Chiltie's Musings

I’m relaunching my blog using SimpleLog instead of Typo. I’ve had way too many issues trying to upgrade my Typo installation lately and decided to just give up on it. I’ll be moving my old content over soon. For now I’ll start adding new content. I’ll talk about being a religious person in the secular northwest, baseball, politics, and sunsets. Oooo, Sunsets. I do like sunsets.

Update: I’ve finished importing about a third of the old posts. I hope to finish them up tomorrow afternoon. I’ll start adding the comments that aren’t spam after that.

Today, the City of Chattanooga charged 6 UT-Chattanooga football players with rape. Not only that but according to Coach Allison, these 6 are not likely to return to the team, ever. Good riddance. This is the kind of thing that needs to happen at higher levels of sports to show younger players that this sort of behavior is not acceptable. Just because you’re a minor celebrity locally through athletic prowess, you can’t disrespect your university by behaving like this, consensually or not, and not have repercussions.

On other Mocs news, Terrell Owens, formerly of the Mocs, has been suspended for the remainder of the season by the Philadelphia Eagles. Its okay with me, he’s been a punk ever since he got to the NFL. I’m a little ashamed though, he came from my university, and is the most high profile former student out there right now (sorry Dennis Haskins , I love ya, but your celebrity’s not quite equal to his), and he’s being a punk.

I found this on Amanda’s LiveJournal and actually found it to be pretty accurate for me, so here it is. Midnight Blue is definitely my comfort/power color, it has been for a long time.

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I loved Santos’ bit on why he’s proud to be a Liberal and why it shouldn’t be treated as an offensive term. I want to throw that at Rush Limbaugh, except that he wouldn’t listen.

Alan Alda clearly showed his training and age in this. He seemed much more at home with the live format that Jimmy Smits did, without any noticeable slips of the tongue.

Also I love Ellen, her bit about saving and spending at the very beginning was brilliant.

The Mocs officially have a winning season now. This is awesome. Its the first one since 1997, and is a definitely new to me, since 1997 was the last time I was a student when my school’s team had a winning record (I have a habit of bad football schools). Congratulations guys, this kicks ass. I’m really disappointed I couldn’t make it there today.

On another note today was the running of the Head of the Hooch Regatta here in Chattanooga. It’s the second largest fall regatta in the country, and it packs in around a 1000 boats with around 4000 competitors. Great for the tourism of the city, showcasing our downtown waterfront quite nicely. This is the first year for the race to be in Chattanooga, it used to be at Lake Ranier in Gainesville, GA - the same place they had the rowing events for the 1996 Olympics - but Lake Ranier started charging too much to use the course, so they moved up here. I think its awesome. Chattanooga is an awesome city for rowing, not many places in the south have this much rowing, especially with 3 prep school rowing programs. Most youth rowing programs in the south are community programs not tied to a school (we have one of those too) but here in Chattanooga we have three high school programs. On top of that the McCallie School rowing program is one of the best youth programs in the country.

I raced the Men’s Club 8+ today. We did well, 3 mile course in 16:13. Unfortunately the top boat was 15:45, and we ended up in 6th out of 12. But when you consider we were facing Georgia, Clemson, Virgina Tech (we passed them, they started ahead of us), Florida, and other gigantic schools, thats a good showing for a small school that barely has enough heavyweight rowers to have an 8, much less a fast one. (Heavyweights weigh more than 165 pounds).