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This is normally when you'd be reading Postscript, a column that Nathan writes every Monday morning. But Nathan is on a trip this weekend and hasn't even seen the game yet. It's a bit difficult to write a postscript column when you haven't seen the game (although for this one he could just blindly write "how about that blowout, huh?), so I'm going to write the Monday morning column this week. Which I'll likely publish Monday evening.

I'm seated in a pitch black kitchen in Idaho writing this. With the holiday weekend and a Friday night game, my wife and I booked a trip to see the grandkids in Idaho. And even though it's 6:15 am right now, it's still pitch black outside. While Champaign is on the eastern side of its timezone – only 39 miles from Eastern Time – Idaho is on the western end of its timezone (Mountain). So here's the raw data for September 1:

East Central Illinois: Sunrise 6:21, sunset 7:24
Central Idaho: Sunrise 7:01 am, sunset 8:11 pm

It throws me off every time. We came here after the Oregon game last October and sunrise was at 8:11 am. I've also been here mid-summer and it's light until 10:00 (sunset on the 4th of July: 9:23 pm). Yes, I'm a 52 year-old man still fascinated by "I live in the eastern end of the timezone"/"I live in the western end of the timezone". DID YOU KNOW THERE'S PART OF FLORIDA AND PART OF OREGON THAT ARE ONLY ONE HOUR APART?

I'll stop. Let's get to more Western Illinois stuff.