As it started to brighten up this morning, I could see that, by golly, it must have been snowing all night long. And it doesn’t appear to be slowing down, either. On the bright side, after beginning the day at about three below zero, it’s up to a balmy nine above. Apparently it’s supposed to snow this morning, this afternoon, and this evening. Oh, and tomorrow. It snowed pretty much all day yesterday, too (making for a rather crappy commute in to work – when it’s this cold out, the salt doesn’t really do much good, so where the roads are plowed they’re mostly nice smooth ice-covered by a layer of snow. Fortunately, I didn’t have to drive in to the office today, though my did, and she said things were pretty shitty out there. Yet they say it’ll be in the 40s and raining by the end of the week. Go figure.<\/p>\n
As you probably aren’t actually aware of, Syracuse will be playing in the vaunted “Texas Bowl” in Houston on December 27th. Whereas it’s kinda holiday time and airfare to Houston from here is something like $600, not a whole lot of local folks are gonna be making it to the game. So yesterday, a guy who runs a Syracuse sports blog <\/a>– Sean Keeley – decided to see if he could get people to donate money to buy tickets for poor kids in the Houston area to go to the game. Tickets are $50, and with a voucher for a hot dog and a soda plus (most importantly) an orange t-shirt to wear to the game, it was gonna cost about $60 per kid. <\/p>\n So Sean set a goal of sending 200 kids to the game – roughly $12,000. He hoped they could get close to that goal by the end of this week. By midnight last night, over $18,000 had already been donated, and the Houston Texans dropped the ticket price to $20 for these kids. So there’s already enough to send 500 poor kids to go see a college bowl game in an NFL stadium (and hopefully grow up to be big strong kids that dream of playing for SU some day). The Houston Texans YMCA<\/a> ran out of kids, so now kids from the Depelchin Children’s Center<\/a> will be going, too. <\/p>\n Pretty cool, I think.<\/p>\n Oh well, back to work. Stay warm out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As it started to brighten up this morning, I could see that, by golly, it must have been snowing all night long. And it doesn’t appear to be slowing down, either. On the bright side, after beginning the day at about three below zero, it’s up to a balmy nine above. Apparently it’s supposed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8254,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8253\/revisions\/8254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}