Weekend summary:
- Concerts in La Crosse - my last one for a while. We had the Young Artists Concerto Competition winners playing with us - one pianist playing Beethoven Piano Concert #5, and a flute player playing a piece by Ibert. Also played some modern stuff by Kodaly and Ginastera that the audience loved, bass part was pretty boring. No tears were shed for my final performance under our current conductor.
- Another win by Obama in Wyoming - "Pledged" delegate lead back to 138 votes (depending on which page you go to). The whole SuperDelegate thing is going to get interesting (and nasty) here pretty quick! Also, look to see what Michigan and Florida do to become part of the mess. Next vote is tomorrow in Mississippi, THEN nothing till April 22 (that is 42 days of no updates but constant over-analysis and bickering by all)!! Anyone else think that the process needs to be changed?
- No backflips from Sunday's NASCAR race (I believe you need a transmission to finish the race.... although they did look like they were going to push the 99 for another 80 laps). Just a lot of bi**hing about tires, etc. NASCAR drivers are starting to sound like NBA players with all of their constant complaining about rules, etc. A win for a Toyota car to make things more interesting for the sport.
- March Madness starts next week. Some good conference tournament games this week/weekend though! Cyclones need a miracle win to continue playing. They had some decent showings in the last few weeks (most of them losses, but at least were competitive).
- I'll be in Chicago this weekend - watching the parade and the green dye being dumped in the river! Expect lots of fun pictures from Sarah and I!
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions are tonight in NYC - inductions include Leonard Cohen (originator of the song "Hallelujah" that was just done on American Idol), The Dave Clark Five (not to be confused with Dick Clark Five.... meaning 5 decades he's been doing the New Years thing in Times Square), John Mellencamp (not to be confused with John Cougar Mellencamp... that was SOOOOO 1990), and MADONNA! Madonna in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Let you think about that one for a while......
Haiku of the Day -
More snow yesterday
This is getting old real fast
The 40s this week!!!!
Entertainment of the Day - I watched Beowulf this weekend. What a dumb movie! It was this CGI based off of real actors thing that just didn't do it for me. Not quite like Shrek, but not a real movie either. Pretty much just another dragon fighting movie that wasn't very good.
Weblink of the Day - An interesting page on the Penny Pyramid Project... make sure you click on the youtube video on how he constructed the mammoth thing! My thought was how much the whole thing weighed when they were done!
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After the credits on YouTube, it said "289,000 pennies and weighs close to 1 ton."
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