Edventures in Normalcy

While on my recent vacation on a Cruise, there was a dance party, and at one point most people had sat down.  A man went up, used the microphone and stated “The more you sweat, the cooler you are.” in an attempt to get people back on the floor.  I look over at my cousin and then yell “I’m awesome!”.

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Here are pictured of my X the Eliminator costume. I wore this to work. Hopefully I will be winning the contest as only 12 others came in costume. This character is seen on Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, which aired on Adult Swim.

In recent months, as recent as 2 ago, I found my stations created in Pandora that I had worked on for about 2 years to dis appear.  At first I had thought there system was becoming crap.  Not the best assumption, but it’s all I had.  Then about a day or so ago I was thinking.  Not only were stations deleted, but new stations came into my account.  I realized that it was not the Pandora system that caused the problem, but the iPhone I bought from a friend and returned to them.  I was told it would be reimaged before being moved to another person.  Apparently this did not happen.  The next person picked it up and started using my Pandora account.  I verified this with teh person I returned the iPhone to.  I am sad.  I really hope Pandora support can help me.

Update!!!! 12-17-2009
I contacted Pandora, they were able to reclaim my station and gave me a link to add it back.
I did need to be on a computer running a current version of flash do to this, as the computer at work was not able to import the station.

I have 6 Pokemon left to catch in Pokemon Diamond. This is only counting released Pokemon.

Remaining Pokemon in order:
196 Espeon

197 Umbreon

249 Lugia

250 Ho-oh

485 Heatran

487 Giratina

My plan is this. I am training 6 pokemon to all be level 76, then going through 100 battles in Pokemon Colosseum. Then at the end I get Ho-oh, also, 3 of the players in my party are Umbreon and Espeon. That knocks off 3. Then I have to go through the entirety of XD Gale of Darkness on the Game Cube to get Lugia. The last two are legendaries in my Pokemon Diamond, and I plan on holding them off until the end.

This is taking far too long.

This past weekend I took the whole weekend to visit my cousin and his family in central PA.   It was a long ride there, made easier by a satisfying meal at Cheeseburger In Paradise.  Then on Saturday I worked on the family Computer as it was Blue Screen of Death’ing on them.  Still not fixed.  Erik and I finally had a chance to plan out our summer trip, and where better to go to plan but Cheeburger Cheeburger.  We both had their 20 oz. (before cooking) burger and because of it got our picture on their wall.  Later that night, Erik, Andy, Max and I went to see Iron Man:

I found it to be a fantastic beginning to a future movie line.  If you have seen the previews, it starts off really slow, as the first half is before his initial suit.  Beyond that the movie was amazing with obviously great special effects.  In response to the inquiry, I felt it stood up to the previews.  FYI, there is content after the credits.  My Rating: .

Erik and I also reveled in the newly released GTA4 for the XBOX 360.:

I found the system for hitting pedestrians and being hit as a pedestrian to have drastically improved.  The best site I have found for the game is http://www.gtagaming.com/ .  Erik and My Rating:

All in all it was a good and restful weekend.  Much fun was had by all.

I can’t Wait!

This past Friday after all of the madness of Black Friday, and Yes I will tell the story of it, Erik and I went out to go bowling with Ben from work and his dad who was visiting from England. Fun indeed.

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Recently Amanda and I headed up to the Philadelphia zoo. We decided to have the day “Old School”, so I packed my lunch, 2 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, a fruit snack, and 2 Capri Suns. I loaded all of that into a ThunderCats lunch box. Awesome. Amanda was originally all for the idea but at the last minute decided to get WaWa for lunch on the way. We drove their with little problems. Parking was $10.00. We saw a lot of animals while there. My favourites were the jungle cats and some of the frogs. The vampire bats were kinda cool too. While we were eating lunch in a picnic area a Peacock came to us. Amanda gave it a piece of bread. I tossed out a fruit snack. Surprisingly it ate that. Then Amanda gave it a piece of turkey from her sub. I argued that it was not ok, that it was comparable to feeding me an Ethiopian. The Peacock in question shows up around Photo 59 or so. There was another one we saw earlier in the day though. You can see what we saw below:

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