Weekend Plans + Football Friday + TV Thoughts

Dear James, Daniel and Emily,

So much to talk about today. While it isn't official yet it appears that the strike/lockout will occur any day now. Which of course has set me on a stress filled binge of anger the second half of the week. Coupled with extra work at week due to some people being out ill this week has not ended well. I am very ready for the weekend, and next week is a short week for me, so I've got that going for me. Tomorrow I will try to implement my Daddy Hours with James and Daniel. Sunday is another child's birthday party (not one of ours, a friend from school). But otherwise it should be a relatively relaxed weekend.

Football Friday

Colorado Buffaloes

Well Hansen mania may be upon us if the Buffs can pull off another big victory. I'm not holding my breath of course, I am not 100% convinced we have turned the corner. But if we do win, and put together a string of victories the big question facing the coaching staff is why didn't they make the change earlier? But I think they would rather have that question than another lost season in the never ending rebuilding phase.

Ole Miss

Aside from this embarrassing development the only thing that has really bothered me this year about the Rebs was almost predictable when you lose a top 10 First round offensive tackle to the NFL. They just don't have the offensive line strength they had last year which is really killing Snead. I can hope that they use another Arkansas game as a spring board to another big run. I don't know though if they can get their act together offensively this quickly, but I will hope that they can use home field to at least beat the Hogs and get some momentum for the end of the season.

St. Louis Rams

Wow, the Colts this week. Talk about potential for a beat down of epic proportions. I think one of the funnier things I read about this game was when Peter King said that if Manning has a really bad game that he will cease all mentions of Starbucks and Red Sox in his column, if that isn't motivation enough I don't know what it will take... The other humorous thing was when they had an article in the St. Louis paper asking the columnists which college Quarterback they would draft and almost to a man (or woman) they all said they wouldn't draft a quarterback. Of all the weeks, facing the Colts and Peyton Manning should be a reminder about how much a franchise quarterback can do for your team, no matter how bad he might be at the start. A franchise quarterback is just huge when you are in total rebuilding mode like the Rams.

TV Thoughts

Finally caught up on Mad Men, House, NCIS etc. for the week. Here's some quick thoughts:

Mad Men

If there's any one thing Mad Men does, it never fails to make sure that people realize that for all of his cool and suave attitude Don Draper is at heart a real bastard. I really liked most of this weeks episode and find myself really interested in how things end up, will Betty figure out a way to make Don really pay, or will she end up making yet another Devil's compromise in the face of the ever persuasive Don? And just how will he escape, or will he just cut and run on everything, return to being Dick Whitman and run off to California to start over?

House

I liked the PotW, and how the little mystery of Wilson and his old girlfriend worked out. But I am less than interested in what happens with Chase, I would almost rather deal with Foreteen again (almost).

NCIS

With the exception of the Simpsons I pretty much universally dislike Halloween episodes like this one. I find them even more contrived than normal. This weeks episode was interesting, but still would rather have to deal with a normal week than this.

NCIS: LA

This show is really starting to grow on me. The chemistry of Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J is very good. And Heddy is just cool. I also really like that this show deal with very different cases than the regular NCIS. This one is a lot more spy action thriller, like fighting an international assassin. And there is a different emphasis in terms of less crime fighting an more action and high tech spy gadgets. Which makes it very cool, instead of following the model used in the regular NCIS.