We Won the Half Price Book Lottery but Rice is Still Winless

What a perfect day for football! Unfortunately, Rice had a little trouble playing today. We left with Navy leading 48-7. The highlight of the game for me happened when Matt Nordstrom, number 50 for the Rice Owls, made a play. At least I could think about shopping when his name was called.


This week we have been doing some clutter patrol around here. I had several bags for Goodwill and we had two boxes for Half Price Books. Early this morning Roy took the books and returned home with, get this, $70.00 for two boxes of books and CD's. I had cleaned out a book case in the guest bedroom and Roy had gone through his shelves in the den. $70.00 bucks from Half Price Books isn't half bad. I think the most we have ever received was $40.00. Our tradition is to do something fun with money. So today we went to lunch, bought our tickets for the Rice game, got a new long sleeve Rice shirt, snacks at the game and picked up a pizza for dinner on our way home. I think we even came home with change. Even though Rice lost, we had fun with our fun parley of book money.

At halftime, there was a presentation of a moon rock to Rice from NASA. Lots and lots of boring speeches except for the video clip from 1962 when JFK spoke at Rice stadium and the theme was getting to the moon. In his speech he was talking about hard things we do and one thing he mentions is, "why does Rice play Texas?"...because it's hard. During the short MOB presentation the announcer for the band says, "why does Rice play Texas? It's not because it is hard, we do it for the money." That was a huge applause getter.

It was overcast and cool, but we drove home with the top down. We have had a full afternoon and evening of fresh air. We should both sleep very well tonight.