Scooter Chronicles

The top three seeds on both the mens’ and womens’ side advance to the semifinals. Going to make for some good tennis. The men finished their quarterfinal matches this afternoon. Three of the four matches as you can see were in straight sets. Only Andy Roddick had a real battle going. Thanks to Wimbledon.Org and their real-time scoring, I got to check up on the matches throughout the day to see what was happening.

Here are the scores:

Federer d. Gonzalez, 7-5, 6-2, 7-6 (2)
Roddick d. Grosjean, 3-6, 6-2, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3
Hewitt d. Lopez, 7-5, 6-4, 7-6 (2)
Johansson d. Nalbandian, 7-6 (5), 6-2, 6-2

Last night Marcia’s sister Catherine came over and brought along a movie. It was “The Life Aquatic” starring Bill Murray and Owen Wilson. I had seen previews of it, a trailer in the theater, and heard and read a few reviews. It did not look like something that would interest me. It looked dumb. It was trashed by critics. Glad I watched it though.

This is another movie that is to be partially chalked up to critics being over zealous. The other part is that you may just not like this type of movie. If you enjoyed “The Royal Tenenbaums”, then do yourself a favor and rent this. It is from the same co-writer and director,...

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