Getting Back Into It

yeah yeah - it's been a while. I'm trying to get my creative juices back to do some blogging so continue to bear with me.

Congrats to Eddie and Juanita in the birth of an adorable baby girl - Sophia!

I'm headed back to the US of A this week! There's a wedding (no, not ours) in Iowa that Sarah's in on July 11th, so I'm headed home to see Sarah, see some family, and see some normal summer weather. For those of you who are complaining that it's over 90 degrees (100+ with the humidity)... welcome to 4 months of the weather in Taiwan!!! Seriously, it's already 105+ heat index here, and will only get hotter for August and September. Sucks....

A weird week last week - Ed McMahon died... but nobody remembers that now that Michael Jackson died mysteriously as well. Yeah, I know Farrah Fawcett died too, but that was a little before my time. I'm the border of GenX and GenY which means she was too old by the time I was old enough to notice. Now Michael Jackson, I was more partial to the Bad album mainly because I was too young when Thriller came out. But I still appreciate what an incredible influence he was for pop music - for all music! Not many people are as recognizable as he is in this world... even after his seclusion years as of late. CNN International had a MJ marathon all weekend playing all kind of Michael Jackson related clips. No MTV/VH1 here so no marathon of videos for me unfortunately. Sure he was strange in later years, but in 10 years nobody will really remember that - only the musical legacy he created. Same thing happened with Elvis - nobody remembers the years towards the end.

I added another photo album to the right.... we had an organizational outing on a Friday a few weeks ago. We went to an "Eat to Die" BBQ place which also happened to be "Drink to Die". So between the really good food AND an endless supply of beer, it was a good day. Of course everyone wanted to race finishing their beers against me so I was unable to sip my beer and enjoy it. A handfull of us headed to KTV afterwards and had some more fun for a Friday afternoon. And yeah, this was the night I called Sarah at 6:30am her time and then I went to bed right after that:)

And Brett Favre to the Vikings?!?!?!? Hmmmm.... I don't know what to think yet on that one. I had my hopes up for my buddy Sage "Middle Finger" Rosenfels, but we'll see what the Vikes decide to do. Anything is better than Tavaris. Plus I'm still trying to figure out why the Timberwolves drafted 4 Point Guards in last week's Draft....

Ok - have a good Monday. By Tuesday morning your time, I'll be on a plane over the Pacific!