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Oh buddy, Western Kentucky might be bad bad.

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oat gang oat gang oat gang AHH

Two jars of overnight oats topped with a buncha berries

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I don’t think I’m ever as self-conscious as I am when I’m wandering around Costco with three handles of liquor in my cart or Walmart with an entire basket filled with 30-racks of beer.

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Zach 🐷🤠 @zrau.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

hold me now I’m six feet from the edge and I’m thinkin Maybe six feet Ain’t so Far Down

Several cases of white Monster at Costco

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Guess who forgot all the beer was still in the truck before they drove to the office this morning

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Zach 🐷🤠 @zrau.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Local bakery put Lane’s face on a cookie, probably not knowing about the Lane/Coach O/cookies at the training table lore back from USC.

Lane Kiffin’s official LSU portrait on an enormous sandwich cookie

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Zach 🐷🤠 @zrau.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A Spirit Halloween replaces what used to be a Christian bookstore in an outparcel by our mall every fall, that means Satan won, sorry you had to find out this way Brittany.

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Coincidentally, just got contacted by my first bachelor party looking to pass through for LSU-Bama, what a fun day

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Me seeing news leak about USC boosters being unhappy with Lincoln, and that DeBoer is the clubhouse leader to replace him:

Dr. Manhattan (blue dude) says “I can’t prevent the future. To me, it’s already happening”

Janey: “JON, WHAT ARE YOU SAYING? THAT YOU KNOW THE FUTURE?
ABOUT EVERYTHING? ABOUT US?”

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Ali and I’s first dance song came up on this playlist, shoutout to my in-laws who wanted us to change it to some Ed Sheeran song, it would’ve been the wrong choice.

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A week and a half out from Chicago and halfway through the taper, doesn’t feel like marathon no. 3 is a major and is really happening. I’m actually going to miss the brutal summertime training because I know it made me better, but I also know raceday will be incredible and worth it.

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Zach 🐷🤠 @zrau.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Laying on the ground doing a round with the space boots, George knows I’m a captive audience.

Bearded white dude laying down with a scruffy black and white pooch laying on top of him

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🎶 And if I ever had another chance / I’d still ask her to dance / because she kept me waiting I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE GIRL AT THE ROCK SHOW 🎶

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Zach 🐷🤠 @zrau.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

[“The Universal” by Blur plays]

Suburban sunrise under clear skies. Sky is dark red at the bottom before fading into oranges, blues, and purples. There’s a street in the foreground lined by houses and their yards. It’s dark enough for the streetlights to still be lit

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Zach 🐷🤠 @zrau.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Made a reservation at what looked like a good restaurant near our hotel for post-race grub, text message confirmation included a reminder about the dress code, canceled the reservation 30 seconds later.

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Zach 🐷🤠 @zrau.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Saturday capped off a pretty brutal couple weeks for me, between peak training weeks for Chicago, three home games, a whiparound road trip, projects at work, and just “being a human,” I was in and out of sleep all day yesterday and still managed this overnight. The body keeps the damn score man.

Sleep score of 96 for 7:39, “Excellent” quality, “Highly restorative. You had extremely restorative sleep. You had a very relaxing day yesterday, and that promoted your good sleep quality.”

The graph of my sleep score showing good light, deep, and REM cycles

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Zach 🐷🤠 @zrau.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Having a hard time shifting gears from yesterday into this last real training week before Chicago. Skipped the long run today because my body is pretty beat up from Saturday and the week was tiring. I would say “I need to lock in,” but really I just want to be by a beach.

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Stuffed animal hiding among the couch pillows.

Lucy the brown and white doodle with her head resting on top of a pumpkin pillow by other pillows

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I enjoy Sundays, when I inevitably start eating a plate of food, fall asleep, wake up and polish off the plate, then nod off agai.

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Wearing this to Waffle House and greeting every person I see by saying “well hello fellow SEC football fan,” to which they’ll reply, “and with your spirit.” Because in the Southeastern Conference, life’s a little different, some say it just means more.

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“He’s not gonna post that pastalaya again” wrong I’m gonna post more of the cooking process and final product once again, because this might be the best one I’ve made so far.

The Trinity reduced nearly all the way in the black pot

Pastalaya made with shells in a large pot

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Not sure what it is about this season so far, but I don’t think I’ve enjoyed CFB writ large this much since I was in college. LSU having its teeth back helps (Tiger Stadium is scary again), but generally speaking I’m not standing with my arms crossed and a disapproving look on my face.

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Taking off a dirty shirt the second you walk in the door >>>

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A note on this, shells are the superior pastalaya shape, bulk that goes somewhere and fills the pot and stomachs, a first-round pick among pasta shapes.

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Game update: burger I had at the quarter break was dry enough to choke a donkey.

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“Ben, the girl you were rizzin’ up took it!” -Aristotle, and also a kid in Tiger Stadium just now

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Aggie DL suffers from a clinical condition known as “a significant lack of ass,” scans being run to check and see if it’s metastasized into the rest of the front seven.

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Checking in from another planet.

The Golden Band From Tigerland spelling “LSU” on the field.

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Welcome to College Football Saturday.

Big ol’ pot of pastalaya made with shells.

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“Toes” by Zach Brown Band is a lot funnier if you pretend he’s saying “I got my toes in the water, dick in the sand.”

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Extra jar of overnight oats I made “just in case” is the real fucking MVP most of the way through tonight’s marathon chopping session.

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