One thing I forgot to write about Gladiator yesterday is that with a name like Commodus that evokes "commode" or "common" how could you succeed? Whereas Maximus sounds powerful like a super-duper condom or maybe, a winning racehorse or the biggest tankard at a coffee house: would you like: large, grande or maximus?

Alias is trying my patience lately. It's the same show every episode. Some sort of looney Rambaldi artifact (Rambaldi: not that interesting) that either CIA or Covenant has to get and whoever gets it loses it to the other in a big fight scene with explosions. Vaughn has lost all my sympathy. Jack bagging Lena Olin AND Isabella Rosselini is tough to buy and now did they really tell me that I now have to wait 3 weeks for the season finale? Gee, I hope I remember to watch it.

The next week is going to be crazy busy. It's the first of the month so I have all that stuff to finish up at the office and then tomorrow evening I fly to Spokane and shuttle to the Coeur d'Alene Resort for that training I do every year that I complain about. I get home Thursday night and we have more plans this weekend and Monday Robert and Heather are getting married.