The Fanny?

 

So GT is tearing down the Arthur Edge / Homer Rice Student Success Center and building an all new Thomas A Fanning Student Athlete Performance Center. That’ll turn things around. Tech called the old building “The Edge”. Will they call the new building “The Fanny”?

I just wish they’d make the north stands of Grant Field more symmetrical. Right now it’s an eyesore.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Hank Aaron’s 715th home run on April 8th, the Braves are having 715 season ticket holders come out of the field, each holding a huge baseball. I have applied to be one of those 715.

Hard to know what news sources to trust these days. So much is taken out of context. Hated to see one of my go to news source publish something erroneously this weekend. They didn’t publish an apology or retraction, but did publish subsequent stories with the true facts.

Treasures I brought back from SC: a few wheat pennies, 20 unopened packs of 30 year old baseball cards. A cool Nike keychain. A Nike tennis “Just Smash It!” button. A really old sword, at least 100 years old. A sheet of Snow White stamps (37 cents).  Ceil brought back a vintage dress and a jewelry box. An old Coca Cola Santa Claus tray. A boom box. A nice duffle bag. A little musical Christmas tree. Six golf balls. A mug with a cutout to putt a golf ball through. Discs for one of those old Viewmaster things. And you can never have enough clothes hangers. Good stuff.

Sunday morning we woke up and started packing the car. Ate a ham & cheese sandwich for breakfast. Didn’t leave until 1115. Stopped in Augusta for gas and a Publix sub sandwich. Made it home by 5 pm. Unpacked the car.

Watched the last hour of the Players Championship, won by Scottie Scheffler. Changing Scheffler’s name from Scott to Scottie probably lowered his score by a stroke every round. Scottie got the Jon Rahm look going on.

Ceil scrambled eggs for supper, with toast and grits. Watched “So Help Me Todd”. Sunday night Okie was sick and I couldn’t sleep, which was excuse enough to skip the gym.

Our 2024 sales slogan is “Better Together”. Sounds like a committee in HR or the home office came up with it. Or the Hallmark Channel. Our GM Shane has come up with several memorable sales slogans over the years, including “Keep on churning til the cows come home” and “Let me see your war face” and “no customer left behind”.

Better Together. Perhaps some of our office employees who work from home will get the hint.

Oswald Chambers: “My worth to God in public is what I am in private. Is it my master ambition to please him and be acceptable to him, or is it something less, no matter how noble?”

SMOKY JOE WOOD   [SABR Bio] was the ace when the Boston Red Sox won the 1912 World Series, with a record of 34-5 – the most ever for a Boston pitcher. Cy Young is 2nd (33), 3rd (32), 4th (28), and 5th (26) on that list. Boston won the World Series in 1912, 1915, 1916, & 1918. In a best-of-nine World Series, Wood quieted the bats of NYG in G 1, 4, & 8. His son, Joe Wood, had a brief 3-G career with Boston during WWII.