Hello? This is Mr. Brown....

My name is Biff.... and I'm looking for "Holden...."

Yet another 4th of July has come and gone - no casualties from the legal sparklers, but I am dead tired this morning. Too late of a night watching The 40 Year Old Virgin at the movie float-in. Plus I was up at 5:45 this morning to donate platelets. What idiot schedules one of those for the morning after a holiday? We had wonderful weather for the pool party with lots of great food and the beer was flowing as well. Doesn't get much better than that!

As for Transformers..... quality! If you were ever a fan of the cartoon, you need to go see this movie. If you're female, go see something else - this movie is reserved for the boys out there I'm sure. The audience Tuesday night was 95% males 20-35 years old from what I saw. There is plenty of action going on to keep you amazed at how well they were able to pull the movie off. Plus it's a nice and loud movie for the theatres so I encourage anyone to see it there. The first time Optimus Prime drives into the picture, I got goosebumps and wanted to start cheering like I would have as a 10 year old kid. The last 45 minutes or so was incredibly action packed leaving no disappointment!

I was able to catch some more Wimbledon this morning while donating. They're way behind due to the rain so some of these players will play 4 days in a row (assuming it stops raining - currently suspended AGAIN) and some of these matches are pushing 4 hours. So it no longer comes down to who's the best tennis player, it is who is the best conditioned and doesn't need a ton of recovery time between matches. Roddick is the only American Male left - but after watching Nadal's dominating comeback from 0-2 this morning.... I'm still looking for another Nadal/Federer final and hopefully Nadal keeps up his great play to give him a chance at a non-3 set match.

The countdown to Prince continues.... 2 days till showtime!!! For those suckers (such as me) who are working today - have a great day! For everyone else who is enjoying their vacations - blah!

Haiku of the Day
A simple fun 4th
lots of friends and great weather
Beer, Brats, Pool... OH MY!!!

Entertainment of the Day - I watched Bridge to... nevermind. I did that one already I think:) I watched Sound of Thunder which is a Sci-Fi movie (wouldn't know by the title which I still can't figure out what it refers to). Takes place in a futuristic Chicago where there are no longer animals or even much left of nature. This company has the ability to send people back to the land of Dinosaurs for a hunt with "la-zers". Something goes wrong and it's the whole idea of accidentally changing the future by doing something in the past. Heard that one before? No Delorean in this one though...

Weblink of the Day - A little late, but Drew had a good patriotic suggestion. How well can you do on a 20 question "US Citizenship Test"? I scored 100% but that had one lucky guess and two correct "hunches"...... Guess I qualify as a US Citizen but there are probably 50% or more of natural born US Citizens that would score very close to 0%.