It's funny how when your team gets demolished in the conference championship game you lose all interest in this discussion.

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It's evening on the east coast and we just took off from Atlanta. The plane has wi-fi -- free one time until December 31. The company is called GoGo. They need to put some more work into this... pages are slow to load, you tube videos start and stop and Jeffrey Toobin's new article in the New Yorker on Roman Polanski, The Celebrity Defense: Sex, Fame and the Case of Roman Polanski, which arrived in my e-mail box but will be online tomorrow, has been downloading for more than one minute. The right column of TalkLeft also isn't loading.

The TL kid and I had a great time in Key West, no surprise there. Aside from spending time with great friends I only get to see once a year or less, the abundance of fresh fish (and fun raw bars), there were terrific speakers and once I finished my talk on the latest in electronic surveillance techniques being used in drug cases, I was free to relax.

I have not seen the news since we left last Thursday, so I have nothing to write about on that front.

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Leave me alone.

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No, it's not the evening yet, but I've spilled my bile for the day. Jeralyn is doing the Key West NORML thing and being the brilliant woman she is, I suspect she won't be blogging much this weekend.

For myself, my focus now goes to the Game of the Decade! Tomorrow I 'll do a comprehensive preview of the the game (and some other minor games being played this weekend) as I do the rabid fan thing (face paint, etc..) From 3 - 7 tomorrow, you'll know where I'll be.

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Your turn.

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Busy morning.

Congrats to the Ducks.

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Like Jeralyn, today is a travel day for me. Unlike Jeralyn, I am leaving warm Florida and traveling north to New York.

In tonight's college football action, I like the Ducks (-9.5) in the Civil War.

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The Civil War is tonight. Autzen will be a madhouse.

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It's 2 degrees outside but at 6:00 am the TL kid and I are off to Key West for the annual NORML Legal Conference.

Here's a pretty blowup of the sunset picture. The water is very inviting as are the restaurants. And the hotel with its Caribbean Spa is just perfect for our group. [More...]

The Civil War (Oregon-Oregon State) is tomorrow night at Autzen Stadium in Eugene. The winner is the Pac 10 champ and heads to the Rose Bowl to pummel Big Ten champ Ohio State.

The Game of the Decade! (Alabama-Florida) is Saturday. Gator DE Carlos Dunlap has been suspended indefinitely. I assume his Gator career is over.

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I just got a new HP Mini 311 Netbook with Windows 7 that I'm trying to set up tonight. My Verizon broadband device was 2 years old and eligible for an upgrade, so instead of getting another one, I got the Netbook from Verizon for $149 (instead of $699.) I'll report back with a review as soon as I've got it all working.

My good friend Anita Thompson has a new post at HuffPo on the People cover photo of Johnny Depp as the Sexiest Man Alive. He's wearing his Gonzo medal, and Anita explains how Hunter and Johnny became friends and what "Gonzo" is all about. I hope Johnny calls her soon, because I've asked her to badger him into not abandoning his plan to star in the film version of Shantaram, which now that I've read all 900 pages of the book and loved it, I think he's perfect for. Production has been stalled for a few years, and the latest word is that it's on indefinite hold. [More...]

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