Observations from the weekend

Quick and dirty highlights from my trip to South Georgia & North Florida, with a little football in the middle:

* There are no, and I mean NO, signs for any of the Court of Appeals candidates in South Georgia. I saw a Meyer von Bremen billboard around Albany, but that was it. Nobody down there knows who the hell any of the candidates are, I suspect.

* In the 40 miles between Moultrie, GA and the Florida border, we saw only 2 Obama yard signs. Both were in Moultrie proper. There were about a bajillion McCain-Palin signs. Also, Jim Marshall may be in trouble if there's any predictive value in the proportion of Goddard/Marshall yard signs in the more rural parts of his distrct. I saw just one.

* I ate at Waffle House for the first time in over 7 years and I didn't die. (My last WH experience was in Salisbury, NC where the refrigerator door was broken and we could see eggs, bacon and cheese just sitting out open for all to stare at. It totally grossed me out and has kept me off WH ever since.)

* I suck at Scrabble. For a wordy English major, this is a shameful revelation.

* I now have pink eye, and yes I am 33 years old. I know.

* My new season ticket seats (I got moved down about 24 rows) are much better:



* However, my seats are now apparently right next to a little old lady who is nasty and mean, and likes to sit all spreadeagled across 2 or 3 seats at once. When we moved into our seats and she bitched about having to move over, I almost had to get into a fight with her. A little later on, she actually started beating on a Virginia Tech guy sitting in our row. You can see her in this pic:



* This was the first FSU win that I have been at Doak Campbell for since my senior year of college...11 years ago. It was a great feeling, walking out of there with a win. I had almost forgotten how wonderful it is. The day was really perfect.

* I watched McCain yesterday morning on Meet the Press. He was atrociously uncomfortable, seemed frazzled, and obviously had a cold. What is wrong with his press team that they would send him on when he's so clearly sick? Nobody wants to see a sickly old man who can't remember the names of the former Secretaries of State who endorsed him.

* Florida has a truly insane amount of political commercials on every single TV station. Being in the Tallahassee media market for the weekend meant that I got to see all sorts of Obama ads that we don't get up here. Strangely, not that many McCain ads. I guess he's too cash-strapped to waste time on the safely blue Tallahassee area and is concentrating on Jacksonville-Orlando-Tampa.