Evey year at this time the Game companies relase all thier news games so that can make that all-impiortant Christmas Shopping season. I'm completly swamped whith titles right now. I've got Fable, Disgaea, and Madden 2005 from Gamefly. I just had to buy Warhammer 40000:Dawn of War. X-men:Legends just came out. It's like BG:Dark Alliance but with Superheroes! I finally managed to get a hold of a copy of Culdcept, AND I still haven't played Doom 3, and It's only October!
September 2004 Archives
but now we have statistics to confirm it. People who watch "The Daily Show" are just plain smarter. Of course as an additional note I don't think anyone needed statistics to confirm that Bill O'Reilly is a moron. Oh BTW Did you know that the Daily show won a Peabody Award? It's the Pulitzer for Broadcasting.
Day 1
Booze Confiscated
Board the ship
No luggage
Roam Around
Get Free Stuff
Have a Drink
Get punch card to get free stuff if I drink at all bars the ship
make it to 3
find new drinking buddy
Martinis
lots of new friends
fuzzy recolections here maybe some gambling
Day 2
Nice Beakfast
Gambling
Poolside
Putting Contest
Continue on quest for bar punchcard
poker
A whole lot of martinis
dance club
Day 3
Cozymel
2 coronas and a shot of tequila for $4
better yet $1 coronas with new Dallas Friends
ATV ADVENTURE
Okay short sotry here, I was the absolute LAST person to get an ATV. They didn't have any left and the guide says they are bringing more. All the while I'm waiting and everyone else is revving thier ATVs, these guys are working on an ATV over in the corner. All of a sudden they slap the engine back together start it up and say to me "Here ya go!" I am dubious of the ATVs ability to function, but it performs well enough, even if I had to pull start it a few times.
Meet cool people on ATV Adventure
3 from Ohio and one from Austin
14 Mile ATV trek over Rough rocks to private beach
Sea Kayak to Reef
Kayak Sinks
Swim the rest of the way and snorkel around the reef
Swim Back
Drive ATVs back 14 Miles
drink cheap yet strong margaritas
meet cool people from San Diego on walk back to ship
Formal dinner night
buy a tie
wear the tie with short-sleeve dress shirt
martinis
acquire the nickname "used car salesman"
witness karaoke
Day 4
Roatan Honduras
Scuba Diving
Classroom instruction
on-boat instruction
submerged in 4-foot of water instruction
completly fail to rescue dive-buddy with aux air
dive-buddy completly fails to rescue me with reserve air
get to scuba anyway
told that we should head back at 1000 PSI air
1200 PSI
1000 PSI
inform instructor
given the OK sign
500 psi
200 psi
stick my head above water to see that it is pouring down rain and i'm 8 ft from the dive boat
exit dive boat to dock
shop in slightly scary dirt town outside the cruise ship dock
Have dinner with cool Ohio Friends
Day 5
Belize City
Jungle River Cave Tubing
get up WAY to early
LONG Bus Ride
History of Belize
Nap
Hike to river
Get a tube
jump off the cliff
Tubing with Dallas and San Diego Friends
2 caves not many rapids
LONG bus ride back
nap
shopping and discover $1.50 belize beer
BELIKIN!
Drink 40 Belekin with the help of friends
return to ship
polish off 4 "helmets" of corona
gambling! (probably not the best idea)
Day 6
Cancun
Get up WAY to early AGAIN
Garaffon Reef Park with lots of new friends
Open Bar
Snorkeling
Relax in the Pool
Shopping
Obtain coolest tequila ever
More bar and pool
2 lobster dinners
Comedian and more hanging out with Friends
Day 6
Last Day on the Ship
Try to sleep in
Work Out
Blackjack tournament
Free drinks to tournament players
enter tournament 4 more times
Confiscated Liquor is returned
EVERYONE Drinks
see last show of the cruise
more karaoke
go to bed way to late to have to get up at 6 and clear customs
And there you have it.....whew
Well I wanted to do an entry on my cruise today but there is so much to tell and I'm not really in the mood for writing a book today. I will say that I had a LOT of fun and maybe...just maybe drank a lot too. Hey it's not my fault the Coronas are $1 in Mexico. I also made lots of new friends. Hello to everyone from San Diego, Ohio, Indiana, and Texas!
I'm in Chicago right now. Yes that's right folks I got to be home for a whole DAY! I was dreading it till I got here but now it's fine. It always goes by fast while I'm on the road.
More Later.....
Oh yeah and go see Jess's new little one. Too Cute.
I almost forgot to wrtite this entry, which would have been bad cause I probably would have been kicked out of the blog-o-sphere and the webring for not posting for over a week. Well, probably not but I would have gotten some rude comments I'm sure. I'm off to cruise around the western carribean for the next week. My first real Vacation in over 2 years. I'm sure I'll have plenty of pictures to share when I get back, most of them featuring me wearing a goofy island shirt and/or hat with a large fruity drink in my hand, a "boat drink" if you know what that means. ;)
Okay people were doing "pin-up" girl quizzes the other day, here's one more my speed.
Oh also my Photoblog is up and working again so go check it out.
As you may have read over on Phlome's page. The City of Irving, had a vote this weekend to determine if Beer and Wine could be sold locally. Irving has pretty weirdo liquor laws to begin with, that somehow allow Bars but not Liquor stores. The Vote didn't pass so no Beer and wine in Irving in the near future. Maybe this postcard, I got in the mail last Friday, reminding me to vote no, convinced everyone that Beer, wine, and most importantly "Malt Liquor" (known on the streets as liquid crack) was a bad thing for Irving. I was cracking up for hours over the postcard. The really funny thing is that I would have forgotten about the whole thing completely had I not gotten the card, which reminded me to go vote "YES." Maybe I should be thankful it didn't pass, now I don't have "loiterers" infesting my neighborhood.
Okay i just had to share this as well, Dubya is more than a little weird. Btw you need QT to view that link.
Okay I finally got around to sorting through all the DragonCon pictures and posting the ones I liked. I also updated the camportal page with Redhead's picture she sent me a while back. Ohknats you are dagerously close to having whatever picture I can find used for your Camportal picture.
Well as you can see I still haven't gotten around to posting my Dragoncon pictures. Looking good for it to happen tonight as I don't have any real plans to do anything this evening. I did quite a lot this weekend however.
Friday I went to see Hero, a very good martial arts movie, unlike some others I could mention. Saturday, I went to the TCU SMU game and the acompanying tailgate party. I had to "force" myself to drink all the beer I brought before the game, as you are not allowed to carry it into the stadium. They also had some very cool signs that said "No Beer Kegs Allowed" all around the parking area. I need one of those to hang on the door of my keg fridge. Alas, they were way to big, and way to many campus police around for me to snatch one.
Sunday , a friend and I went to "Grapefest" in Grapevine. It's a yearly wine-themed festival. It was your standard festival with crafts, beer, festival food, and of course local wines. It was way too hot to stay very long, however. I did find a neat little bar that I'm going to have to go back to called Tap-In, which boasts "Fried Cheese Stuffed Olives" as an appetizer.
The people who both attend and put on DragonCon are very "plugged-in" to the internet. Everyone is giving out cards with websites or posting thier websites on walls and flyers. Here are some interesting links I collected.
The DragonCon Homepage
Dragoncon TV - They were responsible for all the multimedia at Dragoncon, including some very funny slideshows and TV Commercials.
Dragoncon Pictures- suppposedly you can upload your DragonCon pics to this site. I haven't looked into it much yet.
Abbyshot - Custom-made costumes to order, including Neo's Coat from the Matrix and Jay and Silent Bob outfits.
MetalDude- This guy makes AMAZING Sculptures from metal odds and ends. I resisted the urge to buy an $85 metal Godzilla.
Titan Games - They had just about every game you could think of for sale, including many out of print ones.
Corsetshop.net This place has some very nice corsets. Ask Ninsi, she bought one.
SpatCave - Spat designs and builds all kinds of costumes and props. He's repsonsible for almost all of the Stormtrooper and Colonial Marine Armor that you see at DragonCon.
Aliens Pulse Rifle And if you REALLY want to be a Colonial Marine, you can buy a working replica pusle rifle here for the low low price of $1500. I think Spat will make you a non-functioning one cheaper.
CruxShadows - Thier DragonCon concert this year was great if not really really late, go buy the new album.
Phlome put up some DragonCon Pictures today. Be sure to check out two of the best costmes I've seen , The MAXX and Dr. Goldteeth and his band.
Okay I 'm back from DragonCon. I have stories, quotes, pictures, links and much more to talk about. I'm sure Ninsi and Phlome will have the own reports as well. I'll try and get it all organized and and start putting stuff up later today.
Here's some quotes from the weekend. I need to get these in before I forget more of them. There are quite a few good ones I've forgotten already.
"Is that real?" "Yes, it's a real live Marmot."
"Hey Baby, My Dragon likes your Dragon." (Think Dragonriders of Pern.)
"Did you ask me if I had room in my suitcase for a fruitcake and boots?"
Random funny questions from the Babylon 5 panel:
Fan: " Who would win in a fight between Marcus and Darth Maul?"
Jason Carter (Marcus) : "Well since I am an ACTOR and Ray Park (Darth Maul) is an actual martial artist, he might have a slight advantage."
Fan: " What question have you never been asked but would like to be?"
Jason Carter: "So what you are saying is that you don't have a question and you want me to make one up for myself."
From the Firefly panel:
Fan to Adam Baldwin: " How do you deal with being more famous than the other actors but not the Main Character of the show?"
Adam Baldwin: " I'm not the main character?"
Fan: "It's my birthday, could you sing the Firefly theme to me?"
Adam Baldwin: "Can't we just sing you happy birthday?"
(They did end up singing the first few lines of the song.)
Well Tomorrow's the day! Ninisi and Phlome fly out tonight for Atlanta and Monketo, Donut, and I are leaving in the Morning. I have put up a photoblog that I'll be posting some pictures to so check it out over the weekend.
