- Less than 2 weeks left for us here in Breckenridge. We leave Aug. 14. I go back to work on Aug. 17 and officially begin my sabbatical detox program
- Monday was a nice relaxing day here for us. First day in a couple of weeks we didn't do a whole lot. Tricia had the show "The View" on TV yesterday morning. How that show is still on TV is beyond me. The collection of personalities they have on that show are very uninteresting.
- Yesterday we hooked up with the Prairie family and rented a pontoon boat and floated around Lake Dillon for a couple of hours. What a fun and relaxing time it was. While the water was too cold for anyone to swim in, it was an amazing setting and atmosphere. I enjoyed it more than any boating trip I've ever been on in Lake Travis. Nothing beats a lake settled in among mountains and pine trees.
Things I'm tired of hearing about and won't seem to go away include Cash for Clunkers, Plaxico Burress, athletes who Twitter, Jon and Kate, Michael Jackson, North Korea and health care reform.- I am extremely blessed to have a great job and good health insurance. But, I know many are not so fortunate and I feel like there do need to be changes to our flawed system. I just hope that our lawmakers take their time to make changes that are responsible and don't result in abuses to the system while creating more efficiencies for those with urgent needs.
- Since I'm around my kids all day now, I'm paying closer attention to some of the things they watch on TV. I'm convinced that SpongeBob Squarepants represents more than half of Nickelodeon's programming.
- ESPN likes to make a big deal about Sportscenter being in Los Angeles now instead of Bristol, CT. Can someone please explain why I should care what city they broadcast from?
- Astros started playing real teams over the past week and have been exposed for the house of cards that they are. Sure glad they ignored my advice and stood pat at the trade deadline and didn't try and go after any mid-level prospects for their barren farm system. Should bode well for the future. Particularly this season which will end in a fourth place finish and probably 10 games below .500.
- 31 more days until the Sun Devils kick off against that powerhouse Idaho State in Tempe, here is how the Pac-10 media is predicting ASU to finish. Here's a hint, it's not in first place. I'm absolutely blown away by the fact that USC was voted first place. Those writers really went out on a limb with that pick. Kudos to the four writers who didn't give USC first place votes. Note to Pac-10 reporters, Mark Sanchez is now with the NY Jets. Pete Carroll wouldn't have been so whiney about Sanchez leaving early if he had a good option at QB.
- Longhorn fans, nice non-conference schedule you have - Louisiana-Monroe, at Wyoming, vs. UTEP, vs. UCF. Sorry you weren't able to squeeze your annual barnburner with Rice in this season.
- I still can't get used to hearing the following: "Arizona Cardinals, the defending NFC champs."
Movies I've seen for first time over the past week include;
- An Everlasting Piece, a very funny Irish comedy. Not a new movie, I believe it was made in 2000 but it's worth checking out;
- Chariots of Fire, seriously, had never seen it before. Thought it was just ok.
- Observe and Report which had like maybe two funny scenes in it and the rest was really bad;
- I Love You, Man. Very funny with a great soundtrack featuring songs from Spoon, Vampire Weekend and Rush.
