• The Big Switch: XM to Sirius

    If you had told me last month that within 30 days I would have ditched XM and switched to Sirius I would have called you an “idjit”. But here we are. I had been driving the ’02 MegaSUV with an add-on XM unit that Esposa’s parental units gave me for Christmas a coupld of years ago. Two weeks ago the…

  • Weekend Wrapup

    What a wretched football weekend. Local grid heroes dropped to the crossprairie rival Iggles, 23-10. It wasn’t even that close. Cats scored their last TD with a minute or so left in the game. We heard it from the parking lot. Here’s a tip. When you go to an away game and you’re all marooned out in your school colors,…

  • Thursday Thirteen #7

    Thirteen Things about Semitough:After a particularly harsh week at the jobsite, Semitough started thinking that perhaps it was time for a career change. After all life is too short to be unhappy 2-3 hours a day, so Semitough hit the job boards out on Monster and began the search. Unfortunately, positions matching Semitough’s stingent requirements were pretty slim. Therefore, here…

  • Weekend Wrapup

    Yawn. More like weekend lite. After last weekend’s football-football-football program, open weeks by the local high school gridders and the Pro gridders left us with nothing but A&M vs. Louisiana Tech. No TV coverage, so we had to listen on the local AM affiliate for the Aggie Radio Network. This station must have a solar powered transmitter because as soon…