Just glanced at the new college rankings. Yeah, Bama fell out, but what did you expect? I’m kind of chuckling, though. Florida didn’t drop out of the Top 10, and Auburn still didn’t get into the Top 25.
Looks like neither one of us has any national prominence this year. 
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No excuses. Bama stunk tonight. I can’t wait until we can unload Shula’s players and get Saban’s in there.
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I have taken advantage of not filming a Bama home game this weekend. I’ve only taken two vacation days off this year, so I’m taking this Monday and Tuesday off.
Here’s where the title of this post comes from. I grew up as the only kid in the house. I am reverting back to that this four-day weekend, and these days are mine, all mine. I will spend time with Amy and Alyssa, I will do chores inside and out of the home at my leisure and I will watch massive amounts of football… uninterrupted.
I will be turning my cell phone off, and I will not think about work. I am content. Now, I am getting off my soap box and watching the season premiere of “Las Vegas.” Viva weekend!
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Idiot Reuters reporter quotes himself in his own story. Some days, I give up on journalism.
U.S. fire scatters crowd after Afghan bomb: witness
Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:11pm EDT
By Noor Mohammad Sherzai
BATI KOT, Afghanistan (Reuters) – At least one U.S. soldier opened fire to scatter a crowd of civilians and police on Thursday after failed suicide bomb attacks on a U.S. military convoy, the U.S. military and witnesses said.
A car bomb targeting a U.S. convoy in the village of Bati Kot, 15 km (9 miles) east of Jalalabad, killed the driver, two passengers and a nearby civilian, but none of the soldiers was hurt, the U.S. military said in a statement.
Afghan police securing the site in eastern Afghanistan were then attacked by an insurgent dressed in police uniform. He was killed by the police and coalition troops before he could detonate his suicide vest, the statement said.
To add to the confusion, a fire brigade vehicle speeding to the scene rammed into the U.S. and Afghan vehicles.
“I saw the fire brigade vehicle rushing to the area at top speed. Somehow its brakes failed and hit one police vehicle and coalition vehicles, then the Americans started firing,” said Reuters correspondent Noor Mohammad Sherzai.
A spokesman for U.S.-led coalition forces said only one soldier had opened fire. “A U.S. servicemen fired two shots and those shots were away from the crowd and not directed toward the crowd,” said Major Joe Klopple.
The shots were fired to disperse the crowd out of concern for their safety because of what was thought to be another approaching suicide bomber, the U.S. statement said.
Sherzai and other reporters at the scene said many shots were fired and Afghan police were among those fleeing the scene.
“I was running away as fast as I could, but some of the police overtook me,” Sherzai said. The police, he said, “were very angry because the Americans were shooting and wanted to shoot back but others stopped them”.
“A bullet hit the ground between my legs while I was running,” said Takiullah Taki, a cameraman for private Afghan channel Tolo TV. “Some Afghan national police wanted to shoot back, but others said that would make the situation deteriorate further so they did not.”
Four Afghan investigators were injured in the vehicle accident and taken to hospital, the military said.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the suicide attack.
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I am a very happy man tonight. It was a great day at work, and I came home to watch the hour-long season premiere of “The Office” in HD with Amy.
Tomorrow, I sleep in, shoot football and watch the two-hour premiere of “Las Vegas.”
Ahhhhhhh…
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