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Umm ... I actually have very little idea what happened as I missed most of tonight's episode for various and sundry reasons I will not go into here. But I did see that the cowboys finished first again, and Monique and Shawne came in last and were eliminated. But, hey, now about that hockey game today, huh?

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While I may not get preview releases of new Starfield albums (not that I'm bitter) the good folks at Centricity were kind enough to hook me up with an advance listen of the new self-titled debut album from Me In Motion . The verdict: Color me impressed. These guys are good. Some quick thoughts, song by song: 1) Losers: The lead single is a quirky little pop song about, well, the losers in life - the geeks, the nerds, the outcasts, "all of us losers" - and how Jesus loves them, too. A song that will resonate with a lot of kids of junior and senior high, concluding, "Jesus has a thing for losers." Good stuff. Check out the video here . 2) The God I Know: An upbeat, driving rocker about living more like "the God I know" and not letting fear and complacency rule our lives. Also good stuff. We're 2 for 2 so far. 3) Gotta Be Something: I love the start of this song - a crunchy guitar riff that sounds like it's straight out of a "Sp...

Another in a regular series of entirely self-indulgent posts updating my major fitness goals for 2010: Complete at least one 15K run (9.3 miles) and get my weight down to 175 lbs. It's been a few weeks since I posted one of these. I'm still working out regularly, although doing six workouts a week has been very difficult given my work schedule. I can get up at 4:45 a.m. and put in 12 hour days, and I can do six workouts a week. What I can't do, apparently, is both of those things at the same time. And because the 4:45 wakeup times isn't flexible when the Legislature is sitting, it's the workouts that have to give. So I've lessened up on my cardio but I'm still doing weights 3 times a week, and then running and cycling as I'm able to. My weight has been firmly stuck at 178 lbs. for the better part of 3 weeks, but I'm not panicking about that. This coming week is a session break week, so I'm hopeful that I can get in six solid workouts.

The Heroes won their first immunity challenge and Randy was dispatched from the Villains tribe. A pretty lackluster episode "highlighted" by Russell hiding his team's machete. Yeah. Next week: Coach freaks out. And immunity idols!

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There's always one song on a Starfield album that I absolutely fall in love with and it becomes one of my "favorite songs of all time." On the last album, it was Reign in Us. Previously, Son of God ... just great worship songs that I'll never get tired of singing. On their new album The Saving One , it's, well, The Saving One. I was absolutely blown away when I heard the album version of the song The Saving One. I'd heard the acoustic version in concert and in various incarnations on YouTube, and I really liked the simple, stripped down version of the song. And, honestly, it was that version I was expecting on the album. Instead, Starfield gave us both the acoustic version and a fully-produced near-rock version of the song that fills me with such so much joy. (And the acoustic version is great, too!) I know I say it a fair bit when reviewing music that such-and-such-a-song is my new favorite song ever - and The Saving One is one of those songs - but I ...