9pm Mike and Erika are gonna get int he hot tub I guess - they seem to think the interent feeds are off for some reason. Right now there is little to report “game wise” so excuse me if my posts lighten up a bit now. The Jury interviews will probably be Saturday or Sunday evening - then we can listen to Erika and Mike re-hash things.

Here is some info for some of you though. CBS has updated its Big Brother application - I checked sometime last month and it still said BB7 - but now it says BB8 on the application. Here is the applicaiton page - LINK and here is a direct link to the application - LINK.

7:15pm Ok - just tuned into the feeds for a few minutes to hear Mike tell Erika that he always told Will that he wanted to take Erika over Janelle. Note for future reference to Erika….. Mike and Will wanted you to go out after Danielle. But you won the POV so you were safe. That is the only reason George went home.

6:11pm Janelle out, Mike won the HoH - he evicted Janelle - I don’t feel Erika threw the competition.

4:58pm Show Recap HERE. I’m honestly hoping Erika gives it a good try. If she appears to throw it I’ll be very dissapointed. Yeah, I try to keep neutral but right now I am rooting for Janelle and Erika over Mike. Mike’s actions and attitude about the game and his self-perceived ‘right’ to make the finals has soured me on him.

2:15pm Here is the edited audio of Erika - it was VERY quiet and I tried to enhance it - so it sounds a bit ‘echo-ey” (not a word I know). Here is exactly what I hear her say, “Will, I am the master manipulator not you, sorry kid. Mike, you’re (garbled because of Mike and Janelle talking in the bathroom) [big sigh], I’ve got to get him out.” Audio Link - ErikaManipulator (56kbps Mp3).

1:45pm A glimmer of hope. Erika still seems contemplative. She is still analyzing things in her head and talking out loud to herself. She just said that Janelle must have been the ‘go to’ competition girl and she was the ‘pawn’ (for nominations). While not really accurate it does show she does still feel Mike and Will were using her. Earlier it seemed Mike had convinced her that he had always wanted her to make it to the final three. Erika just said to herself that she has to get Mike out.

11:15am Flames at the moment. Here it is… Erica - your logic doesn’t work for me - you need the second place money? Then play for it and take Janelle - you get second place for sure if you win. And what value does Mike saying for her not to vote for him if he doesn’t take her? That won’t give her back second place $$. So - here is the audio of first Erika telling Mike she wants to throw it to him and then at the end (I edited out a time gap) - Janelle asks what Mike wanted and Erika only tells part of the story. Erika Agrees To Throw It (56kbps Mp3).

And here is a small pictue of at least part of the Part Three set up.

10:55am Erika has just told Mike she is going to “tank it” and let him win so he can vote out Janelle. She says she could really use the second place money.

7am Janelle is not sleeping well. I think she is worried about the fact that her destiny lies in Erika and Mike’s hands.

6:30am The more I have read the more I am worried that Erika may have flipped. She and Mike had a long talk when Janelle was elsewhere and she may have been somehow convinced by Mike that he always wanted her to make it to the final three. There is a chance right now that Erika herself may throw the final competition and let Mike do the ‘dirty work’ of evicting Janelle. Honestly she probably has a better chance at winning against Mike but would she go agains the ’swearing on my mother’ part? Of course if she loses tonights competition she would not be ‘breaking’ a promise since Mike would be the one deciding. Erika may feel that Janelle had the chance to secure a place in the final two by winning Part Two and didn’t so it will be her own fault if she doesn’t make the finals.

6am Janelle and Erika only went to bed about 20 mintues ago. Mike has indicated he will not ‘throw’ tonights part three so Erika and Janelle feel like Erika has to win it. It does look like Mike wants to take Erika to the finals - feeling Janelle has too many ‘friends’ on the jury (or more than Janelle). Mike also still seems to think Erika might be in on the ‘plan’ to split the prize money between him and Will - he has told Erika that she was always the one they wanted in the end (Erika has never let Mike know that she knows he and Will were ‘double dipping’ to use a phrase coined by Will).

A tiny bit more on the competition - Mike beat Janelle by at least two minutes and it involved lasers, mirrors and smoke, the last being used to see the lasers obviously. We’ve seen lasers used before in the house so that is no shock. I am guessing they had to point lasers toward HG pics and set them up in the right sequence, perhaps eviction order.

4am Mike won part two of the HoH competition. It was at least partially physical and Janelle sorta felt it was a bit slanted towards men (due to the physical nature) - Mike also won a car in the process.

Everyone is still up at the moment but I’m not listening - will post more details in a bit.