The Irish have arrived..

When the video game commercials feature your team, you know you've arrived... or something..

Goodnight, Olivia

Well, after days and days of slinging boxes and bags full of stuff we probably ought to have thrown out weeks ago, I think we've finally done it. The last touches were put on cleaning the old house out, scrubbing it down and getting it ready for the buyers to take over after closing tomorrow.

We're trying not to be too sad about it. But it's the house we brought both our boys home to, it's where we started this little family of ours-- it's where Grandma Irene stood in the backyard, holding a hatchet high above her head preparing to take another whack at a tenacious shrub we had spent most of the afternoon trying to removed from the yard (what eventually became the round flowerbed)-- and we've spent a lot of good years there. We'll always have those to look back on, the pictures and memories of the times we spent there.

The boys, of course, are not so sentimental. Mama took the boys by there this afternoon during the cleaning process. They each ran from room to room and exclaimed about how clean and nice everything looked. Then, as they drove away, Aidan and Bryce both waved and said "Bye bye, House." And now they've moved on, thoroughly.

For us, though-- and maybe we're just being sappy-- we're spending a little time reflecting on the last 8 years and the family, the life we started building within the sheltering embrace of that house.

G'night, Olivia.

Should we be surprised?

From the headlines at espn.com :

Miami safety Cooper shot, teammate returns fire

After Cooper was shot, teammate and roommate Brandon Meriweather pulled a pistol from his pants pocket and fired three times at the person, who jumped a fence and fled with another person in a car, police said. It was unclear if the assailant was hit.

Sometimes you just can't make this stuff up..

Just FYI..

The Results are in!

Notre Dame ticket lottery results are available online here
And we'll be California dreaming in late November!
Lost out on the tickets to the Penn State game, but we will be able to go out to SoCal and watch the Irish take on the Trojans in the last game of the season.... hopefully the crowning end to a successful season... regardless, it's sure to be a good game.

Secret Italian Training video

Hey Manundso.. this is for you..
In honor of the Italians winning the World Cup, we present this from Youtube.

It's on!

I've got my pointy geek ears back on this afternoon!
Season two of the new Doctor Who wraps up tonight.. just aired in the UK..
I'm, ahem, retrieving it now and hope to be watching it tonight..
and from what I'm reading, it's going to be great!

Geek out!

Don't put the ice in the Arena!

Um, yeah..

Happy 4th of July

Can't get enough..

... of watching this..
the closing seconds of the 1988 'Catholics vs the Convicts'.



And thank you, Jimmy Johnson, for giving us the prototypical 'Face of the Sore Loser'.