Thursday Already

The new golf swing is in full effect. I'm hitting the ball very cleanly, but now my game is all out of whack so there will be a lot more practicing this weekend to get used to everything. The ball is traveling a lot further than before so my approach shots are missing by a lot. Plus I have a nasty slice on my driver now that I have to get rid of. We're playing in a 3-man tournament on Saturday so hopefully we'll see some better things then.

Ahhh, the old college days when $20 lasted a whole week and the only days worth waking up for were Thursday night, Friday night, and Saturday night. And according to a new survey, there is a new king of what's "in" for college kids. Since 1997, beer has been tops of the list... till now. Kahn's favorite iPod is now the biggest "in" thing. While I think an iPod (or mp3 player) is a necessity, should it replace beer? I don't know very many iPod drinking games but I'm sure we could come up with some.

And speaking of schools - yesterday I volunteered to help with a computer removal program set up through IBM and the United Way. We are helping remove the older computers from the schools here in town, put them all on a pallet, and then in a couple of weeks when the new PCs come in, IBMers will help unpackage them and set them up. The first school I went to was nice and air-conditioned, but most of the work was already done by the morning crew. We were only there 45 minutes and then a different school called saying they had no volunteers to help the fulltime support person there. So off the three of us went to go help.... at a school with no air-conditioning. It was a nice hot afternoon moving computer monitors and PCs around the school. I was dripping in sweat within 10 minutes over there. We were there about 2.5 hours and when we were done, I went to wash my hands and then remembered it was an elementary school (yes, the one where Holly teaches I think). So I'm on my knees washing my hands in the little kids' sink. I forgot that most of the world isn't made for people my size, but elementary schools only see people my size once every 5 years probably.

World Cup starts tomorrow - US has a tough group to fight with. Italy and Brazil are as always, heavy favorites. NBA finals start tonight - Shaq and Flash are a heavy favorite.

Song of the Day - I pulled out the Garbage album Bleed Like Me which is their latest one. It's some really good stuff - not to mention it's one of the louder albums I've ever owned (volume wise from the post-production). I hope they put out another album so I can catch them in concert again! That was one of the better concerts I've ever been to!

Video of the Day - With college days on the mind, I have to go with Old School as today's flick of the day. Will Ferrell made that movie the instant classic it is today. Elisha Cuthbert helped as well.

Webpage of the Day - Glad this attack was thwarted.... Donkey bombs are growing and we all need to keep our eyes open. Watch out for Llama bombs too!!