A glimer of hope in a sea of re runs and reality tv

This week the first new One Tree Hill of the season aired. It was a planned mid season start, but I was worried b/c last year was so lame that I was ready to give up on it anyway.

To my surprise this season is really good! Between last season and this season 4 years have passed and the ages of the characters have almost caught up with the actors so you dont have a 25 year old chad michael murray playing a high schooler anymore.

The little kid that two of the characters had in highschool is now 4 and is super cute, but whats even cuter are how the friends "uncle luke" and "uncle skills" are treating him :) The story line is decent so far, and annoying things they use to let drag on they arent letting drag on anymore.

So if you, like me, wanted to give up after last season give them another try, its actually pretty awesome

Belga Cafe

So I thought i'd start throwing some restaurant reviews in here on occasion because I seem to go to some pretty awesome places.

Last night I got taken to Belga Cafe down on 8th street SE. I've been to that area many times and never noticed this place before.

Its a Belgium themed restaurant. At first glance the menu had a lot of meat on it. There was even a section of the menu that was entirely devoted to muscles. This I was amused by because when I went to Belgium, everyone I was with had muscles at literally every meal possible because I guess they were extraordinarily good there, but I figured it was just the town we were in and not the whole country...I guess its their thing.

Lucky for me there was a veggie section and I got an awesome pasta dish that was flavored so well! Also as an appetizer we got the cheese plate which we devoured. And for dessert was a flour less chocolate cake with a lemon thyme ice cream.

I'm getting hungry again thinking about it! It looks like they have a pretty cool brunch too so hopefully i'll go back :)


http://www.belgacafe.com/

Traffic

From VA it takes me about 45 min to get to work, and I always assumed it was city traffic that held me up as well as general 295 congestion...well it turns out i'm wrong and all the traffic is getting to and then over the va/dc bridges.

Now starting off in DC it can take me 15 minutes to get to work! Thats unheard of! Its awesome.

Of course now i'm being sent part time to the dulles office to work on a project...isnt that how it always goes.

Jetta vs HHR

So my lovely little jetta is in the shop again. It shook when i started it up and the key got stuck in the ignition when i tried to leave the car so I decided it was time to bring it in.

For starters the onsite car rental place has given me the Chevy HHR...I dont know if anyone is familiar with this car but its like a cross between a SUV, a bus, a station wagon,and a large pt cruiser. It has the biggest blind spots ever, and is terrible.

Anyway the car place doesnt seem to know whats wrong with my car, they've called me with two suggestions that I discredited and four days later they are ready to have me pick up the car. I'd be surprised if anything was fixed though since the only thing they did was reboot the computer in the car and they have no idea why the key gets stuck.

SO its monday and i'm annoyed....

I dont even know

So a while ago I became addicted to this site: www.woot.com . I've never bought anything from it, but for some reason I love checking in every day to see what the new deal is. Its so exciting!

Well i have recently become aware that there are two spinoffs
http://shirt.woot.com/
http://wine.woot.com/

I think its a good thing i havent started ordering anything from this site, b/c every now and then they have expensive items like a new tv, and its just a slippery slope before i impulsively buy one on woot.

Here's the thing

I dont particularly care to argue whose football team is better than whose, actually I dont really feel the need to trash talk about football in general.

Now that the redskins are in the final run to the superbowl their fans have become increasingly more annoying. The weird thing is that I dont hate the redskins, and if the pats arent playing i'll probably opt to watch or root for the skins anwyay...so arguing with me about them is pointless.

What is particularly hard is that skins fans dont really have a great argument for why thier team should win. Here is how the conversations go

Redskins Fan (RSF): Man my team is so the best, all other teams better watch out cuse we are gonna win everything
Me: Oh yeah? Because I think my team just completed a perfect season.
RSF: Whatever, doesnt matter, my team is on FIRE, four games in a row!
Me: Didnt we kick your ass last time we faced off?
RSF:Nah-uh
Me: Hmm maybe I was watching another game then
RSF: Yeah thats right, we are gonna win it all

When trying to have a reasonable conversation things like Nah-uh dont really hold up well. Basically I just give up

What happens in vegas...

stays in vegas. Especially my money :( oh well. It was fun there though! I saw cirque de soliel's Love (The beatles one) and that was awesome, and our hotel (mandalay bay) was where the big UFC fight was so there was tons going on. I saw a bunch of fighters that i had no clue who they were and chuck lidell's coach. I think my favorite bar was rum jungle. I wish I had a rum bar like that in my apt.

I cant wait to go back and am already planning my next trip there :)

Happy 2008 everyone!