Heath Ledger died yesterday at the age of 28 from an apparent sleeping pill overdose. While I wouldn’t say that I really followed his acting career (I think I’ve only seen two of his movies…The Patriot and The Order), it jars me a little when something like this happens (regardless of who the person is). And when it’s someone well known, especially a person close to my own age, I get to thinking about my own accomplishments and what people would say about me if I were to meet an early demise.

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To say this past December was busy would be an understatement. It is now mid-January and I’m finally getting back into some sort of rhythm and will hopefully get back to blogging regularly soon. In the meantime, here’s the hit list of what I’ve been up (in no particular order) to and have wanted to blog about in more detail (which isn’t going to happen, so we better move forward)…
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After someone had told us it was funny, we started to watch Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights the other night. We made it about half way through and ended up turning it off because it wasn’t all that funny, a bit crass and was a bit annoying (and we love most Sandler flicks).

So for those of you who have watched it to completion, does it get better and how does it end?