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Well, let’s go for the weekend recap, shall we?

Friday was a good night. Highlights included:
Brian coming over
Playing Yoshi and having Orange Julius
Playing Simpsons Clue (in which I won. This is the first time in the history of me that I have *ever never ever* won Clue so it was reason to celebrate. By the way, it was Smithers with the Extend-o-glove at The Frying Dutchman.)
Went through a photo album with Brian of high school and some college pictures. He and I had a different circle of friends, but he’s pretty much absorbed mine due to living in Oshkosh and around our mutual friends. I don’t think there is anyone that doesn’t get along with Brian, he’s very considerate and friendly at all times. Anyway, it was fun to relive some memories.

Saturday Marie had her training class. She was gone from 8 until 4. Highlights included:
Working on my video project (preparing questions)
Cleaning the apartment (including the tub, blech!)
Talking with my dad (he had some good input with the Eric situation)
Reading MAUS and Barrel Fever
Kicking it on the computer

After Marie got home, we went to The Chalice for dinner (Veggie burgers and American fries) and then back to our place to watch “Sneakers”. Got a chance to see the Patriots beat the Raiders, which was cool.

Sunday was a trip to the Laundromat, since our washer is broken in our apartment building. Found a nicer place not far from where we live and had four loads done in an hour, which was a nice change of pace. Got home and cleaned up the apartment. Talked to Liz, who would be joining us for the Packer game at The Guys’. I made my way over there around 2:00. Jeremy arrived shortly there after with Marie and Liz coming right before kick-off. Eric made tacos, so we had a mid-lunch snack. Watched the dreary first half of the Packers/Rams game. Made a run to Subway at halftime so Liz could have some food. My second veggie sandwich of the weekend, and it was great. Returned for the second half and was equally disappointed. And by the way, fuck the Rams for going for it on 4th and 1 when they were leading by 28 points. Great teams have class and that was about as low class as you can get. I give them the fact that they played a good game, but they’ve not done anything to get my respect.

Brian, the kind soul himself, loaned me 5 (count ‘em, five) Dismemberment Plan CDs to give a listen to and about 8 Nintendo games to try out. He’s got Nintendo at his parent’s house and thought I might enjoy some variety in the games I have to play. Classy, all the way. I’ll have to see if I’ve got anything he’d enjoy, but I always feel that he’s got a leg up on music and such, since he’s always been ‘in the know’.

Proceeded home after kicking it with the guys for a while (Liz and Marie headed out midway through the 4th quarter). We engaged in a round of LIFE in which Marie was the big winner. I was a Salesman making a cool $100,000/yr until Marie switched salary cards with me. How rude is right.

Read some more of Miller’s The Air Conditioned Nightmare and dozed off around 10:30 or so. Had a good, restful sleep and felt pretty away this morning.

Today at work has been rather relaxing. Not a lot going on, which suites my Monday morning game plan nicely. I’ve got another dentist appointment at 4:00 today, so I’m getting used to these short Mondays. Of course, not used to the sweaty palms and heart palpitations that accompany said appointments, but I’m working on it.

Tonight should be a Novocain fueled evening, complete with drooling and humorous attempts to eat dinner. Such are the joys in my life.

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along with like three other books. skip the chapter about prison if you have to, and get to the chapter about the house.

god it's beautiful.

I've decided to either put it on hold or only read it at home. Too difficult when people are chatting at my lunch table. Hopefully, when our new chair comes, I'll have a great reading place with no distractions. Can't read without a good chair.

I think this is a book I'll definitely read every few years, it seems like it's so compact and far reaching.

Hey, I guess you just never know. With Favre's dead-eye accuracy in his passing yesterday, the Packers surely could have coughed up those 28 points in the 4th quarter. I'm surprised Favre didn't throw another INT just so he could tie (Ty) Detmer's record set earlier this year.

Here's another question. Why the hell were Warner and Faulk still in the game at that point? Did the Rams want to get to 50? We kept hoping that Predator would nail one of them and then they'd be screwed against the Eagles.

Death to all domes...

I swear, going for it on 4th and 1, I was hoping someone who end up with a pen through their thorax. I do think the Eagles will win since McNabb is a great player and can make such good decisions.

Either way, the Bears lost, so rock on.

I love it when the raiders loose.

where does one pick up a game of Simpsons Clue? I'd really love to own me a copy of that game.

I got it for an engagement gift, but I would think the local chain store (Target, Shopko, etc) would have it, or maybe a local Barnes and Noble?

It rules!

simpsons anything rules

I heard their writers only can work for a year, and then they bring in all new talent to keep the show fresh. The system works.

I'm still waiting for a full length movie, maybe after the series is done on TV.

Mmmmm, full length movie.

that would be fantastic. but would they choose the more 'adult' rating for the film? i wonder.

my friends and i played simpsons monopoly a few weeks back. is it possible to finish a game of monopoly? i figured anyone who is playing a game of rummy to 5 million might know.

I'd love to hear Homer swear at Flanders, but I think they've been so creative in getting the point across without profanity. Probably would be an R-rated movie, since the audience isn't slanted towards kids anyway. Is it?

Monopoly is tremendously fun, but terribly long to play. We always deal out the properties so as to maintain some semblence of a social life.

Rummy 5,000,000 scores:
Me - 14,000
Marie - 13,000 (give or take a few hundred)

I think we're resolving to play 3 games a night no matter what to kick it up a notch. I've held my lead for a long time, just waiting for Marie to stop going easy on me.

we play by box rules and house rules, but we usually stop after the first person gets knocked out. it's no moe fun after that. kind of like going for it on 4th and 1 with a 28 FUCKING POINT LEAD.

game ettiquette aside, i think maybe they wouldn't go for more than a PG-13 feature. you're right about them being highly creative with dialogue, and smart, too. i think maybe their intelligence would suffer for the content. this isn't South Park, after all.

still, i could see them pushing the PG 13 limit to its fullest - i remember bart finding out he could say hell, and i'm sure if they came on after 9 they'd find ways to say 'ass' or whatever else is allowed. i just think of them as on eof those great cartoons that entertains on many levels, and i'd hate to see hollywood destroy that.

I think a lot of times people are praying for the first person to be knocked out so the game can be over. Countless times, my brother and I would play for an hour or two and leave the board set-up on the kitchen table for resumed play later, only to find my mom had put it away. I think I would have won all those games, so I hold a severe advantage over him.

Do you play with money in free parking or not? I like the idea, but most frown on it.

I think they could get away with a lot using PG-13 as the guide. Hell, most PG-13 movies aren't PG-13 anyway. Each episode is so layered, I think a movie would be great. About the only reason I'd have to get a DVD player would be to get every Simpsons season on DVD. Well, that and the KS series. And if they had a Kids In The Hall boxset. But really, that'd be it. I mean it.

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i'm still reading Miller, too.

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