It was like NASCAR

So I'm driving to work in the rain thinking about what I was going to say on the blog. Getting my thoughts in order about last nights game and how from this point forward I would choose Aaron Rogers over the designated man crush Brett Favre.

I thought Rogers was outstanding and Brett was good.

Was it just me or did others think that Gruden and Jaworski wanted to go down on the field and make hot sweet man love to Farve.

So there I am driving and driving and listening to Within Temptation and thinking how even though the Vikings KNEW Rogers had to pass and how Aaron normally had about 1/2 second to find an open receiver and still had 386 yards and how Brett would take the hike and sit back in his rocking chair with 10 to 30 seconds to find an open receiver and how, geez - you really can not compare the two QBs if you used last nights game. . . . . when all of the cars 1/2 mile ahead of me all put on their breaks at once.

This puts a question mark above my head and I take the car off auto pilot and start to coast. I'm closing the gap to the line ahead of me rather quickly and I'm coming in hot as I start to apply the breaks.

I'm coming in WAY WAY HOT (although now under the speed limit and slowing dramatically) and apply more and more breaks when I realize the line ahead of me seems to be basically stopped. I decide I need to get in the other lane because if I REALLY hit my breaks on this wet pavement I might slide but there is a car HOTTER then I am on my left.

I let him pass and move in behind him just before I hit the car ahead of me when a car two ahead moves into the left lane and I think touches the passing car which is now sliding onto the left shoulder as he/she has to take off road evasive action.

Things are clearer now and traffic has become less tangled and I need to dodge road debris and car parts but everything seems under control and more organized but I don't want to go slower in fear of being rear ended. I'm looking in my mirror hoping to see no-one. I delicately move forward across the bridge I see a 5 smoking cars piled up on the right with two people laying in the middle of the bridge and smoking SUVs crumpled up.

WOW!! That got my adrenaline going. Who needs coffee.

I should have stopped to see if I could help but I probably would have been in the way (which is what the other 40 cars are also saying). I'm feeling guilty.

All I know is that I did a superb job of driving and my 50,000 hours of computer racing games really came in handy, again.

This was the first day that they moved the bridge construction to the southbound lane and with the rain I don't think people expected the stopped cars as they crested the hill.

Like to hear what happened on the news.
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Does anyone besides me think that Ryan Grant is the Packers Bill Hall? Have a great year, get signed to a huge contract and then go bland? What get's me is that the Packers don't even try to use other running backs.

And Aaron Kampman, can a guy look more lost in a new defensive scheme? I like the 3-4 but the Packers personal are just the wrong people for it. The DE's like Kampman need to be BIG and strong and we have small and fast (well I guess Cullen Jenkins.has never been termed small and fast LOL). They are heads up against the huge offense line. Although they are using Kampman as an outside linebacker now I guess. Who is the other DE for the front line???

Then the Outside Linebackers need to be small and fast to cover the tight ends and are there for pass coverage and we have big and strong Hawk. The middle line backers need to be BIG and strong to fill the gaps against the runs and we have small and fast Nick Barnett.

Well, it sure worked like a charm, last night didn't it.

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Anybody see StarGate Universe? Great show if you are a SciFy fan.

OH - Public Enemies!!!

release date of November 2 in Europe! Not sure about the U.S. yet.

If you have a Blue-Ray player you get a TON of stuff.

The UK DVD and Blu-ray Disc will have

• 1080P 2.40:1 Widescreen
• English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
• English Audio Description
• Latin American Spanish and Canadian French 5.1 DTS Surround
• English SDH, Latin American Spanish and Canadian French subtitles
• Commentary with director Michael Mann
• Featurettes (59mins approx total)
  • Larger than Life: Adversaries
  • Michael Mann: Making Public Enemies
  • Last of the Legendary Outlaws
  • On Dillinger’s Trail: The Real Locations
  • Criminal Technology
• BD Exclusive: Picture in Picture & Historical Interactive Timeline

DVD extras are TBC but as we know HMV are offering a 2-Disc exclusive edition it is likely that the single-disc general release will feature just the commentary while the HMV exclusive set will offer the hour of featurettes from the Blu-ray on the second disc.

The BBFC classification for Mann’s commentary lists both a theatrical and extended cut of the film. The Blu-ray packaging makes no mention of this, though as the running time difference is only 11 seconds it may be a small quirk in how the material has been passed rather than any indication of an alternate cut of the film.

And there is always Alice.


Finally from NOAA!! read the highlighted portion.

FIRST PUSH OF COLD AIR FOLLOWS ON THE HEELS OF THIS SYSTEM FOR FRIDAY...AND REMAINS ENTRENCHED OVER SRN WI THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD. TYPICAL GFS BIAS OF USHERING COLD AIR IN TO QUICKLY SO WL LEAN ON SLIGHTLY WARMER ECMWF 85H TEMPS...WHICH DO DROP TO AOB ZERO ON FRIDAY. SOME HINT AT WEAK DISTURBANCE FORMING ALONG THIS STRENGTHENING BAROCLINIC RIBBON ACROSS NRN IL INTO SRN WI LATE IN THE WEEKEND. WL ADD SMALL POPS FOR -RA LATE IN THE WEEKEND.

WE NEED TO WATCH THIS SYSTEM CLOSELY AS LOW LEVEL THERMAL STRUCTURE COULD POTENTIALLY TREND TOWARD A MIXTURE OF PRECIPITATION SUN NIGHT. HOWEVER...NOT YET READY TO INTRODUCE THE WHITE STUFF INTO THE FORECAST.

Have to run.

Cheers