Two nights after Auburn threatened their unbeaten streak with a close five-point game, the Floyd County High School girls’ varsity team rebounded to stomp Giles County 109-52. That’s right: 109 points in a high school basketball game. The team is now 17-0.

After a long, busy weekend (and beyond) moving my political web site, Capitol Hill Blue, to a new server and a new publishing platform, based on WordPress, I’m considering moving Blue Ridge Muse to a new publishing system.

Busy all weekend moving my political news web site, Capitol Hill Blue, to new servers with a new content management system (WordPress).

I’m accustomed, more or less, to the sound of military jets on practice runs through the mountains around our home. Sometimes they come over low enough to read the markings.

But the crescendo of jet engines this morning is both louder and more frequent than normal.

Did the Taliban invade the Blue Ridge while we slept? I’d better check the news.

Oddfellas Cantina in Floyd reopens today, after their annual January vacation, ending three weeks of withdrawal for those of us hooked on “Appalachian Latino.”

I’m headed for lunch.