Happy Thanksgiving

I just wanted to wish everyone* a Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you are able to eat as much as you possibly can and sleep off the rest of the night.



*-Those associated with Charter Cable are not included.

Traffic is Fun

I just spent a cool 4 hours driving back from San Diego. I hope Amy is very appreciative, and makes me lunches for free over Christmas Break......hint hint.

Sorry I am really tired right now and just want to take a nap.

Saved by the Bell Trivia

Here are a couple Saved by the Bell Trivia questions. See how well you do:

1. Why does Zack join the Glee Club?

2. Why do Zack and company spend the night at the mall?

3. What as the name of Bayside's class play that the group all acted in?

4. Why doesn't Kelly want to go to her homecoming coronation?

5. What is the name of Stacy Corosi's college boyfriend?

6. How does Zack get Lisa to go out with Jesse's step brother?

7. What is the name of Kelly's baby brother who she brings to school?

8. What is Valley's mascot?

9. Who did Kelly break up with Zack for?

10. What is the name of the girl who wanted to be on the wrestling team?

Bonus: Why is the name of the mascot at the college attended by Zack, Screech, Slater, and Kelly?

If you can answer all of these, then you have no life like me!

Home again

Hello everyone. Sorry for my lame couple of posts that past couple of days, I was away from my home computer and didn't feel like spending too much time using other people's.

Phoenix was a lot of fun, I would post pictures but in case you didn't know my camera was stolen a few weeks ago. This was a nice ongoing joke for the trip though, as either myself or one of the other guys would as me to take pictures for memories.

This was pretty much ultimate sports weekend as I watched the Suns/Sixers game on Friday night, spent Saturday at "The Library" and "Hooters" watching the Michigan/OSU and USC/Cal games. As you probably guessed the two places I mentioned were both bars, and also needless to say I think I drank my fair share. Lucky for me I took a nap later in the evening and was fine the next morning. John, however, not quite as lucky that night.

Sunday we went to the Cardinals/Lions game. I think the best thing I can say is that the University of Phoenix Stadium is quite impressive and seems to have a good atmosphere. The teams, the parking and the food however weren't as good though.

Overall I have to say it was a pretty fun trip, and Phoenix was a pretty happening place. The roads all seem to be torn up, but driving around isn't too difficult we found.

I think my favorite part of the trip happened while having a conversation with our friend Dong after we passed the local greyhound race track.

Dong: You guys ever bet on dogs?
Rest of Us: No just horses, what about you?
Dong: No way man! Dogs are crazy!

So yes, never bet on dogs in a race, cause they are crazy. Follow that advice and you'll go far.

Thrilling Matchup!

I am on my way to the classic NFL powerhouse matchup of the Detroit Lions vs. the Arizona Cardinals. Needless to say I am pumped up about this one............

Let's Go!

Today is a very important day for college football. I will be watching two games with BCS implications at hand. With any hope the two teams I want to win, will do so, and thus make my day of sitting in a bar drinking a more pleasurable experience. So with that

FIGHT ON!!!!

and

HAIL TO THE VICTORS!

Rising Arizona

I'm here in Arizona. I'll updated you all later. I hope to meet Ed and H.I. and maybe Nathan Arizona.

Its Official Now

I made the call today. Now if I can only get a 60 million dollar deal like the #1 pic from this past year's draft.

Oh and you don't need to comment on the crappy photo editing job, I am already aware of it. And in case you are wondering why I didn't get a Broncos jersey being held up, its because usually only the top 5 drafted players get that honor, and last time I checked the Broncos haven't had that many crappy seasons to draft that early.

Cheap Pizza

I think for the past 2 months or so I have gone out to eat once a week. The funny part is that I go to the same place every week; Pizza & Pasta on Main St. in Orange. It’s a little hole in the wall pizza place that offers, 2 big slices, a side salad and a drink for a grand total of $5.50!!! That price can't be beat!

Tomorrow a few coworkers and me will be playing in the Orange County Jeopardy tournament. Last year we came in 2nd and won a desk fountain (that broke after about a week). This year top prize is $20 to Quiznos. Needless to say I am going to be totally focused tomorrow. Wish us good luck!. And for the heck of it, give me some random facts that may come in handy.

Cover songs

Today I heard an interesting version of Michael Jackson's Billie Jean. It was a cover done by Chris Cornell -

Random Thoughts

Here are 5 thoughts to think about today:

1. ESPN is getting screwed with their Monday Night Football schedule. They get crappy games (c'mon 2 raider games?!??!?!?) and they get to watch NBC get a flex schedule where they choose their own games. Sucks to be you ESPN.

2. It's odd, but it looks like the BCS may have just got it right this year. Trust me this is hard to admit, but look at the top 8 teams, they all play one another in the upcoming weeks. In a way it's like their own playoff.

3. I wish we would hurry up and get some real winter weather. Just last week it was 90 degrees. Where is the rain, where is the wind, where is the cold?

4. What looks cooler the Playstation 3 or the Nintendo Wii? Both look cool, but I'll refrain from either for the time being.

5. Which movie series would you like to see me do a movie log of?

Sorry if this was lame, not feeling overly creative right now.

Episode III: Revenge of the Sith - complete

10:28 - I already had the movie poster below, so I decided to go with Natalie's pic for this one. Why? If you are asking why then you are lame. I will start this one from where I left off two blogs ago, so that I won't repeat myself.

10:49 - General Grievous is always coughing and such and I bet many of you are wondering why. The answer is that Mace Windu used his "force crush" on him before he got on his ship. Thus he cannot breath so well with a crush chest cavity. How do I know this? Clone Wars Cartoons of course!

10:56 - Yes the two lovers are together again....no not Padme and Anakin, C3P0 and R2-D2. They are cute together. This is in the early stages of their dating days I think. Okay now P&A are back together. Has anyone looked less pregnant than her?

11:00 - Oh crap its the "I'm so in love speech" - Stop it! Seriously! Natalie in the even clothing though, that can continue.

11:09 - Anakin still complains a lot. oohh I'm not a master, oooohhh don't make me spy. Just do your job!

11:13 - Hold me, like you did by the lake in naboo. Mac told me that's what Annie used to tell him.

11:15 - Doesn't Anakin realize that Palpatine can sense things....almost like in a Jedi way, but only from a different perspective. Anakin is still dumb and naive. Now Palpatine is gong on about Sith legends. It doesn't take a genius to figure out he's a Sith Lord. That's like me talking about bowling all the time, you would automatically assume I'm pro...which of course I am.

11:21 - Its nice to see Anakin apologizing for being a pain in the ass one last time to Obi-wan before leaving. Its not like he's never going to see him again.

11:22 - Here is something that bugged me. The Clones all share the same scar that Jango Fett did. My thought is that scars aren't in DNA, so how could they be transferred? Lame question, but seriously, that makes no sense.

11:23 - something happening. I'm not the Jedi I should be, I want more, and I know I shouldn't. I like to use this line relating it to whatever I want to be better at. Its fun! I'm not the Policy and Government Relations Advisor I should be, I want more!

11:35 - Palpatine gets cooler with the more power he gets. He tells Anakin who he is, but is so above Anakin that he makes him do nothing. Simply amazing. "I can feel your anger, it makes you stronger, give you focus"

11:37 - Obi-wan just uses a blaster. This is like Batman using a gun, it just doesn't happen.

11:39 - Ahh the moment in Star Wars when all goes to hell. Anakin starts crying and decides to save Palpatine. Cool scene though, flashes of Anakin and Padme staring out their windows into the sun. A moment of clarity for both I guess.

11:41 - Either Mace Windu brought the 3 weakest Jedis with him, or Palpatine is just one badarse fighter.

11:42 - If you have never seen the face Palpatine makes while fighting, watch ep3 again. They are classic, it almost looks like he is joking around.

11:47 - Does anyone else think palpatine looks funny before he puts his hood on? Where his hair is wild and his face is all burned? Yeah its hilarious.

11:50 - This is by far the most depressing moment in any of the 6 movies in my mind. The slaughter of the Jedi. The music really adds to the situation as well. This is by far one of Lucas's better directing and editing moments.

11:52 - Poor Yoda...he just dropped his cane. Luckily he is a badass and the clones have no shot.

11:54 - Anakin lights up his saber to kids...yeah that's messed up.

12:03 - Error Alert! When Anakin gets out of his ship on Mustafar uses both his hands to put on his hood. Neither one is a metallic hand. Both are normal. There was no life-like hand replacement yet, that didn't come til Episode V when Luke needed it.

12:10 - Obi-wan is going to talk to Padme. I like when he says that Anakin has turned to the darkside, she automatically knows what that means. Considering the Sith had been gone for hundreds of years, she must really know her history.

12:11 - Obi-wan "Anakin is the father isn't he? I'm so sorry" - Great line

12:15 - Padme just ran out of her fighter, has anyone looked less pregnant, I know I have asked already, but still! And she RAN to him! and she has twins! c'mon people!

12:16 - Anakin/Darth's speech to Padme is awesome. Anakin's first first choke too. He has grown up so fast.

12:18 - Darth and Obi-wan have their conversation, and are about to start battling "You will try!!"

12:20 - Yoda just took out the guards. The red guard was one of my favorite action figures as a kid. Not sure why, he didn't do anything, but just stood there.

12:20 - Yoda and Palpatine start their force push battle. I wish I could force push, I know I said it previously, but still awesome. Now Obi-wan and Darth battle it and push each other!!

12:23 - Fight in the Senate room. Is it lame that I was wondering while watching this, if the senators who are having their pods destroyed gonna be pissed? And how does Palpatine or the guards explain this? "umm yeah they umm, fell off their ledges. They umm weren't bolted down, sorry about that, we'll get you a new one"

12:26 - Nerd note: This is the only time in any Star Wars movie, where two of the same colored lightsaber battle one another.

12:30 - You underestimate my power! it looks like he is wearing mascara here

12:31 - oooh thats gotta burn a little. Poor Obi-wan, although I do give him credit for not sticking the lightsaber in his back or chopping his head off. Now he is becomng a crispy critter.

12:35 - The birth of the twins/birth of Darth Vader. Pretty cool mix. I really like the Vader operating room being pristine white. Ahh the helmet is coming down.......click, snap, ready to breathe. More nerd trivia: This is the first Darth Helmet to be perfect in its shape. All others didn't have a symmetrical mold.

12:39 - Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo - Darth looks pretty lame during this moment.

12:41 - Funeral on Naboo. Nice touch that they are adding in that necklace that Anakin gave her. Does anyone know that oh he killed her!!?!? Special appearances by Boss Nass and Jar Jar.

This is by far the best movie of the new trilogy. I don't even think its close, nor can I find anyone to argue with me. Anyway, thank you for reading. I will probably do episodes IV-VI sometime soon. Until then...Keep on trucking. I bet you thought I was gonna say, "May the force be with you!" - Fooled you!

Thank you all!

I would like to thank you all for giving me positive feedback on my life blog updates of watching the star wars movies. Although I could not finish them all in one setting while beginning at midnight, I do plan on finishing the other 4 movies for you all. I know you are dying to read them, or dying to see what a loser I really am, either way I'm flattered really. I will be watching Episode 3 tonight as its about to start. So there will be a new journal up later tonight. Until then....May the force be with you.

wow that was pretty lame, even for me!

Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

4:49 - The movie is starting. If Cinemax were really cool they would have shown The Clone Wars cartoon inbetween episodes 2 & 3, but alas they didn't. For my own sake it's probably better that they didn't.

5:00 - I really like Dooku's new finishing move. The choke hold that lifts Obi-wan off his feet. Its like when a wrestler creates a new move. Anakin just cut off Dooku's hands, quite an impressive move. The head rolling off after the decapitation is the just the finishing touch to an impressive fight.

5:07 - I have been up for 23 hours now.

5:15 - I'm so sorry.......its 5:15 and i have failed. the mission is not possible on the little sleep i got last night. Perhaps another day it can be done under my own circumstances.

Episode II: Attack of the Clones

2:21 - So I guess all the movies are running a minute late?

2:26 - CGI Yoda just isn't that cool. Puppets are awesome and classy. I'm always fascinated that everyone can speak pretty much every language spoken. They must have had some crazy foreign language classes in the republic.

2:28 - Oh Ani, you've grown so much! Pretty sad that Jedi's aren't allowed to meet girls, as Padme seems to be the only one Anakin has ever met. No lookers at the academy I guess, much like Westpoint, according to my friend Young.

2:32 - Anakin just said that Padme didn't like him watching her while she slept. Are you really shocked by this Anakin? Seriously, you talk about thinking about her everyday and then wonder why she's slightly creeped out by you? I guess the academy didn't cover a class on dealing with the opposite sex, or covered material related to social skills.

2:43 - Anakin's dry humor isn't playing very well. Or maybe that's just dry acting. Right now its hard to tell. Mac just called to make sure I'm still going strong....I reminded him that I am a jedi.

2:44 - Obi-wan just stopped some guy from dealing death sticks. We need jedi knights in the schools to tell kids that there is no hope with dope.

2:48 - One of Jar Jar's only scenes in the movie, and during his speech, Padme cuts him off. Needless to say Lucas got the word from the fans......no more talky talky from Binks.

2:50 - Anakin is such a crybaby. He is going off on Obi-wan to Padme. Remember they haven't seen each other in years and he starts complaining to her about his job. Way to make a first impression there!

2:58 - The Jedi kids are cool! I can't wait to send my kids to the academy. Sure the boarding will be hard, but they'll get to be Jedis!! (I maybe slowly losing it here)

3:01 - Padme just p3wnd Anakin! "Oh he's not a Jedi, he's a padawan" BURN!

3:03 - Hey neat! Nicole Ritchie is in this movie! I didn't know she had a cameo. I guess I have to give her more respect. Before I thought she was just a attention seeking, anorexic no talent hack. I apologize.




3:05 - Hey what's the best way to drive Anakin crazy? Oh I know where a really revealing dress and flirt with him. Oh Padme, you troublemaker! But seriously, could you turn her down in that outfit?

3:12 - Another annoying kid, Boba Fett. I wonder who would win in a fight between kid Anakin and kid Boba Fett. I think we would all be winners if they eliminated each other.

3:20 - Anakin's "nightmare" in bed....It's funny on so many different levels. Do I really need to say anything?

3:34 - Starting to get tired, I need something to wake me up...oh yeah, that helps a little bit...

3:42 - Anakin has found his mom. I always wondered why the Tusken Raiders carried her around? Did they use her as a punching bag or something, cause they are nomads so shouldn't they try to pack lightly? Carrying a woman tied to a few sticks just doesn't seem that practical. Am I looking into this far more than I should be? Perhaps, but hey its almost 4 in the morning.

3:44 - Random thought, Obi-wan has some cool hair in this movie.

3:47 - I just realized for me to watch all these movies, I'm going to have to stay awake for approximately 32 hours. Yeah this is not gonna be easy.

3:55 - Jar Jar just suggested that Palpatine be given unlimited power. This is Lucas once again trying to make amends with the fans by putting all the blame on Jar Jar for the Clone Wars and Palpatine's eventual rise to power. Its a nice touch George, but Jar Jar existing can never be forgiven.

4:04 - Yes I made it to 4 am! Anakin and Padme are expressing their love to one another right before they are gonna be wheeled out to their doom. I think its the same as watching robots express their love for one another.

4:06 - Ah yes the execution of the 3 heros. Obviously Dooku has never seen Austin Powers. If Scott Evil were watching this he would say something along the lines of, "I have a gun in my room, bang their dead, we can shoot them together!" Why do villains always have to think up some elaborate way to kill their enemies? One shot, bang! thats it.

4:09 - At this moment I would like to thank the dog/rat creature that rips Padme's shirt just enough to reveal her stomach. Thank you creature.

4:19 - Am I a jerk for laughing when Boba Fett picks up the helmet/head of Jango Fett? Yeah? okay just wanted to make sure.

4:28 - Obi-wan/Anakin vs. Dooku. After Obi-wan is injured, I'm waiting for him to yell "I'm badly burned, but I'm okay!" Anakin just got his arm chopped off. Its always cool when someone has a limb cut off because there is never any blood. I always found that weird as a kid.

4:30 - The Main Event! Yoda vs. Dooku "This Time, It's Personal!" Who is older between the two, cause Christopher Lee looks ancient. Yoda should aim for the knees, but he keeps leaping up in the air. Too much defense, not enough offense, that's why it ends as a draw.

4:35 - Anakin and Padme's wedding. Anakin went all out with his 14k arm. That's a nice touch.

Well somehow I have made it through 2 movies without having to drink coffee or my red bull. I am feeling a little tired, but I am keeping myself busy with random cleaning that needs to be done and soduku puzzles, although I'm learning its harder to do them at this time when my mind is bordering on insanity.