Freedom...

I am finally out of the 3 weeks of spring outage that had me working long hours and days in a row. It is coming to an end this week and I know I have blogged about it before but I wanted to make some sort of excuse for blogging so infrequently.

Biscuits baseball started back up this past week and we had an amazing opening night complete with fireworks and sadly a season beginning loss. It was good to be back eating chicken biscuits and beer and finishing it off with a nice souvenir helmet full of cookies n' cream dippin' dots. There seems to be even more fans this year than last, I know it was opening night but I really feel like Montgomery is loving their baseball team. I know on the scale of college footballs 100,000 fan stadiums 7,251 fans doesn't sound like much but we are talking AA baseball people that is pretty huge.

Something else I have been talking about all week is the amazing new jump that the rockband game has taken with the connection to the Internet. Back in the days of Guitar Hero II there was an attempt at an expansion with another game release Guitar Hero: Rock the 80's. This was a good try to answer the problem that has continued to surface in this series:

"This game is great but I wish it had more songs."

Well with the Internet and Rockband that has now become an option. I believe Rockband shipped with about 53 or 54 songs and though we still haven't played them all in band mode I kept hearing the phrase above in the quotations... until I signed on to the PlayStation network and found 80+ downloadable songs with new ones added each week. From my perspective it doesn't get much better than being able to pick and choose your "expansion" songs instead of having to buy a new game and start the process over of unlocking everything you just add songs to your already kick a$$ song list and keep on rocking.

By the way if you haven't played this game yet make friends with someone who has it or just freaking come to my house and play it with me, shoot we don't even have to be friends. I don't discriminate against anyone for their video game prowess. I don't care if your first video game system was an Xbox or you don't know that Zelda is the girl and Link is the hero or even you never played video games before. I look down on no man. But I will kick your tail in Super Smash Bros while I explain to you why given the choice of the current video systems on the market I chose the Wii and the PS3 knowing that I wouldn't be missing out on much.

On to the books!!!

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini (4 out of 5) Great follow up to his debut novel "The Kite Runner" that I reviewed back in October of 07. This is another great look at the middle east and in this book the story is more from the perspective of woman in Afghanistan and gives a dramatic look at society from their point of view.

Dixieland Delight - Clay Travis (5 out of 5) This rating is only good if you are a fan of SEC football. If you cheer for the Big-10 or Pac-10 it may not be your cup of beer. A UT grad that writes a column for CBS goes on a tour of all the SEC school in one season taking graduates from each school with him on his weekend trips to help with the experience at each school. He pokes fun at a few southern football traditions such as shakers, bama bangs, and bi curious shirts are things that I will be using as little jokes so read up fools so that you think I am funny.