Liloia.com Archives: February 2006
February 14, 2006
February 13, 2006
Winter Festival
This weekend while Tara was away Kentucky, Trevor and I headed down to the Burlington Winter Festival. This event is basically an excuse for all of us Vermonters to get the heck out of our houses in the middle of the Winter to shake free some of the winter blues, oh and it's a lot of fun too.
There were ice sculptors, snowman making contests, and a bunch of other events for the kiddee's. The pinnacle of this festival though is the Penguin Plunge sponsored by the Special Olympics. This event is used to primarily raise money for the Special Olympics, but really is a great excuse to make your friends act like fools, dress in costumes, and hurl themselves into the frigid waters of Lake Champlain.
Can you think of anything more hysterical? Oh, yeah maybe seeing a guy in a giant Donald Duck costume hurl himself into the frigid waters of Lake Champlain while dancing with two witches, a guy wearing a tutu, and a few rugby players. Now that's comedy.
Now all we need to do is hurl a cow/piano and we'll be ready for our TV series.
February 10, 2006
YBYSAIA
Back in the late 80's, I was inducted as a turtle by some of my friends in scouting. At that time, I thought it was made up and not real. Today, one of my coworkers walked into my office and asked those of us in there, "Are you a turtle?"
I was floored, it turns out that it is not only a realy thing but very well know in certain circles. Anyway, this post is for those of you that are already and those of you that want to be.
Stick your neck out.
February 9, 2006
Grey's Anatomy - Replay
Apparently my complaining was loud enough to sway the programming schedule of ABC. They have decided to replay the Super Bowl night episode of Grey's Anatomy!!! (or perhaps it was just really popular and they realize that they can pimp people for more advertising dollars by replaying it -- either way)
It is playing in our area at 9:30PM. Check your own local listings for info.
Rock out...
Belated Your Mom
This past November, Tara and I sent Clay a "Your Mom" cookie through the mail and had it delivered to his office in DC. On my recent visit to see him last week, he mentioned that we never posted about, or let him know that we had received his gift for Your Mom month. Clay sent us (Tara actually) a box of custom printed M&M's with the words "Your Mom" on each one.
As it turns out, while Tara and I did recieve them and enjoyed them we never took pictures of them, posted about them and didn't even thank Clay for them.
So, since they aren't around anymore we can't post a picture of them but here is a mock up of what they looked like from the M&M website.
And here is our thank you to Clay Johnson.....thanks Clay.
Now stop your whining.
P.S. - He is the ONLY real Clay Johnson. Clay...Johnson.
February 7, 2006
I hate the Super Bowl
or more accurately, I hate the post game show for the Super Bowl. Tara and I are fervent watchers of Grey's Anatomy on Sunday nights. This past week, while most other shows took a "bye" for the week due to the Super Bowl, Grey's Anatomy announced that they were having a special episode that was going to be awesome.
Not even thinking about the length of time that the Super Bowl would last, we left the DVR setup to record Grey's Anatomy for us starting at 10 PM Sunday night. Problem is, the post game show didn't end until 10:30. That means that we only taped enough of the show to find out:
- There is an undetonated bazooka casing inside of a patient in the OR
- Christina Ricci (hot) has her hand inside this patient and may die
- Bailey is having her baby
- Her husband is dying (or may be dead!) in the OR upstairs!
Ok, ok, so this is probably not my biggest problem in life, but I really want to see this episode. I-Tunes doesn't carry it yet, so basically I am stuck (also, no one that I can find has it available on any P2P network yet in a format that I can view)
Does anyone have a copy of this show? I need it! Also, at this time I would like to blame the Super Bowl for making me miss an episode of Smallville a few months ago called "Exposed". If anyone has that one too...
February 6, 2006
Why I love Tara so much...
As said by Tara to me via email a few minutes ago....
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Oh and if I were president, interpretive dance would be illegal.
(They have some chick in flowing robes doing interpretive dance at Coretta Scott King's funeral. It's embarassingly lame. If you have interpretive dance at my funeral, I will come back from the grave to stab your eyeballs out and kick you.)
February 2, 2006
Omaha Steaks are made of Spam
A juicy, medium-well thumbs down to Omaha Steaks who has been calling my cell phone 2-3 times per day for the last month. I usually miss these calls, because I'm... oh, I don't know... working, but the few times I have picked it up, there's no one on the other end.
Eventually, I programmed the phone number to show up as "Spam" and stopped picking it up. Then I did some googling. Someone at 402-593-7107 has been phone-spamming people for years. I double-checked and my cell has been on the Do Not Call Registry since December 2003.
I picked up the spam call this afternoon and the woman (finally, someone was there) told me that a company can call me for 18 months after I've purchased something from them. Enjoy those phone-spammer steaks, Dave. Merry spammy Christmas. I'll tell you what... the steaks were good, but they weren't two-phone-calls-per-day good.
Stop phone-spamming your customers, Omaha Steaks or you will lose us. A week ago, if someone had asked where to get a good steak, I would have recommended your company. Today, I'll warn them about your legal-but-annoying customer contact policy. Oh, and I will not be buying from you again.