huge fireworks display to welcome us on Friday night...talk about making us feel special.

*There is nothing better waking up on Saturday knowing that the only thing you have to worry about is eating and college football.

*Charleston is light years ahead of Savannah in the upscale dining options - Proof of Point - 2010 Best of Savannah Awards - Steaks
Winner - Ruth's Chris (can't argue that point, especially when you read who the runner up was)
Runner Up - Outback Steakhouse

Honestly, that is like two different categories. I love some Outback and we eat there often but you can't compare Outback to Ruth's Chris. It would be like saying Ryans was the runner up to Outback.

So you're in Savannah and want a steak but due to a minor construction accident that flooded out the the basement kitchen of Ruth's Chris they were closed - talk about being disappointed. We went to the Chart House - good food but not Ruth's Chris and fortunately, we ate before the party of 140 frat guys arrived...might should have stayed for the adventure but actually glad we missed them.

*River Street in Savannah is a cool place. You can actually have a toter in Savannah...not in Charleston, unless you want to visit cell block 39. (A tourist was actually arrested in Charleston over the summer for an open container - video, letter to the editor from victim). I am agreeing with the tourist in this case. How about pouring it out and a verbal warning or a ticket, fine and court date?

*Bohemian Hotel on River Street is a happening place - great food downstairs (very good, perfectly cooked hamburger, great crab cake) and a rocking roof top bar - a little to rocking when the old fuddy duds are ready to get some sleep after a long day of watching football...I kept yelling turn it down but they kept saying shut up old man...ps - a group of girls is exponentially louder than a group of guys.

*We had a coin toss to see if we were actually going to pick up the kids or leave them until the grandparents called wondering when we were coming to get them...did we say Sunday, we must have forgot the December 19th part...tell them we "love them". PS - Had to go 7 out of 9 to finally win the coin flip - left the kids in Lodge, SC until December. We are officially undercover until then.

*Everybody always says that "if I when the lottery, I am going to keep on working"...I will be honest, I am not working if I win. I am going to the office and leaving my keys on the front desk and saying "Good Bye, Good Luck, y'all figure it all out". Guess, I better start playing the lottery. Never going to win, if you don't play.

*2nd Place = 1st Loser

*I am glad to see Jim Furyk was able to win the golf tournament yesterday but more importantly that he won the $10 million FedEx Cup (the $10 million is differed into some kind of retirement account). His oversleeping earlier in the FedEx Cup almost cost him the $10 million, thank goodness that a couple of other guys laid an egg over the weekend.

*Auburn is the winner of the 2010 Battle of South Carolina. That's a tough place to get a victory...you would almost think they were Notre Dame with "Touchdown Jesus" watching over them. Next year the battles take place on our home turf, see you in Death Valley and Williams Brice.

*Carolina Panthers - horrible

*Buffalo Bills - terrible; CJ Spiller there only hope - 1st NFL Touchdown and followed it up with a 98 yard kickoff return

*Atlanta Braves - talk about limping home down the stretch. They are leaking some serious oil and are about to blow the engine and have an early fall

*I have a reality show idea - normal, average joe picks his position, pads up and trains for one week to play against an NFL team. Will he survive or be carried off on the golf cart? My prediction is Nielsen ratings smash (line up the advertisers) and a boom for the golf cart business and medical staff nearby.

*Speaking of Advertisers - Check out my post on The King of Beers

*Motorola will split into two companies in Q1 2011 - finally, the cellphone business will no longer be sucking the life out of the two-way radios that has been toting their behind for all these years since Nokia and everyone else started taking their market share - anybody in business school looking for a paper topic on how to go from market inventor and leader (800 pound gorilla) to also ran check out Motorola. Looks like Google is going to help save their bacon.

*Clemson vs The "Reformed" Convicts 12:00pm...ESPN 2
Honestly, 12:00pm?
The 3:30pm ABC game of the week is Virginia Tech vs NC State (Is this game really more exciting than the Clemson vs Miami game? Didn't V Tech lose to James Madison and Kyle Parker was drafted higher that Russell Wilson from NC State and the State fans do that silly (actually thinking of another word) wolfpack thing with their fingers.)

When Miami was in there bad boy days and were playing Notre Dame, you had to love the T-shirts "Catholics vs Convicts" and I don't even like Notre Dame.

I guess Florida is the new Miami and has the Al Davis motto "Just Win Baby"

*So I put off buying a new phone for almost a year until Aubrey finally finished off my ancient Motorola Q. I analyzed and had heartburn over which phone to purchase - Droid or Blackberry and finally picked the Motorola Droid. Only to have 60 days later two new Motorola Droid phones on the market - Droid X and Droid 2. So, I waited to buy and got the last of the 1st generation of Droids...that sucks, I hate cell phone companies and their contracts.

*You missed out on Moe's Thank You Thursday's (BOGOF, ended on Sept 23rd) just like I did or if you didn't and didn't tell me about it, I probably will block you from this blog. Evidently, it was a super secret.

*It's a rainy Monday...what does that mean for the rest of the week? Hold on it should be interesting.

*I am giving a shout out to my friend Brian Keels, who is on an adventure of a lifetime in Southeast Asia that started June 9th and ends Oct 13th. He has been blogging about his trip and it is well worth the read. If you don't have time or the desire to read the whole thing - check out this one post.