I didn't get too much into Super Bowl pregame hype. For some reason, that one off weekend made it seem like a month since the conference championship games. To top that, I didn't have a strong rooting interest in the game, since neither team was local, and since I had no money on the line. There were bad reasons for me to cheer for either team.

What do you do if you're a big, giant corporation with bad financials?

When I upgraded to a 4-door Jeep Wrangler last year, it came with a free year's subscription to Serius satellite radio. The radio has 6 buttons, each of which hold two stations' worth of presets. Push it once for the first station, and push it again for the second. After almost a year of messing with it, I have the buttons laid out like this (actual station names listed in case you are familiar and curious):

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We went to New Orleans yesterday to be part of the atmosphere around the ultimate game of the best college football season in the history of mankind. The day was perfect: warm weather, good food, good game, LSU win, big celebration.

I'm sure that it has a lot to do with having a kid, but we did a lot of very "traditional" things this holiday season. The most absurd one was the festival of lights in downtown Baton Rouge, where the whole downtown was decked out in full Norman Rockwell Holiday tradition. Most of my fellow citizens even changed out of shorts and put on long pants so that we could pretend that early December was winter here.

I'm watching the Fiesta Bowl right now, and a West Virginia player named Tito Gonzales just caught a monster pass for a touchdown. I don't know who the announcers are tonight. Fox doesn't cover college football the rest of the year, and these aren't the scrubs who get sent to broadcast Saints games, so I don't recognize the voices.

Some stories about the end of football season, and about a dumb dog.

Instead of blogging, I've spent a lot of time installing trim around windows, crown molding, light fixtures, and putting up paint. It's unfortunate for my site, because I really had a lot to say in the past month that didn't get posted. Here's a partial list of posts that I thought about doing but never got to in the past few weeks:

A long time ago, I had a thing on the home page for "link of the week." I did a poor job of keeping it updated, so I finally pulled it altogether. However, I have a ton of things saved off to the side, and I can't even think of what else I would do with it. So, I'm going to bring this feature back some time before the end of the year.