Well I am back at the house working on sermons and bulletins after a day of work up at Christ the King in Kokomo. I need to leave early in the morning because I am scheduled in Nashville at 9am, and then up here in Noblesville again at 1:15pm. Deacon Dan will be doing both services with me, but where I have the long drive there, he will have it going home…..he lives in Nashville!

The hard part is that I am trying to work with the game on. Notre Dame, God Bless them, got behind right at the start. My blood pressure is good, but it cannot take that! I hope and pray they do well too. No one will want to hear a sermon from me after a lousy game! The only hopeful thing I have is that tonight is probably the coach’s last game. He has had a miserable tenure at Notre Dame…..and I deserve to be a winner on every Saturday during the season.

Of course I love Notre Dame because I literally grew up there. My dad went there and taught there. We were on campus and at sporting events a lot. If we were not there it was on the TV. I grew up playing in the Irish Youth Hockey leagues, and even if I didn’t, everyone is an Irish fan up there….I believe it is an on the books law! (if not, it should be)

Of course when it came time for college, I never even considered ND. Leaving home seemed appealing, but I know now it was one of the biggest mistakes of my life. So now I just have to be a fan. It’s not a bad gig, okay, this year it has been. But most of the time it is pretty fun.

Anyway, we are getting close to a score, so I will close in order to cheer at the screen rather than yell at it. Every year it is the same, but it is my life and I love it!

I hope it is a good evening for us all!

Goodnight my friends and God Bless!

Tommy O’Tirman+