Tree in the wind….ow
OSU lost horribly. What was Troy Smith thinking? What happened to our offensive line? Is it just a case of business as usual (i.e., the entire team spent every day since the regular season getting drunk and violent in the bars on High Street in Columbus, instead of practicing), or is there something else going on? Could it be…. voodoo?
I think it’s voodoo. It can’t just be that Florida’s game was awesome (although it was). OSU made egregious errors, one after another. Smith got sacked about a half a dozen times. He threw passes to nobody in particular (or, in the worse cases, to people wearing a hideous, sickening blue and orange uniform). The defense was approximately as effective as a large-bore sieve.
Ugh. Painful game. I had to read some “Brief History of Progress” to keep my morale up, which is like hitting yourself with a hammer to stop the pain.
In other news, the book is as done as I can get it. Anyone who reads this blog, who would like to read 150 pages of sci-fi and give me feedback on it is welcome to it. Not that I really think I’ll publish it, or anything; I’d just like to get better at this writing thing, and I’ve truly reached the limits of what I can do with my own skillz, such as they are. Email or reply if you’re interested.
Final note: The computer saga has ended with a whimper. Recap, for those of you who don’t know: 6 weeks ago, I ordered a computer through my university, from Dell. A laptop. “How useful!” I thought, “I can use this to do work while I’m in Canada for a month.” Days before leaving, no computer. But it would be sent very soon, and then it would be FedExed to me here in Canada. It was sent soon, but was missing part of the power cord (thanks, Dell). So, then it went to the IT department for the standard and unfortunately mandatory configuring. That took a day or two. The IT people made a little note that it was missing a power cord, and that they could not power it up or do anything with it. They sent an email to the people who could tell Dell about this, but those people didn’t act on this, and the next day, these people were home, sick for 2 days. Then Christmas happened. I called around, right before and right after the days off for Christmas, and tried to get the sick person’s next-in-line to cover things, but that produced exactly one result: a brief reply email a week later. Meanwhile, sick person returned, ordered the cord from Dell, got it sent to IT, and then nothing happened for a couple more days. Final email yesterday: it’s not going to be ready in time. Just get it when you come back to Texas.
Thanks. One frakking month. Oy.
And I didn’t bring my old laptop with me, because the new one would be FedExed to me “in a couple of days.” Perhaps (cross fingers) I’ve learned a valuable lesson about the way things work.
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