Pitchin with Pritch: Making the adjustment to the capital city

Well the first part of the move to Lincoln is completed. We have moved a few times in the past, but this time was the most difficult in a number of ways.

But we have made the first part and are getting settled in the Capital city. 

Our house hasn’t been finished yet so we are living in an apartment. I am pretty sure our garage that we had in Grant was bigger but this is just for 4 months until the house is finished in the Waterford area of Lincoln and we can make it work.

This is being written the week before the Oklahoma game and we are just getting ALLO in this morning to get us up and running with some television equipment. 

Not sure that I am looking forward to the Oklahoma-Nebraska game but sometimes odd things happen. I hope that Nebraska can make that big improvement and put another W up for the season. 

We did get to see our first football game last night as our grandson Kyler’s flag football team played. Kyler had a very good game as he caught three passes for touchdowns and threw a pass for a touchdown in his team’s win. 

There are some different kinds of rules in flag football. As an individual, you can only score three touchdowns running, then you are finished for the evening, but you can be moved to quarterback and throw touchdowns, I think. 

Anyway, Kyler caught three passes that went for touchdowns and then he threw one for a touchdown. He had a pretty good game.

 Also a plus for the evening is that Kyler has a teammate whose dad played on the team that I coached that went to Las Vegas back in 1995. 

B.J. Nannen was one of our players and a really good one. He was a very good three- point shooter, which came in real handy. 

We had some players who had one of those moments where their brains went to sleep but the rest of their body decided to sneak out for a walk about town in Vegas. 

Well, they didn’t get by the doorman where we were staying and we didn’t let them play in our next game. 

The rules in the Vegas tournament were that six players would play the first quarter and the other six would play the 2nd quarter. In the second half you could sub any way you wanted. 

Holding those players out meant we were short of having enough players for each quarter. So the other team’s coach got to pick a player to play in both the first and second quarter. Their coach picked B.J. 

It was a close first quarter but in the second quarter,  B.J. hit like six or seven three-pointers and we won big. 

It was really good to see him again. He lives in Lincoln and we have already decided we need to get together and catch up with the past 26 years. So actually things got off to a decent start. 

Kyler has football games for the next four Mondays so we get to watch those and see B.J. also. 

I still have to get used to all the cars that see my 74 county tag and know I probably don’t know where I am going and haven’t learned yet that apparently on most streets, the speed limit signs are just suggestive speed limits!