Sarah's sister Jen and her husband Robert were in town this weekend, after a stopover by the 803 crew last Thursday. We took Andre, Keith, and Paul to Luke's for some wings, then they were off Friday morning to a trade show in Charlotte. Jen and Robert got into town Saturday morning (courtesy of a $100 round trip flight from Baltimore on AirTran). We hung around, visited, and showed them the house Saturday afternoon, then went to see some of Robert's family in Monroe, NC Saturday night. After that, we found the Mellow Mushroom in Charlotte for Jen's birthday dinner, just in the nick of time. I say that because we were all getting tired, grumpy, and hungry before we found it. Sunday we went to a Charlotte Knights game, which turned out really good for us. We got free tickets while we were standing in line from a lady celebrating disabled citizen's day. Inside, we ran into our real estate agent. The Sandy Johnson team was there doing some promotional stuff and McCree hooked us up with some free Cokes and hotdogs. Sunday night was some DVD's (more Firefly) and the now-obligatory Sunday dinner at Chili's.

Speaking of DVD's, I've now watched seven episodes of "Firefly" and love it. The characters are interesting and the dialog is great. Some of the episodes feel rushed, but I wonder if it's just beacause I'm watching them without commercials. It makes me look forward to the Serenity movie this fall. Even Sarah likes the show and she's not a western, sci-fi, or Josh Whedon fan. It makes me wonder if I should revisit Buffy. I was never a fan of that show; I didn't hate it or anything, I just never got into it.

Speaking of movies this fall, Walk The Line comes out November 18th. Wow. Mr. Phoenix does all his own singing and guitar playing and certainly seems to do Johnny Cash justice. Wow.

We also watched I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, a film about Wilco. The movie was certainly interesting; my favorite part was all of the alternate versions of songs that appear on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. I will be the first to admit it took me a long time to "get" that album, but when I did, it hit me like a brick. Phenomenal, phenomenal stuff. After watching the movie I promptly went online, saw that they had a show in Asheville in October, and got Sarah and I tickets. Go us.

We also got our tickets today for the Texas A&M vs. Clemson game on Saturday. Sarah and I are driving down Saturday morning and have a hotel room in Greenville for that night. It should be a good game. We're just excited about getting to see an A&M game and the return of college football in general. Sarah is the most excited of all.

College football is the big reason we're signing up for cable this week. Looks like we're stuck with Comporium. They are the only people around that offer high speed internet; otherwise, we would have gotten Direct TV or something.

Another pretty cool movie blog: The Movie Blog

I checked our Netflix history and we've only rented 13 movies since August 4th. It seems like more, but I guess 13 movies in just under four weeks is a lot.