93,000 expected for calling hours.

First home game since '55 there wont be an Uga on the field.

His first game:

Tomorrow belongs, tomorrow belongs......

I will be with Sarah Palin tomorrow evening.

YES, I know the ball game is on and all.. but this is a cultural phenomenon. Not something to be missed. I'll tivo the game .

Very surprising she is coming here, yes some of the area around us is DEEP red, really one of the only spots in New York State that is, but not where she is coming. Our local paper is reporting she is making her one stop in Hillary Country because .. wait for it.. "

Palin appreciates upstate New York's long history of fighting for women's rights and women's involvement in politics. In her book, Palin wrote fondly of her visit last summer to Auburn, Cayuga County, where she visited the home of Harriet Tubman. She also visited the National Women's Rights Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, Seneca County."

The sad part is it's looking like we are not going to get the bus! She is flying in, the strip mall she is holding her signing at is easy access to the Rochester Airport, doing her shtick and getting the hell out of the flower city. No Wegmans, No toy museum, no Garbage Plate. No photographs, no questions, no personal signings. I would not be surprised one bit if some people were already in line.. and it is a chilly damp night here in almost socialist Canada.

Again from the Democrat and Chronicle : Elizabeth Delgado and her mother, Pat Cappon, plan to be at the Hylan Drive bookstore by at least 6 a.m. Saturday to queue up for a wristband that will allow them back into the store for the 6 p.m. book signing. The women purchased their copies of Going Rogue on Thursday morning.Summing up Palin's appeal was easy for Delgado, who is also a member of the Palin-oriented political support organization Team Sarah.
"She is standing up for the people like me, and for women," she said. "She is able to admit her mistakes and is always honest and says what she feels."
Cappon agreed.
"She is just a loving and lovely person," she said. "You can tell by her family."

I know this has a mocking tone to it, but I really am FASCINATED by the Palinheads. They live in a universe where facts just do not matter. Truth is what ever you say it is today, it may change tomorrow, and there is GRAVE danger around every single corner. I would LOVE to hear a speech of hers tomorrow, just to see the crowds reaction and all but she is in and out.

I do believe that she is , or can, touch a very real ANGER that is out in the country now. I for one think she has NO interest in becoming POTUS, not enough money in it, AND 4:00 in the afternoon around the country is going to be opening up pretty darn soon.

I will give a full report tomorrow.

Let's do hope the Rochester John Birchers are better behaved than the Noblesville , Indiana ones:

Dinner

If it's Friday, it must be curry, or is that if it's curry it must be Friday. Tonight is beef.

Onions and mustard seeds, in a little olive, let them go for a while, nice and sweet.
Add Carrots and beef, again, let them go , like 12-15 min on low.
Add Chick Peas, a couple of big cloves of garlic, and a good tablespoon plus of grated fresh ginger, cook a couple of minutes.
Add a large can of tomatoes and ONLY the thick part of a can of coconut milk. Turmeric and Curry Powder , and depending on the heat of your curry powder, some red pepper flakes. If I had a hot chili I would have used it. Since it was beef I had to cook it for a while, half an hour or so, all veggie or chicken , does not need so long.
I am sure that Roja would just keel over at this recipe, because I did just sort of make it up, trial and error, but it is very good.

Happy

Look at all this green in late November, this far North!
Very nice for your back yard to look like this, this time of year.
Koda, who loves snow, is still loving the lovely late fall weather.

Dinner

POT ROAST

Made a new way, an easier way. Put this pot on a burner, got it hot. Season the meat, which was a cheap chuck roast ( two for one, the other one was in the gameday chili over the weekend) Brown the meat well on one side. Flip over, add veggies. I used onions, carrots, the magic canned potatoes, and whole garlic.

Then added a half a cup of wine/ half a cup of beef stock that I seasoned with some Italian Seasonings and red pepper flakes, with a good couple of glugs of Worcestershire sauce. Covered well in foil and then the lid to the heavy Le Creuset pan. About two hours at 375. The house smelled wonderful and the roast was tender. Could not have been easier. Rice and a salad and we were done.

Yesterday

Today is grey and rainy and I have a little bit of a cold.. YESTERDAY was bright and sunny and un- sniffley.

logophile on a roll.

My ex-exboyfriendAndrewSullivan has had a little breakdown. The weight of feeling the need to explain GOING ROUGE has driven him under the covers, really. BUT, I learned two new words from him today :

• LACUNA , just means a GAP ( could be a theme brewing here..). " Mr. Sullivan took a lacuna." or as he put it, " We apologize for the lacuna"
• HAGIOGRAPHY , the study of saints , refers literally to writings on the subject of such holy people, and specifically to the biographies of ecclesiastical and secular leaders. "In his hagiography of Palin, Matt Continetti accuses yours truly of earnestness about all this"

( the painting above is by Andrew's all the cute husband, Aaron.)