Duke Beats Purdue in 10th ACC/Big 10 Challenge

Vegas had Duke losing by two.  A lot of people were predicting the upset.  (The Blue Devils are ranked fourth, the Boilermakers ninth or tenth depending on the poll.)  Instead, Duke went to Lafayette, Indiana and started out 7-0 and didn’t look back.  They were up eight at the half but ended up winning by […]

First Time Surfing in a Wetsuit

Amanda and I started today off like most every other Sunday by heading to Port City Community Church for the 8:30 service.  I wonder if we’ll still be able to go that early after the baby comes. We saw with Amy Warkentien and her family today.  Nick Warkentien, being a staff member of the church […]

Fake Christmas Tree

Amanda and I didn’t have anything really on the agenda for today, so we took our time getting going this morning.  Once we got out of the house we did a little Christmas shopping then stopped by Home Depot to look at fake Christmas trees. Yes, we’re looking at fake Christmas trees.  I feel like […]

Snow in Wilmington

Still no hits from my carefully-crafted newsletter.  Ah well.  Maybe in time. Jason Revill told me today that it was snowing really hard in Durham.  A little later Amanda called me and told me she heard it was snowing at Target and wondered if it was snowing at our house.  I didn’t think it was, […]

Duke Kills Georgia Southern

Duke looked much, much better tonight playing against Georgia Southern tonight.  Brian Zoubek looked better despite two or three BS foul calls and Lance Thomas was aggressive.  Kyle Singler dominated, making some, in my opinion, impossible-looking shots.  The freshmen weren’t put in the game until the second half.  I read this was because Coach K […]