Good weekend

Pretty much everything went as planned this weekend.  Friday night I watched the tivo’d Dancing with the Stars shows.  The show is ok but I watch it primarily because Ali likes it.  Between the main show and result show it was 3 hours of ballroom dancing.  It was a bit much for me, by the end of the three hours I was totally tired of it.

   Saturday morning while Ali mowed on the tractor, I weeded.  I weeded and weeded and weeded some more.  I bet I was at it for close to an hour and a half.  I really hate weeding.  Even though I religiously do it every 2 weeks it doesn’t seem to reduce the amount of weeds over time. Since the ground is so wet, the mulch, which is supposed to block weeds, instead becomes a soggy spawning ground for more weeds to grow out of.

After all the outside work was done we spent about 4 hours cleaning up the office.  We moved a couple shelves around and did a lot of sorting and throwing out.  I now have huge piles of books and other stuff to list on half.com and ebay sitting by my desk.  You can see pictures of it all below. 

After busting ass for most of the day I thought Ali would enjoy going out to dinner.  Spur of the moment we also called my mom and invited her along.  Mom had mentioned a little while back how she hasn’t been to the Snook Inn since she moved to Florida so we went there.  It is located in Marco Island, right on the water.  It’s a great place and normally a location where we take most of our visitors.  It has a big outdoor seating area, live music, a thatched roof over the bar and just has a great, unique atmosphere. 

I figured on a Saturday night it would be quite full, even off season.  I was pleasantly surprised that there were quite a few spaces in the parking lot.  We didn’t have to wait at all to be seated.  We sat at a table in between the bar and the mini-stage.  It seemed like a good spot initially but it turned out to be not so great.  The music speakers were only several feet from us and as a result carrying on conversation was quite difficult, it was very hard to hear what each other was saying even across the table.  Even so we had a good time, the views were pretty, the food was good and we didn’t have to wait.

Sunday morning Ali had to crawl out of bed at 5am to help work a 20k race.  I stayed home but got out of bed myself before 6.  Later that morning I did the oil change on the Tacoma.  It went smoothly more or less.  I had a bit of oil that spilled but I think the next time I should be able to prevent most of that.  I also drained the radiator and added new coolant.  Even with the coolant work I finished up in a little more than a half an hour.  I kind of enjoyed it actually.

By the time Ali got back I had most of the remaining housework finished up.  We flipped on Fox pre-game to get ready for the Eagles 4:15 game.  During one of the commercials I changed over to CBS to see James Brown in action with his new network.  Hearing his voice really made me miss him on the Fox broadcast, it really did.  The Eagles game followed a similar script to last week, they steamrolled in the first half and then had a prolonged shaky period in the second half before they finally, (unlike last week) sealed the game.  They really need to figure out how to play a full 60 minutes of solid football.  Their secondary injuries are catching up to them, it seems like they just break down if a team forces them to make a play.  The 98 yard fumble return, Westbrook’s 70+ yard TD run and the opening play flea flicker were my favorite moments.  That Westbrook run really showed some heart and desire. Anyway, they snagged a needed win and play next Monday night at home against the Packers, they are the better team and need to win that game.