The Athens Diaries: Day Three at 6:38 PM

Note: The posts for this week will be posted the day after they are written (I have to post at work, and I write them after work).

If there is a Buffalo Wild Wings in your area (and you're hungry), go there now. I just had some tonight, and it was great. I sure have talked a lot about food this week, haven't I? It may have also been the journey that I took in order to get to the place that made it taste better. It's a sports bar & grill, and it happens to be in a part of town here where I hadn't yet been. Namely it wasn't on the 2 mile stretch between the hotel and work. It was where all the college students hang out--the downtown area of Athens. After going there, at least from what I could see, it made me think better of the city as a college town. Of course, my destination for dinner was in a jungle of one way streets, and I had no idea where I was, so it was an adventure. I actually passed it once by chance, but there was no place to park. So I just found the first available place (which turned out to be closer than I thought) and walked around for 20 minutes until I found it again. I found out on the way back to the car that it was actually only about a 5 minute walk, but I had wings, so I was happy.

Things at work are pretty tame. I was busy today, but I was doing the same thing for about 6 hours save some interruptions. But at least I felt like I was helping out.

NFL free agency started today. Usually that's a boring time for me, since my Eagles don't usually make too many waves with the signing of big free agents. Last year was the exception, of course, with Jevon Kearse and Terrell Owens joining the team. It'll be interesting this year to see how many of their own free agents will rejoin the team.

On a side note, sometimes I check to see who's visiting my blog, and today I saw that there have been a few visits from an IP address in Newark, DE. I'm from Newark! Do I know you? I don't know if anyone back home even knows I have a blog....feel free to leave a comment and unravel the mystery for me.

I don't really have much else to say today. The receiver for my surround system got delivered at the office for our apartment complex. That will present some interesting temptations without my wife around. I may just have to grab my speakers from Dylan's attic and fire it up for a test run on Friday night. We shall see.

Song of the day: "You'll Think of Me", by Keith Urban. This may be the first appearance of a country song on the song of the day. It was only a matter of time, really. This one is pretty good in its studio version, but he did a performance of it with John Fogerty on "Crossroads" (a show on CMT where a country artist does a show with a rock/non-country artist and they perform songs from both of them), and it was really good. As much as I love a song that grabs a hold of you and rips your face off, I also love the songs that can grab your heart and choke you up. That was one of those performances. One of the ones where you know this guy wrote the song when he was really going through that situation. Anyway, enough sappiness for now. I'll be back tomorrow with more excitement.