-No sporting event has benefitted more from social media than World Cup soccer. It gives "Soccer Guy" a chance to spaz out for a few weeks, gives closet soccer fans out an outlet for talking the game, and gives everyone else a chance to rally around a national team. Even I got caught up in it, watched about 75 percent of that Germany match. Would've watched last night, too, but by the time I remembered it, the score was 4-1 and I figured that was the soccer equivalent of UK-UCLA from this past season. I hate soccer, but I can always get behind a national team in anything.
-"The Judge" is sitting on my DVR. Did watch the most recent "Planet of the Apes" movie over the weekend, and it was outstanding. Great effects.
-Six-year-old daughter fainted last Tuesday. After an hour in the ER, they chalked it up to some long word that starts with a V, but ruled out a seizure. No big deal....except that whatever test they did on her that day apparently revealed some kind of abnormality, so she's having an EKG right now to make sure it's nothing serious.
-Kentucky changing its fireworks laws a few years back to allow "the good stuff" has really upped the game of neighborhood fireworks displays. Went to our town's public display, and it wasn't that much better than the neighborhood shows where they'd obviously shelled out major $$$. Never had any interest in buying/using any myself, leave it to the experts. And now, I guess, the neighborhoods.
-CONDIMENT WATCH: Duke's mayonnaise is the truth.
