I'll explain what “steelhorsing” is; basically, a green wrestler who calls himself Steelhorse Vachon here in the Orlando-area CALLED THE COPS on the veteran guy (Tommy Taylor; he used to be in the WWE developmental program) he wrestled in a match on Saturday night because the veteran was pissed at the greeny for being disrespectful so he hit him hard and the retaliation by Steelhorse was to call police. This is all legit, by the way. I'll elaborate more about it later but now I wish I would have been at that show to see the birth of “steelhorsing”, which to put it real nicely is when a wrestler acts like a coward. Except for a few things the week was pretty dull. However, the weekend was rather colorful, as you'll see in the latter half of this entry.
Monday was boring, Tuesday I only went to Winter Garden Village to have dinner at a freezing cold Bojangles (at least their chicken fingers are good, if rather spicy) and then stopped off to get a peanut butter/banana drink known as Hanz & Franz from Planet Smoothie (no girls half my age flirting with me this time), Wednesday was blah, Thursday I went to Blockbuster to rent something and I also got Domino's Pizza (it was good), Friday I returned the movie. Saturday I stayed in to watch free UFC on TV, and Sunday I went to Graffiti Junktion right in Clermont to watch the latter football game on. I saw the first one at home but I wanted to watch the second and also see the ISU basketball game against my dad's school (SIU) and I was able to see both at the same time. ISU kicked some ass, it turned out. It's now brothers coaching against each other and I don't really care either way if Baltimore or San Francisco wins. My time at the Junktion was fine-enough. I just wish the burger wouldn't have come with multiple toppings I did not ask for AND be burned to almost a crisp when I asked it to be medium rare.
Now, let me talk about a few other things.
Wednesday, the news broke about the star college football player who says he was caught in a Catfish-like scam where he was fooled into being in an online relationship with a “girl” who actually wasn't a girl. As it's an MTV show now, I suppose it's fine to spoil things and say that the movie Catfish is a documentary (the validity of which has been questioned; I have no idea if everything you see is 100% legit or not) about a filmmaker who gets into an online relationship and he begins to question things so he drives to where the lady lives and turns out, it's a middle-aged dame roleplaying to forget her crappy life, pretty much. It wasn't quite what I expected when I watched it on DVD and managed to be spoiler-free amongst all the coverage of a movie that perhaps was overhyped by the douche-y Internet movie-watching and reviewing universe, but it wasn't bad by any means. Now it's an MTV reality show and yeah, without having watched a second of it I feel free to question its validity.
Before I forget, at the end the movie does explain why it has the title it does. It's a metaphor and I'll leave it at that. As for the Manti Te'o thing where he told the world his online girlfriend died and it became a huge deal before people discovered a few days ago that the online girlfriend never existed... I have no idea what to think, how much Te'o was in on the scam, or what have you. He looks like a real dumbshit and/or a jackass depending on which version of the story you believe. And people wonder why I am cooling off on sports in general... when it's filled with terrible people like this, it's rather easy to feel that way, you know.
What I promised earlier, if you forgot about it or you never read it, back in early April of last year in a blog I wrote about the adventures of some people who happen to be pals with someone I know on Facebook. I know nothing of those mysterious people except what I heard about them. Basically, it was another Catfish scenario where the guy developed an Internet relationship with some dame and incredibly, it got to the point where they were going to move into a house together and go on a cruise, EVEN BEFORE THEY HAD EVER MET IN PERSON. I kid you not. The link to that is here: http://blairsweeklyblogs.blogspot.com/2012/04/exotic-snakes-people-of-walmart-creepy.html
Saturday, like I said I watched free UFC programming and overall it was entertaining. In the evening at a local wrestling show near Orlando, something strange happened which I had never heard of at all, let alone had seen in person. A greenhorn wrestler who I only seen wrestle live in a multi-person match wrestled a bout against a veteran British wrestler who I've seen many times before and he's quite good. From multiple people talking about it on Facebook, I know that the greenhorn acted like an ass backstage then in the ring he hit hard at one point to be a dick, so the Brit hit hard right back (this is not a rare thing at all at any level of pro wrestling); the rest of the match went alright but the greenhorn was so mad at getting hard, HE CALLED THE COPS. This is not a joke and not part of some bad wrestling storyline.
They had to come by and from what I hear, even they laughed at the situation. Well, a lot of people are now pissed, and for good reason. I don't think that kid is going to be booked on any show worth a damn any longer for the rest of his career. It's just embarrassing to be mad for being hit hard, first off, then he gets butt-hurt and thinks that police involvement is the right way to handle the situation... at least since then various people on Facebook have made many hilarious comments and posted funny pictures concerning the incident. There even is a #steelhorsing tag on Twitter. Like I said, I wish I could have been there live in person. I've seen some rather odd things at these small indy wrestling shows throughout the years, but never anything like this; hell, I've never even heard of such a thing and I've followed the wrestling industry closely for years now. Pretty incredible.
I already talked about what I did on Sunday so let me say that I hope everyone has a nice day today no matter what you do. When I post my next blog a week from today, I don't know if I'll have any wild tales about pals of pals being Catfish'ed or local pro wrestlers becoming a laughingstock across the entire wacky strange community due to their cowardice. Still, I imagine I'll stumble into something strange that I think could only happen to me.
Monday, January 21, 2013
Monday, January 14, 2013
The Wild & Crazy Tales of Bartholomew Suarez
The “Bartholomew Suarez” in question is the name of the 'bot that sent me a spam e-mail; the name is so preposterous it made me laugh and I had to use it for the title of this. Now, Monday the 7th I went to the Sweetbay supermarket to get some items. I also went to their deli section to pick up a sandwich; there was a real Honey Boo Boo-esque family around. Their sandwiches aren't as great as in part they don't use Boar's Head products; still, it tasted good. In the evening I watched the college football national championship game; I didn't really care which team won. At least this year's game was more exciting than last year's. To everyone's surprise the game was not close and instead was a laugher of a blow-out.
Tuesday, the real highlight... I got hit on by a girl who was almost half my age! I went to Planet Smoothie and I got a limited edition beverage there; it was based on apple. There's another one which I'll try the next time I am there. It is peanut butter and banana and oddly enough it's called Hanz & Franz, after that goofy Saturday Night Live sketch from many years ago. A pass was made to me by a girl working there, but not the lady I mentioned last month who works there that had on microscopic shorts and was showing off cleavage. She was there, but had on more appropriate clothing. Instead it was another lady working there; judging by her looks and her braces, I am quite confident she was under 18. She complimented me on my shirt and I thanked her; I left it at that as of course I am not a pervert.
Wednesday I went to Walt Disney World as I had free time and I wanted to try out their new attractions. At Epcot they have a totally redesigned Test Track which reopened last month, and also last month the latest part of the new Fantasyland opened. What a day of ups and downs. I talked about it on Twitter but I won't spent much time on the idiots I encountered there. Sure, you always see dumb people there, but on this day... having to sit on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride while you have Troglodytes right behind you YELLING AND SCREAMING constantly when they're sitting right next to each other... I wanted to throw them overboard!
I parked at Epcot and I used the monorail to go to the Magic Kingdom and back. Test Track, the design of the ride surprised me. It was 80's-riffic! It was all dark in there with bright neon colors... it was awesome. It was as if someone drank some brightly colored liquids and vomited all over the Tron universe... the original 80's film, not that crappy sequel from a few years ago. The interactive aspect, though... FAIL. While waiting in line there is a touchscreen where you pick one of four traits you like the most in a car (like power or efficiency) then you pick one of eight differently-colored cars. Sounds simple, right? Well, they went out of their way to make it a confused mess. You get a plain white card you swipe; it's blank on both sides, which helps muddy things. All along the way things that should be explained/clarified were never explained or clarified; I was disappointed in that as you expect much more from Disney, you know... it doesn't help that the first time I did it, it did not work; I went on it a second time and finally it worked, but despite the ride looking cool as hell, I felt let down as the advertisement I heard for the reworked ride was definitely more than it actually was; after all, what you get for picking out a certain vehicle... a few times, bogus stats are put up on a screen on how your car did! That's it.
The new Fantasyland... the new circus area only added the moved-over Dumbo ride, a circus tent that actually is a den for selling merchandise, and another tent for character meet-ups. But hey, the whole theme is well-done and cool. There also is a new area based on The Little Mermaid and Beauty & The Beast. From what I saw it looked fine. I had dinner at a random eatery in the Magic Kingdom but I had something to drink from the new area; I haven't had Universal's “butterbeer” based off of Harry Potter but I presume this apple juice (and other ingredients, like marshmallow) concoction is similar. Overall, even with the ups and downs, at least it was a really nice day on this day with perfect weather.
Thursday, the only thing of note I did was go to Burger King. What a foolish thing for me to do as in the past year or so I had several problems at different Burger King's. But, mainly I wanted something from their Coca Cola Freestyle machine (it ended up being strawberry Sprite mixed with a little bit of vanilla Sprite) so I was a fool and went to one. The food itself tasted good and the order wasn't screwed up; it's just that it took forever to make. Even the manager was yelling at his staff for being so damn slow. That place, it really fell off in recent years; I will never get over them changing their tasty chicken tenders and instead serving poor-tasting wannabe Chicken McNuggets. Why did that whole franchise turn to crap in the pas few years?
Also, late that night I tried to go to bed but I then woke up and I channel-surfed for something to look at on TV while I listened to something on the computer. On WGN was The Bill Cunningham Show. It's a standard talk show a la Maury where couple argue with each other and what have you. The host is an older gentleman who looks kind of goofy to begin with but the way he acted I swore at first it was a parody talk show, a la Night Stand with Dick Dietrick. Now, that I hadn't thought of in years and I had to look it up to get the title right, but I certainly remembered it being on in the late 90's. Of course, most talk shows like that are as phony and staged as Night Stand was, but that's another topic for another time. Anyhow, The Bill Cunningham Show is apparently legit, even though these days there needs to be a return of a parody trashy sleazy talk show.
Friday was nothing-happening so let me skip ahead to Saturday. In the evening I returned to Splitsville to watch more football, have some more food, and enjoy their beverages. I stuck around long enough upstairs to hear some music spun by a live DJ. It was the standard mix of older and newer songs, mashups, and remixes. It was cool, at least while drinking alcohol. At times it almost reminded me of good old Mako's... sigh. I can say via some patron at the bar admitting they know this song, for the first time I heard a One Direction song in full. It was catchy, at least, and certainly less offensive than most “popular” music these days. The Humpty Dance was also played, and this made me happy.
Sunday, I watched more football and that was about it. As for the next blog I'll be posting a week from today, I should finally be going to a theatre at least once, so that is nice as I haven't been to one in too long. I should have enough to talk about for what will be posted on Martin Luther King Day.
Tuesday, the real highlight... I got hit on by a girl who was almost half my age! I went to Planet Smoothie and I got a limited edition beverage there; it was based on apple. There's another one which I'll try the next time I am there. It is peanut butter and banana and oddly enough it's called Hanz & Franz, after that goofy Saturday Night Live sketch from many years ago. A pass was made to me by a girl working there, but not the lady I mentioned last month who works there that had on microscopic shorts and was showing off cleavage. She was there, but had on more appropriate clothing. Instead it was another lady working there; judging by her looks and her braces, I am quite confident she was under 18. She complimented me on my shirt and I thanked her; I left it at that as of course I am not a pervert.
Wednesday I went to Walt Disney World as I had free time and I wanted to try out their new attractions. At Epcot they have a totally redesigned Test Track which reopened last month, and also last month the latest part of the new Fantasyland opened. What a day of ups and downs. I talked about it on Twitter but I won't spent much time on the idiots I encountered there. Sure, you always see dumb people there, but on this day... having to sit on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride while you have Troglodytes right behind you YELLING AND SCREAMING constantly when they're sitting right next to each other... I wanted to throw them overboard!
I parked at Epcot and I used the monorail to go to the Magic Kingdom and back. Test Track, the design of the ride surprised me. It was 80's-riffic! It was all dark in there with bright neon colors... it was awesome. It was as if someone drank some brightly colored liquids and vomited all over the Tron universe... the original 80's film, not that crappy sequel from a few years ago. The interactive aspect, though... FAIL. While waiting in line there is a touchscreen where you pick one of four traits you like the most in a car (like power or efficiency) then you pick one of eight differently-colored cars. Sounds simple, right? Well, they went out of their way to make it a confused mess. You get a plain white card you swipe; it's blank on both sides, which helps muddy things. All along the way things that should be explained/clarified were never explained or clarified; I was disappointed in that as you expect much more from Disney, you know... it doesn't help that the first time I did it, it did not work; I went on it a second time and finally it worked, but despite the ride looking cool as hell, I felt let down as the advertisement I heard for the reworked ride was definitely more than it actually was; after all, what you get for picking out a certain vehicle... a few times, bogus stats are put up on a screen on how your car did! That's it.
The new Fantasyland... the new circus area only added the moved-over Dumbo ride, a circus tent that actually is a den for selling merchandise, and another tent for character meet-ups. But hey, the whole theme is well-done and cool. There also is a new area based on The Little Mermaid and Beauty & The Beast. From what I saw it looked fine. I had dinner at a random eatery in the Magic Kingdom but I had something to drink from the new area; I haven't had Universal's “butterbeer” based off of Harry Potter but I presume this apple juice (and other ingredients, like marshmallow) concoction is similar. Overall, even with the ups and downs, at least it was a really nice day on this day with perfect weather.
Thursday, the only thing of note I did was go to Burger King. What a foolish thing for me to do as in the past year or so I had several problems at different Burger King's. But, mainly I wanted something from their Coca Cola Freestyle machine (it ended up being strawberry Sprite mixed with a little bit of vanilla Sprite) so I was a fool and went to one. The food itself tasted good and the order wasn't screwed up; it's just that it took forever to make. Even the manager was yelling at his staff for being so damn slow. That place, it really fell off in recent years; I will never get over them changing their tasty chicken tenders and instead serving poor-tasting wannabe Chicken McNuggets. Why did that whole franchise turn to crap in the pas few years?
Also, late that night I tried to go to bed but I then woke up and I channel-surfed for something to look at on TV while I listened to something on the computer. On WGN was The Bill Cunningham Show. It's a standard talk show a la Maury where couple argue with each other and what have you. The host is an older gentleman who looks kind of goofy to begin with but the way he acted I swore at first it was a parody talk show, a la Night Stand with Dick Dietrick. Now, that I hadn't thought of in years and I had to look it up to get the title right, but I certainly remembered it being on in the late 90's. Of course, most talk shows like that are as phony and staged as Night Stand was, but that's another topic for another time. Anyhow, The Bill Cunningham Show is apparently legit, even though these days there needs to be a return of a parody trashy sleazy talk show.
Friday was nothing-happening so let me skip ahead to Saturday. In the evening I returned to Splitsville to watch more football, have some more food, and enjoy their beverages. I stuck around long enough upstairs to hear some music spun by a live DJ. It was the standard mix of older and newer songs, mashups, and remixes. It was cool, at least while drinking alcohol. At times it almost reminded me of good old Mako's... sigh. I can say via some patron at the bar admitting they know this song, for the first time I heard a One Direction song in full. It was catchy, at least, and certainly less offensive than most “popular” music these days. The Humpty Dance was also played, and this made me happy.
Sunday, I watched more football and that was about it. As for the next blog I'll be posting a week from today, I should finally be going to a theatre at least once, so that is nice as I haven't been to one in too long. I should have enough to talk about for what will be posted on Martin Luther King Day.
Monday, January 7, 2013
Mass Effect, Splitsville, & Rejects From The Jersey Shore
Here's what I've done the first few days of 2013. It hasn't been real exciting, believe me, although at least Saturday night provided something new to talk about. New Years Day I did not do anything besides play videogames (more on that later) and watch football. I did watch in the evening the Orange Bowl between big bad Florida State and the big underdog known as Northern Illinois University. I discussed it before but I was hoping NIU would do well as a lot of people gave them crap for stupid reasons and I did grow up not that far away from their campus. Well, the game was rather atrociously played by both teams; in fact the game itself was so bad I did not finish watching it as I figured playing the addicting as crack-filled donuts Mass Effect. The score was close until the fourth quarter, when Florida State opened the game wide open and they won by a comfortable margin. That whole deal was disappointing, mainly because the troglodyte haters were given an opportunity to crow about how NIU shouldn't have been in the game and all that crap.
Wednesday, I had free time and I needed to get out of the house so I went to the Florida Mall for the first time in a few months. That place was largely the same it's always been but I was able to go into the Microsoft Store; their goal was obviously to be better than an Apple store and well... it does look real fancy and there is a few areas to play Xbox360 games on a big screen. It's difficult to compare as it's really personal preference.
Thursday and Friday, totally uneventful. I mean, nothing to write about at all. So let me skip ahead to Saturday. I did not remember it until recently but back in December of '09 I went to Channelside in Tampa (it's a place I rarely go to) and I ate dinner there before going to St. Petersburg to Tropicana Field to watch a college bowlgame. The restaurant I ate at was Splitsville, a fancy bowling alley/restaurant/bar. It was a real cool place. Well, last month at Downtown Disney a two level version of Splitsville opened up but as it was during holiday season I figured it would be chaotic around that area and it would be wise to wait until things calmed down to check it out.
Turns out, it's a great place. It was still busy on Saturday night but I was able to get a seat at one of their bars. Besides 10 bowling alleys on the first floor, on the second they have like 20 additional lanes scattered all over amongst pool tables, bars, an area to dance, and this is amongst a mainly dance/pop soundtrack. Hearing a remix of Gangnam Style followed up by the Stones and Satisfaction... unique, but pretty cool. The food and drink wasn't cheap but I was not surprised by that, and not just because of where the restaurant was located at. It at least was good; I had my almost always of a burger and fries, and to drink I had a frozen tropical drink that they called Miami Vice; yes I chose it because of its name. They described it as a mix between a rumrunner and a pina colada (getting caught in the rain). I am glad it was a tasty drink. Sure, there were some loudmouths around but I tried to ignore them. Interestingly enough the candidates for a Jersey Shore 2 if they ever did one weren't the worst ones there. You know, tanned, buff-looking, ugly Ed Hardy shirts, gold chains, fancy watches, constantly using “bro”... talk about living up-or down-to stereotypes.
By the way, on the way there and on the way back I had issues with people pulling out in front of me or almost doing so, and both times I definitely used my horn to tell those drivers what I thought of their poor driving skills. Sunday I did not do anything so let me do some more plugging of the great game known as Mass Effect; I already mentioned in the past how it's awesome that the game gives you many different choices and you can import your save into the sequels so it's really one giant story; I also have to mention that besides the all the action you get involved with, there's also plenty of story and it's all good; there are also many chances for you to chat with the characters you team up with and you get to find out all their backstories and as it's sci-fi it allows for epic stories and it's all tremendous. I started the game originally and got partway in it but then realize I had been doing some things wrong so I started over and it's now all great. I haven't really felt like playing any other games, it's so addicting.
I'll be back a week from today. Not a whole lot is planned for the upcoming week but I am sure I'll be going out more than one night so that will provide entertainment for me to write about.
Wednesday, I had free time and I needed to get out of the house so I went to the Florida Mall for the first time in a few months. That place was largely the same it's always been but I was able to go into the Microsoft Store; their goal was obviously to be better than an Apple store and well... it does look real fancy and there is a few areas to play Xbox360 games on a big screen. It's difficult to compare as it's really personal preference.
Thursday and Friday, totally uneventful. I mean, nothing to write about at all. So let me skip ahead to Saturday. I did not remember it until recently but back in December of '09 I went to Channelside in Tampa (it's a place I rarely go to) and I ate dinner there before going to St. Petersburg to Tropicana Field to watch a college bowlgame. The restaurant I ate at was Splitsville, a fancy bowling alley/restaurant/bar. It was a real cool place. Well, last month at Downtown Disney a two level version of Splitsville opened up but as it was during holiday season I figured it would be chaotic around that area and it would be wise to wait until things calmed down to check it out.
Turns out, it's a great place. It was still busy on Saturday night but I was able to get a seat at one of their bars. Besides 10 bowling alleys on the first floor, on the second they have like 20 additional lanes scattered all over amongst pool tables, bars, an area to dance, and this is amongst a mainly dance/pop soundtrack. Hearing a remix of Gangnam Style followed up by the Stones and Satisfaction... unique, but pretty cool. The food and drink wasn't cheap but I was not surprised by that, and not just because of where the restaurant was located at. It at least was good; I had my almost always of a burger and fries, and to drink I had a frozen tropical drink that they called Miami Vice; yes I chose it because of its name. They described it as a mix between a rumrunner and a pina colada (getting caught in the rain). I am glad it was a tasty drink. Sure, there were some loudmouths around but I tried to ignore them. Interestingly enough the candidates for a Jersey Shore 2 if they ever did one weren't the worst ones there. You know, tanned, buff-looking, ugly Ed Hardy shirts, gold chains, fancy watches, constantly using “bro”... talk about living up-or down-to stereotypes.
By the way, on the way there and on the way back I had issues with people pulling out in front of me or almost doing so, and both times I definitely used my horn to tell those drivers what I thought of their poor driving skills. Sunday I did not do anything so let me do some more plugging of the great game known as Mass Effect; I already mentioned in the past how it's awesome that the game gives you many different choices and you can import your save into the sequels so it's really one giant story; I also have to mention that besides the all the action you get involved with, there's also plenty of story and it's all good; there are also many chances for you to chat with the characters you team up with and you get to find out all their backstories and as it's sci-fi it allows for epic stories and it's all tremendous. I started the game originally and got partway in it but then realize I had been doing some things wrong so I started over and it's now all great. I haven't really felt like playing any other games, it's so addicting.
I'll be back a week from today. Not a whole lot is planned for the upcoming week but I am sure I'll be going out more than one night so that will provide entertainment for me to write about.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
The First Blog of 2013
Here's the first blog post of 2013, and 2012 did not end in a massive bang for me. That's OK as I was still fine with how I spent last night. I'll also explain why this is up a little later in the day than I had originally planned.
Christmas Eve I did open presents, and they included some more PJ pants (I seem to get them every year, but that is OK) and some giftcards. Works for me. Christmas Day me and my dad drove up North about an hour to visit my aunt and have Christmas dinner at her place. It had been too long since I'd seen her so that was nice too. An older couple was there; my dad knew them but I did not. They were nice people. Different foods were offered but picky me did at least try all of the main items. She was worried about how the dinner would turn out; it turned out fine, I say.
Wednesday was boring but Thursday... I used the cash I got for Christmas to help me finally join the modern gaming world and I got something newer than my PS2. I decided to go with the Xbox 360; I wanted to give them a shot. I do listen to a quality gamer podcast (noquarters.net) so I had some idea what I should and should not get. It was a “Holiday Bundle” so it came with the disc for Forza 4-pretty great-and a free download of Skyrim; I am not sure about that and I usually don't care for RPG's but I haven't played it too much yet. Since then I have gotten a few other games and I should be set for a decent amount of time in 2013. I can say that Red Dead Redemption-a Western-is really good and getting the Mass Effect Trilogy box set was a real good idea; that is a game set in the future in space and its great hook is that not only is it like Choose Your Own Adventure and many different things can happen depending on a large selection of choices you make, but your choices in the first affects the sequels. Pretty awesome.
Friday was boring so onto Saturday. I went to the local Buffalo Wild Wings to watch the latest UFC pay per view and I said some things about it on Twitter. Maybe I should just stop going there. I've had issues with that place in the past and I got mad with their crappy management and in particular, their stupidity in figuring out what should be on their TV's at what time. A shame, as the bartender lady I dealt with for the majority of the time I was there on this night was a nice young lady. Plus, for part of the night I had to sit by some nasty trashy woman; I say that not just because she's a smoker but rather due to her skanky fashion sense and during one of the fights she started to drunkenly comment on the action and that was not what I needed. Thankfully she shut up and eventually she left. As for the show, the prelim fights were fine, the first few pay per view bouts were bad, but the final two were great stuff with some guys getting hellacious beatings.
Oh, and there was no audio for part of the FX prelims; instead it was the jukebox and to show you how out of touch I am with the modern music scene, I did not recognize who sang most of those tunes, let alone be abe to tell you what the song titles were. I recognized Nicki Minaj's horrible singing/rapping voice on one tune (I always enjoy ripping on her), there was a Nickelback tune, and not only was there Gangham Style but there also was the goofy Red Solo Cup. I was glad when the jukebox was shut off.
Sunday, I actually stayed home and used the greatness of NFL Red Zone to check out all the pro football games. The Bears needed to win their game and they had to count on their hated rivals (the Packers) to beat the Vikings in order to get into the playoffs. Chicago struggled but they beat the Lions; the Packers crapped the bed and lost, so the Bears season was done and while that was greatly disappointing, they don't have anyone to blame but themselves for having to count on someone else to get in the playoffs. The next day the Bears coach got fired. That was a surprise as I thought there were other people in the organization that needed to get fired before he did, but there are apparently a number of Chicago fans that disagree with me.
My New Years Eve was rather unexciting. I watched some TV, played some Xbox, and did not even have any alcohol. I did go out, but in the afternoon to go to that place which offers liquid nitrogen ice cream; good stuff. Today, I will watch more TV and play more games, and that's as exciting as I'll get. I already put in some gaming time so that's why this is up later than usual. As I mentioned before I am really looking forward to Northern Illinois University playing in by far it's biggest ever bowl game. Due to the system and some teams losing that's how they got in; many people got MAD and said plenty of stupid things about them being in the game... including some people I know, sadly. Besides it being the underdog and it's usually nice to root for one of those, I may be biased in that I grew up like 30 miles north of the school and I know a good amount of people who went there for college. If they did well or somehow even won over big bad Florida State, I would be quite happy as that would make so many look so foolish.
I'll be back Monday the 7th. Besides that game I'll actually go somewhere and write about it, which will help me have something to talk about.
Christmas Eve I did open presents, and they included some more PJ pants (I seem to get them every year, but that is OK) and some giftcards. Works for me. Christmas Day me and my dad drove up North about an hour to visit my aunt and have Christmas dinner at her place. It had been too long since I'd seen her so that was nice too. An older couple was there; my dad knew them but I did not. They were nice people. Different foods were offered but picky me did at least try all of the main items. She was worried about how the dinner would turn out; it turned out fine, I say.
Wednesday was boring but Thursday... I used the cash I got for Christmas to help me finally join the modern gaming world and I got something newer than my PS2. I decided to go with the Xbox 360; I wanted to give them a shot. I do listen to a quality gamer podcast (noquarters.net) so I had some idea what I should and should not get. It was a “Holiday Bundle” so it came with the disc for Forza 4-pretty great-and a free download of Skyrim; I am not sure about that and I usually don't care for RPG's but I haven't played it too much yet. Since then I have gotten a few other games and I should be set for a decent amount of time in 2013. I can say that Red Dead Redemption-a Western-is really good and getting the Mass Effect Trilogy box set was a real good idea; that is a game set in the future in space and its great hook is that not only is it like Choose Your Own Adventure and many different things can happen depending on a large selection of choices you make, but your choices in the first affects the sequels. Pretty awesome.
Friday was boring so onto Saturday. I went to the local Buffalo Wild Wings to watch the latest UFC pay per view and I said some things about it on Twitter. Maybe I should just stop going there. I've had issues with that place in the past and I got mad with their crappy management and in particular, their stupidity in figuring out what should be on their TV's at what time. A shame, as the bartender lady I dealt with for the majority of the time I was there on this night was a nice young lady. Plus, for part of the night I had to sit by some nasty trashy woman; I say that not just because she's a smoker but rather due to her skanky fashion sense and during one of the fights she started to drunkenly comment on the action and that was not what I needed. Thankfully she shut up and eventually she left. As for the show, the prelim fights were fine, the first few pay per view bouts were bad, but the final two were great stuff with some guys getting hellacious beatings.
Oh, and there was no audio for part of the FX prelims; instead it was the jukebox and to show you how out of touch I am with the modern music scene, I did not recognize who sang most of those tunes, let alone be abe to tell you what the song titles were. I recognized Nicki Minaj's horrible singing/rapping voice on one tune (I always enjoy ripping on her), there was a Nickelback tune, and not only was there Gangham Style but there also was the goofy Red Solo Cup. I was glad when the jukebox was shut off.
Sunday, I actually stayed home and used the greatness of NFL Red Zone to check out all the pro football games. The Bears needed to win their game and they had to count on their hated rivals (the Packers) to beat the Vikings in order to get into the playoffs. Chicago struggled but they beat the Lions; the Packers crapped the bed and lost, so the Bears season was done and while that was greatly disappointing, they don't have anyone to blame but themselves for having to count on someone else to get in the playoffs. The next day the Bears coach got fired. That was a surprise as I thought there were other people in the organization that needed to get fired before he did, but there are apparently a number of Chicago fans that disagree with me.
My New Years Eve was rather unexciting. I watched some TV, played some Xbox, and did not even have any alcohol. I did go out, but in the afternoon to go to that place which offers liquid nitrogen ice cream; good stuff. Today, I will watch more TV and play more games, and that's as exciting as I'll get. I already put in some gaming time so that's why this is up later than usual. As I mentioned before I am really looking forward to Northern Illinois University playing in by far it's biggest ever bowl game. Due to the system and some teams losing that's how they got in; many people got MAD and said plenty of stupid things about them being in the game... including some people I know, sadly. Besides it being the underdog and it's usually nice to root for one of those, I may be biased in that I grew up like 30 miles north of the school and I know a good amount of people who went there for college. If they did well or somehow even won over big bad Florida State, I would be quite happy as that would make so many look so foolish.
I'll be back Monday the 7th. Besides that game I'll actually go somewhere and write about it, which will help me have something to talk about.
Monday, December 24, 2012
A Special Christmas Eve “Blair's An Uncle” Blog
I am going to start off not in chronological order, but that's because something major happened this past Thursday... I became an uncle, to twins! It's the sister I have that lives in Kansas and everyone visited back in the Christmas season of '09, if you remember that far back reading of my time in the cold, cold Midwest. I am real happy it happened as there's been ups and downs in her and my brother in law having a kid, but things went right and now they have twin boys, Connor and Blake. They were scheduled to be born next month but early on Thursday, they decided to come out early. It wasn't the best timing; the plan for a few weeks was that my mom would fly out on that day, in order to help her out. Obviously, the plans are changed now. I know she wished she could have been there when they were born, but that was just bad timing.
Important thing is, the two tykes are doing fine now, they were given some “awww” little Christmas hats and some cute pictures of them have been taken. As I don't plan on becoming a parent myself, my two sisters having kids is the next best thing. As you might expect, my parents are quite happy to be grandparents; it hasn't fully sunk in yet that I am Uncle Blair. That is the highlight of Christmas season, for sure; it otherwise doesn't feel like the season at all due to how different things have been this year with the birth and all that. Me and my dad are still here in Florida and we do have a spot to have a Christmas meal at; it's not like I or him have to try and make an elaborate meal!
Now, onto the rest of the week. This past Tuesday night I went to Winter Garden Village where I spent some time in Best Buy (I did not buy anything) then I went to Planet Smoothie to get a drink. Man, the lady that was working there... I am pretty sure she was under 18 but she had on a shirt that showed off cleavage AND had on a pair of shorts that were microscopic. They barely covered her... but anyway, that was awkward and made me feel like a dirty old man; I imagine I wasn't the only person who felt that way when they looked at her and her rather inappropriate for her age outfit. Then again, Lord knows that isn't the first time I've seen in person a girl under 18 who really should have worn more clothing than she had on. But anyhow, at least the drink I had was good.
Wednesday was dull so let me talk about Thursday besides the whole becoming an uncle thing. I was going to eat at the Red Robin which just opened in Winter Garden Village. I got there and the spot they have it at isn't that large to begin with, so there was a line waiting outside just to get in, and no thanx to that. I decided to go to Uno's Pizzeria, as I hadn't been to one in a long while. The last time, me and someone I know was there and the experience was less than ideal so that's why I hadn't been there in ages. The experience there was fine but it gave me the worst-ever dosage of food poisoning. Trust me, you don't want to hear the details of why this was cleary the worst but it wasn't pretty. That sort of sours me on the place, you know. That's why I did not do much on Friday; the whole end of the world stuff was pretty stupid and even people making fun of it got tired at times. Thursday night was when the apocalypse happened... in my stomach!
Saturday, the only thing I did was briefly visit a Gamestop then I went to a nearby Target where I walked around for a bit and I ate at the Pizza Hut Express they have. That pizza experience was at least better and I had zero stomach issues this time around.
Sunday, I went on over to Friendly Confines to watch the Chicago Bears play against the crappy Arizona Cardinals. They surprisingly started off 4-0 then even more surprisingly lost 9 in a row before winning last week. All of that is unexpected. Chicago won 28-13 and while it was one of the last exciting 28-13 games you could ever watch, at least Arizona's crappiness really helped out and ensured that they would lose. And there were less annoying people around, thankfully. An individual I discussed before-Tugboat-was there, and the last time I mentioned how I was disappointed in him acting like the worst kind of sports fan concerning his team (the Colts); this time it was much better. No whining about stupid things or ripping on his team (which is now going to go into playoffs; the Bears have a chance to make the playoffs but they have to win their final regular season game next week plus need some help). Plus, he gave me a hilarious moment when he left a voicemail on someone's phone and included the phrase, “Yo yo yo, play with my yo-yo!” No kidding. I literally laughed out loud.
My next blog will be next Tuesday, the first day of 2013. Seemed appropriate. I'll talk about what I did the last days of 2012, including what I did for Christmas and what I got myself and what people got me for the big day. I hope everyone has a nice holiday season.
Important thing is, the two tykes are doing fine now, they were given some “awww” little Christmas hats and some cute pictures of them have been taken. As I don't plan on becoming a parent myself, my two sisters having kids is the next best thing. As you might expect, my parents are quite happy to be grandparents; it hasn't fully sunk in yet that I am Uncle Blair. That is the highlight of Christmas season, for sure; it otherwise doesn't feel like the season at all due to how different things have been this year with the birth and all that. Me and my dad are still here in Florida and we do have a spot to have a Christmas meal at; it's not like I or him have to try and make an elaborate meal!
Now, onto the rest of the week. This past Tuesday night I went to Winter Garden Village where I spent some time in Best Buy (I did not buy anything) then I went to Planet Smoothie to get a drink. Man, the lady that was working there... I am pretty sure she was under 18 but she had on a shirt that showed off cleavage AND had on a pair of shorts that were microscopic. They barely covered her... but anyway, that was awkward and made me feel like a dirty old man; I imagine I wasn't the only person who felt that way when they looked at her and her rather inappropriate for her age outfit. Then again, Lord knows that isn't the first time I've seen in person a girl under 18 who really should have worn more clothing than she had on. But anyhow, at least the drink I had was good.
Wednesday was dull so let me talk about Thursday besides the whole becoming an uncle thing. I was going to eat at the Red Robin which just opened in Winter Garden Village. I got there and the spot they have it at isn't that large to begin with, so there was a line waiting outside just to get in, and no thanx to that. I decided to go to Uno's Pizzeria, as I hadn't been to one in a long while. The last time, me and someone I know was there and the experience was less than ideal so that's why I hadn't been there in ages. The experience there was fine but it gave me the worst-ever dosage of food poisoning. Trust me, you don't want to hear the details of why this was cleary the worst but it wasn't pretty. That sort of sours me on the place, you know. That's why I did not do much on Friday; the whole end of the world stuff was pretty stupid and even people making fun of it got tired at times. Thursday night was when the apocalypse happened... in my stomach!
Saturday, the only thing I did was briefly visit a Gamestop then I went to a nearby Target where I walked around for a bit and I ate at the Pizza Hut Express they have. That pizza experience was at least better and I had zero stomach issues this time around.
Sunday, I went on over to Friendly Confines to watch the Chicago Bears play against the crappy Arizona Cardinals. They surprisingly started off 4-0 then even more surprisingly lost 9 in a row before winning last week. All of that is unexpected. Chicago won 28-13 and while it was one of the last exciting 28-13 games you could ever watch, at least Arizona's crappiness really helped out and ensured that they would lose. And there were less annoying people around, thankfully. An individual I discussed before-Tugboat-was there, and the last time I mentioned how I was disappointed in him acting like the worst kind of sports fan concerning his team (the Colts); this time it was much better. No whining about stupid things or ripping on his team (which is now going to go into playoffs; the Bears have a chance to make the playoffs but they have to win their final regular season game next week plus need some help). Plus, he gave me a hilarious moment when he left a voicemail on someone's phone and included the phrase, “Yo yo yo, play with my yo-yo!” No kidding. I literally laughed out loud.
My next blog will be next Tuesday, the first day of 2013. Seemed appropriate. I'll talk about what I did the last days of 2012, including what I did for Christmas and what I got myself and what people got me for the big day. I hope everyone has a nice holiday season.
Monday, December 17, 2012
Ravishing Rick Rude, Mongoloids, & The Miami Connection
Here's what I've done since last Monday. That day itself was rather dull; the only thing of note was that I got a much-needed haircut and the joint was dead when I got there so I got it done real quick. Tuesday and Wednesday were dull, except that Wednesday night I did watch parts of that almost 6 hour concert from New York City for Hurricane Sandy relief. I happily made fun of Kanye West's performance as it's Kanye West and he's a loathsome and horrible human being all around. Thankfully, many people on Twitter agreed, where I made comments and retweeted funny statements I came across.
Thursday, in the evening I went with someone I know to IHOP for dinner, as hey why not and plus the last time we were there, groovy 70's music was playing. This time it was oldies and I was happy with that as it reminded me of listening to the oldies station as a kid. Good times. The chicken & waffles was also good times.
Unfortunately, due to the accident I was involved with last month, for awhile at least don't expect me to drive any lengthy distances. Thus, I unfortunately was not able to see a wrestling tournament that has happened each year since '03 known as the Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup, a 2 day tournament involving 16 wrestlers. It is named after a late wrestler who passed away at the age of 21 due to leukemia. I had seen all of them live since '04 (and I saw '03 on DVD) and it's always a great weekend filled with local wrestlers and guys from all across the country coming in. There's plenty of quality wrestling seen and there have been some incredible matches throughout the years. This is also the last JPMC they're ever doing, for various reasons. I really was gutted to not be able to go to it. Sigh. It was in Ybor City and at least at this time it's too far away. It was actually in the same club that I saw the women's wrestling show back in October. You know, the joint which charge eight bucks for a big cup of PBR (still pretty ridiculous, I say).
Anyhow, I wish I could have been there as I definitely have enjoyed those weekends... even the one in '07 that Jared David St. Laurent's toadies tried to ruin with rude comments and even trying to blind me by shining a laser pointer in my eyes! True story. I did not mention that in full anywhere online as I did not want to give them the satisfaction. But that is enough about about a bunch of mongoloids I haven't given a damn about in a long time but I presume they're still the same terrible people that they were years ago (which is a reason why I feuded with them, because they deserved to have their true colors shown).
To get back to a more pleasant subject (and because of that I won't go into detail on that horrifying thing which happened Friday morning up in Connecticut), Friday night I spent watching the UFC event; it was on Fuel TV and then FX and it was live from Australia (it was Saturday morning then afternoon there) and while it was not an event of big star names, it was a quality show as it had plenty of entertaining fights. I only saw parts of Saturday night's UFC on FX show as I had to go to a movie theatre for a special screening. It was of a bad movie from the 80's that a company found a print of and screenings were greatly received so it went on tour, and finally it came to Orlando. It was appropriate, as despite its title most of it takes place and was filmed in Orlando. I am talking about Miami Connection, a hilariously awful film about a rock band of Taekwondo practitioners who do battle with ninjas that ride on bikes, along with drug-dealing bikers. Yep. I saw it on YouTube when someone uploaded it a few months ago (but shhh on that; it was taken down) and I did a review for it on my movie reviews blog; the particular review is at: http://blairreviewsmovies.blogspot.com/2012/09/miami-connection.html
I was happy to see it on the big screen. I know that some already have a backlash against it. Yeah, I agree that there are funnier and shittier bad movies out there and if they got this treatment crowds would likely also go bananas for it, but I don't know why some want to slag it for being overrated as a bad movie experience, but oh well. Of course some people I know who are huge bad movie fans are amongst that crowd... shrugs shoulders. I got there and had drinks at the patio bar they have at The Enzian (the arthouse place I've mentioned a number of times before; they had couches and fancy chairs and tables and food gets brought to you. I then waited in line to get in. Turns out, some of the film's stars were there; it was Grandmaster Y.K. Kim (a legit master at Taekwondo; he runs Martial Arts World in Orlando, and in fact a van load of his students were there to watch the film), the guy in the film that looks like Oates from Hall & Oates (or Ravishing Rick Rude; more on this late 80's wrestler later) and the black guy in the movie. They spoke for a bit before the screening. Then, everyone watched that funny bad movie and it was a grand old time. There was much cheering and laughter. Afterwards, Kim signed posters for free and of course I got one.
Sunday, it was off to Friendly Confines to watch the Chicago Bears play against their hated rivals, the Green Bay Packers. Considering how riddled the Bears have been by injuries by this point, I wasn't expecting much and indeed they lost 21-13. There were some questionable calls from the referees-and I usually don't complain about that stuff like most sports fans do-but even if they were perfect, the Packers still would have won. I am certain of that; they just played obviously better than Chicago. The Bears fans there acted like mongoloids (to use a term I saw someone I know use on Twitter yesterday) but enough about those annoying people. Even the people I sat by who were obvious bros (one kept on calling the other “brah”; yep, brotastic!) weren't as annoying. I did laugh in the game when after a sack, a Packers player impersonated Ravishing Rick Rude; you know, if you remember him from the good old days of pro wrestling, he would swivel his hips; well, that's what that player did and it was amazing. After that I stopped by Total Wine & More for a bit and I got some random things before returning home.
I'll be back a week from today; not much is planned yet but as always I should have something interesting to write about; hopefully not a lot of it will be complaining, but that unfortunately tends to happen when you live in The Sunshine State.
Thursday, in the evening I went with someone I know to IHOP for dinner, as hey why not and plus the last time we were there, groovy 70's music was playing. This time it was oldies and I was happy with that as it reminded me of listening to the oldies station as a kid. Good times. The chicken & waffles was also good times.
Unfortunately, due to the accident I was involved with last month, for awhile at least don't expect me to drive any lengthy distances. Thus, I unfortunately was not able to see a wrestling tournament that has happened each year since '03 known as the Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup, a 2 day tournament involving 16 wrestlers. It is named after a late wrestler who passed away at the age of 21 due to leukemia. I had seen all of them live since '04 (and I saw '03 on DVD) and it's always a great weekend filled with local wrestlers and guys from all across the country coming in. There's plenty of quality wrestling seen and there have been some incredible matches throughout the years. This is also the last JPMC they're ever doing, for various reasons. I really was gutted to not be able to go to it. Sigh. It was in Ybor City and at least at this time it's too far away. It was actually in the same club that I saw the women's wrestling show back in October. You know, the joint which charge eight bucks for a big cup of PBR (still pretty ridiculous, I say).
Anyhow, I wish I could have been there as I definitely have enjoyed those weekends... even the one in '07 that Jared David St. Laurent's toadies tried to ruin with rude comments and even trying to blind me by shining a laser pointer in my eyes! True story. I did not mention that in full anywhere online as I did not want to give them the satisfaction. But that is enough about about a bunch of mongoloids I haven't given a damn about in a long time but I presume they're still the same terrible people that they were years ago (which is a reason why I feuded with them, because they deserved to have their true colors shown).
To get back to a more pleasant subject (and because of that I won't go into detail on that horrifying thing which happened Friday morning up in Connecticut), Friday night I spent watching the UFC event; it was on Fuel TV and then FX and it was live from Australia (it was Saturday morning then afternoon there) and while it was not an event of big star names, it was a quality show as it had plenty of entertaining fights. I only saw parts of Saturday night's UFC on FX show as I had to go to a movie theatre for a special screening. It was of a bad movie from the 80's that a company found a print of and screenings were greatly received so it went on tour, and finally it came to Orlando. It was appropriate, as despite its title most of it takes place and was filmed in Orlando. I am talking about Miami Connection, a hilariously awful film about a rock band of Taekwondo practitioners who do battle with ninjas that ride on bikes, along with drug-dealing bikers. Yep. I saw it on YouTube when someone uploaded it a few months ago (but shhh on that; it was taken down) and I did a review for it on my movie reviews blog; the particular review is at: http://blairreviewsmovies.blogspot.com/2012/09/miami-connection.html
I was happy to see it on the big screen. I know that some already have a backlash against it. Yeah, I agree that there are funnier and shittier bad movies out there and if they got this treatment crowds would likely also go bananas for it, but I don't know why some want to slag it for being overrated as a bad movie experience, but oh well. Of course some people I know who are huge bad movie fans are amongst that crowd... shrugs shoulders. I got there and had drinks at the patio bar they have at The Enzian (the arthouse place I've mentioned a number of times before; they had couches and fancy chairs and tables and food gets brought to you. I then waited in line to get in. Turns out, some of the film's stars were there; it was Grandmaster Y.K. Kim (a legit master at Taekwondo; he runs Martial Arts World in Orlando, and in fact a van load of his students were there to watch the film), the guy in the film that looks like Oates from Hall & Oates (or Ravishing Rick Rude; more on this late 80's wrestler later) and the black guy in the movie. They spoke for a bit before the screening. Then, everyone watched that funny bad movie and it was a grand old time. There was much cheering and laughter. Afterwards, Kim signed posters for free and of course I got one.
Sunday, it was off to Friendly Confines to watch the Chicago Bears play against their hated rivals, the Green Bay Packers. Considering how riddled the Bears have been by injuries by this point, I wasn't expecting much and indeed they lost 21-13. There were some questionable calls from the referees-and I usually don't complain about that stuff like most sports fans do-but even if they were perfect, the Packers still would have won. I am certain of that; they just played obviously better than Chicago. The Bears fans there acted like mongoloids (to use a term I saw someone I know use on Twitter yesterday) but enough about those annoying people. Even the people I sat by who were obvious bros (one kept on calling the other “brah”; yep, brotastic!) weren't as annoying. I did laugh in the game when after a sack, a Packers player impersonated Ravishing Rick Rude; you know, if you remember him from the good old days of pro wrestling, he would swivel his hips; well, that's what that player did and it was amazing. After that I stopped by Total Wine & More for a bit and I got some random things before returning home.
I'll be back a week from today; not much is planned yet but as always I should have something interesting to write about; hopefully not a lot of it will be complaining, but that unfortunately tends to happen when you live in The Sunshine State.
Monday, December 10, 2012
The Blog Where I'm Simply Having A Wonderful Christmastime
Yep, I am referencing the Paul McCartney song that many people seem to loathe. Last week I was walking around the neighborhood and a car passed by blasting that song. Not surprisingly the car was a newish Mercedes and the driver was a middle-aged white guy.
Here's what I've done since I last posted my blog on the last day of November. That day I didn't do anything, but the next day I did go back to Winter Garden Village to visit some other stores (including World Market) and I did get some random items. Sunday, I finally returned to Friendly Confines to watch the Chicago Bears play. The drive there and back was the usual... meaning, plenty of terrible Florida traffic! Yeah I did get mad at it, as usual. Hell, I even saw a near-accident in the parking lot as some dumbass pulled out without looking and almost hit TWO moving cars. Good one, Troglodyte. Unfortunately, there was no shortage of Trogs there on this day... and they were mainly Bears fans. Do you need to yell stupid worthless comments at the game after %nearly every single play%? Some people think that you do, and I quickly got irritated with it. To make me feel better I had some beer and that's quite rare for my afternoons there. They had some that were discounted as they want to get rid of it so I took advantage of that.
The alcohol helped me deal with the people there and the game itself. Chicago ended up losing to Seattle; I wouldn't be too mad about it as Seattle is quite good, but the last two Seattle drives that caused them to win, the Bears D was real bad and that was disappointing. At least the Bears had some good moments themselves. Also, a former employee was there visiting. She worked there when I first started going to FC and I hadn't seen her in like a few years. At least I got to briefly chat with that nice young lady.
Sunday night it was determined that due to how things turned out, Northern Illinois University (from a smaller conference) got a big bowl bid and on January 1st they'll be playing a big college football game in Miami against Florida State University. Boy I got pretty tired pretty quick of so many people whining and bitching about how NIU shouldn't be there, especially from that loathsome Troglodyte network known as ESPN; I even got that crap from some people I know on Facebook. I'd much rather see an underdog play in one of those big bowl games (which has happened a few times before) personally and I've always thought that way. I am not sticking up for NIU just because I grew up 30 miles north of the campus or I know quite a few people that went to college there.
Monday I had to go up to Leesburg. It was related to the crash last month but don't worry it wasn't a big deal and now I can fully put that behind me. I also stopped by the city's Lake Square Mall, a joint that is less than happening, to say the least. At least I stopped by a smoothie place in the mall and I got the treat known as the Peaches & Cream Delight, an appropriate name for sure.
I did nothing Tuesday and Wednesday so let me skip ahead to Thursday. I had free time so I went to Universial Studios, Citywalk in particular. I ate at Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville as it's been too long since I've been there. Their cheeseburgers (in paradise) are as great as ever so let me mention what alcoholic beverage I had; it was known as Shipwrecked and it was basically a mango-flavored drink along with some other fruits. Very good. I then went to their AMC Theatres and I watched Skyfall again, this time on their IMAX screen. Yep, the movie is still real good. The alcoholic beverage I had at their bar was a holiday-themed beverage known as the Peppermint Shake; it had vanilla ice cream and peppermint schnapps, among other things. Needless to say I thought that was quite tasty.
Friday and Saturday were dull so let me skip ahead to yesterday. I went to the good old Friendly Confines to watch the Chicago Bears play at the Minnesota Vikings. There was a big snowstorm going on in Minneapolis so thankfully the game was in a dome stadium... one I was in back in the mid 90's to see a college football game. I wouldn't mind going back to the Twin Cities... if nothing else to visit the Mall of America again. Anyhow, the Bears played like crap and lost 21-14 in a game that wasn't as close as the score says it was. That was disappointing.
So was how too many of my fellow Bears fans acted. Real immature and dumb. Some of the dumb ones even argued with each other over things too asinine to even bring up here. And there were other meatheads there too... sigh. At least the food there was as good as usual and other games were going on, a few of which ended up being pretty exciting. But I tell you, some of those people there, I wonder when it was last that they showered or laundered the clothing they had on. There were some pungent odors going on, including from one guy who briefly sat by me. I swear his stench singed my nose hairs! Despite all the complaints it was nice being there and enjoying the atmosphere, even if I wish there was less stupidity there. I am disappointed with how the Bears are playing, sure, but I have seen FAR worse Chicago teams in my lifetime, for sure.
I'll be back a week from today. I could be doing some real exciting things but nothing is set in stone quite yet.
Here's what I've done since I last posted my blog on the last day of November. That day I didn't do anything, but the next day I did go back to Winter Garden Village to visit some other stores (including World Market) and I did get some random items. Sunday, I finally returned to Friendly Confines to watch the Chicago Bears play. The drive there and back was the usual... meaning, plenty of terrible Florida traffic! Yeah I did get mad at it, as usual. Hell, I even saw a near-accident in the parking lot as some dumbass pulled out without looking and almost hit TWO moving cars. Good one, Troglodyte. Unfortunately, there was no shortage of Trogs there on this day... and they were mainly Bears fans. Do you need to yell stupid worthless comments at the game after %nearly every single play%? Some people think that you do, and I quickly got irritated with it. To make me feel better I had some beer and that's quite rare for my afternoons there. They had some that were discounted as they want to get rid of it so I took advantage of that.
The alcohol helped me deal with the people there and the game itself. Chicago ended up losing to Seattle; I wouldn't be too mad about it as Seattle is quite good, but the last two Seattle drives that caused them to win, the Bears D was real bad and that was disappointing. At least the Bears had some good moments themselves. Also, a former employee was there visiting. She worked there when I first started going to FC and I hadn't seen her in like a few years. At least I got to briefly chat with that nice young lady.
Sunday night it was determined that due to how things turned out, Northern Illinois University (from a smaller conference) got a big bowl bid and on January 1st they'll be playing a big college football game in Miami against Florida State University. Boy I got pretty tired pretty quick of so many people whining and bitching about how NIU shouldn't be there, especially from that loathsome Troglodyte network known as ESPN; I even got that crap from some people I know on Facebook. I'd much rather see an underdog play in one of those big bowl games (which has happened a few times before) personally and I've always thought that way. I am not sticking up for NIU just because I grew up 30 miles north of the campus or I know quite a few people that went to college there.
Monday I had to go up to Leesburg. It was related to the crash last month but don't worry it wasn't a big deal and now I can fully put that behind me. I also stopped by the city's Lake Square Mall, a joint that is less than happening, to say the least. At least I stopped by a smoothie place in the mall and I got the treat known as the Peaches & Cream Delight, an appropriate name for sure.
I did nothing Tuesday and Wednesday so let me skip ahead to Thursday. I had free time so I went to Universial Studios, Citywalk in particular. I ate at Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville as it's been too long since I've been there. Their cheeseburgers (in paradise) are as great as ever so let me mention what alcoholic beverage I had; it was known as Shipwrecked and it was basically a mango-flavored drink along with some other fruits. Very good. I then went to their AMC Theatres and I watched Skyfall again, this time on their IMAX screen. Yep, the movie is still real good. The alcoholic beverage I had at their bar was a holiday-themed beverage known as the Peppermint Shake; it had vanilla ice cream and peppermint schnapps, among other things. Needless to say I thought that was quite tasty.
Friday and Saturday were dull so let me skip ahead to yesterday. I went to the good old Friendly Confines to watch the Chicago Bears play at the Minnesota Vikings. There was a big snowstorm going on in Minneapolis so thankfully the game was in a dome stadium... one I was in back in the mid 90's to see a college football game. I wouldn't mind going back to the Twin Cities... if nothing else to visit the Mall of America again. Anyhow, the Bears played like crap and lost 21-14 in a game that wasn't as close as the score says it was. That was disappointing.
So was how too many of my fellow Bears fans acted. Real immature and dumb. Some of the dumb ones even argued with each other over things too asinine to even bring up here. And there were other meatheads there too... sigh. At least the food there was as good as usual and other games were going on, a few of which ended up being pretty exciting. But I tell you, some of those people there, I wonder when it was last that they showered or laundered the clothing they had on. There were some pungent odors going on, including from one guy who briefly sat by me. I swear his stench singed my nose hairs! Despite all the complaints it was nice being there and enjoying the atmosphere, even if I wish there was less stupidity there. I am disappointed with how the Bears are playing, sure, but I have seen FAR worse Chicago teams in my lifetime, for sure.
I'll be back a week from today. I could be doing some real exciting things but nothing is set in stone quite yet.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)