Mississippi St vs Auburn
Wednesday – Travel Day
Traveled a day early this week – my former AP from last football season (and many other sports) has “retired” from the network and has a lake house near Auburn. Her, her husband and dogs are meeting me there late tonight.
I flew into Columbus, GA which is a very tiny 1 gate airport. I ended up checking a bag since this trip required extra clothes and I threw in a bottle of wine at the last minute.
Well that proved to be a huge mistake. It took 40 minutes to get bags. Which was mystifying considering the bags had to be moved about 25 feet from the plane to the luggage belt.
This put me behind … Stephanie and Lee were going to be meeting me at the exit for t he lake house since it’s down a long and windy road. So our perfectly timed out trip, now required them to wait for about 30 minutes for me.
From the airport I had about a 90 minute drive – but I made it – we were soon unloaded Steph and I sat on the porch drinking wine and catching up until all hours of the morning.
Thursday – Day at Lake Martin
Up early. Ugh.
Steph had invited the crew over today and they started arriving probably around 11a.
People came and went all day.
It was a wonderful day in the sun spent with some of my favorite tv people.
In the evening, we went for a boat ride and had a cookout.
John - Steve - Lance - Jerome - Jim
We then all headed for the hotel as it was about 1 hour away.
Friday – Set Day
This was my first time at Auburn for football. So I was excited to see another stadium. Parking was a nightmare. It took us about 30 minutes to find it. And then had about a mile walk to the stadium. Fun fun!
Due to issues last week, I got a pleasant surprise this week – my favorite Viz Tech was paying us a visit. Oh how I love Bob – he is the best!
That evening Bob took Team Graphics (and Jill) to dinner. We ended up at a Mexican joint. Nothing like Mexican in Auburn, AL! Much to our surprise, it was really good.
When we got back to the hotel, I ran into a long time friend, Ed at the hotel. He also works for the network, just not on remote anymore. It was nice to see him and catch up.
Saturday – Game Day
Due to the parking situation, I rode to work the with Producer since he gets to park next to the truck. Much better!
The day went well and Bob worked on my laptop which was suffering from viruses that I got 3 weeks ago from a certain AP… won’t mention any names.
In the evening, my friend Steve and I went to BW3s for drinks and wings.
Sunday – Travel Day
Up around 3:15a so I could make my 6a flight in Columbus, GA. This is always a tricky one - The hotel is in Central Time, but the airport is in Eastern Time…
Aside from getting up at 3:15a in the morning on Sunday mornings, life is good.
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