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May 26th, Alarm Set For 3am

To say that I am excited about the return of Arrested Development is quite literally the understatement of the year. I think when I saw this graphic the other day I may have squealed like a little girl. In fact, I know I did. So in honor of the only show to come along in years that we (here) can watch time and time again and still get just as much, if not MORE enjoyment out of it, I will be posting a video, or meme, or gif or whatever else the interwebs come up with, one for each of the 50 days until May 26, when the will brilliantly release ALL 15 EPISODES at midnight PDT. That's 3am our time, and you know my alarm is already set. Don't bother calling that Sunday. You'd be making a huge mistake.

begin the countdown - 50 days...

May The Mouse Be With You, Always

So, apparently while we were wallowing in darkness George Lucas sold ILM to Disney and now they say that there will be a new Star Wars movie by 2015, with two more to follow. I was kind of course infatuated with the original trilogy, I accepted and was content with the hexalogy and the finality of the whole thing. But now the apparent ennealogy has got me all excited and I'm not sure what to do about it. Hop on the fanboy train for the next three years or just play it down and act aloof. 

I have always wondered what happened to Logray...

Omaha. 119. Omaha. Hut Hut...

TONIGHT:

[nothing else matters right now]

It Was Too Good For TV

It seems that after some wild speculation and mixed feelings of nostalgia versus greed, the continuation of Arrested Development is finally going to become a reality. For the very first time I ever found Twitter a useful entity is this past week when two persons in the know released strategically timed statements that folks like us have been waiting to hear since the Bluth boys woke up in Cabo in the final scenes of season 3;

"Arrested Development for Netflix. IT"S ALIVE."

-Ron Howard

"All systems are go. Filming for the new episodes starts in four weeks. Woo!"

-Jason Bateman

So that's it then. Get your Netflix subscription in order or don't say you weren't warned. 2013 release? It's more important now than ever that those Mayans were wrong. 

Man Egg.

Coco Got Moves

I'm not gonna lie. I'm excited. Most definitely will be immediately diffused by reality, but for now...

Hey! Exciting Yes (Not Boring) WooHoo!!

Yesterday started out as a normal day. We had a few errands to run and really didn't expect anything adventurous.

Laura & I left the house with some recycling to drop off. The recycling station lies in the middle of a large cornfield. We never thought anything of it. We dragged some plastic bottles to one dumpster. A bundle or two of broken down cardboard to another. We were about ready to hop back in our car when we heard the faint buzzing of a single engine cessna and it was coming right at us! We took off into the cornfield, narrowly escaping its machine gun fire. Weird huh?



Then we went off to Laura's ultrasound. Just a quick checkup but we could never be prepared for what we found out. The nurse was just starting the checkup when she suddenly shrieked and ran out of the room. She locked the door behind her and we were stuck. We looked up at the screen and this is what we saw...



Then we started to smell smoke and sure enough moments later some grey smoke started to seep under the door of our exam room. The nurse had lit the offices on fire! We had to escape to save ourselves and our little alien. But how?! I used my brute force to break down the door and Laura I just barely avoided the inferno that was climbing up the walls. The heat was unbearable and the building was coming down around us. Another too close for comfort. I sure hope they refund our copayment.



We got back on 33 and headed back towards home knowing we had to make one more stop at the grocer. The highway was pretty open considering it was around 3 in the afternoon, but all of the sudden we spotted a little green sportscar flying up from behind us. I mean this guy was trucking! Then all of the the sudden BANG! BANG! gunfire! At us. We floored it. Weaving in and out of traffic, taking the shoulder on occasion, and topping out around 120mph. Don't worry Dad we had our seatbelts on. After jumping a few curbs and a little off-roading, we managed to run him into the embankment and get away without any scars. Phew.



We finally got to the grocer and we started filling our shopping carts with all sort of goodies. We got to the cereal aisle when all of the sudden the power went out in the building and it was dark. Some faint emergency lighting flickered on and off and we thought after the day we had we should just get out of here and head home, but we'd come so far and didn't want to leave this beautifully stocked cart behind so decided to stay. But that's when we heard the rumbling. We looked down the aisle and there it was. A giant boulder barreling down on us! We grabbed what food we could and ran down the aisle, Lucky Charms flying everywhere! We crashed out the front window of the store and jumped in the car. As we drove away we saw the building go up in a humongous explosion. Just in the nick of time.



We got home, thinking our adventure was over, exhausted and ready for some rest. We saw the cats gathered in the backyard all staring in the same direction. Odd behavior for these guys who are usually asleep or eating. We thought they must've caught a mole or a bird or something. We thought there could be no harm in checking it out...

In A World That Doesn't...

We does.

Funny right? But seriously, this phone is crazy. I never had a phone that did much else beside ring someone, but this thing is like a computer in my pocket. And it's not that we needed or even wanted such a gadget, but they were free. What can I say, we duped the system. Ya see, I had a few hours to kill yesterday before picking Laura up from work, so amongst other little errands I stopped by the Verizon store to see what was what and when we were due for an upgrade. The women helping me seemed as surprised as I was when she said "1/15. Why that's tomorrow!". So now I'm stoked because I hate my phone (the bottom row of buttons barely works) and I know Laura hates hers (sometimes the screen goes buh-bye). So I started checking out all the phones we could trade in. The woman made me aware of the deals we can get for renewing our contract and other bargains we get for being such loyal and punctual clientele. We get the phones at the special bargain basement price plus another $100 off one of the phones. So I'm looking thru the inventory, doing the math in my head, and initially passed over the fancy touchscreen/3G/smartphone section, but then curiosity came over me and I glimpsed. Apparently the Droid Eris is on sale for $199, with a special promotion this week of $100 off. So $99 each. Add to that the fact that we get another $100 off one of the phones, and then the real kicker, since we're such wonderful bill payers, we get buy one get one free. So again, that's $199 per phone, minus the $100 of each in-store promotion, $100 off one for resigning and one phone for free just for being nice people; Verizon owes us $1.00. Even the guy helping us seemed caught off guard by the deal. Guess we're the first ones. Either way, we walked outta there not spending a penny with two brand new phones that a normal, less conscionable person would've spent over $1,000 on. And we have no idea how to use them, but so far they're fun and I can now call people with a 7,8 or 9 in their number.