We\u2019re off to scenic French Lick, IN in a couple hours. No, we\u2019re not camping out in Larry Bird\u2019s front yard. We\u2019re sharing a cabin with two other couples for the next two days. I had no idea, but apparently French Lick is kind of resorty. More in a Hot Springs way than a Branson way, but Larry is trying to build a casino there so there\u2019s always hope that we won\u2019t have to drive nine hours to see Andy Williams in the near future. I guess it\u2019s fairly cool down there, though. Every time I tell someone that\u2019s where we\u2019re spending the holiday, they act like it\u2019s a good thing. Or maybe that\u2019s just Hoosier sarcasm and I don\u2019t get it yet.<\/p>\n
2003 was certainly an eventful year. I got married (twice for good measure). Was in two other weddings. Bought a house. Moved. Traveled to New Mexico, Oregon, Colorado, Arizona, Washington, and California for work. Went to South Carolina and the Caribbean for pleasure. Loved Roy Williams. Cursed Roy Williams. Bought a new Final Four shirt. Bought a Tangerine Bowl shirt. Enjoyed the best Royals season in over a decade. Read a lot of books, listened to a lot of music. Even with some work-related headaches, and other annoyances along the way, it was certainly the best year of my life. I must be doing something right if I can say that when the last five years have been pretty damn good too. Hopefully 2004 is full of excitement, happiness, and good health too.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll not be posting until Monday, probably. (I just realized last night I have to put together some kind of Big 8+4 basketball preview by Monday. I thought the season didn\u2019t open until next Saturday.) I hope all of you have happy and safe New Years celebrations (especially those of you in New York and Las Vegas). And may your 2004s be full of all that you hope and dream for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We\u2019re off to scenic French Lick, IN in a couple hours. No, we\u2019re not camping out in Larry Bird\u2019s front yard. We\u2019re sharing a cabin with two other couples for the next two days. I had no idea, but apparently French Lick is kind of resorty. More in a Hot Springs way than a Branson way, but Larry is trying to build a casino there so there\u2019s always hope that we won\u2019t have to drive nine hours to see Andy Williams in the near future. I guess it\u2019s fairly cool down there, though. Every time I tell someone that\u2019s where we\u2019re spending the holiday, they act like it\u2019s a good thing. Or maybe that\u2019s just Hoosier sarcasm and I don\u2019t get it yet. 2003 was certainly an eventful year. I got married (twice for good measure). Was in two other weddings. Bought a house. Moved. Traveled to New Mexico, Oregon, Colorado, Arizona, Washington, and California for work. Went to South Carolina and the Caribbean for pleasure. Loved Roy Williams. Cursed Roy Williams. Bought a new Final Four shirt. Bought a Tangerine Bowl shirt. Enjoyed the best Royals season in over a decade. Read a lot of books, listened to a lot of music. Even with some work-related headaches, and other annoyances along the way, it was certainly the best year of my life. I must be doing something right if I can say that when the last five years have been pretty damn good too. Hopefully 2004 is full of excitement, happiness, and good health too. I\u2019ll not be posting until Monday, probably. (I just realized last night I have to put together some kind of Big 8+4 basketball preview by Monday. I thought the season didn\u2019t open until next Saturday.) I hope all of you have happy and safe New Years celebrations (especially those of you in New York and Las Vegas). And may your 2004s be full of all that you hope and dream for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,83],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-holidays","tag-personal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15716,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/15716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}