What I've been up to...

Well this past weekend I finished a book, MARLEY & ME by John Grogan.

If you have a dog (or ever had a dog or even wanted a dog), then this book is for you. It's a great story about John and how he had a wonderful dog named Marley. I won't lie...it is the entire life of the dog including his death. I was crying so hard at this point, I couldn't read the book...I would have to calm down enough to continue, only to end up sobbing a few sentences later. It took me a while to finish that chapter.

The only reason I was having such a difficult time, was because I kept thinking of Kaylee the entire time.

Speaking of Kaylee...she got spayed 2 weeks ago and is recovering nicely. She is lively as ever...I will put up some pics of her in her cone (to keep her from getting at the stitches) in the next couple of days...

I saw FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS and THE LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA on DVD at home. FLAGS was an okay movie...not Eastwood's greatest, but LETTERS was great. For being a movie from the Japanese perspective...I thought it was done superbly.

On other movie news...Letha and I are watching the Indiana Jones trilogy currently (she hasn't seen all of them). I also wanted to see all of them before the new movie coming out this summer. We watched RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK...still a great film over 20 years later. We just got TEMPLE OF DOOM in the mail, and we're going to watch that one in the next couple of days...

Speaking of movies and rentals...Letha and I are members of NetFlix. This service is awesome, I don't accumliate anything that takes up space (mind you, that I will still buy movies if it's something special). We got a subscription for Christmas (Thank you, McNear) and it's been great since we started watching DVDs at home more than going to the movies.

Biggest choke...

Yep...that's right, the Patriots (who went undefeated for the entire season) lost on Sunday night to the Giants. If that game were played 10 times, I would say the Pats win 7 of them, but this is a ONE game championship...and the G Men were the better team last night.

This loss goes up there with the New York Yankees collapse in the '04 post season, the Red Sox mess up in '86, the Bills making it to 4 Super Bowls and NOT winning, and the Patriots collapse last year in the AFC Championship.

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!! THIS JUST IN...

Tiki Barber just released a statement to the press. According to him, he NEVER actually filled out his retirement papers and the Giants never released him either. He his now owed his entire salary and his Super Bowl ring. "I felt I should keep this news close to my chest until the proper time, WE'RE SUPER BOWL CHAMPS!!!!!," was the way he chose to end his press release.

And now back to reality...

Our defense was amazing last night...but a defense can't play the whole game without making some mistakes. The Patriots D was present for 50 minutes of last night's defeat. The offense is another mess...they might have shown up to play for 10 minutes last night. That's half of the the game, and we were in it till the end. Tom looked horrible all night long.

Congrats to the NEW YORK fans...to the rest of you that are celebrating (like your team won it all) when someone else's team wins...you should be ashamed of yourselves.

Hey...I'm not too sad, the Red Sox won the World Series, and baseball season is coming up shortly...the Celtics will make it deep in the playoffs, most likely...and we only have 6 months until preseason starts all over again.