Wow... The upcoming "World Trade Center" movie trailers have been on TV now for about a week (at least, that I've known of) and I'm speechless... It definitely looks like a very powerful movie and even though I'll be back in Indiana when it's released on the big-screen (Wednesday, August 9th) I'm definitely going to make an effort to see it.

Here's a trailer for those of you who haven't seen it on TV, yet...
High-Definition Trailer

You will need Quicktime for the trailer to play. If you do not have Quicktime installed locally, you can download the free player here.

For more information about the movie, visit the official web-site at the following link: http://www.wtcmovie.com

Well, I told myself and my readers that I'd try to refrain from posting too much weather-related content in here, rather than in the WeatherBlog but I just had to share here, as well, how wonderful the weather has been up here over the past week. Mild temperatures have been contributing to the snow-melt and the flooding up here over the past few weeks, but on the other hand, it's also been great to experience, personally. I'm loving this mild weather. Over the past couple of days, I've actually been able to open up the windows in my apartment and allow some fresh air into this place.

Since I'm back on mid-shifts (midnight to 8:00am) this week, I'll unfortunately be sleeping through much of the day, but I should be able to still experience the afternoons and early-evenings. Today, I managed to get my ass out of bed around 3:00pm and after a shower, I grabbed the basketball and made my way to Prime Steel Park to shoot some hoops. It felt good to be outside for once. And it was even warm enough to wear shorts today! We did hit 69° F this afternoon! Very near 70 degrees! Isn't that just sweet?

We'll have to see what's in store for the overnight... we have some weak thunderstorms out there developing over north-central portions of the state, ahead of an upper-level disturbance... and as it drifts eastward, we could see some of that action. Probably nothing spectacular, but we could see some flashes of lightning or hear some thunder later on tonight. I'm taking the camera and tripod to work just in case anything appears photogenic enough.

Not much new has been going on, otherwise. I went out with Amanda Sunday night for dinner and a movie. We decided to see Ice Age 2: The Meltdown... I'd recommend anyone to go see this movie, if they haven't yet. It's a really great movie and is just as good (and funny) as the first one. I just can't get enough of "Scrat," the little squirrely dude with the acorn! He's just too cute and funny! I hear that Wal-Mart has a little stuffed "Scrat" that you can buy that makes all the funny little noises and everything. I'm gonna have to drop by there sometime this week to see if they have any left. That'd be great...

I've been trying to catch the Cubbies on TV, as well, this past week. Yep, the baseball season has officially started. And thus far, the Cubs have been playing pretty well. Their starting pitching hasn't been the greatest, but well, I don't think many teams are having great luck with their starting pitching quite yet, either. The bullpen has been doing awesome though, and their power has really shown up this spring. Derrek Lee already has 3 homers and Michael Barrett also has a couple. Both of Barrett's dingers came on consecutive days, the first tying the game on Saturday against the Cardinals (Lee hit his third of the season (a solo shot) to win that game), and the second, a grand salami on Sunday to take the lead over St. Louis. It's been an exciting season already and hopefully, they can carry over this great play through the rest of the season. I'd love to see them make the playoffs this year, and of course, would really love to see them make the World Series! If we can get Mark Prior and Kerry Wood back and they could just stay healthy the rest of the year... you never know. Anything is possible - as long as we keep that damn Bartman kid out of Wrigley Field!! heheh

Anywho - I'll try to keep this thing more updated... I realize I haven't been doing a very good job of that over the past few weeks.

More later!

So, what's up folks?

There's been a little excitement up here the last few nights, so I figured I'd let you all know what's been going on... Friday night, I finally met Amanda... She's a woman that I had met online a couple weeks ago. We've been swapping eMails back and forth and had talked a few times over the phone, so finally decided to meet each other for dinner Friday. She seems real nice and we seem to have some things in common, but there are some minor things I'm concerned with. I'm a little reluctant to start things up with her, since I found out she has a couple of kids. I've known about it for a while, but thought, I'd at least, give her a chance. She has two daughters - one is 7-yrs old and the other turns 1-yr old this week; and found out they're from two different men. I suppose it shouldn't bother me as much, but it makes me think twice on how far I want to pursue any type of relationship. I'll warn you ahead of time that this may sound a little shallow, but, in addition, she isn't exactly Maria Sharapova. And even though, I'm not exactly looking for a trophy, I do want a woman that takes good care of herself.

We ended up going to see a movie after having dinner at Paradiso. We ended up seeing "Munich" and I'm glad we chose it. It's probably one of the most intense movies I've seen in the theatre in quite a while; and probably the most interesting movie I've EVER seen. I'd strongly recommend seeing it, especially if you're into historically-based movies. It's a long movie (2.5 hrs) but well worth your time.

Saturday night, we had our Christmas party for work at the Osborne home. Yes, I said "Christmas" party. December was a fairly busy time for most folks at work, so Cathy decided to push it back into January this year. It was a good time... Lots of co-workers showed up, so I had a chance to see everyone outside of work and just converse, hang out, and eat (and drink!). Cathy and Leon treated us with all sorts of snacks, beer and wine! They even had some Pinot! So, I, of course, had a couple glasses of that. I couldn't drink a whole lot since I had to be at work at midnight.

Now, I'm just sitting here waiting to go home. Practically all areas have been looked at, and most forecasts are out through 00z or later, so I don't have much else to do right now, other than to sit here watching the clock. That's when time goes the slowest!

I'm anxious to get home, sleep, then get up to watch the Colts. They play the Steelers today at noon for the AFC semi-finals. I sure hope they win, cause I want them to go all the way this year. For as well as they have played this year, they deserve it. I was so relieved last night that the Bronco's beat the Patriots. As you all know, I'm no fan of the Pat's at all, so to see them fall to Denver was a sweet surprise. It makes it slightly easier for the Colts, as well, to become the AFC Champions and move on to Super Bowl XL.

We'll see how things go today... Go Colts!