So you think you know me

Create your own friendquiz here

Not a bad list

I know over half of them.

Yippee Kai-yay!

Live Free or Die Hard

A couple really good action sequences in the trailer, I'm excited.

Pursuit of a Quicker Movie

A couple of buddies and I went and saw Pursuit of Happyness last night. After getting over the fact that I haven't been to see a movie in awhile and price of admission here is $9.75, I settled in to watch what I felt was a feel good story.

I wasn't disappointed. Will Smith's character keeps getting knocked down left and right and he keeps pursuing his dream. There are some inconsistencies in the movie, but I guess they had to fudge some stuff in order to embellish some of the miracle. It was rather long or the pacing was off, one of those is true.

I think Will Smith and the boy who played his son both did a good job in the acting department. There were a few heart wrenching scenes.

Although, I don't know why he just didn't go and get a job at a fast food place, I mean if he was really that poor, there are ways to make money.


NOTE - if you are in the Westfield Mall at Plaza Camino Real, don't tell someone to meet you in front of Macy's. Evidently there are two of them.

Congratulations!!!

Time magazine recently released it's Person of the Year and guess what...it's YOU!

Originally, when I read this, I thought that it was a pretty cheap way of getting out of actually naming someone. However, I read the entire article and read a couple other pieces about the story (including viewing some photoshopped pictures of there being porn on the guy's monitor). I think that it's a good choice. There have been a lot of contributions via the Web and new businesses/ideas sprouting up left and right. Most of the time the people are being seen and heard of because of the World Wide Web.

So revel in your new found celebrity, I know I will.

He'll win, Yul see

Bling Bling mofos. I told ya he'd win and guess what, for once I'm correct. My horse comes in, too bad I didn't actually put money on it. That would have been awesome.

Finally watched it

I finally caught this movie on one of the movie channels tonite. I had some thoughts about this movie like everyone else, but I would like to think that I am more open minded than that. When this movie started I thought the pace was going to be rather slow. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was. This movie made me feel something, I don't know the exact feelings that it invoked, but I definitely had some sort of thoughts going on. I can see why it was nominated for the awards. Both actors did a fine job.

Girard Towers here I come!

You may have noticed that I added some Google Ads to the top of the page. I figure this is the first step into a larger business world.

Now to make my blog more appealing so I get more visitors.

Oh...I'll invoke

I got to play some board games last night. Well, it was just one board game. Me, TBS, YIP, and JeffLui all played a couple games of Ra (after some hardcore NBA Live07 action).

I ran the dirt route of old and that did me well in game 1 and I took it home (well that and a full arc of schtuff when there was only 1 head spot left). Game 2 I didn't do to well, there was no water and my 9 dirt were left hanging in the 3rd arc.

It was good to be gaming again. I can't wait to bust out the Puerto Rico, I've been jonsing.

mmmm....murder

meh....it's not a lot

Your Life Is Worth...

$799,000

How Much Is Your Life Worth?

Jerry's Cat has a Mini

I'm sure the cat is very proud.

Are you on the List?

I soooo am on that list.

My power of sarcasm and the ability to send anyone packing on a guilt trip is unmatched.

However, it is unclear that I am a good guy or a bad guy.

I really can't wait until 1/22.

PTQ it is...

So I decided to PTQ it up, for those of you that might not know what that is, here's a little break down.

PTQ stands for Pro Tour Qualifer. It is a qualifying event for an upcoming Magic:theGathering Pro Tour event. The qualifier today was for Pro Tour Geneva happening some time next year. If a person wins, they get a paid plane ticket there and an invite.

The event today is being held at the Coasta Mesa Women's Club where most of LA's PTQs have been held since...well, forever. There were 108 players, I finished 5-2 and that was good enough for 11th place.

I was handed a Foil Jaya, Plague Sliver, Treskavus, double Grapeshot, double Rift Bolt and some dudes. I made the mistake of running 6 blue cards instead of just the Ephramon and the Kracken. I think the Ancestral was calling to me and I wasn't disciplined enough to say no. I boarded into 4 more solid r/b dudes during games 2 and 3. I made a play error that cost me the match in my first lost and just got run over for my second match.

I got 9 packs for being "first runner up billy prize" and the Jaya can probably net me around 20 beans on teh ebay.

Not too bad, I've learned from the mistakes I made.

Weekend Plans?

Here is a list of possible things that I should/could this weekend -

- Get the oil changed - the tires also need to be rotated, I'm about 1k miles over the time that I should have gotten it changed and it might be good because it's getting chilly in SoCal.

- PTQ it - there is a PTQ Geneva this weekend in LA at Coasta Mesa. A buddy of mine is planning on going and I was thinking about hitting it up. I dig me a limited PTQ event, especially since I'm aspiring to be a better Magic player.

- Level Geewon - He is my Tauren Druid on Anvilmar. I have a buddy who plays there (different buddy) and with the sort of dis-assembling of BlakOgre Clan, I kinda have some free time in WoW.

- Clean mah room - it is in bad need of a good cleaning. It doesn't stink or anything, but there are like 27490948 Propel bottles strewn about the place.

- Do nothing - yep, as usual, do absolutely nothing, just watch the netflix that came (a hot husband/wife spy comedy, a boat capsizing, a story about how there is a map on the back of the declaration of independence). So exiciting.

All of them have their negatives as well (bored waiting for car to get done, having connection issues still with WoW, kind of a long drive to Coasta Mesa, cleaning requires effort, etc).

I think the front runner is going to the PTQ. We'll see...

Memory Lane - Part 1

So Mark left a note on my previous entry that he couldn't find the awesome recipe. I went hunting for it and I came upon one of my most favorite blog posts that I have ever read. Definitely top 10 material, who knows, maybe I'll make a list.

Fragments - Tom Lischke

Props to the Lischkes on T-day

Made the Salsa Blanco yesterday and chilled it overnight. Busted it out for the get together and it was a hot commodity. So, the recipe keeps paying off. Thanks for posting it again.

Girard goes to GenCon Socal 2006

Disclaimer: This post might seem pompous at times, but none of it is directed at anyone or anyone's company specifically.

We win Gracie, we win. - Harry Stamper - Armageddon.

This is my first SoCal event and it was pretty small (compared to the other conventions I've been to). I haven't conned in over a year and I got wrecked physically. So I wanted to apologize to the guys that I was supposed to go out and have fun with, I just couldn't move after each day.

UDE's tournament area was full all weekend. The Dragon was slayed just once, but there was a steady stream of competitors looking to take her down. There were 26 more people in the Beginner's Sealed Deck than the Dream Machine Challenge. The place was packed and soo much new blood in the industry. The Vs. Pro Circuit still had a healthy amount of people (same number as last year) and Yu gi oh had like 600+. World of Warcraft TCG was the talk of the convention and everyone that I talked to loved it. It was cool to see people continue to tweak their decks to try and beat Onyxia.

R&D 1 - True Dungeon 0
I was the Bard and I sang it up.

It was good to see everyone that I did; Evan, Beal, Seth and his crew, Trevor, Peiper, Schoe, Ray, Kelly, Adam, Mr. Bond, Bits. It was not good to see Charles Hickey, that guy is an ass.

In Arizona this week...

Heroes Fan and you like spoilers???

If you don't, don't read further.


They spoiled on IMDB who the actor is that is playing Sylar. I must say that I don't think I have ever seen this actor ever play a good guy. It is debatable if he is evil in a movie that came out a couple years ago where there was a tcg based on said movie.

Could I be more vague?

Heroes - 11/13

Holy Crap...Sylar is a Jedi!!!!


now that you've stopped laughing. I was promised some big stuff this week and I got a Sylar Jedi Mind Trick, a not-so-dead waitress, a "suggestive" hot chick, the "good" side of the dad and a missing Hiro. It was pretty full of stuff, but I'm not as keen on the Mohinder part of the story I guess.

Next week, we get to save the cheerleader and in turn, save the world....OR DO WE??!??!?!?!