Roll Tide Roll

Rebecca is attending the University of Alabama.  As a member of the Million Dollar Band she had the opportunity yesterday to attend her second national championship game in a row.  Will she be able to make it a trifecta next year?  Only time will tell, but the way the Tide have been playing, I would say that she has a pretty good chance.  Congratulations to the University of Alabama Football Team.  Thanks for all of your hard work.

Rebecca Mast

A special shout out to a friend of mine who is just getting started as an author.  She now has a website.  Now all she needs is to start posting some of her cool writings and some encouragement from the blogosphere.  Stop over at her place www.rebeccamast.com and show her some love.

Favorite TV Shows

Happy 2013 everyone.  Yes, I know that it has been a long time since my last post.  I would like to say that I have been busy, but it is kind of hard to say that with a straight face after a two year hiatus.  I was just thinking that I should to list my current favorite TV shows.  Why?  Just because.  So, here they are in no particular order.

1. Walking Dead - What can I say?  I'm a sucker for Zombies.  My first zombie movie was George Romero's Dawn of the Dead which was filmed in a shopping mall near the town where I grew up.  One of the ladies in my theater group there was actually one of the zombies.  How cool is that.  Anyway's I'm fond of the zombies.  Zombieland - Loved it.  Wish they would have made a Zombieland 2.  I would have gone to see it.  World War Z (the book) - Loved it.  Read it at the library and then went and bought myself a copy.  I have a little trepidation with the movie that is being produced based on the book.  I hope it doesn't stink.  So, walking dead is coming back in February.  Looking forward to it.

2. Big Bang Theory - I'm a geek, nerd, whatever.  It's nice to see a documentary about our lives.  So one of my favorite movies of all times is Revenge of the Nerds.  I went off to college thinking that the movie was an accurate portrayal of college life.  Well, not exactly.  But Big Bang is exactly how life is for nerds after they graduate from college right?

3. Downton Abbey - My wife and daughter a big into any period BBC crap.  I just happened to be in the room when Downton Abbey was on and I got a little caught up in the show.  I can quit any time I want. Really, I can.  :) I find myself speaking with a British accent after every episode.  Pip, Pip, Tally Ho and all that rot.  Tomorrow is the season premier.  I can't wait.

So that's my eclectic TV watching habits.  Zombies getting their brains blown out, Geeks chasing girls and being geeky and old English folks being bloody pompous.  What do you watch and why?

The Pohick Files

Have you ever wondered what the X-Files would have been like if only they had a little more budget to work with? Now you know.

At bob jones football game.

FWD:

more parade

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FWD:

at homecoming parade.

Justice Dept. approves United-Continental merger

According to USA today, Continental and United airlines won Justice Department approval of their proposed merger on Friday, after agreeing to lease landing and takeoff rights at Newark Liberty International Airport to discounter Southwest Airlines.

Justice said late Friday that it has closed its antitrust review of the United-Continental merger because it is satisfied with the carriers' deal to reduce their combined market dominance and increase competition at Newark. Continental currently operates a hub there and has the largest market share in the greater New York air travel market, the USA's largest. In addition to Newark, New York is served by LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy airports. Together United and Continental currently offer 442 daily flights at Newark.

Becca's Trip to Europe

I dropped Rebecca off at the airport this morning for her trip to Europe. There are 12 students and two adults going off on the trip. Rebecca is very excited and has been looking forward to this for a long time.

At becca's concert.

Checked in at the colorado springs airport. So far it looks like my flights are on time today.Wish me luck.

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Made it safely to colorado. Its snowing. I don't think i will be doing much site seeing this week.

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Winter Comes to Alabama

Winter has officially come to Alabama. Like much of the nation, Alabama is in the middle of a deep freeze and today the freeze was reinforced with some snow. The schools sent the girls home at noon today and they decided to take advantage of the snow with a bit of frolicking. Molly is refusing to have anything to do with the snow refused to leave the house all day.

Snug Wow

What do you get if you mix together a Snuggie and a Sham Wow. Watch the video and find out. This is hilarious.

Outback Bowl Half Time Show

Scribbles and her marching band performed as part of this years Outback Bowl Half Time Show in Tampa Florida. There were approximately 2000 performers including marching band members, color guard, and dance teams. The bands performed a number of Beach Tunes. The only downside was the unseasonably cold temperature and rain. The show was great though.

Outback Bowl Parade

The night before the Outback Bowl the band marching in the Outback Bowl parade where they were declared the parade grand champions!

Half time at outback bowl

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Busch Gardens - Tampa style

Even though Wednesday was zoo day, we could not keep Jake from playing with the animals.  Today he was practicing his grooming techniques with the chimps.  We were suprised to find that Busch Gardens had such a wide selection of animals to see.  Typically people relate the Amusement park with their rides.  The most popular at Busch Gardens Tampa are:  Gwazi (wooden roller coaster), Kumba (roller coaster), Rhino Rally (safari ride), SheiKra (coaster), and Montu (coaster).  Jake was brave enough to try SheiKra and Kumba with friends - Molly and Sarah cheered them on!  We hear that Scribbles is trying out Gwazi as this is being written!

This white tiger had us covered - literally.  The tiger enclosure had a really cool feature - you could go under it and pop your head up in a plexi-glass box in the enclosure.  It just so happened that there was a tiger laying on the box while we were inside it... we got an interesting picture of a tiger belly.  All the while the tiger just laid there looking a bit bored.

Jake got this shot of the full moon over the Morocco Palace.  We had just finished catching a few of the musical shows offered in the park when we looked up, and there was the moon begging us to take its picture.  It was a stellar -or lunar- way to end a busy day.

Tampa Critters

On our first full day in Tampa, Jake, Molly and Sarah went to the Lowry Park Zoo while Scribbles did whatever the band was doing.  We found some cool critters there.  Jake was racing through the zoo trying to see everything.  We got him to slow down long enough to make friends with a few sting rays though.

So we can only assume this guy is thinking "What's the deal with all the unhairy critters looking at me?"

We wanted to include Scribbles today since it is because of her we are in Tampa. She's somewhere in this photo of the band on the competition field. They put on a great show. We will find out tomorrow evening how they scored - the highest scoring band gets to do the pre-game show on New Year's Day. Cross your fingers!

Welcome to Florida!

Scribbles' band is competing in a competition in Tampa, Fl so the entire Pohick family decided that would be a great place for a getaway.  Little did we know in the planning stages that the trip would require a 3:30 AM wake-up and 4:30 drop off for Scribbles.  Since the rest of the family was up already, they took to the Pohick mobile and started their adventure - pausing only briefly on the 11 or so hour drive for this photo!