Louisville Skyline is Changing!

I noticed tonight that my picture above of the Louisville skyline is now noticeably out-dated after this weekend. Note the building in the bottom left near the bridge. It has a white sign lit up reading, "HUMANA" on it. After Saturday at approximately 7:00 am, this building no longer exists.

It was IMPLODED and the video is pretty cool. You might also note that this is literally right next door to our Central Bank office downtown at the corner of Third and Main. The building was imploded to make way for the construction of the new Louisville Arena, which ultimately should have some other "official name" after some company steps up and pays millions of dollars for the naming rights.

Here is a link to the Lambert & Lindsay blog which has the Courier-Journal's video of the implosion: http://themaxfm.com/Saturday-07-19-08---SPECIAL-BLOG/2627840

Scroll down the blog to see what the new skyline is supposed to look like eventually.

Football

My "Countdown to Cardinal Football" below is now down to 46 days. I've gotten back to checking the louisville.scout.com football blog almost daily to see if there are any major updates, etc. Football excitement is in the air.

I have two sons who have older friends in the neighborhood and this year, my sons were dragged into forming Fantasy Football teams in ESPN.com leagues created by the neighborhood kids. So I have been dragged into the league as well as they needed so many teams.

I have never done a Fantasy league before so I am a total newbie. I have to admit, ESPN's site is pretty cool. We did the LIVE Draft and I was amazed at how neat it really is. I remember co-workers in the past running these leagues and calculating everything manually using Excel and checking the paper for stats and I always thought they were crazy.

But with ESPN's site and I'm sure others', Fantasy leagues have become so easy. I look forward to seeing how the season goes. We stuck to the NFL and I don't plan to do college at this point.

Tonight I learned my starting QB, Peyton Manning, had surgery and his status is "Probable". Could be a long season already.

It's Been a While, Since I . . .

last blogged. Okay, that was my shameless play on the lyrics from Staind's song, "It's Been a While". You know the one. Here, I'll try to add it to my playlist below. I love that song.

Well, a lot has been going on lately. Terri and the boys went to Florida for a week with my in-laws while I stayed home and brought home the bacon (aka worked). My Mom had some health issues causing several late nights in the ER and at their house. (She seems to be okay now. Thanks for asking.)

My sister, Lori and her son, Nick, flew in from Rancho Cucamonga, California. My brother-in-law, Dan, joined them for the weekend and poor Austin, my nephew was left to work at his job in the research library at UCLA where he is a student. So, we've been hanging out with family all week which has been fantastic.

Lori is my oldest sister (10 years my elder) and is one of those people that is just "cool" to be with. She and her husband, my brother, Dan, are just great people with magnetic personalities that you just like and like to be with.

In the meantime, we have been home very little and have had little time for anything else. One thing that we did have time for was to teach Mark to ride a bike and go on several bike rides.

Here's a pic of Mark on his bike.

And here is a pic of his proud brother, Matt. His smile was great when he saw his little brother riding his bike for the first time.