Yesterday, Chase and I met up w/ one of our old friends, Jim, for lunch and a couple of games of bowling. It’s been years since we’ve actually bowled, and was a ton of fun. I’m actually sore from playing. It was so nice to hang out like old times, catch up a bit, and try to clear our minds of all the happenings lately.
I bowled with a 14lb ball that was probably a pound or two heavier than I would have liked, but it had what I found to be the most comfortable finger holes. I couldn’t even break 100 though, but I’m going to blame that on lack of practice. This is our first game, and our second was about the same but with the scores flipped vertically between us. I have no idea how he did it, but I think this is Chase’s highest score ever.
Futurama is an animated American sci-fi sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox network. The series follows the adventures of a late 20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who after being cryogenically frozen for a thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the 31st century. Source
I had never heard of this cartoon prior to a guy at work mentioning it, but we’ve talked about TV shows before around the office and from us liking similar ones, he said that my brother and I would probably enjoy Futurama. He was nice enough to lend us the first volume to check it out, and now we’re going to have to find the later episodes after finishing this volume. Growing up I never did watch the Simpsons at all, but if it is anything like this, which I assume it is with having the same creator and it being on as long as it has, I’ve missed out on another good show.
This evening we spent some time carving some pumpkins for Halloween. Alicia bought 8 and brought to the house over the weekend, and we just now found the time this afternoon to carve them. This is the first time I’ve carved a pumpkin in years, and coincidentally is the best one that I’ve ever done. It’s also the first one that I’ve ever printed out a design to follow rather than the traditional triangle eyes and partially toothless mouth. Every one’s looked great, but we only had 3 candles tonight, so wasn’t able to get a picture of all of them carved. My mom and dad even carved them one as well.
From left to right – Chase’s, Alicia’s and mine.
Plot summary: Peter Klaven’s world revolves around his real estate work and Zooey, his soon-to-be fiancée. After he pops the question, she calls her best friends and they go into wedding planning mode. Peter has no male friends and that poses problems: will he turn out to be a clingy guy, and who will be [...]
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen the movie, but I think it was one of the greatest from the 80s and full of unforgettable scenes and quotes. The news of the directer, producer, and writer, John Hughes, passing away has caused the news to mention it today as one of his works, and also spurred this post of my favorite quotes from the movie.
Cameron Frye: The 1961 Ferrari, two-fifty GT California. Less than a hundred were made. My father spent three years restoring this car. It is his love, it is his passion . . .
Ferris Bueller: It is his fault he didn’t lock the garage.
Ferris Bueller: Cameron has never been in love – at least, nobody’s ever been in love with him. If things don’t change for him, he’s gonna marry the first girl he lays, and she’s gonna treat him like shit, because she will have given him what he has built up in his mind as the end-all, be-all of human existence. She won’t respect him, ’cause you can’t respect somebody who kisses your ass. It just doesn’t work.
Over the weekend my dad was watching some Jeff Dunham show clips on the internet, which I had seen before but watched again because they are so funny. He does quite a few characters, but I think my favorite is Walter the grumpy old man. Right away after watching him again I noticed that he and our Vice President Joe Biden have an uncanny resemblance with one another, especially when Biden frowns. Apparently I’m not the only one that’s noticed it either, because while trying to find images to make the comparison I found the following:
Wii Fit has been out for a while now, but over the weekend I had my first chance to play it. From what I had seen of it before, it’s like they took Wii Sports and stepped it up. You start off by taking your Mii, which by the way now has arms attaching the hands to the body, and do some tests that calculate your balance, BMI, and weight. The whole game is based off of balance, posture, and goals centered around your BMI and improving all of those.
You never really realize how off your balance may be until you are standing on a platform and can see your center of balance move constantly.
Jalopnik came up with a funny way to check your car’s age in people years.
Take the mileage on the car’s odometer and divide by the model year. The result is your car’s age if it were a person.
A habit, good or bad, is one thing that takes so much determination to be able to change. I’m presenting to you one of my worst habits, sitting next to the champion procrastination, disorganization. No matter how hard I try to keep my desks neat and orderly, they always become this huge pool of whatever papers can find their way to it. A mess-magnet I shall begin calling it 
A few notable items found buried in the pile of papers in the picture above: my time sheet, voicemail directions, Dr. Pepper (a desperate attempt to sooth my cravings for a Coke, which we are out of here at the moment), and a few burnt CDs, which by the way will have to be looked at before determining if they are any good due to my lack of effort to write on them! But hey I get things done, despite my messy desk.
Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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