WMU Historical Win

What an exciting game yesterday. Austin's WMU team made history for the University by winning their first ever Bowl game, beating Middle Tennessee University in the Bahamas Bowl 45-31. Austin played a terrific game as did the rest of the team to complete a season that gave them their second consecutive 8-win record. In a year where they played the number 1 and number 2 ranked teams in the country (at the time), Ohio State and Michigan State, the team is getting more and more notoriety. It's hard to imagine what they can do next year which will be Austin's Senior year.

As an aside, I realized yesterday that I had been to the same hotel in Nassau where the team stayed for the Bowl activities. In 1983, I went there - Paradise Island -  and stayed as part of the Go-Club trip that I won when I was with Sperry Univac. I'm sure it has changed a lot, but I recognized the hotel from the TV shots and I got out my Go-Club book and looked at all the pictures from my trip.

We made a trip to the new casino in our neighborhood last night after Josie got off work and the jury is out. The Desert Diamond Casino and Resort will eventually be a real showplace - probably in about two years when it is completed:

We didn't fare very well in our first attempt, but it has been awhile since we played any slots so we are a bit rusty.

Our tradition of opening one gift on Christmas Eve continued last night as Josie received this nice pair of pajama bottoms:

She is officially a Seahawks fan.

It is early on Christmas morning and it is a sleep-in day for us. Santa stopped here, but it will be a little while before we get around to opening our gifts. Enjoy your Christmas Day everybody...