A fun weekend. Ali’s dad’s

A fun weekend. Ali’s dad’s cousin was down to see us Friday through Sunday morning. Hmmm what relation does that make him? Dunno. We went to dinner twice and had a good time. Ali and he went to an art/craft show while I flew planes Saturday morning. Brrr it was cold Sat morning, in the 30’s again.

Mike and I flew our planes. I met him at a school near his place to fly. It was breezy so it was less than ideal flying conditions for my plane but I flew it anyway. I had a couple near misses but was able to keep it in one piece. Mike had his copter and the SIG that I gave him. The SIG was a gas plane that I did alot of work on but decided to give to Mike at the end because I decided I would rather get into electric planes. It was the first time I saw it fly since Mike finished it. Boy is it big. It handled the wind well but was rather slow and unexciting in the air. Neat to see though.

SEASON is here in full force. We waited almost a full 90 minutes until we got into Carraba’s on Friday and another 45 minutes on Saturday at Watermark. Wall to wall senior citizens. Oh well we passed the time drinking.

Sunday was a PERFECT day weatherwise. Almost 70 and bright sunshine. SOOOOOOO nice. I flew my plane 6 or 7 times. Much better conditions. I flew it inverted for a few secs and was up soaring with the vultures. The rest of the day was spent doing various things, nothing too stressful, waiting for the Super Bowl to start.

The Super Bowl was just ok. Of course I wanted the Raiders to win to avenge my Eagles loss. Sadly, the Raiders got blown out as well. I was really surprised to see Oakland perform so poorly. As in most Super Bowls, the most interesting parts were outside the game. My thoughts:

What is with all the musical performances? Yea a halftime show is fine but do we need mini concerts BEFORE and AFTER the game? Celene did a fantastic rendition of God Bless America and the Dixie Chicks did a surprisingly good rendition of the National Anthem. Too bad they mistimed the flyover of the jets.

At halftime, Shania had on a revealing oufit that showed off her tight bod but she decided to lip sync?? Why? Sting and Gwen Stefani belted it out live, why couldn’t Shania? Sting looks good for his age still. Sounded good too.

I’m really Bon Jovi’d out. He seems to pop up everywhere nowadays. Thought the post game mini-concert was the dumbest musical idea of the 3. Just hand out the trophy, game’s over.

The commercials were quite good I thought. Some of my favorites were the horse instant replay, the beer butt drinker, the Osbournes, the Reebok linebacker in the office and the Jordan commercial.

I read reviews that criticized the Jordan spot. Evidently they worked on the commercial 5 months and the critics thought the final product should have been better. I thought the computer generated images were strikingly good. I thought the idea of Jordan playing himself 15 years ago was very intriguing. I think it strikes a chord with me because of my fixation on ideas about growing old. I can identify with the emotional dilemma of the mind remembering what you could do at one time but can no longer do. The commercial just further confirmed my dismay about growing older. So why did I like it? Maybe like was the wrong word, it just hit some feelings inside.

I enjoyed seeing the movie previews. Matrix and T3 are definite see’s for me in the theater, the others will likely be home movie expereinces. The superhero movies are coming hot and heavy. I’m sure I’ll enjoy them.