Football Saturday

The girls started a new session of swim lessons this morning.  Sally and I went with 'em and swam ourselves, though we didn't do much because we've got a race tomorrow.  It's Sally's first open water triathlon, the Westport Kiwanus Triathlon.  It's not much of a race--half-mile swim, 5.5-mile ride, 2.2-mile run--but since the swim is, for once, the long part, Sally's been freaking out a bit.  Still, after watching her this morning, I'm convinced that she'll be fine.  She needs to get control of her nerves, but she's got enough swimming and enough just base fitness to handle it, but nerves are always tough.


Anyway, after swimming we went for lunch at a little Chinese/Japanese place, went to Bob's Sports, went to the local liquor store, and then got some groceries.  Not a bad little morning.  The cool thing about living in CT--in the shadow of NYC--is that the local liquor emporium had an actual sommelier on staff... even at noon on a Saturday! Needless to say, we ended up spending $160 on various wines and beers, including the Peak's Organic IPA, the new Sierra Nevada Hefeweizen , and American IPA from Thomas Hooker breweries, and several others along with a half-dozen bottles of wine.  So, bottom line, we're all set for football for a while.


Got home, and what do you know, the Army team was on TV.  So I grabbed a beer and sat down to watch it.  They were playing San Diego State, and truth: I was planning to turn it off as soon as it got out of hand.  I thought the Auburn/Mississippi State game looked a little tastier.  But, y'know, the Army game actually wound up being pretty compelling.  Army lost by 3 points in the Fourth, but... what do you expect?  Still, it was a fun game.


Now I'm down and watching Tennessee vs. Cincinnati. Fun game so far.  Both offenses look pretty good, but neither defense has much going on.  Right now, it's 14-14, and if I didn't have a race tomorrow, I'd go for beer #3.

Hope you're having as much fun as I am.