New Shoes in the Rain

It's a chilly Sunday morning here in central Kentucky.  Hope the weather is tolerable where you are! I never mention this until it's already happening, but I started a new job last Monday.  It's still in the same industry where I've been for the past twenty-plus years, but a little different area of the industry than in the past.  New people to know, services to market, responsibilities to meet.  Looking forward to the challenges it brings. Kentucky's basketball team went through some changes of their own this week, as they lost a nail-biter at home to LSU on Tuesday and then roared out of the gates to beat the Number 1 ranked Tennessee Volunteers last night, again at Rupp Arena.  We here in the Bluegrass State are accustomed to seeing college basketball played at a pretty high level, but once in a while a Kentucky team comes along that seems capable of even greater-than-normal things.  This team might be one of those, as they have a great blend of inside and ou

It's Tuesday, friends.  Hope you had a "super" weekend! By now you know that the New England Patriots won Super Bowl 53 over the Los Angeles Rams by a score of 13-3.  The Patriots have now won six Super Bowl titles with Bill Belichick as their head coach and Tom Brady as their quarterback, and their victory sets numerous records.  Congratulations to the team, its owners and its fans. For my part, I could care less, I didn't watch a second of the game for the third straight year. Why? I suffer from Patriots Fatigue, an ongoing malaise that keeps me from admiring ongoing success by a given team.  I watch a fair amount of professional football every season, but have reached the point that I don't watch the Patriots, since they're often shown on CBS and the games broadcast by Jim Nantz, the openly-Patriots-friendly play-by-play announcer.  Each time the Pats appear on CBS it seems that we're reintroduced to the greatness that is Robert Kraft, the team