My humble apologies to my brother Peter for not blogging as of late. I don't have internet so blogging can be difficult at times.
This weekend was pretty fun with Hunt coming in town. We hungout on friday enjoying some good home cooking from the wife. Saturday we putzed around the mall area trying to find a 2.50 show to see but they were all junk.
We went to Northshore Grill for dinner saturday night in an attempt to try to redeem the place and failed miserably. The first time wifey and I ate there I had crabb legs that were half bad half good and the wife ordered a pretty awful steak.
But due to my poor choosing we went back attempting to redeem it. THis was after a short stop at the Pastaria on Signal. We sat down for two minutes at the Pastaria and all 3 of us were sorely disappointed. It was too kid friendly in a way. The decible level was painful as kids were running around like it was playground. Plus glancing at the menu nothing seemed all that good so we packed it up and went to Northshore.
The N Grill was awful as usual, 2 for 2. I had a filet Mignon and it was decent but nothing worth the price of admission. Our waitress was a joke and was rarely seen.
Wife got the filet mignon and they butterflied it (She wanted it medium well). WEll it came out pretty charred. Hunt got some fish that looked decent but he was so put off by the bad service he seemed to have a hard time enjoying it. Salads were ok and calamari was decent but again bad service and mediocre food killed it.
We went home and popped in a dvd, LA Story. Now this is a Steve Martin movie from the early 90s that I saw as a kid and loved. Well I guess I had to be there because going back to it we all realized it wasn't funny and all the jokes were stuck in the 90s when the movie was made and couldn't make the jump into the 21st century. So we hit a more high brow movie, Dirty Work, which I have to admit is hilariously stupid.
"SO how'd that fight end up?"
"Great I punched this one guy, kicked another, yeah and then I threw a guy through a window..."
"Really?"
"Yeah except just the opposite."
I felt bad for Hunt though, wife and i were battling colds, we still are, and a pregnant wife can't really hit up the bar scene. SO we were kind of boring so hopefully he didn't mind.
Sunday we churched, and just came home and sat around all day watching two dvds, Hotel Rwanda and the Rookie. Hotel Rwanda was really good. Having studied the genocides in college some they didn't go into as much gorely detail and horrendousness of the whole thing, but to do so would make most of the movie unbareable. But the movie was pretty darn near great and makes you feel bad to be a westerner, which it should. The rookie was ok, sentimental baseball movie. Not as good as I was hoping but its a true story so you can only do so much i guess. Plus the whole dream of making it to the big leagues sort of loses its luster when you come in as a Devil Ray. That's barely even a baseball team.
Then the super bowl came and went. We had some mediocre pizza hut, everything else is too far to drive to pick up. But the game was good, Steelers won. It was sort of cheap i think the hawks were robbed on a few plays but they didn't really rise above the challenge of bad refs. I think they had the talent to dominate and rise above bad calls and instead they sort of pouted and gave up. I think the steelers wanted it more and showed they wanted it more.
And that's that.
Posted by holtonian at February 6, 2006 12:01 PM | TrackBackwhile we make it a policy not to go out unless someone else is paying (exceptions granted on bdays and anniversaries), we've had great exeperiences at St. John's Meeting Place, the Bonefish Grill, the Chop House, and J. Alexanders...in case you need ideas for next time....
Posted by: bobw at February 6, 2006 12:22 PMHawks got robbed. They definately out played the Steelers. Refs took away two TDs. One they said was a push off when all the reciever did was touch the defender and the other, which was actually a reception on the 1 was brought back by a mythical hold. Madden even commented on that one. Thats 14 points taken away by the refs. It almost seemed fixed the way the calls were going Pitts way. I mean Rothlisbutt's td wasn't even a td. Hawks weren't just playing against the Steelers, if they had been they would have won. They were playing against the Steelers, the refs, not to mention the whole stadium was pitt fans.
Posted by: concerned at February 6, 2006 04:44 PMBob: Yeah Meeting place would have been perfect, i'm a bum and screwed it all up. Not a fan of Bonefish, never been there but i've seen the menu and I'm not a huge fish man. Chop is good and J alexanders is ok. In the end basically I've finally officially will never go back to Northshore.
Concerned: My point is if the seahawks were truly the better team they could have risen above all that and still won. I think they had it in them to do this and they instead decided to fall to the pressure. They were that day the better team but to prove it they had to rise above all adversity to show they could even beat a team when everything was going the other guy's way. Oh and Ben's TD was to close to call, its the old rule, if there is not enough evidence to over turn the touch down then it can't be overturned, that was the case, it only has to touch the line. The push off was bull, and the hold, well that's just one of those things. Holding can a lot of times be a bogus call. I saw a lot of holding true holding that wasn't called on the seahawks. And most of this was all in the first half. Plus if you can't successfully run a 2 minute offense you have no business being in the super bowl evidence, last 2 minutes in the half with Seatle walking around with their thumb up their butts.
Posted by: holton at February 7, 2006 08:18 AMI understand that Ben's TD replay wasn't conclusive, but that is why the initial call is so important. If you watch the ref it took him like 10 seconds to call the td. Only after Ben was obviously down on the ground he the reached up and put the ball over the line. This was when the ref actually called the TD and the play was already over. These initial calls always went Pitts way. Like when hawks QB fumbled the ball after a 1st down run. he was obviously grabbed and then went down. It was plain as day in normal time, but they ruled it a fumble. Of course they got the call right when it was challenged and the replay showed what happened, but it shouldn't have even gone that far. I'm glad Bettis didn't score, it would have been like the Fridge in '85. W. Payton does all the work to get the team to the 1 then Ditka gives it to the Fridge to run in for the 1 yard TD score.
Posted by: concerned at February 7, 2006 08:43 AM"Looks like a fight. Gonna put on some fightin' music?"
"Oh yeah! Rolling Stones, 'Street Fightin' Man!' G-7!"
"You just pushed G-8"
"No!"
Music: "If you like Pina Coladas..."