New Year’s Eve Ball Drop – I’m going to start this week’s post discussing last Saturday’s Peach Bowl. Then we’ll do everything else before finishing with several items relating to the National Championship Game, giving you a chance to bail out if you would like.

In New York at midnight the ball dropped. In Atlanta, it hooked left. That particular screen grab makes it look like a good kick but it didn’t just hook a little to the left, it was more like 20 ft. to the left of the pole. The Georgia Bulldogs beat The Ohio State Buckeyes 42 – 41 and won the Peach Bowl by a single point. The wide kick corresponded almost exactly to the countdown ringing in 2023. The CFP semifinals did not disappoint this year. At halftime OSU led 28 – 24 and it was close all the way down to the final minute. TCU upset Michigan like no one but TCU fans could have predicted.

What are the chances of making that kick? Noah Ruggles career long was 49 yards when he played for North Carolina and 48 kicking for Ohio State. He is one of the best kickers in college football. Across the entire sport, college field goal kickers are pretty consistent out to about 35 yards. From 50 yards the chances of a good kick are about 43% so the odds are not in your favor but definitely possible and Ruggles’s 48 yard shot had come earlier that same evening. Everyone was holding their breath and some of the Georgia players looked away.

John 3:16 is clearly visible on a sign during that kick. Tim Tebow famously printed the Bible passage reference in his eye black during the 2009 National Championship Game. After the game there were over 92 million Google searches for John 3:16. The fan with the sign during Saturday’s game is not as famous and will not get the attention that Tebow did; but if you have a stage that size, even if just for a few seconds, why not use it?

Nailed it! Alkaline batteries have a shelf life. The dates you find on the packaging and/or the batteries themselves tell you how long the battery will still be viable when stored in the kitchen junk drawer (or hall closet, utility room, wherever you keep alkaline batteries if you still use them at all). The 9 volt pictured above came out of a chirping smoke detector last Sunday at church. First of all let me assure everyone that we are perfectly safe in our building. A few years ago we upgraded to combination smoke/carbon monoxide detectors that have a built in battery good for 10 years. I forgot about the outdated smoke alarm in an upstairs hallway which has not had fresh batteries put in every time change. But look at the date. Conventional smoke detectors are very low drain devices. This one had not been chirping earlier in the week but started on January 1, 2023. The first thing I noticed was the battery come from Fred’s. Those went out of business back in 2019. This 9 volt could be 10 years old but they nailed that expiration date. I don’t know what went wrong at Fred’s but predicting battery life wasn’t it.

Happy Monday 1 of 52 – When I posted links on social media to this week’s Happy Monday I mentioned it was #1 of 52 this year. I decided to double check and yes, there will in fact be exactly 52 Mondays in 2023. But that’s not always the case as it depends on which day of the week the year starts.

Jeremy Renner tweeted this pic earlier this week from his hospital bed. He is recovering from an accident involving a snow plow, actually his snow plow.

It makes a detective’s job easy when criminals post evidence to social media, sometimes pics or videos of themselves actually committing crimes. Speaking of jobs – attaching a resume to an application is great but in this day and ago most employers will do a Google search or perhaps just check Facebook. Even if your profile doesn’t have pics of you funneling beer at a college frat party, or other questionable/illegal activity, your friends may have tagged you in their pics. Just something to think about. It’s also not unheard of for a person to get fired for posting to social media what they really think of their job or boss.

I’m thinking Arby’s. Now at Walmart. Chick-fil-A sauce has been available in stores for awhile as well as several varieties of secret sauces from Whataburger and taco sauce from Taco Bell.

I’m looking forward to Quantummania, Super Mario Bros. and Guardians Vol. 3. Some of these titles I might stream later and others not at all but if you still do big screen this is what 20023 has to offer.

This concludes the non- Georgia Bulldogs portion of our show. From this point on there is nothing else.

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The Bulldogs arrived at LAX yesterday aboard this Delta 767 bearing Vince Dooley’s signature and official logos.

At least one Bulldog will not be in Inglewood this weekend. Uga X will watch the Championship with his family in Savannah. It’s a long trip which they worry might just be too much for him. He is also a very… modest animal and will not pee or poop if anyone is watching or if he thinks anyone is watching. I think he may be protesting the ban on tailgating at SoFi Stadium.

Here’s the schedule of activities between now and Monday evening. It would be an understatement to say that I’m not the world’s biggest Paul Finebaum fan but I might watch Monday afternoon’s episode. He had a pretty epic response to an Ohio State fan that called in claiming Coach Smart instructed his guys to “take out” Marvin Harrison Jr.

So what do you think? Are all Michigan and Ohio State fans rooting for TCU? Will every state but Georgia be pulling for TCU or does the SEC stand united behind one of their own? Share your comments and score prediction below. After the TCU upset of Michigan and the close call at the Peach Bowl, I’m going to keep my mouth shut and pay attention. But here’s hoping.