It's been a while...

I rarely, if ever, update this thing anymore but it's a slow Friday afternoon so I'll add a little something.

1. I've starting to make serious plans to travel to Africa and climb Mt. Kilimanjaro. My sister-n-law is currently stationed in the Peace Corp in Botswana. She is interested in making the climb so hopefully next July I will be on my way to Tanzania. I've already gotten my passport so now I mostly need to continue to train. If you are interested in reading my Mt. Rainier trip report, scroll down some and you'll find it.

2. The boy is growing leaps and bounds. He's fully mobile now. Not really anything he can't get into in the house. He's at a new pre school and he seems to like it and his Mom and myself really like it, except for the price.

3. Arkansas plays it's first home football game tomorrow against Georgia. Hopefully we will win. To my knowledge, Arkansas has not beaten Georgia in football since joining the SEC. A win tomorrow will like propel Arkansas to a pretty good year and decent bowl game.

Go Hogs!!!!

Razorback basketball is hot! The hogs have beaten two top-ten teams in the past week. Arkansas first took care of #4 Oklahoma in Bud Walton arena. I was there and was shocked at how well the team played. Michael Washington has turned into an All-SEC type player and if he keeps this up for the whole season, he will likely be SEC Player of the Year.

The win over Texas was much more joyous than the win over OU. Any longtime Razorback fan knows how much we hate Texas. Once again, I was surprised at how tough the Hogs played. There was no quit in them. I guess I had grown used to the Stan Heath days where, if we got behind, we never caught up.

Neither win will seem as good if we don't follow it up with a win over Ms. State on Saturday. The SEC schedule is brutal and it is imperative that we win all of our SEC home games.

I also got my picture made with Eddie Sutton (Photo at top). He was the coach of the Razorbacks when I was growing up and he built the foundation for what Razorback basketball is today.