Greetings once again from St. Louis (town motto: standing room only)!

Today's title is relevant because the University of Iowa is in grave danger of losing their 5 year streak as national champs. 3 (tres) number 1 (uno) seeds from Iowa got beat today, including one boy who had never lost a match in college. This just doesn't happen to Iowa wrestlers. Perhaps the world is coming to an end. There was a good Iowa match that they actually won in the semifinals when Eric Juergens (Iowa guy) made the Michigan guy he was wrestling look silly. Juergens had the guy's leg and the guy went out of bounds so Juergens drug him all the way back to the middle of the mat by his leg (sliding the guy around on his butt). It was funny in a you-had-to-be-there sort of way (which I just realized when I typed that).

So, Iowa State is way in the team point lead right now, about 18 points ahead of Iowa (the last time I heard the team score at least). This would be considered a BIG upset.

Notes on the tournament:

• Do not look at the guy who says "Bottled water and cracker jacks!"
• We may be in St. Louis but this is definitely an Iowa crowd.
• I really do not have enough notes to merit having a notes section in this rambling.

I'm a wee bit scatterbrained here on this one folks!

St. Louis has really soft water. Where I live we have hard water which I guess has minerals and riboflavin in it. I really don't know the difference between hard and soft water except that when you take a shower with soft water it feels like the soap never leaves your body. You have to do a visual inspection to make sure you've taken care of business. I don't like that.

I played Mike Tyson's Punchout earlier today on my iBook (the very same one that I'm typing this rambling on right this very minute) on my NES Emulator and made it all the way to Soda Popinski before I got beat. I think that's pretty damn good and I should get a cookie or some bonus points or a star next to my name or something.

We had lunch today at the Morgan Street Brewery, which was, well, a brewery. A microbrewery to be exact which means "little brewery" I think. I didn't have a soda popinski at the brewery but rather a Golden Pilsner and an Albuquerque turkey sandwich. It was pretty good and some lady threw her napkin at me for no apparent reason! The people in St. Louis love me!

My Check Engine light went off for some reason on the way home from the Metro today. Either the problem is fixed, the light burned out or it just gave up and got tired of being ignored. Or maybe my engine isn't there any more to check. Who knows?

My wisdom tooth hurts really bad today. Probably because I'm so wise from having beer for lunch.

Thanks to everyone who paged me today! I got a lot of pages and well that makes me feel silly. So thanks to everyone except those people who sent me weird pages like the one about the fucking bunnies in the matrix. Weird wild stuff!

Lots more to talk about, but getting tired of typing, so to be continued....