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It was a dark and stormy night and we were outside getting drenched at Gillette stadium. Coach Bellicheck said that there aren't too many weeks with conditions like this in a 16 week season.

Sarah and I had been shopping at Whole Foods and got hamburger meat for a change. The whole time at whole foods Sarah was trying to talk Lynne out of going on a last minute date called by her friend who is a non-committal boyfriend in order to show him that he should plan more in advance to treat her better.

Our tailgating was successful despite not having a lighter tool to light the Coleman stove. I have come to define success that the meat is successfully cooked and we had alcohol to drink. We struggled with a container of wet matches to get the stove lit and had to do it twice because the wind blew it out but once it was lit everything was well.

My dad and I sat up in the rafters under the lights. We knew we were under the lights because they collect rain and pour it down on you. I didn't mind the water much because I had brought full expedition gear covering my body in goretex from head to toe. The only things that didn't work right were my gloves and socks. I have yet to find a pair of gloves that works well in the rain. The really waterproof ones make your hands sweat which leaves them more wet than if they weren't waterproof and the other gloves just fill with water like a sponge. I thought I had a good plan circulating a pair of glove liners and two pairs of gloves but they all got wet anyways.

The game in the mud was a lot of fun to watch. The Patriots totally dominated the Ravens to the point where it looked like the Ravens couldn't wait to go home to dry Baltimore as they were getting repeatedly sacked on down after down. The TV timeouts didn't help the flow of the game which ended-up feeling long.

Back at the car I ate about a pound of Hattie's Rice Crispy treats as Sarah drove us all home. I still have some good Cambozola in the fridge as a leftover from the game.

In other unrelated news Jeremy has officially left for four months to go on an adventure to Australia. Cloey the cat moved to his sister's apartment down the street.

When I went to work today I bumped into Ivana. She just came back from Peru where she was chewing on Coco leaves while trekking Machu-Pichu. I think that will be our next destination. I also got word from Chris that it could be worth going to Atlanta soon to meet with a friend of his involved in the media licensing project.

Robert decided that he will try to promote street musicians by lining them up with local independent movie houses to play a couple of songs live before each movie. It could work. I tried to think through how to make a bar where people could also watch movies on nice sceens in their own mini home theatre. Initially I thought it could turn bars into a new movie distribution channel for indie films.