A wolverine has been spotted in Michigan (a real one.) You can read about it here. There’s a picture and everything. There haven’t been any wolverines seen in Michigan in about 200 years, so I thought this was pretty cool. I mean, we are the wolverine state after all, so we really ought to have wolverines here once in a while. If you do happen to see a wolverine, however, I would advise not going near it unless you want to get eaten or mauled.
Happy Friday the 13th, everyone. Gee, nothing unlucky has happened to me so far today. I’m so shocked. Hmm, I wonder if there’s a “sarcastic” smiley face. If there is, I don’t know which one it is. Oh well. Hey, Matthew, do you read this blog? If so, is Friday the 13th still your “lucky day” like you always claimed when you were little? Of course, you were always the luckiest of any of us. You always beat the rest of us at board games and cards and stuff. I still have terrible luck at that sort of thing. Apparently the lottery is really big today (like $150 million.) A bunch of people at work apparently went in together to buy tickets. I wonder if the drawing is today. Wouldn’t it be ironic to win the lottery on Friday the 13th? Actually, what would be funny would be if a bunch of people didn’t play the lottery because it was Friday the 13th, and then the odds were better than if it had been a “normal” day. Of course, the more people that do play, the bigger the money gets. Anyway, anyone want to give me the winning ticket? Then I could buy the Hoover Mansion. Or at least a really nice house. And a new car for Dan.
Well, my computer didn’t actually get infected, I just got the email. It was the MyDoom thing that’s going around right now. I find this kind of cool because I’ve never gotten a virus (that I know of) before. Not that it’s fun to get viri or anything, but it’s more interesting than the “buy cheap viagra” spam… So now I can say that I have actually been sent a real, named virus.
So, apparently the groundhog saw his shadow and we have six more weeks of winter. Isn’t that what happens every year? Is it even possible for the groundhog to not see his shadow? Maybe if it was really cloudy or something.
Blood sausage, anyone? 
Well, it’s over. The Patriot’s are Super Bowl champions for the second time in 3 years. Clearly it’s because they have 2 Michigan guys: Tom Brady and Ty Law. 
It was a really good game, overall. Up until about 5 minutes left in the first half there was no scoring. There was a lot of good defense, though. Carolina had 0 total yards for the first three-quarters of the first half. Then there was this flury of scoring at the end of the half. By the second half the offenses seemed to have settled down, and in the end it came down to an Adam Viniteri field goal at the last minute (again.) Yay, Tom Brady gets the MVP! That means he wins the ugly Cadillac. Wow… this means not only was I wearing a jersey of a Super Bowl team today, but I was also wearing the jersey of the MVP. More often than not, the Super Bowl ends up between 2 teams I don’t care about at all.
The commercials were pretty decent this year. Only a couple repeats and only a couple of old commercials. There were a lot of very bizarre commercials this time, but that’s better than boring or bad ones. And there was a reasonable number of funny ones. The half-time show was pretty lame. I like Janet Jackson, but there were a bunch of rappers with her, and I don’t like rap. Aerosmith did play in the pregame, though, which was good.
And the Playstation prediction was finally wrong. For the last 8 years, the Playstation game played by 2 of the players before the game had correctly predicted the outcome. This year, it said Carolina 29, New England 21. Well, it got the Carolina points right, but the Patriots ended up with 32 and won. So for the first time, the Playstation was wrong about who would win.