It's about freakin time!

Without a moment to spare, my MP3 player finally arrived again on friday. I was checking back, and I bought it on November 20th 2004, making it over 3 months since I ordered it... ugh. Ah well, I finally have it and it WORKS! Fancy that. It is a slightly different one than the last, having the radio integrated into the player, rather than having the chinsey scan radio attached to headphones. It still has a spelling mistake on the player itself, highliting it's capability as a Voice Recoder... I'm gonna have fun re-coding my voice.

Ah well, it works, so I still think I got a good deal, because hardship is not a currency.

Topless Model!

Now that I have your attention, I bought some darts on eBay a while back and they just came in. There wasn't much special about these particular darts except that they came with a few sets of flights, featuring a set of Toronto Maple Leaf flights. Now, I didn't pay much attention to the other flights, didn't seem too special.

Much to my surprise, as Faith and I opened the package, we searched for the Maple leaft flights and found a different set first, featuring a Topless Woman... DISCLAIMER: I did not know that was part of the deal, or I would have told him to keep them, not that I'm gay or anything, but I value my life...

Anyways, I'm gonna save them for when I have people over, to make them feel awkward for fun. So if this doesn't get me any mis-directed google hits, I don't know what will.

Finally some more action...

Lost was pretty good tonight. Nothing much has happened since the ol' Ethan vs Gun episode, so it was refreshing to see a bit more action. Interesting peek into the chinese guy's past... and how did the chick's english get so good so quick? She's using some big words. Maybe there'll be a runner up for the LOST baby with Sayeed and what's her head... look at me, rambing on like a school girl.

Why I Hate American Idol....

While I find the auditions pretty funny, there are many reasons why I hate american Idol...

1. Ryan Seacrest: What an Idiot... spare me the drama, although this is the most shocking reason ever... He's settled into his comfy position, and become almost as pompous as Simon... This year he is not sporting his faux-hawk or fake mullet, but man... I just don't like him.

2. Simon Cowell: I don't really not like Simon, actually, I really enjoy his comments because they are straight forward and realistic. The problem with him is not a problem with him... it's a problem with the stigma people have regarding him. People come in to audition, and are shocked when he makes a harsh comment, or doesn't like their voice. People come in with guns blazing now and don't give him a chance to shoot them down hard.

Finally--
3. Interviews: As if Ryan Seacrest's commentary isn't stupid enough, the contestant interviews during the show are getting as boring as player interviews after a hockey game, or Jeff Probst's pre-tribal counsel Q&A session. Well, you just have to give it your all, nobody's safe here. I'm not confident, it's up to America! Why aren't there any straight shooters in the contestants to tell Seacrest that he's dumb, or say they personally sucked butt tonight... Instead, we have to listen to cookie cutter rehearsed answers.

So, since Faith is watching it, I just sit in the kitchen, complaining. What else can I do? Really?

The Ol' Spanking...

Saturday night was the last game of my MHL (Missionary-Church Hockey League) and boy, did we go out in style. I believe the final score was 11-0 AGAINST us... either that or the score keeper was too nice to put up any more goals on the board. We just couldn't put anything together, and our goalie really stunk...

To make matters worse, I looked over to the other team's bench late in the third period, and saw but ONE sub. We lost 11-0 to a team with 1 sub... If that isn't embarassment, I don't knw what is.

The Kiss of Death

...or the survivor pool Pick as I like to call it.  I posted a few weeks back about my pick for Survivor Palau, which started tonight.  Wanda, the shemale was my pick, and sadly, (s)he was just another innocent victim of my survivor pick.  2 years running, my original pick has been one of the first gone, or eliminated immediately after I decide they will win.  Wanda wasn't even afforded the luxury of a vote, rather, eliminated in a school-yard game of who's picked last. 

 

Sure, (s)he was really annoying in the few minutes we saw her on TV...  (s)he sang ridiculous songs that she had composed herself in preparation for a long game of Survivor...  but I had to go call him/her out as the winner... and WHAMMY!  (S)he's gone...  I will shed but one tear for Wanda's demise... 

 

but life goes on... 

 

The one person who would have ruined the show, had she stayed on, was the one voted off...  Attitude and Fortitude were possessed by Jolanda, but she was too dang annoying and bossy to be kept around.  So the relatively useless Tatooed girl stayed instead of the stong/abrasive Jolanda... 

 

I'm also quite happy that Willard made the final cut, getting picked last, and sending the ladies eye candy home.  Willard's gonna be the man... or get voted out next. 

I'm a Poker Star!

.COM though, not . NET... I was playing online against Pat last night, I took a bunch of his Play Money and ended up with 3 x what I started with... after losing it all a few times. Texas Hold'em is quite easy, and you can play while doing other things, as long as they're not too involved. But there's not much more satisfying in life than saying those magic words... "ALL IN" and pushing your large stack of chips into the middle... booyah!

I Command You to Visit These Blogs

... but you'll probably be disappointed. They're both brand spankin new. Both people originate from Sarnia, which is weird, cause despite the polution, more and more people tourn out not retarted...

The first on is Amanda Fournie's. She's quite funny and happens to post ridiculous comments on her friends blogs...

The second one belongs to none other than Josh Purdy who has met Josh Walter, who formerly slapped the Bass for the Sarnia based Alt-Rock Band "Social Laceration"...

What Kind of Sucker am I, Really?

It's about 10 hours til the NHL's deadline to make a deal, they've been jerking us around for how many months now, and I am hanging on any word I can get form the jerks who have screwed me and many other hockey fans over for the past 6 months...  I'm such a chump.  But they'll never accept a salary cap, and never accept anything that's not linking salaries and revenues... jerkasses...

 

All this crap...  and I'm still waiting with baited breath.

 

The State of Gardening

Faith and i watched Garden State tonight. A fairly strange movie, with interesting characters. It was a love story above all. And I'm a sucker for Chick Flicks... you heard it here first. The movie starred and was written by Zach Braff of the TV show "Scrubs". Natalie Portman was also in it, and Ian Holm (aka Bilbo Baggins).

I really liked the movie, as the characters were pretty funny, it was real enough to keep my interest, and the soundtrack was quite nice. I had heard a few tunes before, but there were some nice mellow tunes I've never heard. Booyah

Drug Addiction is ReLentless

So, Pancake tuesday came and went, and so comes the season of lent. I started practicing lent last year and gave up pop for the 40 some odd days... man that sucked, but I made it. I usually have 2 cans of pepsi or Dr Pepper by 10 am, so it was a tough haul right off. Caffeine shakes and headaches, and weight loss in the first few weeks, but I adjusted and plumped right back up.

Lent is supposed to be a reminder of the 40 days that Christ spent in the desert being tempted, a reminder that He went through temptation and a reminder for us to suck it up, cause we have it pretty good. Anyways, last year I thought it was just 40 days and a bunch of us at work did it, until Palm Sunday... then found out from someone that it is supposed to go right to Easter Sunday. What?! Sundays are extra. Some people say Sundays don't count, because they remind us of the resurection, others say you can use Sundays as a "break" from what you fast, others just suck it up and fast for 46 days... Break day sounds an awful lot like the "Body for Life" diet... Winners Finish, Finishers Win... So I'm just gonna go "hardcore" and opt not to use break days...

This year I added greasy fast food to my repetoire, making it a bit tougher. I think I probably eat some sort of fast food at least twice a week, usually at work, so this will be tough. I'll have to make sure I have time to do Subway or Pita Pit, or, heaven forbid, take a lunch with me... yuck. So I take tylenol with me to work so I can rid myself of those nasty caffeine headaches, and hope I have time to take care of lunch...

No Closure? Wha Happen'd

Man, I watched LOST last night, expecting to figure a few things out regarding Charlie and Claire's capture and release, and just when I think I'm gonna figure something out... BAM! someone goes and kills the one who knows... ugh.

There sure were a lot of people I've never seen before on the island last night, even the first dead guy... maybe I'm on the island... I could find that out next week.

On that note, we came home at 8:40 to find that the guide on the sattellite said that Survivor Palau was on, and we had a mini heart attack, thinking we missed the first episode. Then we found out that it was just a mistake... phew... I mean... our lives would be literally shattered if we don't see that show...

Dan Grace: International man of mystery...

Looks like I am really now who I say I am... I searched google for myself and found out that I am a wardrobe supervisor for lots of movies... you learn something new every day...

I am also an avid golfer and engineer, creating the Everywhere chair...

Maybe that's why I'm so tired...

The Village: Reserving Good Judgement

Last night, we rented M. Night Shayamalan's The Village. Overall, I really liked it, falling head over feet into the story and eating up the twist at the end like free beer at a frat party.

My only concerns with it were that it was very slow building, and I found myself at times just wanting the plot to speed up a bit. The end made up for it as far as I'm concerned, but hey, I almost didn't make it there. Also, I really expected a scary movie, which I didn't get. There were a few suspenceful moments, but overall, it was quite bland in the scream department.

But

It was a very well done movie, with great colour emphasis particularly with the red and yellow, the bad and safe colours. It was very Schlindlers List or Hero like in it's emphasis of red in an overall bland set. The whole idea of "those we don't speak of" was very cool.

The only question I have now is what colour Lucious is. Stop asking...

Mp3 Player Episode III: Revenge of the Postal Worker

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So It's been 2 1/2 months now and i still do not have my working mp3 player from ebay. I posted a while back about getting it and it not working, a new one shipped on Dec 29th and I still hadn't gotten it, so I emailed the guy to look into it. I had been more than patient...

Turns out that his description that he uses on the hundreds of mp3 players he sells, "Computer Accessorie", was not good enough for canada Customs his time around, so it was sent back to him. Not his fault, but completely frustrating, cause all I wanted was an mp3 player for Snowboarding, so I would at least not hear the kids as they attempt to run over my head... and now, it's gonna be almost march when I get it now... I hope nothing else goes wrong...

when I buy an mp3 player for $36 cdn, I don't expect to get all this hassle with it... ugh. gotta go, i'm in the middle of a big bike race.

So, last night I was at chicopee snowboarding when I lost my balance, fell backwards and some dumbass kid ran over my head... I have a nice lump and bruise on the left side of my head and my toque flew a good 5 feet from my head. Next time I see a punk kind on the slopes, I'm gonna pound him. I was right by the lift, and he came whipping by, ignoring the "SLOW" sign, and ran over my head. Jerk

Outrages Mages 4 Life

Hey, a friend at work, Brad, showed me this link a week ago or so... It's a group of his friends, calling themselves "The Outrages Mages" doing "jackass" type stuff... It's good for a laugh or six if you're bored... This stuff predates the formal jackass stuff and it's pretty funny. Apparently back in the day they had a following of 14 year olds in the Waterloo area, enough so that they were getting recognized in malls. Beware, this is not for the faint of fart...

Which came first?

The chicken or the punk kids who egged my house last night?



I woke up to find that 3 eggs had been hurled in the general direction of my house, one hitting the car, one hitting the garage and one just beside the front door. I called CSI in and all they could tell me was that there was a second shooter... jerks... so smug. Welcome to the f'ing neighbourhood... hooah!

Stupid Bowl...

I've been made to wonder a bit lately, whether I am a real man or not because of my lack of concern for American Football, most recently the Stupidbowl aka: Super Bowl XXXIX. I really couldn't care less for the sport, and don't buy into any of the hype surrounding the event.

Even with the Hockey season currently in "lack", I have found no reason to change my allegiance, or resort to following this sport. I'm not sure if it's that I haven't really gotten along with most people I've met who've played football, or what is wrong with me... or why the rest of the world is so dumb... ah well, I'm the Man.

It's tough to be patient

Last night, I was watching TV when amidst the American Idol auditions, comes the preview for the next episode of LOST... So much is going on on that show and the next episode has Ethan coming back after Charlie, and Claire the center of attention after a bunch of episodes being kidnapped... I'm pretty sure the next episode is 4pm on Stupidbowl sunday, going back to regular wednesday time slot next week. It's been a while since I've been so hooked on a TV drama enough to make time every week.

The other show I've been watching is Degrassi: TNG... It's goofy and fairly predictable, that's probably why I watch it (and Faith watches it every week). Last show and the next 2 feature Kevin Smith as a character (Dogma, Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob strike back) and he's pretty funny. It's weird seeing him outside his usual Silent Bob role.