Start of a New Week

It's Monday - which means we are yet another week closer to the start of Football Season!!

Hazel's back in town, and we celebrated by going to her 10 year class reunion in the Thriving Metropolis of Lyle, Minnesota. Out of 21 graduates in her class, 14 showed up at Lyle Liquor for the Friday Night Festivities! 2/3 turnout for a 10 year reunion is pretty darn good!

Hazel continued to celebrate by purchasing a Nintendo DS yesterday. Not for me, but for her. So I am probably the only guy in the world that has a girlfriend that plays more video games than I do. Yesterday she played Mario for 3 hours and it's actually scary watching her and realizing how good she is at Mario. She also purchased Big Brain Academy which is a series of brain bending tests to see how smart you are in the different styles of learning (memorize, calculate, analysis, etc.) It helps train you to do better and ultimately see how "big" your brain is. I on the other hand bought a new pen with a fan on it for 50 cents. I'm cheap like that!

There's a new show that we found yesterday on VH1 that is right up my alley! It's called The World Series of Pop Culture and it's for anyone that pays attention to what goes on in the world of Entertainment over the past 20+ years. The categories provide a large variety including "Name the rapper" (using spoken lyrics), "Tim Burton Movies", "Songs off of ABBA Gold", "Horror Movies". Hopefully they keep the series alive for a while, it's fun to see if you can remember everything fast enough to answer.

I had another purchase this weekend. I bought the DVD with videos from Michael Jackson's Number Onesthat has 15 of his memorable videos (including the famous Thriller). I started to figure out what was missing from this collection and realized that Remember the Time (from Dangerous when he ran around in an Egyptian Temple) wasn't on there. Neither was Scream (his duet with Janet when they were in a Spaceship) or Jam (his video with Michael Jordan.... the more famous MJ). Between Jackson and Jordan - there are two of the more influential icons of the 80s and 90s. Not sure who I'd put that label on in the 2000s... Larry the Cable Guy perhaps???

Sports Wrap: Tiger wins the British Open, Junior finishes DEAD LAST again in Pocono (24 car finishes 3rd - Kenseth car finishes behind the 24.... Did Carl even finish the race Jill?), Twins win again and are only 3 back of the White Sox for the Wild Card. Landis (an American) wins the Tour de Juice and it's only a matter of days before the French accuse him of doping in order to win. US Open is right around the corner!

Oh yeah, golf went well Friday. Our team finished -3 for the day after starting pretty confidently but hitting the exhaustion bug towards the end. Wonderful day for golf though compared to years past. I'm hoping my driver returns from it's warranty trip soon.

Song of the Day - We'll stay on an MJ kick and listen to him today.

Video of the Day - I purchased SuperTroopersfinally this weekend to get my "fix". Somehow Hazel didn't find it nearly as funny as I did. Although she did laugh during the "Meow" scene. Too good!

Webpage of the Day - Pug Bowling.... a good reason to have a small dog and wood floors. I couldn't stop laughing while watching this. You need to be patient through the first 45 seconds though to get to the good stuff. Plus a Spanish version of Hotel California playing while you enjoy!!!