Never mind me. My ex didn't. 1) Another embarrassing offseason for us. And UT hasn't even given up an opening-drive touchdown yet. Yay - we're no longer known as the meth lab capital anymore. Or maybe just that and the halfway house of the SEC. 2) It still messes with me that we had this great thing worked out at TBA to get folks to wear alternating orange and white in different sections the last game of the season. Then we lost. By 2. To Kentucky. 21 in a row over them in football isn't enough. No streak will be. 3) PBS aired the opening concert of the Mostly Mozart Festival from Avery Fischer Hall tonight. Especially significant since this is the 250th anniversary year of his birth. 26th piano concerto with Garrick Ohlsson followed by the Coronation Mass. But why did the choir sit on stage the whole first half, just to leave, then come back for the mass? Ohlsson looked at the keyboard less than 30% of the time, and still delivered flawlessly. You might think you do what you do really well, but that dude knows his business. 4) Julius Jones said he would rush for 1,700 yards this time last year. Didn't happen. This year, to fix his reputation, he's predicting a sunrise every day. 5) Is it me or did the whole World Golf Village thing south of Jacksonville never really pan out to what they expected? 6) I have to go to Shreveport tomorrow. I'm sorry too. 7) My SEC east predictions: Florida: THIS IS THE YEAR THIS IS THE YEAR THIS IS THE YEAR THIS IS THE YEAR THIS IS THE YEAR THIS IS THE YEAR Tennessee: THIS IS THE YEAR THIS IS THE YEAR THIS IS THE YEAR THIS IS THE YEAR not to renew season tickets Georgia: Even Rogaine Richt can't keep it growing this long SC: Last year was the SEC-East power vacuum. Still couldn't break through. SC is a once-every-10-years kinda place. KY/Vandy/does it even matter? At least we have...basketball? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA 8) Go to bed. 9) Nine. How will I make it to 20? 10) By ranting about political policy. The Doha Round collapsed, and so did any risk of reduced agricultural subsidies. America is getting blamed for it, but the fact is that EU countries are not willing to concede on tarriffs. America is, but admittedly they don't want to end subsidies. The cotton subsidy is especially harmful, because these farmers in Mississippi et al can sell for so far below cost. Meanwhile, West African nations whose economy is so strongly dependent on cotton exports will still not be able to compete pricewise. If the Doha Round was meant to help lower-income countries, then it was a failed endeavor. The only thing that might get it rebooted is the prospect of failed bi-lateral trade agreements, especially of the sort that A.S.E.A.N. countries are drafting between themselves and China. Bush has pushed forward with many of our own agreements, something like 14. And 11 on the table. But the economy is very good now, unlike in the early 90's when a fledgling economy put the Uraguay rounds back into session. Subsidies are bad because they don't encourage the most efficient means of production, and true free-trade fans should call for their dissolution. Market Darwinism. 11) Nebraska added about 10,000 new seats this year, so that many more people can watch Callahan's failed experiment. They sold it out for the spring game, but what else are ya gonna do in Stinkin on a spring day? 12) But I still don't ever, EVER want to see Nebraska in a bowl game. 13) Are they going to push ahead with that grand plan to link Miami, Tampa and Orlando with some kind of hokey rail system? They were even going to put in a stop at Disney. Texas is trying the same thing with Dallas, SA and Houston. I'll bet Southwest will fight like mad to keep that thing from ever happening. 14) Unless the Wright Amendment is thrown out. Anyone ever heard of this thing? When DFW opened up in '74, American and Southwest were fighting for gate space. American won out at the new airport, and Southwest stayed out of DFW completely, ultimately taking over Love Field and the 37 gates it has now. But Wright says that SWA can't fly to states beyond those bordering Texas. This made their Dallas operations purely regional, and you have to make completely separate reservations to connect in foolish places like Tulsa or Albuquerque. Meanwhile, you can fly SWA non-stop between places like Nashville-Burbank and Phoenix-Columbus. Hastert was in Dallas the other day and pledged a remedy. But AA is still fighting it. Set Love free. 15) It's hot. 16) Catalonia is still fighting to be independent. They can caw all they want about having their own language, customs, being superior to Madrid, etc., but the EU laughs when they pine for individual recognition. And I don't blame them. As soon as they recognize Catalonia, then every little region with separatist tendencies will expect the same. And there goes political soverignty - sending us back to pre-Roman Europe. 17) Did anyone hear whether Varig went under? Probably got bailed out by the Brazilian government yet again. They couldn't find a buyer, and Berezhovsky's offer was "too low." Don't flatter yourself Varig. You have like 2 international flights and a buncha routes in Brazil that low-cost carriers are going to eat up. Fire sale on the horizon. 18) Remember those little posters where you could look into them and your eyes would somehow recognize a 3-D image. Boy howdy, that thing sure came and went. 19) Nineteen. Almost made it to twenty. Almost made it 8 beers. Almost won the title in 97. Almost beat UK on senior day. Almost care anymore.