The Lost Symbol

The new Dan Brown book came out today. For those that haven't read any of his other books and don't know who he is well if you are reading this you know who he is. I preordered my book at B&N and went to pick it up before work this morning. I figured there would be a couple people out at 8:15. I was the only car in the parking lot and believe me when I say I felt like a major Rube/Nerd. I embraced it though as now I am about 75 pages into the book and I do enjoy it. Having D.C. be the setting is mighty cool too with all the symbolism.

Champions League group play started today, with more matches going on tomorrow. Exciting stuff to have that competition underway.

The vikings got a nice win Sunday and I watched football from noon-6:30,7:30-11 on Sunday and from 6-12:30 on Monday. Needless to say I am in heaven with the nfl back. It is already Wednesday tomorrow so the countdown to the weekend will begin when I wake up tomorrow morning. I can't wait.

My fantasy team got the win over the weekend. The boys put up 167 points which was the highest in the league. We have another division opponent this Sunday when we are away to White Napkin. He has a solid team, but if the Slayers perform no one can touch us. It should also be mentioned that White Napkin wasted a draft pick on backup tightend Martelus Bennett in the draft so it doesn't appear he is a great fantasy football mind. Some of my primetime players put up a rather poor day. My receivers looked below average, though that will change soon enough because I got a whole stable of receivers who are targeted. My team is like a USC of fantasy football. We just got guys to throw in when a match up is off or a bye week comes up. Stay tuned for more news on THE DRAGON SLAYERS in the next couple of days. Hopefully Anquan can overcome his hamstring and make some plays, but if not that is fine since we got said stable.

I am enjoying the new Jay-Z cd.

I also got to add that the whole kanye-taylor swift thing was definitely staged. It just goes to show how dumb most americans are. I had no idea those awards were on and I'm sure a lot of other people didn't know either. Now there is all this hype and thats all MTV wanted. Kanye is fine with taking the fall because people hate him anyway, yet he will still sell records. Taylor Swift is one of America's new angels and Beyonce at the end looks like a class act by letting Taylor speak after Beyonce won video of the year. Taylor walked right out with a mic from the back like that wasn't staged? What is the youth of America coming to?

Jay Leno sucks

TV shows are back this week, though Sons Of Anarchy is the best show you are not watching. Most the new shows except for COmmunity and Flash Forward look like utter crap when it comes to network tv.

See you soon.

2009 Gophers

First impression: They are really not that good. This first half has been painful to watch. They are playing syracuse with greg paulus at QB. For those that don't know he was the national high school player of the year as a QB in upstate New York...in 2004. He went to Duke the last 4 years to play Basketball and then went to Syracuse for grad school this fall, and somehow is their starting qb after not playing football for 4 years (though it needs to be said that he is obviously a good QB, but the fact remains this is the first time in 5 years he is playing football). That kinda shows you how weak the program is. Well the gophers d can't stop this potent syracuse offense. Even gophers offense, which should be potent, has looked (syracuse just scored again, 20-14 with 1:39 to go in the 2nd half) so average for most of the half.

This is just not a good thing for the gophers. They got air force at home next week and then cal the week after and then their big ten schedule. Yikes. I wonder if coach brew is wishing there were more cupcakes to work the kinks out this year?
Response to previous comments:

Jon: I bought THE ROAD like 4 years ago and have never finished it. I have started it about 3 times and then would get side tracked and forgot about it. I will read it before October 16th (movie release date). I always was intrigued by the premise ever since I read the review in EW way way back. I think it was their book of the year in 2005 (or whenever it was published, sometime around then). I have been reading vince flynn novels, you should look into those. They are amazing dude.

Dan: Sounds like a plan. Could you add in meals and high speed internet in the deal? If yes then I will build a dynasty with the high school.


Update:

There was a showing on the house so I had to go out, but I came back and kept watching the gophers suck. they ended up winning in overtime. It is really disappointing though. They have their new outdoor stadium this year that I am really excited about, but from the early returns at least, it appears that a poor product will be on the field. I hope the gophers can turn it around, but after today's performance I am not holding my breath.

What I'm watching tonight:

Alabama @ Virginia Tech (go hokies!!)
El Salvidor @ U.S. (world cup 2010 qualifier), come on men!!
Brazil @ Argentina (I just want an exciting game, which is impossible not to get when these 2 play each other)

NFL starts Thursday night, and I keep forgetting that I have a 3 day weekend. Life is glorious.

If I owned a Fortune Cookie Plant what would the fortune be that I put into the cookies the most?

"Don't make a bad situation worse"

I think of this quote whenever something bad happens or it looks like things could go bad. It does help me not make any drastic silly poor choices.

"Life is all about choices"

That is basically all life is. Everyday brings an infinite amount of choices that will shape what happens that day. Obviously most of the choices that people make have a certain outcome in their mind, but how they go about getting to that outcome can be drastically changed because of the choice that is made.