ha ha ha

Erin Andrews Loves the Hardwood!

saw this. damn funny.

Arizona Trip

Arizona Trip 2008 (Days 1-6)

Day 1: March 13, 2008
Flight was delayed 30 minutes due to missing paperwork? Probably the passenger manifest. I arrived in Phoenix late and hang around with pops while he checked in on five of his liquor accounts. Salesman tour of Phoenix from Sun City to Scottsdale. Four out of the five stops were Walgreens. Bringin' back the memories. We stopped for lunch at a Polish café, named EuroDeli for sandwiches. After finishing up, we headed back to parents home on other side of valley. I started to get hot...mostly because I’m still wearing a long sleeve shirt and jeans I left 30 degree Denver in. The temperatures in Phoenix was starting to hit 80’s. As we approach home, we get detoured to see stepmother having lunch with coworker. The same coworker who I’m later to hang out with on Friday. So we hang out there for another twenty minutes as I'm fading fast. I'm now approaching the 25 straight hours of being awake barrier. Throw in the unusual brightness of the sun and long day on top of it, and I’m in bad shape. I reach parents house and take a four hour nap to recover. I slowly come to life again as we sit down for dinner. Parents have made a crock pot roast for dinner. We take a 2 plus mile walk and return home around 9:15 p.m. to see the second half of the Phoenix vs. Golden State game on TNT (Phoenix win) and I crashed around 11:45 p.m.

Day 2: March 14, 2008

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Rockies vs. Mariners Game

Day 3: March 15, 2008

Had lunch at the Native New Yorker restrauant in Goodyear. It was a local sports bar that specialized in chicken wings. Watched the second half of North Carolina/Virginia Tech basketball game. UNC pulled it out at the end. Tyler Hansborough hit the game winning shot with .7 to go. After lunch we went grocery shopping in town. That night Mary, dad and I went to the Coyotes vs. Oilers game at Jobing.com stadium.

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Coyotes vs. Oilers Game

Day 4: March 16, 2008

Had a barbecue at my parent’s house. A few of my dad’s cousins/second cousins came over. I think it was the first time I met any of them before. They all seemed pretty cool. One of them was from Detroit and was a Dead wings fan. I gave him the "royal" treatment. He showed up wearing a blue Lions hoodie. That was his first mistake. I made comments to make him cringe like:
"So which broken WR are the Lions gonna draft this year. It will make 4 in what 6 drafts?"
"I see that Kevin Jones is gonna carry the work load this year...oh wait...they just cut him."
"They should sign a QB. I hear Joey Harrington just got cut in Atlanta. Oh wait, you drafted him #1 five years ago."

So he was a big fan of me. We ate burgers and such. My dad hates Bo. Can't you tell? It was a little cooler today, around 59 degrees, sunny but windy. After they all left I spent time scanning old photos from Super Bowls and All Star game onto the computer and ended the night watching National Treasure.

Day 5: March 17, 2008

St. Patty’s Day! The original plan was to go up to see the Grand Canyon. But the cold front that moved in yesterday afternoon put a co bash on that. The snow up there caused some major accidents (Zona people don’t know how to drive in bad weather) and there is also some major road construction on the highway to get there. It’s already quite a drive from my parents house (5-6 hours) and with the other factors we decided against it. I’m sure I’ll see it at some point. It’s not going any where. Instead we thought about going down to Tucson to see some new caverns that were discovered recently, but we found out that there is a good two to three week waiting list to get in. You need reservations to get in a state park…go figure. 0-2. Next my parents wanted to hit a new casino down there and see the Moody Blues in concert there. All sold out. Darn. Finally, we decided to catch a Rox-Giants game in Tucson.

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Rockies vs. Giants Game

We followed game by going to the Dessert Diamond Casino (Not to mistaken with the Dustin Diamond Casino...just kidding it doesn't exist...or does it?) in south Tucson. My dad went up to the ticket counter for one last ditch effort to score some Moody Blues tickets. Still no Moody Blues. Darn! Instead we hung around the casino and played two cent slots. I feel old now. I put in $20 to start,and eventually got up to $83.48. My biggest pot was $24. Thought I hit it big, but then remembered, it’s just a 2 cent slot. It was enough to play for 2 hours. We ate at the casino's "all you can eat seafood buffet." It sounded like a good idea, and then after seeing my dad load up on two plates of crab legs reality set in. Oh god, I'm gonna be stuck in a car for 2 plus hours with my dad and his crab farts. Son of a B*tch! Afterwards we left for home. Got in around 10:45 p.m.

Day 6: March 18, 2008

Light day. The weather was scorching hot again. Temperature was in the 70-80's. We...correction...my dad and mom decided to go to the Arizona Botanical Gardens in Scottsdale. Translation: a walk in the desert to see different types of cactus es or cactui. What ever. I actually had a good time.............looking at all the hot chicks there! Man there were a lot. Oh and there was a cactus or two there also. Big Mother F*ckin' Cactus! Inside the park there was also a butterfly tent of many types of butterflies flying around. It was funny seeing a 6-7 yr old girl crying and throwing a fit when her parents were trying to pull her away from the butterfly tent. Jacob, I'll teach you this some day . We walked around for 2-3 hours in the sun and then headed back for home...during rush hour. We had to get from the far side of town to the other side. Whoopi! We ate dinner at some pizza place named Sabatinos. Pretty good pizza. And then got home around 8 p.m.
Och!

Shyster Sunday

A guy calls a law office and says: "I want to talk to my lawyer."

The receptionist replies, "I’m sorry, but he died last week."

The next day he phones again and asks the same question. The receptionist replies, "I told you yesterday, he died last week."

The next day the guy calls again and asks to speak to his lawyer. By this time the receptionist is getting a little annoyed and says, "I keep telling you, your lawyer died last week. Why do you keep calling?"

The guy says, "Because I just love hearing it."

'Zona Trip Day 2

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Real Death Star

Yahoo had an article about a possible "real death star": http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080310/sc_space/realdeathstarcouldstrikeearth
Pretty wild how much stuff out there in our universe could destroy us in the blink of an eye (even if the impending star explosion would happen 100,000s of years from now). Also made me think of global warming while reading it. It mentioned that the gamma rays could produce an ozone depletion of up to 25% (CFCs only got us down to a 3-4% depletion). And also that there would be a bit of a smog effect because of the way it would react with the upper atmosphere. This would lead to some global cooling. And that's where I thought of global warming tie-ins; I wonder if our ozone hole was letting out greenhouse gasses. Maybe that is a short term solution to global warming? Anybody know more about the ozone layer and what it allows to pass in and out of the Earth's atmosphere? 'Cap.

so anyways

FYI. I'm a grad student now.