My finale recap ON THIS PAGE!!

9:45pm The Feed “Replay” has begun. Thats right - Real will be replaying the entire season of Big Brother again. The EXACT same way it ran before (yes flames and all people).

6pm Mike won 6-1. Janelle won the $25k. Erika was most likely humiliated by BB when they showed all of Mike’s diary room comments. But hey - she won $50 k - right? Ughhh - dunno if the minimal payoff that move got is worth the hurt it will have caused Erika.

2:30pm Show starts in 2 1/2 hours. We watched about an hour (maybe more) of Direct TV 610 on the Quad cam today - no audio but I was able to figgure out what it was by the programming (Volleyball) and the ads.

My prediction? Erika wins it. For an explination go over to the blog I am doing for Real Networks @ http://bigbrotherskeeper.com

If you still have the feeds you may want to check them out after the show is over - rumor has it things will get interesting later tonight.

8:45am Sleeping Erika and Mike (Surprised?)

Here is a rumor - they are going to do something ’special’ after the show. My guess is they are flying to NYC to be on one (or more) of the morning shows (Early Show, Regis and Kely, The View perhaps?). I’d expect to see Janelle, Erika and Mike - pehaps Will as well on any of those shows.

So what will happen today before the show? NOTHING!!! It will be boring as all get out most likely. They watched another movie or two last night. This 5 days of only two people really took the steam out of the show for me this season.

Show will be on from 8-9pm I’ll be watching and doing a show summary on the fly as usual.

I may try to make a ‘prediction’ later on today but there are no clear lines this season.

10pm These two slept until after 12 and all I saw that they did today was get new clothes to wear tomorrow night. And I didn’t even see those - just heard them discussing them. So my apologies for not keeping this ‘up to date’ but when nothing is going on it is rather hard to write stuff ;)

Here are Mike and Erika this afternoon while I think they were getting to try on their clothes for tomorrow in the Diary Room (just a guess).

5:20am Sleepytime for Erika and Mike. The feeds were offline from 9ish until after 3am (they got to watch a movie or two) when they came on the HGs were sleeping.

Rumors…. there are a few rumors circulating the net and while I can neither cofirm nor deny them, I will share them as long as you don’t run around saying that I said it was anythimg more than just a rumor.

Here is one… a friend said there is a CBS promo out there that implies all Mike’s bad-mouthing of Erika will be revealed to Erika on Tuesday’s show. Ouch, that will hurt her if it is true.

Another is that there is something up for those of us with the live feeds. Some ’surprise’ coming. This one sounds a bit odd - I don’t know what big surprise could be in store - and if it is that good you would think Real would hype it - because people are cancelling their feeds right and left at the moment.

Btw - if you want to cancel YOUR feeds - here is the number to dial: 1-866-212-1343

11pm Scrabble and a movie. That is what Erika and Mike did today.

They are currently watching a movie as far as we know and the big thing they did today was play scrabble.

Can’t blame them, this is how if goes when there are only two left in the house.

The medium table has also been replaced by the small one.

10:30pm The Jury Questioning is over. Erika and Mike don’t seem to have a clear feeling of who may win (of course the Jury is mena ot both finalists each year and some have one easily).

Mike predicts that he will get votes from James, Will and Danille - he thinks George will be a swing vote.

9:45pm Looks like the Jury is asking it’s Q’s. Erika and Mike were getting dressed nicely (well Erika at least) this evening and the feeds have been on the ‘quiz’ for the last couple of hours.

12:20pm Not so secret info… The jury members are packing up and leaving Sequester House #2. Most likely going back to LA to a hotel. Yes - shocker - someone that lives near the sequester house is keeping tabs on them :)

11:55am Mike is still sleeping - Erika had been up for a while.

Last night the feeds went a bit bonkers apparently and some folks reported an old basketball game being played and the audio from “Troy” on the feeds.

The better story is outside the house - apparently the sequestered HGs were out of their sequester house and in a bar singing karaoke. Check out this news story.

7:15pm My last post for the night - no ‘news’ of course and Mike and Erica are currently just veggin out.

1:25pm Not a whole lot to report. Erika seems to have spent a lot of time cleaning - Mike lounged around for a good portion of the morning.

I did catch most of house calls today - check it out if you have time - Janelle is on it and she claims that she and Will did kiss several times and Will also said he was going to break up with Erin for her (then again - afterwards Jase thought she might have been making it up to get revenge).

Housecalls Link (free to anyone). Todays show is not listed yet - but it should be soon.

5:45am Mike and Erica are sleeping away. No - other than some time in the hot tub the Big Brother house didn’t ‘rock’ last night. They have been sleeping since 10 or 11pm

So…. well there just won’t be a lot to write about for the next few days. I did post the link to casting for BB8 last night, and here is the text info for the extra $25,000 (I’d say Janelle is a lock for that btw - and no - I am not paying 50 cents to vote - even once):

CBS Voting Info Page

America’s Choice $25,000 to be awarded at finale

Text the number of your choice to 81818:
1-Marcellas
2-Howie
3-James
4-Danielle
5-George
6-Will
7-Janelle

“Open to all major carriers. $0.50 will be billed for each text vote. Text voting open to US residents only. Voting closes at noon Eastern Time, Monday, September 11, 2006. Standard text message rates apply. ”

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.

9:35pm Still no competition yet. Mike, Janelle and Erika are having a somewhat honest convo in the workout room while waiting. Mike says he thinks Will might have some feelings for Janelle because he didn’t say it was all just fun and games (him and Janelle) when asked by Julie. But Janelle did point out that at that point he didn’t know he was leaving. Janlle can’t find her lucky gloves - she and Erika think Mike may have hidden them from her but have no way of knowing. She hasn’t seen them since the last POV competition.

8:20pm Mike just told Janelle that he was informed the competition would begin between 9 & 10pm. What that means for me is I will not know the outcome until morning ’cause I am not staying up that late - chances are it will last more than an hour and even if it starts at 9pm (it won’t) - the earliest it will be over is 10pm (that’s 1am to us eastern time zone people) - I’ve been sick the last couple days - no way am I making it until 1am (don’t quote me on that!!).

Above: Erika quizzes Janelle before Part II of the HoH competition.

4:15pm Big Brother sent the kiddos to the HoH bedroom and then turned on the video flames. But they forgot to turn on the BB music so we are listning to some music on the feeds while Mike, Janelle and Erika try to sleep. Currently playing…. Madonna, “Holiday.”

3:40pm Everyone is now resting up, including Erika although she has nothing to do to day.

2:30pm Mike made a pitch to Janelle today for the reasons she should take him, then later on he talked to Erika and she told him everything would be ok (as in she would be taking him to the finals). Later on thes two will probably compare notes and laugh that Mike is tryng to work both of them. They have been informed the competition will be later tonight - right now they are playing cards and getting along fine :)

2pm Everyone is finally up. Not a whole lotta talking going on though. I think they are preparing for the second part of the HoH competition.

11:45am Still sleeping… Here is the classic look on Mike’s face last night after Will was evicted.

11am Everyone is still sleeping.

5:30am Mike was in bed by 11pm last night - Janelle and Erika stayed up later talking. Re-hashing the fact that they had been played for a lot of this season. Some folks wonderred if Janelle would do it, I thought she would since she and Erika both were really mad once they realized Will and Mike were telling each of them the same thing.

People are already betting on who has the chance to win, I’d just say wait and see who makes the final two. Mike may have lost the drive to compete. His little “Richard Hatch” comment was silly. Now if Will had said it it might have been appropriae, but not Mike. The girls do not want to take Mike to the final two. They say they don’t care if they have the best chance against him, they would rather see him lose (ever heard the saying about a woman scorned?).

So at some point today the feeds will go to flames while Mike and Janelle compete for Part Two. I am still dissapointed that the competition last night didn’t go any longer.