Baconalia

Watching a basketball game on an airplane, of all places, and a commercial comes on for Denny's, promoting something called Baconalia. On one hand, I have to say that this is one of the cleverest names for a food promotion that I've ever seen. And its true, one can never have too much bacon (by the way, why isn't there any bacon flavored cereal?) On the other hand. Exactly which people who eat at Denny's would have the slightest clue of what that means and where the name came from? I'm not totally up to speed on the Denny's demographic, but I'm pretty sure that Classics majors are not in their top 10.

So why am I on a plane anyway? I'm going to Florida with my daughter to take in some spring baseball. We tried this a couple of years ago, but she was sick and it was kind of miserable. I did it alone last year, but it's more fun with another baseball fan. We're seeing 4 games in 4 different stadia in 3 days.

This is the start of a crazy few days, where I taught, packed, drove to Newark Airport (horrible, horrible, at least until after security), took a plane to Tampa, and drove to Clearwater. After 3 days here, we fly back, I drop my daughter back at school and check into a hotel in New York, where my wife and other daughter are already staying. The next night she's in a concert. We watch that, stay at the hotel one more night, then off to Queens for a Seder. Home after 5 days and a lot of stuff. Nice, restful vacation, eh?