This has been a good week for the little guys. Last night Vandy took care of business and outlasted the #1 team in the country - Tennessee (loving that!). Another big game tonight where I'm pulling for the 'little guy' - the 'new' hometown team for us, Georgia Tech, taking on Duke tonight. Not likely that they'll follow in Vandy's footsteps & pull off the big upset, but here's hoping.

Last night on American Idol, it was the little guy, David Archuleta, which stole the show. I told Andrea that was probably one of the best renditions (outside of the original) of "Imagine" that I've ever heard. Definitely a HUGE gap between David Archuleta and the rest of the competition.

And lastly, and probably most pathetic, is the current state of things known as the finals of ESPN's "The Greatest Highlight." ESPN took what it believed were the 100 best sports highlights of all time, placed them online for viewers to vote on. The public narrowed it down to 16 and they were placed into March Madness-style brackets. Sportscenter has been running the competition every night since and the two finalists are now online for everyone to vote on... The Team U.S.A. Hockey victory versus the much, much, much favored Soviets in the 1980 Olympics - versus - Boise State's Statue of Liberty trick play to beat Oklahoma in last year's Fiesta Bowl.

Now, taking my considerably biased opinion on the aforementioned game aside, how in the world are these even in the same universe with one another?! You've have got to be kidding me! A trick play in an important, albeit far-lesser game, versus probably one of the greatest sports upsets of all time? Doesn't even stand the comparison to me.

You can vote for your favorite between the two (INSERT SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE: USA! USA! USA! USA!), on ESPN's website.

Of course, there is one game taking place tonight where I will be pulling for the favorite team - my boys, the Jayhawks, take on Iowa State and try to stop a two-game road losing streak to carry some dignity into the end of the season/post-season.

Not sure I'd go that far - I haven't been here long enough to pass that kind of judgment. I can say, however, that it doesn't rank up their with America's most sinful cities, thanks to a new report put out by Forbes.com. "America's Most Sinful Cities" seeks to judge America's most 'fallen from grace' places in terms of the 7 deadly sins... Avarice, Envy, Gluttony, Lust, Sloth, Pride, & Wrath. Atlanta doesn't score on any one of them.

Not so good news for some of our former homes. Nashville, TN, ranks as #6 for Pride, #7 for Gluttony, & #9 for Sloth. Oklahoma City? #8 for Gluttony & #9 for Envy.

Check out the cool interactive map with all the findings on the Forbes site.

Yesterday was a day that I really thought would never come. I called TiVo & de-activated one of our two TiVo boxes. It was the culmination of a long road of debate, and horrible service from our cable provider.

I've been waiting to purchase a new HDTV for a long time. I'm not even sure we have bought a real TV since we've been married (the tiny RCA unit that has been in our bedroom doesn't count as a real TV in my opinion). Our living room 27" tube has been going out for about 8-9 months now. With Uncle Sam contributing to our bottom line this tax season we decided to make the investment.

The one problem? TiVo's wonderful HD TiVo units are only compatible with cable companies because they rely on using cable card functionality to replace your cable box/tuner. They literally have no way to interpret & decoded satellite HD signals, which leaves me up the creek. We tried to make the switch to cable when we moved here, but that didn't turn out well ("Charter Sucks & Our New New Phone Number"). So the only options left were to...

1. Keep our Series2 (non-HD) TiVo and make the decision with every program to 1) watch the HD show live or 2) have TiVo record a sub-standard version of it to watch later.
2. Switch to the DirecTV HD DVR and cancel our TiVo subscription on that box.

We chose #2.

I have to say that there is little I am missing at this point from my TiVo. I can't believe I just typed that, but it is true. The DirecTV DVR does the 'big stuff' the same as TiVo:

• Pauses/FW/Rewing live TV
• One-touch recording of programs
• Record all episodes of a favorite series
• Give a multitude of recording options just like TiVo.

What doesn't it do?

• Allow me to schedule a recording from the Internet (only used this a few times)
• Transfer shows onto my laptop for burning to DVD or watching away from the house (again, I don't use this much anymore & we have a set-top DVD burner for stuff we want to keep)
• Transfer shows between DVR units (we miss this one, but we can simply record a program upstairs as well as downstairs if we really want to watch it in either location)
• TiVo Kidzone - kid-friendly menu/recording system (we miss this one, as well, but we can get to some of the same via the DirecTV parental controls)

I like the look/feel of TiVo better, but I have to admit that the DirecTV DVR isn't that bad.

So, we are down to one TiVo. Actually, we still have the other one networked so that we can use it to store programs or transfer recordings we have upstairs to the living room to watch.