"Coffee and Cigarettes" sucked eggs. Don't rent it. We fast-forwarded through it in about 20 minutes.

We felt too tired to start another movie and be able to stick with it, but it was still too early to go to bed, and nothing was on TV. We decided it would be a nice night to go to our downtown and just people watch. We got there and parked a little after 9 PM. We strolled for a little bit and then found a bench on the main street going through downtown. It was a great place to watch all kinds of people walk up and down the sidewalk.

After about a half hour we made our way to the Starbucks and got a 20 ounce iced coffee to split. We went back outside and found another bench near the Starbucks. We sat there for another half hour just talking and watching people.

We left that bench with the intention of strolling back to the car and go back home, but as we passed the first bench we were sitting on there was a cop giving someone a traffic ticket so we thought we'd sit back down and watch that happen. We ended up sitting for another half hour.

Now we are home and in bed. We will watch "Saturday Night Live" for a while.

The Turkish Grand Prix is on TV tomorrow morning at 6:30 AM and I am thinking about getting up to watch it. We'll see how late I stay up tonight though.

Turkey is the latest addition to the F1 calendar. As in China, Bahrain and Malaysia, a new state-of-the-art circuit has been constructed at great expense from a design by Hermann Tilke.

The Istanbul Racing Circuit (Turkish:Istanbul Otodrom) is located on the Asian side of Istanbul, Turkey, close to the junction of Kurtkoy on the north side of TEM Motorway, linking Istanbul to Ankara; it is adjacent to the newly constructed Sabiha Gökçen International Airport. Surrounded by pristine forest and green, cultivated fields, the circuit will be the venue of the Turkish Grand Prix from August 21, 2005.

The circuit, covering over 2.215 million m2, runs counter-clockwise at 5,340 m long, with an average width of 15m ranging between 12.5 and 21.5m. There are a total of 14 curves (six right turns and eight left), the sharpest having a radius of merely 15m. With a start/finish straight over 650m in length, the circuit runs over four level sections, with rising and descending grades. The maximum attainable speed is expected to be 320.5 km/h (199.2 mph) by modern F1 cars. The total race distance will be 309.720 km by 57 laps.

The main grandstand will have a seating capacity of 30,000 spectators. In addition, natural ground stands and temporary stands will provide a total capacity of over 155,000. The paddock buildings are two-level structures; the ground floor reserved for F1 teams, the upper floor serving as hospitality areas, with an additional viewing capacity of 5,000 seats. At each end of the paddock, there are two 7-story VIP towers.

Unlike those other three tracks, this one is not built on flat wasteland - and this gradient should ensure that it is more spectacular than any of them. Or at least that's the theory.