a long time coming

I know, I've been lax here for awhile but its for a good reason: Cindy and I are buying a house. We're closing this Thursday, so after that you can expect to see even less of me. Well probably not but we'll be working at the house a lot, in the mean time. Anyways, here are my quick thoughts of the events of the last few weeks:

• The PGA Tour is bringing a real tournament to DC and not only is it going to be bigger and better than the Kemper Open/Booz Allen Classic (which was always screwed by being so close to the US Open), it will be a charity event for The Tiger Woods Foundation... which means Tiger will probably be here for many a July 4th weekends to come. Sweet.
  
• The Cowboys passed on Norv Turner (not good Skins fans), and decided to go with Wade Phillips (good for Skins fans) as their head coach. Phillips is marginally better than Turner so it's basically a wash for Skins fans.
  
• I entirely agreed with the San Diego Chargers letting go Marty Schottenheimer. Except that he was fired too late and for an entirely different reason (because of conflicts with the Charger's GM, A.J. Smith) then I thought he should have been fired for: he was not going to get the Chargers farther than where they got this year, and that should be unacceptable for the Chargers and their fans.
  
• The second season of Top Chef ended with the entirely unlikeable Marcel losing to the "I still don't know how to feel about him"-guy, Ilan. Needless to say this season sucked. You really couldn't get behind anyone because they either had a terrible personality (who wants to root for a jerk) or they just weren't that good a chef (why root for someone you know is going to be gone in a week). And to make matters worse, Top Design sucks as well.
  
• Finally, yes I've entirely spaced on American Idol. I can only name a few contestants off the top of my head: AJ, Chris (the Jack Osbourne look alike), Doolittle, Sundance and Antonella. Those are the only ones i remember. I'll probably start caring again when we get to the top 12.