Good morning my loyal and faithful readers. It is a very nice Sunday morning in Columbia, SC. I am so happy to report that my flight from LGA down to Columbia Thursday night went fine, in fact, we arrived a few minutes early and my checked duffel bag arrived too. Whew!! I won’t dwell on the horror of getting to LGA from midtown on Thursday - it sucked. Anyway, I was met by son-in-law Dr. John Bendeck and all was good.
Friday was a day of just chilling. I did have an opportunity to spend about 3 hours just wandering around the downtown Columbia area. John & Kathi’s new condo is located in the middle of the government/university complexes.
I did learn that former Senator Strom Thurmond is revered as a “God.”
We had a very interesting dinner provided by a Mid-Eastern restaurant located next to their building
On Saturday midmorning I went out to Alex’s house in Elgin, SC, with his younger brother Chris and his girlfriend Ashley, both up from Gainesville. Our purpose was to watch the Florida/Miami(Ohio) game at noon. What The Fuck? What was expected to be a walk-in-the-swamp turned out to be one of the most painful-to-watch Gator games is decades. To quote the AP:
“No. 4 Florida opened the post-Tim Tebow era with a resounding thud, maybe the sound of high expectations crashing to the ground ... the real story was coach Urban Meyer’s anemic offense, the one quarterback John Brantley had hoped to ‘keep rolling’ after waiting three years behind Tebow. Instead, Brantley and the Gators spent most of the game in reverse.”
About all I can say is amen and amen. Oh well ...
Of course Saturday was THE BIG DAY, the celebration of oldest grandson Alex Falletta's upcoming 30th birthday. His actual birthday isn’t until the 12th but he has “commitments” that will make him unavailable for the 12th and also for his 2011 birthday. This is the reason for the family and friends gathering and why Billi Pod left The Big Apple. It was a gathering of family, in-laws, friends and coworkers and we all had a great time celebrating and eating way-too-much awesome food.
The photograph is of me, Alex and Chris taken on the deck that Alex built.
So, Army Guy ... Congrats and we will hope and pray for many many more.
Let me close with a bit of baseball ... Saturday was an excellent day for the Yankees because they won their 8th straight game, The Rays lost and The FuckSox lost a doubleheader. The FuckSox losses pretty much knocked them out of the post season race so, it will come down to the wire between the Yankees and The Rays for first place in the AL East.
GO YANKEES AND GO GATORS!!!
Billi Pod
“Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.”
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