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SEC Season Spread Projections

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With the preseason power ratings out of the way, time to move on to looking at schedules and spreads. Going conference for conference, it only make sense to start with the SEC. This table includes each team’s power rating, the opponent’s power rating, a home-field advantage figure and then the predicted spread for each game based on all of the above. The spread record is not an actual win-loss guess. It just counts games favored as a win and games as an underdog as a loss. There are much more intricate percentage chance of wins formulas that spit out more … Continue reading SEC Season Spread Projections

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Smashy Smashy Ball Is 15 Days Away

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The Illinois high school football season is just 15 days away. The Mules, coming off a 10-1 season and back-to-back undefeated regular seasons open with a home game against the Sesser-Valier Red Devils. Evening practices are underway for Coach Justin Townsend and the Fairfield gridiron gang. It was also a good time for Wabash General Hospital Athletic Trainer Sarah Turner, who has a ridiculously good looking husband, to review proper equipment removal in case of a spinal injury with the local medical staffs and JFL admins. Continue reading Smashy Smashy Ball Is 15 Days Away

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Shrimp-Pork Yum Yum

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Sarah recently got the Core 4 book from Steph Gaudreau. She has started it, I haven’t read through it yet, but we have flipped through the recipes in the back some together. In it she has a nice sounding recipe for a ground pork and chopped shrimp dish rolled into meat balls and baked. I’m not that fancy. I’m more of a cast iron and stir fry guy. So, that is what I did tonight. I stir-fried, mostly using the ingredients she used in her recipe, but without, you know, measuring or worrying about presentation. If this were a movie, … Continue reading Shrimp-Pork Yum Yum

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Time For A Plan

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5-feet, 6-inches, 265 pounds, 48.5-inch waist. Those are not good numbers. And it is beyond time to do something about it. So, it is time for a plan, and to implement that plan instead of just saying I’ll change and then doing nothing about it. I was doing well until last year. I took a promotion, adding a ton of hours. I quit teaching at the local gym. I got married. I turned 40. I used all of that as excuses. I got into the worst shape of my life. So, I am putting this here in the hopes ya’ll … Continue reading Time For A Plan

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I suggest you let this one marinate.

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I know I’m late to the party, and this is just between us girls, but Letterkenny is freaking hilarious. I just plowed through all six seasons. Letterkenny is a Canadian import centered around the everyday lives of Wayne, Daryl, Squirrely Dan and Katy, and their friends in a small town. They are Canadian hicks. Basically, Fairfield with accents. And that’s what I appreciates about it. It kind of consumes you as much as you consume it. To the point whereupon starting to watch the show, it pretty much takes over how you speak. When you meet other Letterkenny watchers, you … Continue reading I suggest you let this one marinate.

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Interesting Air: Do you listen, or do you hear?

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Music consumption. We all do it differently, in our own way. Some take it more serious than others. Some never pay attention, some lock themselves in a dark room with a glass of whiskey and breathe it in, word for word. Some have a playlist for that exact thing. Me, I’m the type that constantly seeks out music. There is a process, and it is as nerdy as one can make the act of listening to music. Seriously, there are multiple spreadsheets involved. The majority of my music these days is in Spotify. Yes, I feel guilty about of revenue … Continue reading Interesting Air: Do you listen, or do you hear?

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Where Chicago, We go.

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As a kid, I never visited Chicago, despite living just four hours away. Other than an airport layover, I don’t remember going to Chicago until a job interview after college. Even still, it wasn’t until the last few years I have learned how to truly partake the town. So for the second straight summer, a group of friends made the trip north, enjoying good food, great beer and for the first time in my life, some baseball at Wrigley. Of course, before we got to the brewery hopping and fine dining, we had to start with Chicago’s favorite hot dog … Continue reading Where Chicago, We go.

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For The Love Of…

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A good book. Today is National Book Lover’s Day. Most of the “National Day of…” stuff is silly, but I’ll bite on this one. For a poor kid from a small town, books were a vacation, a resource, and teacher and so on. So, let’s have it. What is your favorite book you have read? The one you loved the most. My pick for mine seems to be an odd pick, according the the reactions I tend to get when I tell people. But Homer’s Iliad is my pick. Combining early literature, mythology, geography, adventure, fantasy, I’m really surprised I … Continue reading For The Love Of…