DAMMIT!

This has turned into our favorite catch-phrase.

her: oh honey, we're out of milk.
me: DAMMIT!

me: c'mon guys, we're late for church.
her: DAMMIT!

her: uh oh, i'm pregnant again.
both of us: DAMMIT!

I think you get my point. And yes, it all means we've been watching to much 24. I personally don't think that's possible, but i think my wife, no matter how addicted she's become to this wonderfully silly, Jack Bauer catch-phrase, has had her share for a few days. At least...

Season 5 just completed monday night with the Chinese jumping in for a last minute surprise, beating up Jack and then dragging him onto a ship, no doubt, bound for some eastern country.

Embassy-man: You see Mr. Bauer, we Chinese never forget. You make fun of our flied lice and you must pay.

...fade scene...

We also finished up season 2 on DVD with President Allstate passing out after shaking hands with the hot lesbian assassin we later see in season 4. It's not easy to keep up with story lines in this show as frequently as they change, but it's even harder when you're watching two seasons at the same time.

For me, all that's left is season 3 and i'll have caught up with Jack's overly long days. Someone give this guy a vacation, DAMMIT!

playing catch-up

on this day, exactly one year ago, my brand new wife and i were moving into our current apartment. exactly one year later, we're closing on our new house. dear lord, please let our second anniversary be a quiet one without any more major purchases...

we celebrated our first anniversary this weekend. i am still amazed sometimes that i'm married and have been now for over a year. it's a great thing. we had dinner at a great little place down on Knox called Hibiscus. the food and atmosphere were great and the company was better. we're packing the apartment for our move in 2 weeks like mad. we broke down and cleaned and packed the car wreck that is the room of the 9 year old. he was spending the night at a friend's house and we knew that if we didn't take over the packing, we'd still be in the apartment for another year. we recovered most of our missing glassware, discovered the source of ants that's been invading the apartment for the last year and found a very happy and fat gecko living between the bed and wall. he had a grin on his face until we told him to get out, the food train had stopped here.

i think we've passed the excited stage about getting our own place. we're down to checklists, packing, financial and time management. it's just a job now. we take possession this week and next week, we start painting and wiring.

it's almost here...

a mammoth accomplishment

my wife and i accomplished something yesterday that i thought would never happen. we finished diablo 2. and not just the original, but with the expansion tacked on. you laugh, but this is a truly monumental accomplishment. when i was first introduced to this game back in 2000 by my roommate, i had no concept of this type of gameplay. it scared me because it was so advanced and so amazing. i've beaten diablo numerous times, but to finish the expansion is something only dreamt of by gods. diablo 2 takes place in four chapters and the expansion adds a fifth. many a time had i reached that fifth chapter, but never to complete it. we did it last night via Gertrude theBA (my assassin) and Bob_CanDoIt (my wife's barbarian) and managed to not only knock off Diablo, but his brother, Baal in the fifth chapter. And to much the delight of my stepson, we managed to even make it to the Secret Cow Level which i'd briefly experienced in the past, but not to this extent. we were no match for cows with hatchets and their king, so we enjoyed a good laugh listening to the 'moos' and then called it a game.

happy birthday, mr. president...

It just occurred to me that this month marks the two year anniversary of my blog. I was pretty certain that it wouldn't have lasted more than say three and a half hours, but i've somehow managed to keep it going. Albeit, much less so than last year, but still running. I've managed to outlast all of my old friends that jumped on the blog bandwagon and then gave up for various reasons. And the content has certainly changed which probably accounts for the lack of traffic. Out of the two that read this blog, there's no one now. So since i seem to be the only one reading this, i guess it's more of a diary for myself to look back upon when i'm older to see what happened during this time in my life.

As of now, May 2006, my first year's anniversary with my wife is quickly approaching. I'll be turning 37 next month and in almost exactly a month's time, we'll be moving into our new house. We close on our house later this month and finally leave apartment life. None of this can happen soon enough.

DVD comments

We finally finished up season 1 of 24. We've been raiding random Blockbuster locations trying to find all of the disks so we can watch the entire first season. Wow! What a first season! Suddenly, the randomly generated fact that states "If Jack Bauer was in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Nina Meyers, and he had a gun with 2 bullets, he'd shoot Nina twice" makes all the sense in the world. Oh well, season 5 is about to finish up here in a few weeks on FOX and i guess it'll be time to go find season 2 while the long, slow haul of summer reruns begins.

Secondly, if you're a fan of The Boondock Saints, i highly recommend you pick up a documentary called "Overnight". It's an account of the rise and fall of Billy Duffy, writer and director of Boondock and accounts his life over a few year's time. To state that this man is a complete ass is giving him way to much credit. It's hard to believe that a great film like Boondock came from such a self righteous, obnoxious idiot.