Football Counter-Programming 2026: Week 9--Custom

It's another Saturday!

What are you planning to do today?

It's not watching football . . . right? 

Come on! It's calendar Halloween! You need to be planning your best costume ever and going out to buy grapes and spaghetti noodles and lots of ketchup and stuff. That fake haunted house isn't going to build itself! (And if it does . . . well, then YOU'VE got quite an interesting Halloween story to share now don't you?)

Nothing is going to require you to watch college football today. It's definitely NOT a treat and it might just be a trick. So if you have kids and if they went out on Beggars Night or Devils Night or whatever your community calls the Trick or Treat night that isn't actually October 31 . . . well, you TAKE their candy and eat it up. And then, because you've consumed an unhealthy amount of sugar, you go take a long walk. Eat an apple. Consume some fiber. 

DO. NOT. sit down and watch college football all day.

But, I'm not here just to re-explain the premise of this post to you. I'm here to distract you with something new and exciting and . . . um . . . diverting.

But WHAT?!

One thing that I could do is republish an old FCP from years past. If things get super desperate, maybe that’s what I sometimes consider. But that’s not fair to you and is it really asking that much to get me to think of something new? 

One thing I can admit to you now (not sure whether this is Counter-Programming worthy or not) is that I’m facing a quandary (of my own making) on the venerable WWYG?! site. 

For many years I owned a custom URL that I paid a small fee every year for. Did you notice? I had exclusive rights to whywontyougrow.com. (Not sure why anyone else out there didn't want it. But it was mine and I paid for the privilege for over a decade.

Earlier in 2026 I decided to stop paying that fee. The site still functions and the URL reverted to the . . . blogspot version that I began this nonsense with back in 2004. But it doesn't truly impact my digital reach and nothing important really changes.

There is a problem--a consequence--of this downgrade, however. You might have already guessed it--though I doubt that you have actually experienced it . . . unless you are a rare person who goes digging through my WWYG?! archives for some reason.

Because of the change in URL, my embedded links that were built in the past are now broken. 

An unknown but quite large percentage of of my links no longer work. 

I can go back through each post and correct the link, of course. That might be something that I can do while sitting and watching college football. (KIDDING!?!!!) 

It’s not like I’m going to the gym or filling my time with a lot of other highly important activities when I’m not working. So there is time in my exciting life for me to do that. 

But part of me is wondering if there’s a way that I can get AI to do this for me. Because isn’t that what we’re being told all the time? This is the sort of brute force, stupid work that I should be able to use AI for? 

My problem with that, however is that I just get exhausted thinking about how I’m supposed to train the machine to do the work for me. 

I guess it’s the clearest example of how washed I am that I’d rather do it myself page by page linked by link rather than try to teach myself how to get the machine to do it for me. I’m definitely aging out of the world that we are currently living in.

Anyway . . . don't watch college football today and find some way to hold onto that spark of excitement that makes life worth living!

Until next week!!!!!