What makes The Amazing Race amazing?

I just watched one of the promos for the new season of The Amazing Race, and I think it perfectly exemplifies why this show is so great.

It isn't the thousands of miles travelled.

Or the exotic countries you visit.

It isn't the exhaustion or the exhilaration.

It's not the unexpected turns in the road.

Or even the million dollar prize.

Its 2 ordinary people at a starting line with nothing but the whole world in front of them.



(and yes, I did just steal the transcript.....)

I am really pumped. You all should definitely watch in 3 weeks. Feb 15, 7:00 PM CST.

Diners, Drive-ins and Dives/The Killers

So last night, I got done with work and had a really fun night planned with a co-worker. We had previously bought tickets to The Killers concert at the Northrop Aud, so we decided to make an afternoon out of it.

Well, we had originally decided to this restaurant the was featured on the show Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. We were uber excited and started to make our way there. Well, we get there and realize that it is closed. How bummed were we. Apparently it is not open on Mondays, something we had failed to find anywhere. So we started thinking about plan B for dinner with time running out due to use only planning an extra 2 hrs to eat before the concert.

Also on the same show, another place in MSP was shown, so we decided to hit that one up. Well it took us some time to find it, but once I got was able to determine out location, it was a simple breeze. Now this is 1.5 hr before the start. Well we drive up and see all the chairs on the tables. What the heck. Seriously, is nothing open on Monday? Apparently not as this diner too was closed on Mondays. So now we have a little over an hour to find a place and eat. Oh, Guy you have seriously lead us astray today.......

We decided to just drive down University and find something that would catch our eyes. We ended up finding this nice Neapolitan Pizza restaurant called Pizza Nea which turned out to be really good. I would highly recommend it if you are in Minneapolis just driving down University.

We finally got to the concert about 30 min late, and just missed some of the opening band, M85. The last few songs in the set I actually liked, so I may look into them a bit more.

But the highlight was definitely The Killers. Great concert. I had a blast, and their set list spanned all there albums, picking out not just the commercial popular songs, but also the song that enjoyed just from their albums.

This concert made me want to so see several other of my favorite bands live. So heres to looking online for tour dates.......

Lost Day

All this week, it feels in my body/brain as if I am supposed to be a day ahead in the week.

I got done with work on Tuesday all excited to think the Wednesday was done the weekend was near. Immediately I realized my folly and droned on about my added day to the week....

Well, It was not an isolated incident. Wednesday at work I thought it was Thursday for a period of about an hour, and once I was done with work on the real Thursday, I was happy that the weekend was already here. Heck, I almost started to watch TV waiting for my Friday show to come on.... All Thursday night I had to correct myself.

And even now, as it is Friday morning, I feel like it should be a Saturday.....a nice lazy Saturday morning. But alas, it is Friday and I go to work in about 4 hours......

I have been trying to figure out why my body/brain want themselves to be a day ahead. Maybe it is just preparation for something coming up......who knows with me and how everything functions.......

MIA and Home Alone

So, I have been MIA from my blog for nearly a month. And it has been kind of nice.....

Quick Updates:
Christmas came and went--it was great seeing family. I seemed to get a lot of food gifts; wonder if that is supposed to tell me something.

New Years: Went to some random person's house; it was a little awkward at first, but then was ok

I seem to never be working. Just had 5 days off in a row, and thought about going back to GF, but the possible snowstorm kept me down here.

Saw a friend on thursday night before she flew down to Miami friday morn for a cruise this week. A mutual friend then flew into Roch Friday night to hang out with me prior to his leaving for Miami to go on that said cruise.

Watched the movie WALL-E. Spoiler alert: I may or may not have cried.

I think that is it for the quick updates.

Heather has left for Guatemala/Columbia. I don't see her till the 17th, so we shall see what fun or lack there off I get into while she is gone. The house is kind of quiet and I don't think I like it. But I did fix the furnace, so at least the den is not cold anymore while I am sitting watching TV.

I have been bored, so I found a cool video promo for HaMerotz LaMillion which is the Israeli version of The Amazing Race. Makes me want to be on the show even more...



Other major updates, I still haven't decided for sure, but I think I may live in Rochester for an extended period of time. Mainly because I have started looking at more permanent living situations i.e. buying a house.

More to come in the future as I have a couple of ideas in the pipes......