Monday Morning in Rochester

A nice 3 day weekend is over - sorry for the lack of blog on Friday. Despite the popular belief around the country, we DO have electricity and internet in Iowa. I just chose to do other things Friday morning.

First off, congrats to Pittsburgh and Seattle who will be in the Super Bowl in two weeks. I'm looking forward to that game and am pretty indifferent as to who wins. I am happy knowing it'll be a new champion this year that hasn't won in the past 10 years. Always something exciting when that happens.

Second, I've become a recent opponent to ESPN.com and am now finding it easier and easier to navigate through Yahoo! Sports to get my scores and polls. ESPN kept developing new ways of pissing me off from pop up windows, to in-navigation commercials, to being down half the time when I need updates. Yahoo! is providing me with a lot of that ability with no commercialism. I don't think ESPN even needs the extra money from advertising but what do I know?

Hazel and I had a wonderful time in Cedar Rapids this weekend. Always fun to hang out with the folks - Mom thinks I'm funny and Dad thinks I'm nuts. Hazel fits in quite well so far which I wasn't surprised at all about. Friday we went to Iowa City to do some shopping and walking around enemy territory. I made sure she realized that at any second, the 10s of thousands of idiots around us in Iowa City could explode so be careful. They can easily be distinguished by the black and yellow bumble bee colors that they wear. It snowed a bunch in Iowa City/Cedar Rapids that night which was nice to see a white January for once this year.

Saturday, we went to the Amana Colonies which is about 25 minutes from my parents' house. Amana is a German Community with tons of shopping and of course, tons of good food! They have a ton of antique stores, home made furniture and decoration stores, lots and lots of wine to sample everywhere...... good stuff I tell ya. It's even more fun to go during Oktoberfest and see the thousands of people and listening to the polka music the entire day! This was fun too since there were no crowds to fight. Dinner at the Ox Yoke Inn was incredible as was expected.

Came home yesterday and I'm pretty much back to normal sleeping hours although I felt like I could sleep a couple of more hours this morning. I'll use it as an excuse to go take a nap this afternoon;)

Song of the Day - Going through the CDs in the TrailBlazer I found In the Name of Love which features a bunch of Christian bands doing remakes of U2 songs. Most of them are pretty good, a few that I don't care for - but overall I enjoy hearing a new rendition of a quality song. One of my favorites is TobyMac's version of Mysterious Ways. Good Stuff!

Video of the Day - We watched Dark Waterthis weekend with Jennifer Connelly. Not very scary in my mind and not very good in my mind as well. Don't bother.....

Webpage of the Day - Nothing special today, but I did find the article posted a little bothersome...... glad someone's able to screw over the insurance companies for once!!