Happy Tuesday!

Howdy! Trying to get back in to my normal mode and I'm a little late on the blog for today.

I just finished Prince Caspian in the Chronicles of Narnia series. It's actually the 4th book in the order that I've been reading them and I have 3 left to go - The Dawn Treader is next. They're great stories and I remembered how Prince Caspian was my favorite as a kid. Just a well told story in my opinion. I wonder if they'll continue to make more movies on the other books of the series.... and no, I still haven't seen the Narnia movie yet. I'll probably wait till DVD like I do with everything else.

I went 2 for 4 this weekend with my NFL predictions. I did fine with the NFC but was absolutely wrong with the AFC. I think everyone was though. I think this Sunday's games will be a lot of fun to watch. I'm predicting Denver and Seattle I think. See how the injuries turn out by the end of the week. Sorry about the Bears to all of you fans out there.

I was going to mention that on both of my flights to and from Japan - they have the flight map which shows the path of the plane, the time left to the destination, ground speed, etc. On the map of the US as we're about an hour from Dallas, I see the following cities listed as reference points.... Dallas (where we started), Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco... and CEDAR RAPIDS!!!! Not kidding. No idea why they would use the HUGE Metropolis of Cedar Rapids as a reference point instead of some other city in the midwest. Maybe Minneapolis or even CHICAGO?!?!!?

The inflight movie was "The Man" with Samuel L Jackson and the dad from American Pie. It was one of the worst movies I've seen in a while. I'm glad I had my laptop to watch some other movies.

Hazel and Roommate Adam watched the Bachelor last night. 2 hours of it! I watched it a couple of seasons ago and thought it was trashy then, it's still trashy. I'll let them watch and do some reading or something. How these girls can cry over not getting selected after seeing the guy for a couple of hours is beyond me. American Idol starts tonight I think. I'm taping it to avoid the annoying commercials (I think American Idol is the worst for commercials) but not sure I'll stick with it this season. I think the talent gets worse and worse every year and the Judges Panel gets more and more annoying every year.

That's all i can think of for today.... Back to regular form though:

Song of the Day - I just bought a new Grieg CD with the Holberg Suite. It's one of my favorite pieces to play but I've never had a recording of it till now. Finishes with a lovely Gigue that might qualify as a "Hoe-Down" to some violin players.

Video of the Day - For some reason I was in the mood for Gladiator last night. I only wanted to see the scene where he turns his back on Caesar and then says "My name is Maximus the Kick Assesus, General of the Northern Armies and loyal to the True Caesar"! Then I stopped watching. I might finish it today sometime.

Webpage of the Day - New Strong Bad Email. I thought it was one of the better ones in a long while! For those that are wondering what the heck this Strong Bad stuff is... I"ll have an "introduction to Home StarRunner" blog coming soon! Going to take some time to research though.