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Nov. 1st, 2018 10:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tracker7If you have a couple million bucks sitting around doing nothing, you can bid on a whole college campus. St. Catharine shut down a couple of years ago after a drop in student enrollment led to big cuts in financial aid availability for the school. I drive past the campus on most trips to or from my parents' home.
A few months ago, there was a plan in place for purchase of the campus, but I guess that fell through. They potential purchaser was, I think a for-profit college, and they're under real scrutiny lately. I'd like to see the state's community and technical college system snap it up, or maybe a couple of the public universities pool resources. It's in a good location, and its classroom building is less than 15 years old. Good place for a nursing or allied health program to set up - the new classroom building was actually designed for it.
The next-to-last Thursday night X-Wing league session was tonight. I had a heck of a good showing in my first game and managed not to bring shame upon my ancestors in the second, and, hey, I won the night's raffle! Picked up a Fang Fighter for my small Scum & Villainy collection, further validating my decision to pick up a S&V conversion kit a few weeks ago. I've had a good time with this league, and haven't missed playing in the Friday night counterpart. I'm debating going to a tournament on Saturday; its format allows me to run my current pretty capable triple X-Wing squadron.
Came home from playing with little plastic spaceships and tuned in to some seriously terrible football. The 49ers tore the Raiders to ribbons, 34-3. Oakland looked utterly inept, their head coach and defensive coordinator had words right there on the sideline, and the 49ers just did as they pleased. The Raiders used to be my team - there are Los Angeles Raiders items in my possession even now - and I had hopes that with the death of Al Davis (no relation) and the rehiring of Jon Gruden as head coach that the team would get back to being watchable, but it looks like that is not going to happen. They're winning the race for April, I guess, but that's cold comfort.
Also playing really bad football, the UofL Cardinals. Rumblings of replacing the coach, of course. Probably (hopefully) won't happen.
A few months ago, there was a plan in place for purchase of the campus, but I guess that fell through. They potential purchaser was, I think a for-profit college, and they're under real scrutiny lately. I'd like to see the state's community and technical college system snap it up, or maybe a couple of the public universities pool resources. It's in a good location, and its classroom building is less than 15 years old. Good place for a nursing or allied health program to set up - the new classroom building was actually designed for it.
The next-to-last Thursday night X-Wing league session was tonight. I had a heck of a good showing in my first game and managed not to bring shame upon my ancestors in the second, and, hey, I won the night's raffle! Picked up a Fang Fighter for my small Scum & Villainy collection, further validating my decision to pick up a S&V conversion kit a few weeks ago. I've had a good time with this league, and haven't missed playing in the Friday night counterpart. I'm debating going to a tournament on Saturday; its format allows me to run my current pretty capable triple X-Wing squadron.
Came home from playing with little plastic spaceships and tuned in to some seriously terrible football. The 49ers tore the Raiders to ribbons, 34-3. Oakland looked utterly inept, their head coach and defensive coordinator had words right there on the sideline, and the 49ers just did as they pleased. The Raiders used to be my team - there are Los Angeles Raiders items in my possession even now - and I had hopes that with the death of Al Davis (no relation) and the rehiring of Jon Gruden as head coach that the team would get back to being watchable, but it looks like that is not going to happen. They're winning the race for April, I guess, but that's cold comfort.
Also playing really bad football, the UofL Cardinals. Rumblings of replacing the coach, of course. Probably (hopefully) won't happen.