Games to Watch

This weekend’s slate of football games. Should be interesting to see if Memphis can beat Troy worse than Clemson did.

730 Friday Marist @ Northview

1200 #12 Clemson @ #28 Georgia Tech

1200 Wisconsin @ #19 Alabama

1200 #42 Memphis @ Troy

330 #6 Georgia @ #15 Tennessee

415 UTEP @ #7 Texas

430 #18 South Florida Bulls @ #5 Miami

600 Merrimack @ Kennesaw State

700 Murray State @ Georgia State

700 Jacksonville State @ Georgia Southern

730 #16 Texas A&M @ #8 Notre Dame

745 #41 Vanderbilt @ #11 South Carolina: will SC be upset?

820 Sunday Falcons @ Vikings

The Sphere in Vegas is showing a re-engineered version of The Wizard of Oz, with expensive and hard to get tickets. I sure would like to see a show out there. Like L, I would need to take the opportunity while there to see the Grand Canyon. Reminds me of the time Ceil and I saw Gone With the Wind with the Whitakers at the Fox Theater.

Left work at 415 Tuesday. Ate another frozen pizza for supper. Watched one episode each of Only Murders in the Building, Eli’s Places, Modern Family, and Kaos, a Netflix series starring Jeff Goldblum as the Greek God Zeus in present times, as if the world still worshipped him instead of the God of the Bible. I couldn’t finish it. Should’ve watched the Fever, huh?

Wednesday: drove up to Braselton to pick up Ceil. Worked from home that afternoon.

Small group was good. Poor Chris had his second trip to the hospital for AFIB in 2 weeks. His wife had a flat tire on the interstate, then later hydroplaned and wrecked the truck. Spiritual warfare? Next week small group as at my house. Will have to clean up and study extra hard (I’m leading).

Thursday: made it to the gym before work. Lunch at Cheeseburger Bobbys.

Troubling interview with Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the “creator” and public face of ChatGPT. It was quite apparent that Sam was caught off guard by many of the important moral questions that he should have known that he would be asked. Makes artificial intelligence seem all the more scary.

Denison: Truth Rising is free to stream and is “a call to action at a critical time in our culture.” It is a realistic assessment of the state of Western civilization with reasons for optimism, that God is still at work using his people to offer redemption and hope to a world in desperate need of both. 

On Charlie Kirk's desk:

CARL YASTRZEMSKI  [SABR Bio] was the first to play in 3,300 major league games, on 18-Sep-1983. He finished with 3,308. Only Pete Rose has more: 3,562. No left-handed batter has hit into more double plays: 323, sixth all-time. His grandson Mike Yastrzemski was traded by SFG on 31-Jul-2025 to KCR for Yunior Marte.