Interesting

I spent all season listening to caps fans taunting me about how the caps were doing so much better than the bruins (which they were). This is odd though since I do like the capitals and consider myself a fan of both teams. Anyway, since I dont want to be mean and say directly to those people what i'm about to write, i'm going to just post it on my blog instead....funny who is going on to the second round huh? That is all.

Video Blog day II

So last night Alan came over for the Usual tuesday night Lost viewing party, when to our surprise there was no new lost! What could we possibly do!!! It turns out watching old videos on youtube is always a good option. After showing him the shatner video from yesterday (which peter hated on) He goes "but have you seen the original", and really its too awesome not to share with you all:



I like the costumes, and I also like how the guys actually have literal bright eyes.

Weekend Fun

This weekend was a lot of fun. Peter and I drove up to baltimore to go to Clipper Citty Brewery (which has been re-branded to heavy seas). The lady giving the tour was crazy. Also there was another old guy on the tour who was there by himself and possibly high. he had a shirt from a utah brewery that said "bring some home to your wives", so at least he had a sense of humor. There were 6 beers to taste, and three were decent and the other three were awesome.

Last night when i was watching the simpsons (yes i still watch the new episodes) there was a montage of conserving electricity and using wind power and guess what song they used? Electric Six's Danger High Voltage! I was so excited, and wanted to put a video here for you to see, but there was none to be found. instead I heard about this on the radio today and its awesome:

Can I have a Do-over for the weekend

Any weekend that includes going to the ER is a pretty bad weekend. The good news is that the VA hospital's er is awesome and super efficient. what could have been an all night event only took 2 hours! Plus the Bare-Bones brought chocolate and ice cream over after which was awesome of them :)

We just got disc 1 of Undeclared (the tv show from 2001) and its impressive how many people I recognize. I knew that i'd recognize seth rogen and jay baruchel, but The girl from Dawson's creek, a girl from californication, pam from the office, superman from smallville were all spotted in the first episode! Oh and the voice of Jason Segel. The show is ok is far, but we'll see what the rest of the 1 season series has to offer.

Really einstein's in college park?

THIS was what you had in mind when I asked for capers? That's laughably stingy

Space News

All week i've been eagerly awaiting Barack's speech to nasa about our future. I was unable to walk over to Building 3 to watch the telecast since i'm swamped with work so I patiently waited to read a report of his speech. I kept going back to CNN to see if there were updates when I finally saw this link "Obama says he is committed to the future of NASA"...This is it, what I've been waiting for. I opened the article and....well this conversation with my co worker sums it up nicely

me: shortest article ever: Here
peter: oo i like all the details
me: i know, i was like thanks fucker, i clicked on the title b/c i wanted to know MORE details than the title...not exactly the same
peter: haha, article should have just said "EOM"

New England Sports!

So a couple of weeks ago peter and I attended a Red Sox/ Nats game and a Dc united/ New England Revolution game. NE won both! Go us.

Baseball:
The sox looked alright. I mean we beat the nats so it wasnt too big a feat. Wakefield came out first to pitch and did a great job. The game was going at a pretty fast pace, but then they brought out daisuke....what a waste of money he was. Remember the hype over him? remember the millions of dollars spent just to talk to him? Sure glad we did that...... The other disappointment about the game is that Jacoby Ellsbury, one of my favorites whose shirt i wear, has changed his number!!! WTF. Thanks Jacoby! now my shirt is dumb and out dated. Its bad enough that I have a Johnny Damon Jersey, but now I have that AND a Jacoby 46 shirt. come on.

Soccer:
To me, it looked like overall DC united was the stronger team....however once they got to the goal they'd fall apart and never score which is ultimately what lost them the game. Thats really all i have to say about soccer since i dont know that much to start off with.

cant wait for the rest of the spring/summer soccer and baseball games!! Starting friday with the brewers game!

New Orleans!

Just got back from my 3rd trip to new orleans in as many years. This time it was for Alexis's bachelorette party.

Food

I'll get this statement out of the way first...NOLA has almost no food for vegetarians. I ate a lot of stuff I normally find gross just so i'd eat something...like mushrooms and radishes and quinoa...I kid you not. Bignets though are awesome.

Outfits

We went to a wig shop in preparation for the evening and bought colored hair extensions, although mine didnt really show up in pictures b/c i went for a dark purple. But that was fun, and I still have mine for future outings. Also, we were peer pressured to put on temporary tattoos (weird, and dont do this at my party please) but i picked a small one that said "love" and put it on a boob, and all night people kept pointing and asking "is that real" and i kept forgetting about the tat and being offended they asked if my boobs are real, then i'd look down and remember.

Boys
We accidentally conducted a science experiment. Friday night we were so cold that at around 1 am we went home and changed into our warmest and frumpiest clothes and returned to bourbon street where boys still approached us to flirt and chat. Just when we thought it couldnt get worse, we changed into our pj's to walk around the hotel to attempt to play a joke on the bride, and guys were still interested. Nola boys are NOT picky.

Once we got to a very crowded Patty O's a super nice couple saw our party and gave us their prime location table where everyone who walked into the bar passed our table, and struck up a conversation with us. Andreea and Kat came up with a great idea to get the cute boys that passed by to kiss the bride on the cheek for her scavenger hunt. This was a lot of fun for the rest of us, but I think alexis thought that part was less fun. There were two guys to note though. One came up to alexis and was like "i'm the stripper they hired" (and started unbuttoning his shirt). then when alexis started pouting he was like "they paid a lot of money for me so you should try and enjoy it". He then hung around a while long and was hilarious. Then an OLD guy came up to Christine at some point and goes "whats the deal with people kissing the girl in a tiara? can anyone do it? can girls do it" she explained it to him and he was like "i'll think about it"...thanks buddy but noone asked you. On his way out however he stopped to give alexis a kiss. We stopped this game at 13 kisses and 1 rejection. The rejection I should note the guy approached us himself, then said "i'm not going to kiss her, i dont know who else has done that" at this point we told him to leave.

Jazz
We were there for Jazzfest, which was more fun than I imagined. There were Jazz tents set up in jackson square and along the water and we just walked around for a while. The food sucked (as noted above), but we got our pictures taken with milk mustaches, and soco had a booth set up with delicious frozen drinks.

I think fun was had by all this weekend. Thanks nola

Sorry

You may have noticed a lack in posts this week even though i promised more on the sox/revolution games i went to. They are still to come!

However my parents are in town so I am taking a half day today, and tomorrow i head to New Orleans for Alexis's bachelorette party so i'm taking another half day, so i've been working like crazy to get everything done before I go.

Who knows how much I'll be allowed to post about nola when I get back ;)

I didnt realize West Virginia had that reputation

Sat night after a redsox/nats game and new england revolution/dc united game (more on those later) we headed to Banana Cafe for a few drinks with Mike and Tristan. After the drinks we hailed a taxi to go home and talked sports with the driver the entire drive. It was very pleasant and I actually enjoyed the ride and discussion (minus the humorous confusion about why dc united was playing a British team, and that new england wasnt actually IN england).

We made the right turn to our apt as we were wrapping up the conversation about march madness when the driver threw in this Gem "I know that since i live in virginia I should root for the west virginia team, but I cant.." and then in the most happy and singsongy voice he completes his thought "because my son told me they are all gay".

We got out of the cab and looked at eachother, and peter said "he was soooo close [to getting a good tip]"

Best.Movie.Ever.

I dont know why it took me so long to post this, but last weekend I went to see the best movie ever for the first time of what I hope will be many.

Hubble 3D!

It was awesome. Leonardo Dicaprio Narrated, Astronauts were entertaining, and It was cool to see all the stuff I worked on. The coolest part were the New images that were enhanced by computers and 3D. The imax takes you right into the midst of it all.

I highly recommend going to see it.