It's colder than a well-diggers ass here in Misery this Thanksgiving morning. My outdoor thermometer shows 34 degrees right now. That's a good enough excuse to lay around on my ass and watch football.

The Fox pre-game show is fêting the troops. They've got soldiers and sailors and Marines (oh my!) in the studio. It looks like the Army personnel are all wearing some type of camouflage working uniform, but the Navy and Marine Corps people are representing. They are shaved and shined up and wearing dress uniforms. I wonder just how many of them really don't want to be there.

When I was in the Navy, little collateral duties like this were always coming up; sailors in their Cracker Jack uniforms make good decorations. After they've done a couple of these type events — usually enticed into it by the promise of free tickets or free food or free beer — most everyone finds them tedious and starts trying to avoid them. Spending your day off in dress blues as part of a recruitment poster backdrop for Terry Bradshaw and the boys isn't nearly as much fun as it looks.