finales all around :-P

first off apprentice: not much to do this episode other than make an excuse to get people to pay to spend an hour in live suspense, but all ended as it should. tana got picked on for appropriate things but she was feisty in response... i had to laugh that trump's main qualm with kendra was that she cried after finishing her final task... her response of "mr. trump, i've seen super bowl players cry when holding up their trophy -- crying is NOT a sign of weakness" was excellent :-)... kendra has a heart, and that's a GOOD thing. something would have been fundamentally wrong with the universe if tana had won after kendra's final performance. so yay -- i picked the winner week 1, and it turned out to be good :-)

second: star wars, episode 3... for all the reviews i've seen and heard EVERYWHERE in the past 24 hours, it took me a bit to get into it. even though i've only seen the other 5 films twice each, eric's "discussed at me" enough about what he expected to take place (and much was obvious) that i found it predictable for awhile and an excuse to use a plethora of special effects... however, i got more into it for the last hour/half hour, and left satisfied with seeing it tonight instead of sleeping. :-P it's good, it does answer questions well left between episodes 2 and 4, and it was on the whole enjoyable, so yay for that too.

now, to sleep -- woohoo.

by the way... so it's been a good time here in memphis, but tomorrow finds me out on the road.

the plan?

tomorrow: lunch in st. louis with dave beagley, to grandma p's house by night
sat and sunday: at g-ma pudwell's
monday: to pittsburgh via valpo to see gillman and steve klee, and via bowling green, ohio to have a late lunch/early dinner with alliswan
tuesday: back to jersey

that's fun, right?

catch all y'all on the flip side, unless you're dave, steve, or alliswan, in which case i'll see you along the way ;-)

night y'all!