If you haven't already, you should check out some of the music by Joe Satriani. He does some killer electric guitar ballads. Most of it is instrumental only, so you can listen to it passively without getting caught up in lyrics. Seriously, rate some of his stuff on LAUNCHCast or wherever you get your tunes. Songs I recommend:

"Summer Song"
"Friends"
"Always With Me, Always With You"

The loss to Kansas this weekend really has some people down on the Husker program. I have to admit, it was disappointing. I'm sure that someone somewhere is burning Steve Pederson and Bill Callahan in effigy. I'm not ready to throw the towel in on either one yet, but the program does seem to be approaching critical mass. Coach Callahan will get one more year, at least. I'm fairly certain of that. Pederson isn't going to fire him as his own career at Nebraska is riding on Callahan's success. I'm really hoping that we can land some more big time recruits, especially offensive linemen. That's where it all starts. Even Tommie Frazier wouldn't have looked as good as he did without the legendary group of misanthropes he had blocking for him. It may also be time for Coach C. to make some changes to his staff. I can't remember where I read it, but it was pointed out that he was hired with only a few weeks to salvage a recruiting class. That forced him to assemble a staff in a pretty short amount of time. It could be that he'll want to assemble the kind of staff he wanted from the beginning. Like one that has a real secondary coach.

It's times like these when you find out who the die hards and bandwagon fans are. I was reading some posts on the Husker message board at ESPN.com, and there were about 40% more anti-Callahan trolls posting since the loss to KU. Of course, a lot of pro-Callahan trolls disappeared, too. Now the sentiment is that we'll never win because Callahan can't coach the college game, his system is too complicated, etc. etc. I wonder if they'd be singing the same tune had some crucial plays gone our way earlier in the season and enabled us to beat Texas Tech, Mizzou, and Oklahoma. We were very much in all those games; if LeKevin falls down, Nunn doesn't fumble, and Swift isn't overthrown, we likely win all three games. I still remember how people said Tom Osbourne had to go because he "couldn't win the big one, his system was outdated, etc. etc." Yet once his teams were dominating the 90's, all was forgotten. That's the adoring public for you. The W-L column is all they get; details are lost upon them.

Heh... that "Dragostea din Tei" song by O-Zone is playing. It's kinda lame, but I've always gotten a kick out of it ever since watching the video of this fat guy singing for his webcam. There were some pretty funny parodies of the video, too. Plus, they play it at clubs pretty frequently. That, of course, makes Nate want to go out and get his club on. Not that that should really be a surprise, although I usually don't hear the Call of the Bar until Wednesday.

Another kooky song you should check out is "Pumping Iron For Enya" by Atom & His Package. Twisted.

I'm sort of hungry right now. Shakes just aren't filling, but there isn't much else to eat around here. Right now I have:

--a little bit of hummus
--some whole-wheat tortillas
--a fifth of a small jar of natural, salt-free peanut butter
--two cans of campbells chicken noodle soup
--three cans of sodium free spinach
--three cans of sodium free cut green beans
--some slimy mushrooms
--eggs that expired over a month ago
--various health shake mixes

Guess I had better go grocery shopping this week.