Morning Roundup: Discover your inner Spice edition

Good morning, Houston. How better to end the week than with a little soul searching — and when better to do it than on Evaluate Your Life Day? Yeah, we know, it used to take hours (days, even) to find your true self, but the good news is that you can get things taken care of much more quickly these days: using online quizzes, you can figure out whether you're CEO material, which celebrity's sleep habits are most like yours and which Spice Girl you are. Who knew self-evaluation was so much fun?

>> More on yesterday's Metro vote: By now, you've probably heard that the Metro board voted yesterday to adopt the Main-Richmond-Cummins-Westpark alignment for the University light rail line. But perhaps the more interesting part of the vote was this: Metro decided to put light rail, not buses, on all five of its proposed new lines. That's a big change from the previous plan, which called for buses to run on dedicated guideways until ridership justified replacing them with trains — now, Metro chairman David Wolff said, the agency feels like it can get federal funding for rail from the get-go. "We can't help but believe that people will be thrilled by it," he told the Chronicle. The change will add about $600 million to the planned cost of the five lines, but the total for the construction should remain at the previous estimate of $2 billion. Frank Wilson, Metro's president and CEO, said the goal is to have all five lines carrying passengers by 2012. As for the University line, its eastern leg will take it along Wheeler from Main, then north on Ennis and east on Alabama to Scott, where it'll share tracks with the Southeast Line to Elgin before proceeding on to the Eastwood Transit Center.

>> Cop kills naked man after confrontation: Here's something you don't hear about every day (thank goodness): A naked man got into a confrontation with an HPD officer in northwest Houston yesterday, leading to the officer shooting the man to death. It began just after 1 p.m. in the 6000 block of T.C. Jester, where the officer had written a traffic ticket for a motorist. As the officer was finishing the traffic stop, a man pulled up in a pickup truck and stopped in the middle of the road. The officer told the man to move his truck, but instead of doing that, the man got out of the truck, undressed and confronted the officer. It's not clear exactly what that confrontation entailed, but it was enough to make the officer use his Taser on the man. That had no effect, and the confrontation moved into the woods, where the man began chasing the officer; eventually the officer shot the man with a gun. The man then reportedly tried to drive off in the officer's cruiser, but other cops pulled him out of the car; he ran into the woods and died. An investigation is under way, but the suspect's father, Raymond Smith, said there was no reason for the officer to kill his son: "He didn't have no weapon. They killed him for nothing," Smith told KPRC.

>> This weekend's weather: Looks like we're in for a nice couple of days, at least: A front that blew through the area last night has brought us some high pressure, which means clear skies and drier air. It'll be warm during the day — 87 this afternoon and 89 tomorrow — but cool after dark, with lows hitting 60 tonight and 68 tomorrow. On Sunday, the rain chance returns as another front heads our way.

Now, how about some clearer, drier headlines? OK, yeah, that made no sense ...