Bye weeks and bad weather.

Well, this week marks an off week for Alabama Football and I have to say it gives me an empty feeling inside since there is nothing to look forward to this weekend. About 10(!) years or so ago I would probably have said the complete opposite. As a member of the Million Dollar Band we were required to be at every home game, but sometimes you really didn't get the chance to take in the gameday experience partly because we were part of the gameday experience. So, when a bye week would come around we took it as a blessing. It felt good not to be tied down to a strict schedule for a change and to be free and clear to do whatever we wanted on our weekend off. Some of us would hang around Tuscaloosa and just chill while others took the opportunity to go home and visit family. If had my say, I would've spent the entire week in bed, but I knew if didn't get home on an off week, my mother would wring my neck.


We've seen some very dry conditions here in the Birmingham are lately as we haven't had any significant rain in about a month or so. When it did rain it was from the leftovers of whatever hurricane that Drudge dubbed as their latest "hellstorm." Apparently, there's a system coming in later tonight that supposed to bring some good rain, but I have a bad feeling about what it might be bringing with it. The area is due severe weather and I that's what I'm thinking this system is bringing. Whatever it is, all I know is that I'll be at home in bed with the ringer on the phone turned off, because there is no way I'm in coming in to work the storm coverage. I guess Spann will have to do without me just this once.