Blueberry muffin tops

I was meandering down the cereal aisle at the SuperTarget last week when a cereal brand caught my eye: Blueberry Muffin Tops. Intriguing. I like blueberries, blueberries in cereal, muffins, and muffin tops in particular. Sounds like a win-win! Also, it's a Malt-o-Meal cereal so it's one of the cheap kinds in the bags. Target is good for bagged cereal. Their cereal aisle is so big, they have lots of room for bagged cereals.

Anyway, I bought the bag and I have to say that they're pretty tasty. They do taste just like blueberry muffin tops, so they're true to advertising. My only problem with them is that they are very similar to Cinnamon Toast Crunch. They have the exact same consistency and mouth feel - in fact, they could have been called Blueberry Toast Crunch and it would have been just as true to advertising. Anyway, we all love CTC but is has a major failing: it kind of makes you sick if you eat more than one bowl. BMT cereal does the same thing.

So anyway, it's a good cereal. It's tasty, but gets soggy fast and I don't recommend eating more than one bowl.

David update

I know all of you were watching my friend David on Jeopardy!, but just in case you missed it . . .

Actually, you know what? If you live in Salt Lake, you never saw David win. His first appearance was on a Friday, and KJZZ preempts Jeopardy! on Fridays for high school football. Then there was a week off for kids' Jeopardy!, and David was back on the 15th. KJZZ then preempted Jeopardy! again for a preseason Jazz game. Then David was on Tuesday, but he lost.

He really went for the gusto, though. He bet all of his $11,000 on Final Jeopardy, but didn't come up with the right answer and ended up coming in third (parting prize: $1,000). I was yelling "Adam Smith! Adam Smith!" at the TV, but since he was several hundred miles away and the show was actually taped in July, it wasn't of much help.

Well done David, though. I will be eternally jealous that you get to call yourself "two-time Jeopardy! champion." I will also be jealous of the $30K+ that you won, but maybe not eternally.

Anyway, you can catch all of David's Jeopardy! time on youtube, if you follow the link from a few posts ago.

Go Pats!

Sunday's football game between New England and Dallas was really good - perhaps made better by the fact that I wasn't watching it all by myself. A few small critiques, though:

1. Why did it seem that the Patriots couldn't tackle anyone? They totally blew getting a safety in the second half, and it seemed like there were a lot of Cowboys who were able to shake off tackles. A little troubling from such a dominant team.
2. Fantasy football makes watching football much more stressful. I co-manage a fantasy team that includes Patriots players Sammy Morris and Wes Welker. Sammy Morris ended up getting injured in the middle of the game and went out, which meant he wasn't scoring many fantasy points that day. Fortunately, or so I thought, Wes Welker was having a career game, running for over 100 yards and scoring two touchdowns. Good news, at least until my co-manager texted me during the third quarter to lament that he had benched Welker this week. 25 fantasy points, down the drain! I think I'm going to be double-checking my rosters on Saturday nights now, to make sure this doesn't happen again.

Best Home-teachee ever!

Today my home teachers came over to watch the Patriots game. A good time was had by all.

I think there is a good chance that I will be home-taught 4 times per month. :)

Yay for David!

My friend David was on Jeopardy! today - and won! I didn't get to watch it, so I'm excited that I'll be able to see him next Monday (the 15th - kid Jeopardy is next week). Yay!


You can watch it on youtube. If anyone can tell me how to imbed that, I would appreciate it.

The trouble with blogs

I've decided that the hard part about blogging is that you feel compelled to have something interesting to say. And most of the time . . . I don't. Sure, it was easy last fall, what with the crashing of the car and the whole insurance debacle and all that. But these days, I'm pretty much settled down into a routine. I go to work. I go home. I try and find something I want to eat. I watch Scrubs. Maybe read a book. Next day, I do it again.