Karma and Auburn Football

After Auburn's recent loss to Alabama in the Iron Bowl, my daughter, who is also an Auburn graduate, said somewhat tongue in cheek that she felt that the three Iron Bowl losses in a row might be Karma's way of balancing Alabama's grief from the Kick 6. She was of course referencing the pay for it after you do it kind of Karma as depicted in "My Name is Earl" and not the Hindu / Buddhist type.

As I said, she was making a joke but it got me to thinking. The greatest Auburn wins in the Iron Bowl in my memory are the 17-16 in 1972, the Camback in 2010 and of course the aforementioned Kick 6 in 2013. A quick check of Iron Bowl history indicates that it took Auburn 9 years to pay Karma back for the 17-16 and it took 2 years and 2 trees to pay back the Camback. Based on the fact that the mere mention of the Kick 6 still causes some Alabama fans to have their eyes  roll back in their head and they begin foaming at the mouth, it may take Auburn a hell of a long time to pay Karma back for that one.

Just something to think about :<)
War Eagle.

My roommate bought a Jimmy Hendrix album

Back when I was in school in Auburn I roomed for a few quarters with a friend from high school named Danny Cardwell. We had first met when his class at Hanover finished 8th grade and came to CCHS for the 9th through the 12th grade. Danny was the kind of guy that was impossible not to like. He and I had both attended Alex City State Jr. College after graduating from high school and transferred to Auburn in the fall of 1967.  The first few quarters we had other roommates at different places but by the spring of 1968 we were roommates at Neill House over on Gay Street.

Back then everybody bought records. There were no 8 tracks, no cassettes and certainly no Cds  or mp3. Everything was vinyl. 33 1/3 albums or 45 singles. One day I came in from class and there was Danny getting ready to play his new Jimmy Hendrix album. At the time I had never heard of Jimmy Hendrix and I asked him, Why Jimmy Hendrix? He said that he had been watching a news broadcast and that they had interviewed an older woman and asked her what she thought of Jimmy Hendrix. Evidently she gave a scathing review of not only his music but of him as a person. Danny said as he listened to her he realized that she was the type of person that represented everything he disliked in people. If she was that much against Hendrix, Danny felt that he would probably like him. I am pretty sure that the Hendrix album became one of his favorites.

I though of this story today when I was thinking about the current presidential election. I have never been a big fan of Donald Trump and when the nominations were all settled I went to isidewith.com and took the quiz and found out that Gary Johnson most closely represented my views. For the last few weeks I have been toggling back and forth between voting for Johnson or boycotting the election all together. Recently I have begun to realize that nearly all of the people that I find to be reprehensible are against Trump. McCain, Ryan, Rove, all the Bushes , most of the national democrats and virtually all of the mainstream media are disparaging him constantly. Anybody that has  those people against him is bound to make a better president than any we have had in a long time in this country. It is still 2 weeks until the election and I may change my mind again a few more times before it gets here but if I don't, I'll be marking my ballot for Donald Trump on Nov 8th and who knows, after I do I may just go out and buy myself a Jimmy Hendrix album.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Back on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 I did a post called "This News Report Reminds Me Of A Story." The link in the post is dead but the story in the post seems to fit the current election cycle exactly.

This is that post.

BOGO

Yesterday I was driving down the hill from Vestavia into Hoover and passed a business that had a BOGO sign out front. I am an engineer by training and trade so spelling and grammer are not my strong suits.  I pretty much don't worry  if something is ok or not but; BOGO kinda rubs me the wrong way. I know that it is shorthand for buy one get one free but it looks  to me like it is just saying buy one get one, In other words it is really describing  what all commerce is all about. You go in and buy one loaf of bread and you get that one loaf of bread, BOGO. Why isn't buy one get one free BOGOF?  Buy one get another for 1/2 price would be BOGAHP. Maybe the powers that be feel that the average person can't handle 5 or 6 letters. If that is the case then buy one get one free could be described as buy one get two, BOG2 or BOGT. I realize that this little peeve of mine is useless because BOGO is fairly ubiquitous but I am now at that age where my filters are not as strong as they once were and I pretty much say what I think.