Season's Greetings

[cactuswatcher]

I addressed and signed my Christmas cards today. I'll have to decide whether or not to write a Christmas letter this year. Not much has happened this year, nor in the last few years for that matter. I do have a few personal messages to send this year. But not very many. Sending Christmas cards is going out of fashion. Postage and the cost of cards keep going up. I've got an old stock of postage stamps left over from my mother. She used to get religious stamps to put on the letters to my father's Catholic relatives and secular Christmas stamps to send to her own family. The secular stamps got used up faster than the religious ones. Some of those folks who didn't get one Madonna and Child stamp years ago will get two with their card this year. It's a little early in December, but while I'm in the mood, happy holidays and season's greetings to everyone reading this!

I made chili last night. In the desire to do something a little different, I made the chili into burritos. I ate a little less chili than usual, but a lot more tortilla. Probably not much calorie advantage one way or the other. And as usual looking forward to leftovers!

Football follies Not a great surprise who made the playoffs. If Florida State had lost at any point this season, I suspect the ACC would have been left out instead of the Big XII. It was idiotic to decide on a four-team playoff when there are five major conferences. But since it's doubtful they could play opening games in an eight-team playoff anywhere, but on campuses, I'm sure they wanted to avoid the grief of deciding who gets the home field advantage. I didn't watch much of the game, but when I flipped through now and then I kept asking myself, "Are they really going to leave out Ohio State." I kept thinking, nah. The committee can come up with whatever excuse they want. But the real deciding reason for leaving out Baylor and TCU is projected TV ratings. If it had been Texas and Oklahoma in the same spot, I can't see anyone jumping over both of them.

Comments

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

It was a weird thing, because it seemed everybody thought TCU was actually better than Baylor - but that you had to give Baylor credit for beating TCU. That said - I watched that game - and it gave me the impression that they couldn't play defense and neither of them were really title teams.

TCU and Baylor can also thank Clemson for farting away the game against FSU - the loss FSU should have had out of all the losses they should have had.

Just going by the eyeballs, Alabama and Oregon are the best teams this year...