We’ve been finishing all the DVDs of Scrubs that we have around here so we can be ready for next week. It’s getting to the point where we are doing nothing but sitting around watching TV after getting off work and running. The other night we sat down and decided we were going to watch one full DVD-worth of episodes. It wasn’t until we were watching them and well into the DVD that we realized there were eight flippin’ episodes on one DVD. That means we sat there for a little over three hours watching episodes from the first season of a show that has been on TV since 2001. At this rate, we’ll be done all the DVDs we have by wrapup though, so that’s something we can all be proud of!
We had some people over for Thanksgiving this week and cooked a nice meal. My family has always made me think that Thanksgiving dinner with all the fixin’s was something that took a lot of time and was really difficult to do. My buddy and I managed to take an entire meal from raw turkey and nothing ready to sitting down at the table and eating in two hours and eighteen minutes. And before you lash out and say it probably wasn’t a full meal, let me explain what we had: roasted turkey, potatoes au gratin, cranberry sauce, stuffing, vegetables, apple pie and cinnamon rolls. If that’s not a belly-filling meal my parents would be proud of, I don’t know what is. I think people should take it easy on Thanksgiving, it’s not that hard.
One of our favorite quotes around here has been: “We’re adults now, we get to decide what is normal, what is acceptable and what it means to be an adult.”
That came from this comic and it’s something I’ve decided is completely true. As an adult (admittedly, not a very mature one), I get to decide what it means to be an adult. Watch out world, I’m going to have one of every NERF gun before too long!
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This was one of those weeks that is jammed full of work and other things going on. We’re all working long days to attempt to make things bearable next week when we only have three or four days to work. It looks like we may be having Thanksgiving with the crew here, so I’m pretty excited about that!
One of the guys is out of town and will be coming back this coming weekend. We decided his car needed a little bling so we went out and bought window stickers and Christmas lights to put up inside the car. It all started because we took his car camping and got it kind of dirty; we decided we should clean it out and get the oil changed for him because of that. When we cleaned it out, we purchased an air freshener that smells like Axe body spray. We decided it smells like a club.
When we went to pick him up from the airport in his car, he started laughing and walking away from the car. He didn’t want the people at the airport to know he was one of the people getting into the car that looked like a mall Santa vomited good cheer and rainbows all over the inside. It was pretty awesome. He took them all down the next day though because he didn’t want to have to drive through a gate at work with all that crap hung up on the inside of his car.
We watched Star Trek on Blu-Ray … twice. One of the guys got a PS3 which has a Blu-Ray player built in so we decided we would splurge on one disc we would all like. We started watching it and tried to count all the lens flare in it but soon decided that number was going to be too large. I don’t know why we thought that was a good idea.
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A group of us went camping this past weekend to get some relaxing out of the way. Next time we are going to have to do a little more planning beforehand, but it turned out to be the perfect weekend for it. A couple of us had been planning this trip for three days and we found out at the last minute that the group was going to be larger than anticipated. That was not a cause for alarm, it just took one more trip to the grocery store and we got things all squared away.
When we got to the site, it was a little too late for us to make it to the check in so we hiked to the site in the dark, set up the tents with just a few strategically placed flashlights and went to bed. In the morning, we finished unpacking the car and setting up the site then headed to the ranger station. We found out the site we were one was booked starting at 1400 that day so we had to pack up and move to another site. So we went back to the site, reversed the unpacking process and then got to another site and started all over again.
We got put in the sites where people usually have horses, so we had a few people around us who had traveled with their animals. One of the girls with us got to ride one around the clearing behind our tent which made her happy. At first she tried taking her teacup terrier with her on the horse’s back, but she was scared he would fall out and get trampled or scooped up by a hungry owl (the dog is really small) so she passed him down to us and continued her little jaunt.
The dog was great all times of day except the morning. He woke up at around 0530 with the sun and then started jumping around and licking us. I woke up the first morning with him standing on my chest and his nose two inches from mine. When I opened my eyes, and yawned, he started licking me and nibbling my nose. This was repeated for each person in the tent with him. It’s an interesting way to wake up.
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We threw a party for one of the people at work yesterday that had the theme “Grafitti Party”. Basically, everyone wore a white shirt and we had a ton of Sharpies and highlighters available for everyone to write/draw whatever they wanted on everyone else’s shirts. The place we had it had a huge pool and a nice grill with an eating area. Give enough 20 somethings a pool and a place to grill and eventually someone is going to go for a swim either voluntarily or otherwise. It ended up being otherwise and by the end of the night, everyone at the party had gone for a dunk at least once, most of us many more than one time. No one lost a phone or any other electronics so the night was considered a
I got a new phone because my old one was starting to get a little beat up. I had had it (or it’s many replacements of the same type of phone) for almost two years and I didn’t want to pay an extra amount every month for the priviledge of having a BlackBerry. After all, why would I want a phone that is locked into a closed source operating system when there is something as enticing as the Android platform that allows open development and has all the various amenities I could
One of the Majors at work asked me if I could turn an old router into a wireless network bridge for a system he has that doesn’t get great wireless reception in his house. I figured it would take me about eight to ten minutes to load up dd-wrt on the router, configure it and then take it back to him. Once I finally got around to loading it (three days after he gave it to me), it took me almost 45 minutes to get it working correctly. I felt my geek cred slowly going down every minute I took over the first ten minutes. After all, dd-wrt is simply a linux kernel built onto the tiny flash ROM chip on the router. This is the stuff I know and love; it shouldn’t take me that
We have a NERF armory at our place now because every time we go to Target, we look and see if there is some other NERF weapon we do not have yet. We’re going to go broke if we keep this up.
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