Wednesday, October 8, 2008

10/08/08

The kids woke me up early to open presents before Emily left for school.

I received a lot of great gifts. I got this Marvel Heroes and Villains T-shirt,

some squishy disgusting skulls that the kids picked out,

Emily and Parker both made me a birthday card,

I got this funny Domo in a pumpkin suit,

Parker gave me some Batman napkins,

I got an orange crab, Chuck Norris folders, apple & cinnamon oatmeal, a Joker mask and Iron Man on DVD.



After opening presents Becky & I went with Parker to BIG Kmart.


While Parker was trying on masks guess who we met?


I even found a Heath Ledger figure from the movie The Dark Knight. I was amazed. The only place where this figure can be found without fail is ebay.

Then we walked down the Christmas in October aisle. We haven't even reached Halloween yet but you can already buy your favorite stocking.

Hallowhat? Thanksgiving? I'll tell you what I'm thankful for... That I can get my stockings hung by the chimney with care, even before little ghosts and goblins can give me a scare.

Seriously, I'd like to know when we decided that we need to get our Christmas trees ready before going Trick or Treating. In keeping this tradition, I've decided to celebrate my birthday on August 8th next year.

I've also decided to dress up as a Nutcracker for Halloween this year and I'm going to hand out candy canes.













Note to Mutti: I am honored that I have such devoted fans who visit my blog every day. Some entries may need to be revisited though since it's a lot of work keeping it up to date, and staying up every night till 2am eventually catches up with me and I need to rest. Please be patient Mutti.
I loved the cake with imitation Legos and the pork tenderloin smothered in mushrooms topped with pineapple and melted swiss cheese along with a beilage of fried potatoes was delicious. Thank you very much. :)

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

My last working day with Nemesis

Today was my last working day with Nemesis, aka Kristy. We had a last day/birthday lunch with Cal at Spaghetti Mama's. Yum, breadsticks. As we were working on a NFL table topper for Spaghetti Mama's, Kristy became bored and sleepy and started turning into Nemesis again.

Eventually I started feeling the effects of boredom too.
It was 5:15pm, time to go home.

Thank you Kristy for the short, fun time we had.



After work I drove over to see Thomas at the Meg20. Becky and the kids were doing birthday stuff, so Thomas and I watched "Flash of Genius". It's a great movie.


When I arrived home Becky told me how excited the kids are for tomorrow. They had a lot of fun helping her get everything ready.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Spill

Tonight's Major Movie...

SPILL

The movie begins in a chemical research facility with a couple of people in radiation suits. They're handling a test tube with a blue chemical in it. The girl accidentally trips and SPILLS the blue chemical. Then the other person steps on it and immediately her feet and legs start to SPILL blood.
The girl starts screaming and wants out of the facility but they lock it down and set the room on fire to burn all record of the accident ever happening.

The scene switches to our hero Brian Bosworth who goes from a press conference about nothing, to him going through a giant mud pit in a suit. Luckily Lone Ranger Woman comes by and lassos Brian out of the mud pit before he got his jacket dirty.

Meanwhile a drunk guy is driving a semi full of the blue chemical. He almost hits a car and swerves.
Then he runs the truck off the road and gets stuck on a cliff. His crash snaps a tube and the blue chemical SPILLS into the river below.

Back to Brian who's now with a park ranger walking through the forest near the lake that is now contaminated with the blue chemical. They find a kid camping who had been drinking from the river and now has a nose SPILLING with blood. The ranger gives the kid mouth to mouth and Brian washes his face with river water. Now they start mumbling and SPILLING blood from their faces. "Uhm manga mu huma ma gumbaa" Brian mumbles as he, the ranger and the kid mosey up to the highway. Just then a contamination crew shows up.

Brian is taken to a lock down chamber to prevent his illness from spreading. Except he wakes up and seems to be fine, along with the Lone Ranger Woman, the man ranger and the kid. When Brian tries to tell the doctors that he's fine, they pull out guns and syringes with the blue chemical. Man Ranger and the kid die. Brian escapes with the Woman Ranger and the truck driver who crashed on the cliff.

While trying to escape a car comes at them head on. Brian pulls a machine gun out of the glove box and shoots at the oncoming car until it flies off the road and explodes.


Meanwhile the president and his advisor are camping in a cabin. The advisor is planing a scam. He wants to poison national parks only to come in as if they're saving the american people from the poison.

Brian: What's the story?
Truck Man: I work for a pool company
Woman Ranger: You spilled pool chemicals that make people die?
Truck Man: Hey, it's a job.
Brian: Why would pool chemicals make people die?
Truck Man: Ok, it wasn't really pool chemicals. They wanted me to drive my tanker into a conference and put the chemical in the river.

As Brian, Ranger Woman and Truck Man are walking through the woods they get attacked by some rogue rangers who try to kill them. Brian kung fu kicks both of them.

The president and his advisor went for a walk to talk about the poisonous chemical.

Advisor: There's been a spill in a national park.
Pres: How could such a thing happen.
Advisor: One of our secret trucks spilled in a national park
Pres: I'm having no part in this.
Advisor: You have no choice if you want to keep being president. You'll be a hero when you save everybody.

Then Woman Ranger figures out that the three of them aren't dying because they were sick before they got infected. Brian's cough is the only thing saving his life right now.

As the three of them continue on through the woods, truck guy sees a napkin on a cliff. As he reaches for it he falls over the cliff. Then more rogue park rangers show up and Brian roundhouse kicks them and sits on their heads until they're unconscious. Then Brian and Ranger Woman continue on till nightfall...

Ranger Woman: So how did you become a bodyguard for the president?
Brian: I had to give up football because of a neck injury so the governor of Nebraska said I should work for the president.

Now it's morning and the two are talking about the SPILL.
Brian: I can't believe that the president is in involved.
Ranger Woman: You think a truck would just crash in a national park?
Brian: No, it must be another agency doing this. The president is giving a speech near Old Faithful today. When the infected water reaches the geiser... come on, we've gotta keep moving!

The president arrives at the park surrounded by park ranger/guards with machine guns.


As Brian tries to put some dynamite in the river to stop the flow to the geiser more park rangers with machine guns show up. He guns them all down...
except for one who has a rocket launcher.
Just as the ranger is about to launch a fourth rocket at Brian, the river blows up and kills the ranger. Then ranger woman notices there are two rivers and they blew up the wrong one. They race on a motorcycle they found in the woods to get to the president.

"Everybody watch out! Old Faithful is going to spray poison!", Brian yells as he reaches Old Faithful.

Pres: I can't believe you! You blew up Old Faithful and killed dozens of park rangers! I'm glad you did, because if you hadn't, we'd all be dead... Except that my advisor and I planned to poison Old Faithful.
Brian: What? This was all your doing?
Pres: Yes, it was, but don't tell anyone. I want to keep being president.

After that the president goes back to give his speech.

Then some newspapers slide across the screen about how the president did a bad thing and his advisor was fired.

Roll credits.

Sauerkraut

Becky made delicious sauerkraut today to eat at her Mom's house with bratwurst, mashed potatoes and veggies.
Before we left Parker made a masterpiece on our wall including one of my shoes.


During the drive we played a little game of finding shapes of things in the clouds, trees, anything that may take on the shape of something else. "That cloud looks like a turtle." I said and then Emily replied, "I don't see a turtle." So I told her "You need to look with your mind."
Then we came to an intersection and Parker said, "Look Daddy, there's a dragon!" "I don't see it." I told him. To which he said, "You need to look with your mind." I couldn't stop laughing.





Parker and Owen playing some kind of game.

My beautiful Jeep



Friday, October 3, 2008

Card #47

You really can find anything on ebay.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Livin' in a cardboard box

I drove up to Mutti's storage facility tonight after work.



Tonight was the grand unveiling of the new Multipurpose Storage Chamber. This is the seventh storage room that has been built to store the constant growth of boxes. It's supposed to hold up to 4000 boxes. The upper level can hold around 1200 boxes and the chamber below holds 2800.


The very first box was filled in February of 1991 when we ran out of space for the growing amount of hot pads. Shelves soon became full with nutcrackers, a beer stein collection to rival that of the Oktoberfest and eventually in November of '91 the giant collection of newspaper clippings filled the entire two car garage. Barrels were introduced in the Spring of '93 to meet the high demand for storage. Then in the upcoming years many sacrifices were made to make room for the constant growth of boxes and barrels. In June of 2007 Mutti sacrificed her own bedroom to give every new box a proper home. The completion of the outdoor storage chamber brings hope that someday she'll be able to sleep in her lost bed once again.


Hagen sacrificed his BMW long ago. To this day it's still surrounded by a wall of boxes.
Hagen was quoted saying, "I don't know what I'm going to do. The rims haven't been cleaned in years. All I can hope for is that the thick wall of boxes actually protects the car from any foreign particles that may damage the exterior."


Now, 17 years later, with the new Multipurpose Storage Chamber complete, today wasn't like every other day of trying to find new places to store boxes. With the new storage chamber ready we tried to clear boxes out of the house and clear a path to the kitchen. It was time to move the vertical couch out of the kitchen entrance. There's no room for it anywhere and we're not about to throw it away, so it just stands vertical in the kitchen.
We even found a hidden room that had been blocked off for several years. It turned out to be the bathroom and must've been filled with boxes many years ago and then sealed off.

Below you can see Gogo in the famous hall of boxes.

I helped transport boxes to the upper level of the Multipurpose Storage Chamber.




Many, many boxes were moved tonight and even some new boxes filled. The growth in boxes and barrels is tremendous, that even with the new multipurpose storage chamber Mutti is aware that more storage space will need to be made available soon...




So, the plans for and underground storage vault have already been put into motion.
The titanium vault will be 200 feet below the surface and should be complete in 2012. The project is estimated to cost around half a million dollars and Mutti has already put in her request for ten years of overtime. It is still uncertain whether or not she will waive her vacation time.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

A very good day

I had a great day at work today.

After work we went out to McCool's and then we watched Traitor at the Mega 20.