Beyond Occident

Yesterday I gathered up all my Guitar Hero II supplies and ventured over to Luke & Andru’s house. Steve brought his guitar too and Jason showed up. Basically, we rocked the night away. I took a bunch of pictures so they should be up on flickr soon. I came home ’round midnight and played for two more hours. I got five stars on every song on easy and now I’m moving into medium territory.

And I crossed the 2000 point threshold!!! Getting 1000 points took about a year and getting another thousand took less than half that time. 3 cheers for me!

I reread His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman over a week ago and I’m still thinking about them so here is a trailer to the movie which is coming out in December. It’s looking good so far.

Dear Diary, what a day it’s been… it’s been like a dream…

It’s April. It’s baseball season. It’s snowing.

Wait. What?

That’s right. I ventured over to Great American Ball Park today for game numero 2 as the Redlegs took on the Cubs and what to my wondering eyes appeared but 30 degree weather, snow, and a loss. Going to a MLB game while it is snowing is one of those things were you think it would be cool, but when it actually happens, it stops being cool. Especially when all of Chicago is sitting behind you being obnoxious.

In other news, Guitar Hero II has officially taken over my 360. I have finally given into the craze and bought it. I will say that I’m complete rubbish at it however. Honestly, I suck. Although it has only been two days and I really haven’t played all that much, I’m still disappointed I’m still in Easy land. Hopefully we’ll be able to have our GH II marathon tomorrow. Maybe my skillz will increase.

…where will we go, oh, where will we go now…

Sunday morning I arrived, around 6 or so, back at beautiful Kentucky. While describing all the details and unending excitement of the trip would be thrilling, I simply hate describing what I do on trips more than once. Therefore, you can go read Steve’s blog to get all the details on the nitty gritty.

However, I would like to share some experiences and life lessons that I learned on this most educational of trips.

While checking to make sure a bottle isn’t leaking, don’t flip it up suddenly and open it. You, and everyone around you, will be soaked with mulled cider.

Laser pointers can offer hours of immature fun. Let me provide an example. At the Pentagon Shopping Mall (or something similar), Chris, Jacob, and I were on the 4th floor, trying to get Ryan (who was on the 1st floor) to come out into the center. Jacob was talking to him on the phone…

“Ryan! I’m standing out in the middle! Yes, I can see you. Dude, I’m on the 1st floor”
“Well I can’t see you. Wait! Some idiots are shooting me with laser pointers” *Looks up* “You bastards!”

Of course, watching the elderly people stare at him as he pranced around the floor looking for us was priceless.

I would hate to have to live in DC. Having tour buses and groups (like ours) coming and going constantly, clogging up streets and shopping centers would be incredibly annoying. I could just feel myself being annoying to any of the locals.

If you hear about a dinner cruise, duck and run. It may sound elegant and fun, but I promise it won’t be. Just imagine being trapped on a boat with 100 13 year olds and rap. Shudder.

I uploaded all my pictures onto flickr so just scroll down to look at some of them. Click one to go see them all.