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It will be insane here on Monday. Such a great group of kids and such a great coach. Everything done right. Just the best of college sports teams. Win or lose, what we all hope sports can be.

I'm an honest man.. They clearly blew the double dribble. Still, fouling on a three when down by two cost them the game, and it was clearly a foul. I like Auburn and they played well, but they lost. Can't wait until Monday, but what a great tournament. Virginia, who has not played anywhere near what they did in the ACC regular season is in. Can't ask for more. Mayhem at my house.

Absolutely the right call. Kyle Guy was hit in the hip, and his dead on three came up short as the result. Stupid foul, but the right call. Rockin in Charltottesville tonight. WAHOO-WA

Great National Anthem. Go Hoos.

Final Four starts tonight. My town, home of UVA, is on fire. Go Hoos.

They got caught in a bad situation. When Diakite had that long tap back, and Clark ran it down, they needed to guard Virginia's top two shooters, Guy and Ty Gerome. Both were calling for the ball, but Jerome was in pretty good position, so Carsen Edwards ran at him, leaving Diakite open. A perfect pass.

Overrated! Wahoo-WA

A catapult shot. Flying wing.

The Ducks played well. Virginia is a very good finisher though. Not happy their threes aren't dropping and they got nothing from the bench tonight.

Big family plans for Thursday's opener. Ordered my granddaughter a Nats onesie and hat for her first birthday in April.

The flight attendants thought the flight was scheduled for Ediburgh as well. It is called a "wet lease," where the entire operation is subbed out to a leasing company. You don't have to worry about it in the US. Contracts prohibit it. "Well can you guess?" "In about two hours." "You can guess in about two hours?"

The "they" in my post was in answer to a question about the cockpit crew. Nothing to do with the passengers.

Their schedule told them. They have a schedule and they do not change that without notification. It involves a number of things, hotel/transportation changes etc., so if there is a change to your schedule, you know it. I'm not familiar with London City airport, so it may be that the crew boards from the ramp, or there are no terminal ..destination signs, and I have never looked at baggage tags. Still, I am very familiar with flight management system uploads and how flights are managed from the flight deck. You don't get the plan up-link until you type in the destination ICAO identiier. Not possible they typed in the identifier for Edinburgh instead of Dusseldorf, as it would cause a host of other issues. Point is they were expecting to fly to Edinburgh, had a flight plan for Edinburgh, loaded the flight management system for Edinburgh and flew to Edinburgh. Not possible to stare at a screen that displays your route and not notice it is going northwest instead of east, and a hundred other things that would have tipped them off. In short, not their issue.

The part of your post after the second sentence is inaccurate and impossible. The crew thought the flight was going to Edinburgh. That's what it was filed for and that's what their flight plan said. It is not remotely possible to "take-off, engage the autopilot and not pay attention to where the airplane is heading." Nor is it possible to not notice that if you think you are flying from London City airport to Dusseldorf, which is a largely easterly heading, that you would not notice that you didn't fly over the English Channel, transit Belgian or Netherlands airspace and talk to their controllers and enter Germany, but instead head northwest and check in with Scottish. Again, they were told the flight was to Edinburgh and flew the plan as intended.

The Hoos demolished Gardner Webb from the six minute mark in the first half.

I think you might benefit from seeing what you really have. Heat pumps can be set up so that once a certain condition occurs, they activate electrical heat. Kind of like a toaster. They can also be set up to go to LP or some other source under certain conditions. What I do know is that there is no heat pump that works using a regular refrigeration reversal at anything below 35 degrees.

We have built the last three houses we've lived in, so I had a lot to say about the HVAC stuff. Radiant floor heating is really nice, but it is expensive and limits your choice of flooring. You could do the research yourself, but using some tile product is vastly different than carpeting or wood flooring. Did geothermal in the second house. Very nice, especially in the Virginia summers, since it is extremely good at de-humidification. We always had our ac set at 76, and it felt much cooler than any neighbors at 74. Would have done it again, but it suddenly got really expensive. Heat pumps are great for ac, and OK for heat until you get to 40, and I don't care what they say. Below 40, it just doesn't handle it. Wood isn't comfortable. We've done that before, though a woodstove in California, not as a primary heat source, but just to make one room really cozy. Too dry and dirty. LP is OK for a fireplace, but doesn't put out nearly as many BTU's as NatGas. Anyway, that's my experience.

I think one of the great benefits to this team was Edmunds going through the year without injury or games missed. That was one of my hopes going into a year where I thought we had no chance to make the playoffs.

They are in no way, by anyone's distorted imagination, in any way "attached" to Jesus.

Those are not soups.

Patiently waiting for the first "high level business meeting" reference.

I'm a non fiction aficionado. My favorite book ever is "Undaunted Courage," the story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, by Stephen Ambrose. Just a fantastic story about a time when men dared greatly. Another good one that isn't well known is "the Millionaire and the Bard," by Andrea Mays. It's the story of Henry Folger's relentless pursuit of the original Shakespeare folios. Might not sound like that interesting of a story, but it is really great. It also gets into the creation of the Folger Shakespeare Museum in Washington, which houses the collection and is really a neat place to visit, very close to the Library of Congress. Recently, and since I have an astronomy and space interest, I just finished "Death by Black Hole," by Neil deGrasse Tyson. He is an astrophysicist with a real skill of explaining things that those of lesser skill in providing such explanations can butcher.

That screws a bunch of things up.

Love my Hoos....but...... Their success always begins with defense, like all Bennett teams.

We shall see. I hate talking about games before they happen. Both UVA uards were talking about the difficulty of playing in the Carrier Dome....Depth perception issues because of the size of the arena. Still....UVA has had absolutely no problem with zones.