Neither Amanda nor I slept all that well last night. We’d wake up just about any time Milly made a noise. I’m sure she does it all the time, but it’s different being in the same room with her. On top of that, it seemed like the dogs kept wanting to come and go in and out of the room.
Amanda and I went with Karen to the home of Peggy and Earl Lemons (Amanda’s grandparents) for the country breakfast they serve every Saturday. We got to see their new car. Their Taurus was giving them some trouble so they bought an Impala. We put Milly down for a nap in Peggy and Earl’s room right before we ate and afterwards I went to check on her. I decided to lie down with her and she turned and snuggled up on me. It was so sweet. The time in between was spent eating and debating etiquette.
We got back to the Mercer house around noon and gave Milly her lunch. Amanda and Karen went back out to do some shopping. After I put Milly down for a nap (she didn’t have a particularly long one at her great-grandparents’ house) Michael, Jenn and I played Puerto Rico. I beat Michael by a point. He would have beat me but he misunderstood the implications of one of his picks. That was my first win at that game.
We played a little MarioKart and Amanda played some when she got home too, feeding Milly in between. Peggy and Earl came over a little later to have dinner and celebrate Michael’s birthday, which is Monday. We also watched NC State suck it up against Maryland, which I figured would happen since the Pack beat Duke a few days ago. Texas, who started the week undefeated but lost to Kansas State earlier, lost to UConn.
Anyway, we had a great dinner of steak, potatoes, salad, apple sauce, green beans and more. In attendance were Amanda and I, plus Milly after we’d mostly finished eating, Karen and Phil, Peggy and Earl and Jenn. Plus Michael, of course, as it was his birthday we were celebrating.
9:00 came around and we turned on the Duke-Clemson game. Now, Clemson humiliated Duke last year at Littlejohn Coliseum and held Duke to 47 points, which was the lowest score Duke had in a long, long time. Clemson’s been mostly playing pretty well lately, and Duke’s been sucking it up on the road though they beat Clemson soundly a few weeks ago. A loss would put a lot of doubt on the Blue Devils, but a win would show that Duke can win in an opponent’s arena, and against tough competition at that.
The game was tied at a horrendously low 23 at the half. Duke ended up winning 60-47 though. (Remember that number, 47?) Nolan Smith had a great game and Lance Thomas actually outscored Kyle Singler and Jon Scheyer. The second half was all Duke.
Michael is sitting across from me now, playing with his new iPod Touch. He had a problem updating iTunes, which he needed to do to register his Touch and ended up just formatting his computer to get it to work. Well, it works now and he’s looking at games to download for it.
Zach Dotsey