Well, as you can see from my lack of posts over the last handful of days, I've been a little busy. It all started with my daughter running a fever on Thursday night, which segued into taking off on Friday to be home with her. Then, Saturday presented a family baby shower for my wife in the morning, which bled into the Razorbacks/A&M game, which led to Saturday mid-afternoon (read: more football watching). Sunday was chores and NFL, topped off by beers with my buddy Marco Sunday evening at the neighborhood pub. And here we are. Now that I've accounted for my whereabouts since Thursday night, here are some thoughts:
1. The Hog game. Wow. Whoever is Texas A&M's offensive coordinator should first be fired, then drawn and quartered. The Aggies could run at will all game long. Why they didn't just run it 75 straight times is beyond me. But they didn't and decided throw it, which led to some Hog chances and also lengthened the game. Then, before you knew it, the Hogs D got a little better and made some timely plays while the Hog O geared it up and started scoring points. By the time A&M went back to the run (after the Hogs took the lead), they failed to get a couple of yards when they needed it most -- on a 4th down play -- effectively ending the game.
I've seen this phenomenon more times than I can count. Some football coach (or, really, ANY sports coach) wants to do so many different things, "change things up", and look multi-dimensional, or whatever. This, instead of what they REALLY should do, which is do that one thing they do best, over and over. It was very clear very early on that A&M could run at will. They didn't need to pass the football to win. Sure, running the ball 75 times a game might get monotonous and bore the fanbase, but would the fanbase rather watch a somewhat-boring win or a multi-dimensional, exciting loss? A&M fans know the answer to that*.
2. So Bank of America is the worst company in the United States. Well, there are others, but BOA is making the headlines with their recent announcement of the $5.00 monthly debit card fee. The HillcrestBlog family has been transitioning out of BOA since the revelations about BOA's behavior leading up to and during the Great Recession (2008-current), but we still have a couple of random accounts there. They are not used much and instead we retain them to sock away money into dedicated savings accounts. At least we do now...maybe not for very much longer. Instead, we moved our day-to-day banking to Delta Trust, a local, neighborhood bank. So far, two years in, we're very happy**. If anyone is listening, definitely move your money to a local bank and out of these huge Wall Street banking conglomerates. Its better for the economy and you won't keep getting jerked around by the likes of BOA.
3. Ahhhh...the weather.
4. Attention: runners.
5. Mark your calendars, Hillcrest HarvestFest in two weekends! Do you make a mean cheese dip?
6. Is this a movement? I find it very interesting. There's a website, but no real overriding organization. What I do know is that Wall Street needs to be tamed. Perhaps this is the beginning of something. I guess we shall see.
* So do Nebraska fans.
** Personal service, no phone trees, no lines at ATM machine, no lines at deposit window, no lines inside at teller window, easy and accessible on-line account and bill-pay, convenient location on Kavanaugh, etc.
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