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Saturday, May 10, 2008
Last night B and I went to REI to help stimulate the economy. My doc wants me to get more exercise, so I added 6 miles to my evening bike ride. 10 miles is a LOT more work than 4, let me state for the record. I wear old white cotton t-shirts, and they get gross soaked, so I wanted to try some quick-drying synthetic workout shirts. I picked up 4 Mountain Hard Wear's Wicked Tees, I'll give them a test this week. Afterwards we caught Iron Man, it was pretty good. Funny, but not the "awesome" that people were reporting for it. The after-the-credits bit was good, but probably not worth waiting through 5 minutes of credits. The credits have gotten ridiculous, by the way. The PAYROLL ACCOUNTANT made the credits. I'm sorry, the best boy and key grips at least contribute to making the movie. The payroll accountant is some studio admin person, not part of the film crew. Today is Harry's 6th birthday. He LOVED his presents. He got a 20" tall foam T-Rex, a robotic claw arm that extends/retracts and opens/closes which he's been using to do everything today, and two sets of fake legos, a pirate ship and an army set with a tank/jeep/plane and some army dudes. He doesn't get a big birthday party this year, so he had 2 friends and they went to the Burke museum to see the dinosaurs, then they went to McDs for happy meals. They had a good time playing. Wednesday, May 07, 2008
On monday night WOPR came over to help me kill the metric sixpack (aka Bob and Doug McKensie's method of double it and add 30, so 42 beers in a metric sixpack) of mexican beers left over from B's sunday night henfest. I figured a hangover was perfect for yesterday morning when I went in for a physical. My last one as when I turned 35, and now I'm 40. Turns out I'm mostly healthy. I'd gone in a few weeks ago for the blood draw so we'd have the results to discuss during the appointment. I need to eat a little better and exercise a little more, duh. I got a topical antibiotic for my rosacea, a nasal sprayer of Flonase for allergies/snoring, and my vitamin D is low so I got 50,000 IU to take twice a week for 2 months, then she wants me on 1000IU in the summer and 2000 IU in the winter, and we'll check again next year. Last night I said "fuck it" and decided to put the roof on the shed by myself. I was sick of hearing my friends bitch about how I would need a crane to lift it up. It's six 8' 2x4s, 2 10' 2x4s, a few strips of cedar, and some polycarbonate roofing. Under 150 pounds. I went down to the garage, got out my set of 4 ratcheting tie-downs, and used those, two to a side. I'd ratch it up with two, and when they ran out of room I'd use the other two to hold it while resetting the first two. B came out to help. In under an hour I had the roof lifted up and installed. Wooo! The next step is plywood siding to stiffen things up, then the all-important swing set. Monday, May 05, 2008
Fun weekend. On Friday, I got dogged by my not-brother-in-law Bill, we'd planned on going to Hop Scotch for some beer and tequila tasting. Instead, my youngest brother came over to return my circular saw and we had our own Hop Scotch, drinking some beer, putting the kids to bed, then doing some serious scotch tasting. On Saturday I was going to either work on the shed or go to Opening Day of boating season (when does boating season close, anyway?) but it was raining and Isabel had gymnastics, so I did neither. Saturday night B and I had planned to go see Iron Man, but my friend threw a Tres De Mayo party so our revised plan was to go to that for a few hours then see a late show of Iron Man, but the party turned out to be so much fun we stayed longer and went home afterwards. Sunday morning Harry begged us to go out to breakfast, so we took him as a birthday treat. (His birthday is next Saturday, he'll be six.) Afterwards we stopped off at my brother's house to see Sequoia, who is still super cute. Then B took the kids to get haircuts and I went to Toys R Us to buy some birthday presents for Harry. When I got home I started working on the shed. I now have the roof supports ready for the roof I assembled last fall, now I just need to get a few guys over to help me hoist the 150-200lb roof up into place. I also got the lawn mowed since it finally dried out enough. We also took the kids on a trail-a-bike ride, and B cleaned like a mad dervish since she had 35 of the first-grade moms coming over for a margarita party. We really love the Roomba, which B has named Rooby. I don't know how it would fare on wall-to-wall carpets, but for hardwood floors and area rugs it kicks ass. I tended bar for the first hour of B's party. B had bought two dozen colorful plastic margarita glasses online, and I stacked them up into a big pyramid which was a big hit. Sunday, May 04, 2008
B and I took the kids for a trail-a-bike ride over to Magnuson Park today. While Isabel was behind me, B mentioned that her butt her. Isabel said, "We do not say B U T T in this family." I laughed and said, "Daddy says that, Daddy says all sorts of bad words." Isabel said, "Yeah, like the REALLY bad 'S' word." I laughed even harder, and said, "Oh yeah? What 'S' word?" "You know, S T U P I D". I almost crashed. Totally not what I expected. Thursday, May 01, 2008
You know, I really love the Google ads this blog gets. These were the 5 on here a minute ago: 1: Forensic Analysis Lab, UK: Analysis of accelerants 2: Wholesale Diesel Engines 3: 12 guage shotgun eBay (but eBay doesn't sell guns...) 4: Diesel Generator 5: Shotgun DNA sequencing I am laughing my ass off. Now that I finished the Narnia books, I've been reading books from the set of 35 child-ized classics that we bought cheap at CostCo. So far we've read Swiss Family Robinson, Robinson Caruso, and now they've picked Moby Dick. (It starts out "My name is Ishmael"). I can't wait to see what they pick next. Recently I bought a new DVD player, our old Awia was starting to skip and have problems reading discs. The new Philips upconverting player is alright, but it was having some serious crashing problems. Turns out the Wii is too hot to sit on top of the thin low-profile DVD player. Oh well, there is just enough room to fit it vertically. Speaking of Wii, we finally bought Carnival Games for the Wii. All your midway favorites, like Ring Toss, dunk tank, knock down 3 pins with a softball, pop balloons with a dart, etc. The kids have been having a blast earning prizes and trading up for larger prizes. Last night B and I watched "Willow" via NetFlix. I saw it in the theater 20 years ago this month and haven't ever seen it since. Man, I remember almost nothing about it. It's alright, not great. I am VERY thankful that Lucas didn't get the rights to make The Hobbit then, which is why he made his own variant. Tuesday, April 29, 2008
On Saturday morning the kids and I went to the store to get stuff for a picnic lunch, buying some fried chicken legs, grapes, watermelon, and cheesy poofs. Then we went to the farmer's market for some cheese curds and fresh baguette, and on the way home we stopped off at my brothers house to see cute little baby Sequoia. Interestingly, the last two babies I've know were named Yaris and Sequoia, both names of Toyota products. B's close friend is having a baby, I wonder what name they'll pick. I figure 4Runner and Rav4 are out, but Tundra makes a good boy's name and Celica, Sienna, and Camry are good girl names. We took our picnic lunch to Husky Stadium for the spring scrimmage football game. The weather was totally beautiful, we sat in the sun in the lower bowl and watched. It wasn't that great a game, the QBs tossed downfield at random, completions were rare, and with the QBs being sacked with 2-hand touch they couldn't use their mobility. Still, it was fun to see some sort of football. I finished Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, the last 100 pages had a plot and it was better than the first 900 pages, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I am still totally baffled at how it won the Hugo award. Thursday, April 24, 2008
Vegas was tons of fun, but halfway through I ended up with B's cold, which sucked. On the poker front I ended up down $11. The poker room at Mandalay Bay had 11 tables, usually half were going, about 3/4 of which would be 1-2 no-limit, and 1-2 tables of $3-$6 limit. I exclusively played $3-$6 limit. I had a hand with JJ down, and the flop was JJ9. I slow played the crap out of it, getting someone to bet on the river, and I raised him. I won a decent pot, and a $196 high-hand jackpot. I had some bad beats: I had K5 suited, flop had a K57 rainbow, but the river had another 7 ruining my 2 pair, giving a guy with KQ the better kicker. Huge pot. Another hand I had big slick (AK), the flop had an A, the turn a K, but somebody had pocket 4s and had made a set (3 of a kind) on the flop, dooming me to a huge loss. At one point this crazy guy sat down with $200-$300 in chips. (Most people buy in for $100). He raised pre-flop every time, and almost always raised everyone on anything. It was totally nuts. Sadly that hour or so was during a really cold streak for me, I wasn't getting anything worth paying $6-$15 to see the flop on. He even re-bought for another $200-$300, and lost that entire amount. As soon as he left a ton of other people left, nobody was going to leave while he was dumping that kind of money. |
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