The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Of course, I'm talking about football season. And unfortunately it's ended for the year. And ended in a pretty disappointing way, I might add. Oh well, I guess there are a lot of teams that would like play for the National Championship, but didn't, so I'm not going to be too depressed.

Can you figure out which apartment is ours?




Anyhow, I thought that I would take a moment to let you see how we watch games over here. First of all, the 11am CST games come on at 9pm over here. 2:30 CST kickoff is a 12:30am Sunday game, and 7pm CST games start over here at 5am Sunday. And when you read this, remember that the work week over here is Sunday through Thursday. So while you're watching football in the States on Saturday night, we're watching EARLY on Sunday morning, then rolling into work. It's called dedication.

So we got up at 5am this morning to watch the game.

Some of the games are on satellite, and what's not on satellite, we can either watch over the internet at espn360.com or justin.tv. We ended up going the justin.tv route for the National Championship. Both can be run through our TV, so it's almost as good as getting it at home. Here's a shot of our set-up for the game this morning [For those of you who are curious, that's a 42-inch Panasonic Plasma with Full HD and a 1200-watt Philips surround sound system - we bought 'em both over here - same prices as in the States - and Cindy agreed after we bought the TV that we could have gone bigger].

There's always next year.