Beach and baby Luca

I know, I know, these are a few days overdue. But they're finally here, documenting our trip to Myrtle Beach for the S.C. Press Association Awards Dinner two weekends ago. We stayed at the Hilton on the beach, and the dinner was in a banquet hall next door. The weather wasn't great, misty rain and overcast, but it wasn't too bad to prevent a walk on the beach.

One of the highlights of the trip was when we went shopping the day before. I found a shirt and tie for less than $30!! You know, in these tough economic times, you can't let your appearance dip, you've just got to be more creative. The tie, found at Kohls, was $6! I know.

The reason to visit Myrtle was so I could accept an award for our group project, Gofridayfootball.com, in which we won first place in the multimedia category for Best Print and Web Integration. There are five or six of us that contribute to the site, I just wrote the stories, did the Hot Routes coaches show, and organized where everything went. The photographers did all the pictures and most of the video, and our web guy did the behind the scenes stuff.

Last weekend, we went to visit Kristi's new nephew, who is about 10 days old now, Luca Albert Zavitz. We made Paul and Emily (Luca's parents) some Mexican lasagna courtesy of Rachel Ray. It was really yummy. I also had the idea to bring Emily some Girl Scout cookies because I figured if I had just had a baby, having some Girl Scout cookies would be a good start toward recovery. We got good ol' Thin Mints.

In other Uncle Keith news, it has rained almost every day this week, so games I was supposed to cover last night and tonight have been rained out, or, as we used to say at Lyndon, poponed until next week.

I also joined Twitter. For those of you who don't know, Twitter is like a smaller version of Facebook, which basically is only status updates. But the thing I like about it, being a news junkie, is you can "follow" breaking news from all sorts of media outlets and sports teams. It's pretty cool. If any of you join, look for me under my name, or my username, FarnersAlmanac.