The End

As you can see, June was a stellar month for posts.  So I'm going to call it and say that's it for now.  Thanks for reading!

Touchdown!

I ate so much crazy food this weekend. Ohhhhh blaaaahhh!!  But so goooood.  A very nice friend of my wife's came over on Sunday and made lamb burgers which were put in pita pockets with feta and sprouts.  Add some greek salad , pita, and eggplant hummus too. We also picked up an ice cream cake from Stone Cold Creamery.  It was like chocolate, coffee, and heathbar I think.  I ate a nice big piece right before watching True Blood. Wow that was some good ice cream cake. Makes the last one I had from Baskin Robbins seem like a piece of frozen bread soaked in milk.

I only worked out twice last week. Yikes! Talk about a rest week.  Course I wasn't resting, it was bathroom renov at the parentals house! It will be done tomorrow!

Here's a pic I took at a Logans Steak House a while back.  It reminded me of Federer getting hit on the head with a cue ball.  But whoever painted this girls breasts, art style or not... I mean wth!

Prometheawhathuh?

It seems the journey is not over! I can't stop visiting these forums.  I guess I'm looking for validation that other people were as disappointed as I am.  But a lot of it is people just calling each other stupid with little or no discussion.  It's somewhat fascinating to me to see how we inject so much of our selves into liking whatever, whether it's a movie or a political party. We forget how subjective our experiences are and how much we really just see what we want to see.

I busted out an afternoon run today and while I was not about to burst into flames hot, after an hour I was pretty damn hot.  Was a decent run though, felt good with solid effort.  Tomorrow will be ride and swim day.

Journey Complete

Friday night at about 10:20 or so PM, I sat with excitement as the 20th Century Fox banner rolled onto the huge Imax screen. My glasses and 3D glasses adjusted, Prometheus was beginning. The theater was packed and the sound system was cranked to the max.  It was a very exciting moment!

Alas Prometheus was not for me.  I've read countless reviews since watching it , so much so that I feel completely UN compelled to write my own review.  Basically, the music and script did not agree with me.  I'll be curious to see what my friends think of it when they see it. 

Two days to go

Game of Thrones is over. Sigh. Now I have to wait another year. Ahhhhhhh!!!

French Open is coming down to the finals.  I watched a great match the other day between Tsonga and Djokovic. The 4th set tiebreaker was just pure awesomeness. I was practically peeling my face off and hooting as loud as I could.  In the end Djokovic endured. Damn that guy is pure steel facing I think 5 match points.  He doesn't just play it safe in those points either. He's totally aggressive which just makes him a real ninja perhaps.

My friend texted me today and said , " you better run, it's national running day!"  I had planned on running. Really I did, but I had a choice. Run in the afternoon muggy heat, or eat pizza and drink beer. I chose p&b babee.

Did you see the Venus transit? Nope? Yah me neither.  You'd think I'd be gaga about that, but for some reason, it didn't interest me very much.  Venus is just too puny. I mean who really likes Venus.  Solar flares are wayyyy more fascinating.

Asa is taking swimming lessons.  I had to move her into level 2 rather than level 1 since it filled up. She's doing well, but poor girl is terrified to open her eyes underwater.  I don't know where she could of gotten that fear! ( cough , looks to sides).

I purchased my 3D Imax tickets for Prometheus earlier this week. 10PM Friday and I can finally finish this Prometheus journey.  I have somewhat shielded myself from all spoilers. I don't know the entire plot, but I have seen most of the big reveals already.  I just can't help not pressing the "spoiler reveal" buttons in forums.

I've also read several reviews and there are some pretty unhappy viewers out there. Rotten Tomatooz has Prometheus around 75% from 80 reviews. Which is pretty good actually. If it were 45%, that would be horrible.  Of course, I don't always agree with critics, so I'm still going into this with as open a mind as possible. I think I will either love it or hate it. I don't think I'll be lukewarm about it.

Interestingly, Safety Not Guaranteed is getting good press.  I definitely want to see this movie at some point. And if you haven't heard of The Loved Ones, then you should. An Australian horror flick that critics are loving.  I'll definitely have to catch that at some point too.

French Fires

The heat is owhn!  A couple of my last runs outside were mid day and wow that was tough.  It becomes a mental workout.  And I'm not sure if it's just me not being in FL for a while, but the nats seem much denser than I remember. Get the hell out of my eyes man!

My runs at Timberlake have been postponed due to wildfires on Eglin's reservation.  It was really bad a few days ago, with the town engulfed in smoke and ashes falling out of the sky.  My pool cleaning committee members were none to happy about that.

The French Open is owhn!!  It's shaping up to be a good tournament too.  Hopefully I wont lose too much sleep trying to catch stuff live.

A recent pic, car window reflection, bam instant layer!

Perplexity Brothel

The Prometheus spoiler train is out of control.  The film has already been screened by the French critics and comes out any hour in some parts of Europe. Got another week for us in the States.  I'm actually managing to stay away from the majority of the hardcore details.  I don't know how long that will last though.  I get the feeling that the movie is not going to be as good as I want it to be, but I still have hope.

Anyway, the ride is almost over. I've been absorbed on the internet daily with all things regarding this movie.  Some of the fan art on Prometheusnews.net is just insane and inspiring. Their photoshop skills are pretty good too.  They have a thread that's purely for making fun of stuff with photoshop, called a meme thread. From a fan perspective, it's hilarious.  And if that wasn't enough, one of the original painting artists, I believe from the first Alien movie is showing off all these amazing pics of the set and crew building stuff and having crazy times with porn actresses even (in a totally good way!) Yah I don't think I can expand on that though. But the backstory is very cool.


However, even if Prometheus is a huge turd bomb of a movie, I can say that it was totally worth the journey. I never would've read the two scripts from Jon Spaihts, Shadow 19 and Passengers. I read Passengers yesterday and WOW!  That was such an awesome story. I don't know how that is not a movie yet.  One of you who follows this blog needs to read it so I can talk to you about it.  If you need a copy, just email me.  It's just awesome.

And the title of this post is what was translated from a French review about Prometheus.  You have to admit, that's damn funny.

Heatheus

I keep meaning to post and I just don't. Sometimes things happen in the day and I say that is excellent, I will blog about that. Then later I get busy, tired, or think meh it's not so interesting now. You know how this works.

Anyway, home renov is kinda slowed down last couple of weeks.  Which has been good really. Someday I'll have a master bedroom closet like no other though!  It will be glorious.

Another dentist visit for myself and Asa gets 5 stars and high fives. The receptionist told me I look like Heath Ledger.....seriously.....hahahahahaha! I love it!

I got a new phone finally.  It's a smart phone even. So now you can send me pictures and my phone won't explode trying to download them and I can actually see them.  I don't mind texting now either.  I mean it's basically a handheld computer that happens to be a phone too right.  So far though for just call clarity and comfort, it's hard to beat the old flipper. It's a trade off for the better I spose. I also have to say Verizon is kicking the shit out of AT&Ts reception so far.

Game of Thrones is almost over! Ughhhh I could watch this show all day.  Sometimes I wish it was like my experience with Battlestar Galactica. I could just rent and watch episode after episode for 3 seasons and it was glorious.   Waiting a year for another season is painful. But it's good stuff!

Everyday some new piece of information for Prometheus seems to get online.  It's just one spoiler after another.  Soundtrack track listing, Super secret twitter girl reports, low profile actor interviews. I can't stop myself it seems.  It doesn't really matter to me though. I read Hunger Games and saw the movie the next day practically and it was great.  Some new and seemingly valid information has popped up today that suggests Prometheus will be a solid film rather than a disaster.  I'll continue to keep my expectations in check.

I found a baby snake in my florida room. The snakes love me it seems!  I don't think he lived long though. I did my best to save him, but he did not look well.

Cork Snackeez

Yesterday we were on our way to Lowe's to buy a pull bar.  All the DIY stuff on laying down flooring says you'll need a taping block. This block allows you to hammer the flooring slats in a safe way to make the seams push up with no gaps. No one tells you to get a pull bar.  Which is just ridiculous since the tapping block is complete shit.  The pull bar OWNS!

And with that the cork flooring in the master closet is complete. Still a pretty good pain in the ass.

Anyway, on our way to Lowe's we almost saw a dog get runover at a busy intersection near our house.  She was a little fat white jack russel.  So we pulled over and put the dog in the truck.  We drove around a bit to see if we could figure out where the dog came from. She was fat and old, so it couldn't have been far.  I talked to some people on a porch and they suggested I go two houses down.  I did and I think I just scared these people as they didn't want to come to their door. Guess it's the Wolverine thing eh.

So Liz and I took the dog to my parents house as they agreed to keep her in the garage until Monday when Animal Control was open. Well, today Liz was going up to work and saw a house with a sign and sure enough, this was the dog's house.

So I returned Poo Bear! to their owners.  And older couple named Larry and Carolyn.  They just moved into this house a couple weeks ago. Interestingly, he's from LA and her from south FL. Since Larry's wife passed, these two had a teenage love connection that got..reconnected! They had two dachsunds and a maltese looking dog with cancer. All in all a happy re-union.

I know she was going mad the night before since it was a really bad storm. I know if my dog was lost I would be freaking out!  They were so nice and Poo Bear was such a cute little fattie sausage.  It was a good thing all around.

Later in the night, I went out to make sure my pool was going to shut off and what slithered right in front of me into the pool.  A 3 foot or so snake! Ahhh what is up with the snakes lately.  The damn thing swam out and then turned around and came right back at me.  I ran inside to grab a light. Where my 500 lumen light when I need it!

The snake seemed to be stuck in the pool but he kept following me or the light it seemed like at some moments.  Google images for water snake and cotton mouth/moccasin ensued.  Can I really get close enough to see the shape of it's constantly moving head?  Kinda brown, maybe red, yellow irregular bands.  We really thought it was a Moccasin at first which is not a good thing.  Liz's sister and husband are the closest wild animal experts we know so a few snaps from the phone and a few texts later suggested that it was perhaps a corn/rat snake.  A better thing.  They're supposed to be good climbers though.  I just threw some pool noodles on the sides so he had something to slither up on.  It came out of the pool at one point seeming to rest, but then went back in!

Hopefully he'll be gone by the morning.  To think we had thought about taking a late night dip. Yeeesh!

Blue Steel

Prometheusnews.net posted this up today.

Yowza!

Lit_l ThunDa_r

My moutain bike excursion was cut very short today. Wasn't even out 15 minutes and some harsh thunder in the distance. Stuff just pops out of nowhere in FL! So home I went to run on the treadmill. Blaaaaah. It's been like 6 weeks since I've run on the treaddy. Weird!

Went to Asa's field day outing today. Course the rain cut that short too.  So I ate lunch with her and her friends.  I still get a little uncomfortable around so many small kids.  They just want to eat me I think.  Although two different boys said I looked just like Wolverine! Yeeeah!!  Maybe I should go to Dragoncon.

Still no cellphone.  I think I'm done debating though. This weekend I'm fairly certain I will obtain one.  Who wants to guess what I will choose?!!

I came across a video on youtube for a band called Dye. The song is called Fantasy and the video is done in anime style.  It's basically 4 teens sneaking into a public pool for some typical teen fun but it quickly turns into some else.  You can search it on youtube if you like. I can't seem to get the song out of my head either. I might as well download it.

Timberrrrr

I dressed up for a run and then laid down in my parents bed. I sorta dozed off for prolly 15 minutes. I suddenly felt exhausted driving over there and thought, well this run might not be happening. I popped up afterwards and didn't feel sleepy, so I said I might as well run.

I finally, after practically a year, got out to the TimberLake Rec area for a run.  I haven't run a trail since Mt. Charleston last year. It was so nice to have no flat roads, only twisty paths and some hills.  Yes, fun hills too,cuz they don't last 2 miles and are at -17 feet sea level rather than 9000 feet above!

My stride quickly shortened up and I was having a blast running down the oak leaves and root obstacles.  I ran past a 3 foot snake of some kind. It slithered away from me, thank goodness.  Prolly just a common variety black snake, but since I rarely see snakes in the wild, I was like ahhhh!  The worst thing is spiders though.  I hate getting a face full of web.  Then the other webs are constantly getting on my arms and legs.  Makes me itchy.

Swarms of little nats, you just have to make sure to exhale.  I did get a nice branch across the face and one of those thorny vines reminded me in a most unpleasant way that I have road rash over my right leg. Damn thing coiled around me and then pulled like I was a yoyo. Ughhh! And wow it was hot as **** today.  Had I not been in the shade of trees I would've been miserable.

Can't wait to get back out there and do a trail bike then run!

Oh and on my way home I saw a guy, a very fit young dude, running down the sidewalk with I'd guess about a 25 pound kettlebell in one hand.  Is it me or does that not sound like a good idea. Resistance training fine, but don't imbalance yourself right? Maybe thats why he was very fit.  

Repair Underway

Well, I awoke this morning and all was well.  My left ankle def took some sorta hit as its sore, but overall nothing to bad. I think I will just run tomorrow.

Being without a cell phone is starting to become a bit annoying.  I'm still deciding if I want a smartphone or not.  They are calling to me with all their sexy 1080/8mp/gorilla glassness.  People complain that they have to charge their phone everyday. Uhhhhh, I've been doing that for years and it's no big deal. Ahhh old tech has its perks.

KurSplat!

Fresh off the road!

Imagine riding along (not too fast thank goodness) and suddenly you decide to just lay your bike down into the curb. Man, I wish I could've seen a video of it.  I'm pretty sure my head went smack into the ground.

It's been years , I can't even remember since I was at that point of "well, I can't do shit now, just gunna fall and hope shit don't break!"  I was cleaning my glasses with both hands and a freak cross wind came along. I'm such the bighead no hands rider I'm like I can compensate with no hands. Nope! Wind said,"get your ass on the ground!"

I splatted right at the corner of a driveway. So lucky I did not meet big brick mailbox.  I sat their collecting myself. Nothing broken, no deep cuts, bike ok, and yay! I didn't get racked. That's the worst isn't it?  The woman that lives at this house drives up and offers to give me a ride back, but I tell her I'm ok and ride home.

I got home and cleaned my wounds real quick and then went for a run! Why not right?

What you don't see in the pic is my shoulder scraped up and the other side of my knee.  Right now it feels like someone hit it with a hammer and is pretty swollen and bruised. Guhhhhh!!!  My ribs are starting to ache and my left shoulder is hurting too. Oh Motrin, please save me! Hopefully, I won't be a hot disaster tomorrow.

Was this an adjustment bureau intervention? Setting me back for a few minutes for some reason? Hmmmmm.....

Assflower

I died laughing at this today!

Someone from the Prometheous forums was using this as an avatar! Hilarious!

Shoot the Beezer Patrick!

April is out! Happy Birthday to my mum!  You're such a great mummy!

I didn't get much running in for April, but I did increase my ave mile to 4.4 which is the highest it's been in 9 months, so I'm happy with that. And I've thrown in swimming and biking too which is fun and fresh.  Running after riding is different than just running. Obviously theres some inital muscle WTF, but it's something more. I almost seem to breathe better and have a more constant rhythm in my head.  I wonder if it's due to my HR being lower while biking first.

Who knows, it may all even out at some point, but for now it's refreshing.

I am done with redoing the ceiling in the bedroom. I am sooo freaking happy that's over. I don't want to do another ceiling for at least 2 months. hahahahaha Seriously, at least 2. (raises eyebrows and points fingers)

The Beezer has left and it was a good visit. We got to hang out and drink some beer whilst eating some fine grilled meats prepared by my masterful self. We even managed to catch a flicker show. Cabin In The Woods! While not amazing, it was a fun slasher flick.  I mean the plot twist was clever, and the comedy of say Aqua man was funny ( and gross) but let's get to the meat of the matter. Zombies and Stoners. They should make a movie like that. Just cheech and chong scared out of their minds and zombies. It would be cultishly funny I think.

Prometheous is bearing down upon the feverish cinematic hungers of the rabid Alien fanbase.  Will it be rated R or PG13! AHHHHHHHHHHH  That's the hot topic it seems.  The latest International trailer shows us the blue vagina cobra as its being called.  Some say it's cute! I kinda have to agree.  I just keeping hoping the movie will be good.  As Noomi says in the trailer, "PLLEEEEZZZEE!!"  I'll be there opening night to find out.

Postis with the mostis

The Beezer comes to town tomorrow. Hmmmmm.

My cell phone is dead. At least I'm pretty sure it is. I've removed the sim card and battery a couple of times, dropped it some, and yelled at it.  It just doesn't want to connect to the network now for a couple of days.  So I guess I'll be moving forward in the tech world. Will I get a smart phone though? Hmmm prolly not.

I went crazy yesterday and rode 6 miles, ran 3 miles, and swam ~200 yards. The swimming portion was stupid slow though. You gotta understand, gerbils swim faster than me.  But it felt very good.  It had been 10 days since I ran, and I kept having to slow myself down. Was all good though, and today no crazy issues.

Birthdays and fixies

Happy Birthday to my dad! Keep on truckin mister!

Got my mountain bike back from Dragon yesterday. Finally donated my old Nashbar to Goodwill. That was a good bike! Now I'm wanting a new nashbar, only it's a fixed gear bike, or fixie. Unfortunately, the model I was looking at is out until August. So perhaps I'll just actually ride my mountain bike on some rougher terrain since I finally got my stupid Permit for the Timberlake Rec area. (Remember when we got lost man?!!)

I never mentioned that two weekends ago, I went to Chuck E Cheese for a birthday party. If you ever want to scare someone into not having a kid, take them there. Like 15 birthday parties all crammed into one area with a big mouse rapping and kids screaming. It was insanity. They stamp numbers on your hands when you come in that only show under blacklight. This is so that no one can leave with your child. Explaining that one is always kinda odd. But man, we musta caught some crud of the plague there. It's been a constantly morphing sickness train last two weeks, from stomach to bowel. 2012 is becoming a year of sickness!

Yay my ankle seems fine after a ride yesterday. I spent most of my time riding in a certain gear or two, even up the tiny hills we have here. Thing is, I like coasting. It's fun. A fixie may not be for me.

Angry Ankle

Bike is at Dragon Sports for tune up.

My left ankle decided on Monday to revolt for apparently no reason. All exercise has come to a halt. This has made my new Sugoi bike/run shorts sad.

Was feeling ill the other day, so I consumed large pizza quantity for energy.

Finally Game of Thrones has revealed Brienne of Tarth! She rocks!

Mulligan Sanders

I watched Never Let Me Go tonight on a whim. Jeez what a whim. What a downer movie! Carey Mulligan is so awesome though. The ending with her standing by a field and talking about how meaningless it all seems at times, is just sooo sad. Guuuuh!!!

Got 2 kiddie birthdays this weekend. Eyes wide!

Working on bedroom ceiling again. It was non stop sanding of the ceiling earlier in the week and it's official, sanding ceiling is the worst. Why do I now own two orbital sanders and 3 shop vacs?