Wow, you're the big 2-2. We hope you like Rachel's present (a tutu) in celebration of this unique age.
The Gators did their part to commemorate this day by beating Pitt, 74-67, and advancing to the third round.
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Currently Watching (with ClearPlay!) The Guardian By Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher |
Okay, half of the field of 64 are heading back to school. The Gators' 112-69 drubbing of Jackson State was due to a 71 point second half blitz. The actual halftime score was 41-35; not what the number one seed had invisioned. In fact, no number one seed has ever lost to a number 16 in the tournament. Will the Gators go to next week's Sweet 16? First, they'll have to get by (#9) Purdue which beat scrappy (#8) Arizona 72-63.
The bracket: 
  | Currently Watching NCAA Tournament Round 2: Florida Gators vs Purdue Boilermakers |
In keeping with this year's resolutions, I'm beginning a diet today.
It seems that America's abundance of food has widened my girth just a tad or two. That, or my clothes are shrinking. Kathy's convinced my girth has in fact widened so this morning I began with a blended drink made with some fresh fruit my sister Tammy's store. I'm also slowly making progress in another resolution, learning another language--Turkish--to a remedial level.
March Madness is in the air again. Last year, I was ashamed of myself for not being faithful to my alma mater, Florida. After the Gators won the tournament, I kicked myself for not choosing them in all the basketball pools. As penance, I will forego any pools this year, including Sonne's, and root for my beloved Gators from the armchair in the den. Care to see what bracket the Gators are in? A rhetorical question.
Currently Studying: Rosetta Stone Turkish Level 1
by Fairfield Language Technologies
Just a reminder, if you're in the hunt for a computer, in my opinion, you should avoid HP.
Why? Well, I'm trying to use Sarah's old HP notebook and keep watching the power indicator flicker off and on. Oh, and the new battery that I replaced has a lifespan of about 5 minutes. I'm not sure if the current problem is the power adapter plug or the power supply.
If you're an HP fan, I'd especially like you to hear your comments.
Last
night I took Kathy and her mom to our niece's middle school concert.
Since my mommy-san was in attendance too, it gave our moms the rare
chance to get together again. Amanda played very well (along with her
classmates) and afterwards we went to my sister's store to pick up some
fresh fruit. While Kathy and I were busy picking up the gratis veggies
and fruit, our mothers sat in the van and chatted away. We've got the
greatest moms in the whole earth (besides your's of course) and it was
so nice to have together.
Happy 29th birthday. Let's see...subtracting your birthdate from our anniversaries means that we married when we were very young. Whoa!
 | Currently Watching (with ClearPlay!) Good Bye, Lenin! By Daniel Bruehl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova, Maria Simon, Florian Lukas, Alexander Beyer |
So what really are the lyrics to this song? Many thought the song was sung in a slurred fashion to cover up obscene lyrics. Although that answer dodged most of us baby boomers during our teenage years, snopes.com reports that they are in fact:
Louie, Louie,
me gotta go.
Louie, Louie,
me gotta go.A fine little girl, she wait for me;
me catch a ship across the sea.
I sailed the ship all alone;
I never think I'll make it homeThree nights and days we sailed the sea;
me think of girl constantly.
On the ship, I dream she there;
I smell the rose in her hair.Me see Jamaica moon above;
It won't be long me see me love.
Me take her in my arms and then
I tell her I never leave again.
Another one of life's mysteries explained. Oh, you want to put another Urban Legend to rest? Puff the Magic Dragon was not a song about marijuana; just an innocent childhood song.
We had a great time tonight with Sim and his Bethel College friends who were down on Spring break. Actually, a couple of them have already graduated; like Eileen, Sim's girlfriend (and a real peach) who's working as an ICU nurse in North Carolina. Then there was Peter, a freelance photographer and...who brought his Canon 5D and let me play around with it. I was too nervous to really enjoy it but it was a lot of fun taking pictures of everyone (so much that I forgot to use my camera, hence the lack of photos). Maybe I'll be
able to pull some down from Peter's website and post them here later. Ben and I hit it right off since he admired our Settlers game saying, "It's my favorite!" He's also a big fan of the TV series Lost and is a computer-related guy as it relates to Theater. Last but not least was Deanne, whom I tried to recruit as an RA. She seemed pretty interested so maybe Sim can take it to the next level like he did with Sarah C. Deanna gave us a bottle of bing black cherry cider from their family's orchard.
Kathy and Mom prepared a wonderful dinner. I grilled steaks to go along with the fruit salad, baked potatoes, yams, broccoli with cheese and Ghiradelli brownies.
Wow, so we've been able to meet several of Sonne alumni recently. Who's next?
--insert pics from Peter here
To all of our friends and family in colder climes, we wish you many warm thoughts from sunny Florida.
If that doesn't brighten your spirits maybe a few jokes will (you need to provide your own drum rolls and cymbal clashes):
Ciao for now.
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