Madison Monroes

Today is the 50th birthday of the LEGO Brick. Gizmodo has a timeline summarizing it’s lifetime.

I never had one of the really big sets growing up, but you better believe I remember helping my friends put together the LEGOLAND Castle and LEGOLAND Pirates sets. And then there were the guys who had enormous totes full of LEGOs who built all their own stuff.

While I had a few small LEGO kits, I had lots of Construx. Most people don’t really remember these because they were only around for a few years and they weren’t well advertised, but I had several sets and played with them for years. My favorite thing to do was build bases on opposite sides of the basement and create a zipline to send the figures back and forth. I wonder if my old sets would be worth any money today…

This really makes me want to play Mario 2. And it’s my least favorite Mario game.

The Packers got pretty much everything they wanted – home field advantage against a team that wasn’t the Cowboys. Looking back at the game I can’t believe it was actually tied at 20 for most of the fourth quarter. The Pack got outplayed for all of the second half, and if not for a 90 yard TD catch and run by Driver and the fact that the giants couldn’t put it in the end zone in the first half it would have been even more lopsided. I’m sorry to see Green Bay’s season end the way it did, but the Giants deserve to go the Super Bowl. Now if the damn Patriots would just roll over and die…