Saturday Recap
Bowling was pretty good. I didn’t have any exceptional games, but I managed to beat for the week.

Post-bowling breakfast wasn’t bad. We met the newest manager… without most of the usual crew being there. They decided to take the night/weekend off because they don’t care too much for her. *sigh* We didn’t have any real problems with her – she mostly avoided us. It was almost as if she wasn’t sure how to take us or thought that we might cause problems. *shrug* In fact, she didn’t say anything to us until she absolutely had to do so. Whatever.

I came home and watched another episode of Justice League: “A Better World,” a parallel universe episode; I’m not sure, but I think that it was loosely based on DC’s Earth-3 (Pre-Crisis) or Earth-2 (Post-Crisis) Universe, where the Justice League was a group of criminals. In this episode, the “Justice Lords,” as this parallel universe version was known, decided to come to the League’s Earth and “help out.” This is to be read as: “They came to ‘Earth-1’ to do the things that the League wouldn’t cross the line to do.” And, it was a damned fine episode. And, in a nod to the DC Universe, Luthor expressed an interest in politics.

Sunday Recap
Today was another relaxing day. And that’s a good thing. I spent the early part of the day watching football (details below). I talked with members of the family unit.

Jess and I met and for coffee and chat. For a change of pace, we went to the newest Barnes & Noble in the valley. From there, we went to dinner at Mimi’s Cafe and then on to IHoP for post-dinner coffee. And a lot of comics-related conversation. It was a good night.

Football Wrap-Up
I was 2 out of 3 again today. The Ravens and Dolphins won, while the Panthers dropped one to the Cowboys. The Ravens are still tied with the Bengals for the Division lead. But we’re still ahead of the Browns and the Steelers, in that order.

Seattle at Baltimore
Final Score 41 – 44 (Overtime)
Have I mentioned just how much I dislike nail-biting games recently? No? Okay. To put it simply: I abhor them. Today’s game was no exception. And, by all rights, Baltimore should have lost the game. Both teams were highly ineffective in the first half of the game. Baltimore was plagued with tons of mistakes. And penalties. The score was 3-3 with three-and-a-half minutes left in the half. And then, Hell came to Baltimore. Seattle drove the ball down the field and scored a TD. On the next series, a botched run play resulted in another Seattle TD. With 00:00:08 on the clock. 10-3 (advantage Seahawks) going into the half.

The second half, however, was a football game! Both teams came out like they intended to play ball. And they did. And they did it well.And, Baltimore engineered their biggest come-from-behind comeback in franchise history. And sent the game into overtime.

The Seahawks won the toss and elected to receive the ball, but the Ravens defense not only held them… they pushed them back. The offense came on the field, moved into field goal range and Matt Stover (once again) put the nails in the coffin.
Carolina at Dallas
Final Score 20 – 24
Washington at Miami
Final Score 23 – 24

And… as an added bonus:

Pittsburgh at Cleveland
Final Score 13 – 6
I know that this will come as something of a shock to , but I wanted the Browns would win this one. Not that I’m a big fan of the Browns, but it would have cemented Pitt in the bottom of the division. Now, they are both tied for second/third.

Namaste.