You Guys! So glad the election is over! I think the only people who might be sad are the media companies who will now have to go out and actually sell advertising spots for the first time in 60 days. (I pity the people in Louisiana who will have to put up with the barrage of negative ads for another month for the run-off election. Ugh!)The Augustana Vikings tip off their men's basketball season tomorrow (Thursday) night with a visit to Bradley in Peoria. It says something for the esteem carried by the Augie coach and the program that they get this games. Last year, at Carver Hawkeye. The year before at Gonzaga. Those D-1 programs are granted one of these "no count" games each year, and for a D-III school like Augie, its a big deal. The D-1 places know that Augie will come to play, unafraid, and the game will be a good stepping stone into their season. Win-win. (My Pal Pete is going, but I'm taking a pass this year.)
We have been suffering from Internet and LAN issues for much of the last few weeks. We also had a telephone system problem that was determined to be unrelated to the other technology kerfuffle's. Our IT vendor has spent most of the last year "explaining" why these things happen without really doing much in the way of corrective (or preventative) action. I've declined to attend any more meetings with them, letting my pal Bill handle that action. Their shtick sounds to me like Southern Democrats scrambling away from the WH policies on coal or the ACA. Not many answers. Lots of excuses.
This is really an example of the intersection in time of random facts, this being the day that elections dominate the news. She was first married in the '90's to a Chicago investment banker named Jack Ryan. (No relation to The Hunt for Red October's Jack Ryan.) They had a child in 1994, then divorced in 1999. In 2004, Jack Ryan was the winner of the Republican primary for the open US Senate seat in Illinois. The opposing candidate was Democratic State Senator Barack Obama.
Jack and Jeri Ryan had agreed to seal the court files on their divorce. After his primary win, pressure mounted from various sources (media? opposition?) to release those files, which was done except for the custody documents. Some is never enough. Long story short...all of the divorce papers, as well as the child custody documents, were released after the LA Times managed to get involved and got a California judge to so rule. There were some salacious elements in there about Jack Ryan's sexual predilections which, of course, became headlines immediately. He shortly withdrew from the general election, leaving the Republicans without a candidate. They subsequently came up with a weak candidate who presented little challenge to the Democrat in November. The rest, as they say, is history. Chicago politics at its finest.
The Country Music Association awards show is tonight. Yeah, I won't be watching. They properly gave the EOY award to George Strait last year, but it is unlikely that he repeats. I'm okay with that. The younger acts need to be recognized. I guess. Although didn't they give TS a big award last year...right before she turned tail (drink for sexist comment, Tom Harken) and headed fully over to pop as her music interests expanded? And is Florida Georgia Line actually country? Keith Urban? Rascal Flatts? Dan + Shay? As I recall, country music has an awards show each month beginning with this show. I didn't watch any of them last year. Its a little like reality TV...content is just too hard to produce. Let's just put some singers in front of the camera and sell some ads. Whatever.
Let's make 3 Daughter of the Day. On my basement calendars, I am reminded that she and I were in Incline Village at this time in 2011 as we toured various locations for her 07282012 wedding. It was a cold day that we met with the club house staff. You are still a beautiful bride, Kiddo!
All for today. Thanks for reading.
BCOT
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