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August 12, 2005.
You know the Early Show with Regis and Kerry is 15 minutes long, after fifteen minutes, commercials start and then when the show finally comes back on, it’s only 2 minutes long (we counted) and on to another group of ‘mercials. You could say the show is a commercial (or break) for the commercials. So only part where you you can blink and not miss the show is the very beginning where they kinda draw you in.
Now, you probably don’t think of me as a guy who’d watch the Early Show and I’m not. Every once in a while in the morning after Yoga and Shakuhachi we turn it on to see the beginning. What’s curious is who would watch the whole show? It’s just two people talking about nothing! Regis is the only thing that makes it rather interesting. I dunno. I’m guessing it’s a show you watch while eating instead of reading the morning paper. If there’s anybody reading this who watches the whole show, let me know the reason why, please.
Anyway, we were watching the Early Show and Regis has been on vacation with Dave Letterman or something. They’ve been having these guests fill in for Regis and I don’t know, they just aren’t funny or interesting. Kelly tries to fill the shoes of Regis but has a real hard time ’cause they’re different. They had that basketball player filling in and he didn’t do much. Kelly just interviewed him for a long time. The only good filler that we saw was Howie. . . the guy who doesn’t like germs. He was pretty funny and was a good host. He showed a few clips of his hidden camera show where he annoys people (Hidden Howie)and that looked funny. It reminded me of when Dave Letterman and Rupert Jee went around annoying people. (Rupert had the camera glasses on and Dave was in the van giving him lines through a walki-talkie or something) We’ll probably watch that show or at least try it. It’s called Hidden Howie on Bravo. I think it’s on next Thursday but I’m not sure. You’re a smart guy, you can figure it out.
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August 10, 2005.
That ‘tater gun that Luke has is pretty neat and is loads of fun for hours. It’s so fun just shooting potato pellets in the compost bin is entertaining! I thought getting two guns would be fun so we could have gun fights. I looked online for people who sold them but the guns I saw looks very powerful. In fact, the didn’t just shoot a part of a potato, it spat out the whole darn thing! There was a movie online that showed a spud cannon firing a potato into a brick wall and blasts through it. if you’re fighting with that, you’d want eye protection just in case one of those suckers knocks you in the eye.
Those potato cannons were powerful. They should use ‘em in war and then the environment people can be happy!
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August 10, 2005.
We were looking online for a new car. I found this great Acura for 6,000 smackers that had heated seat and a moonroof! It was gorgeous! Nobody else liked it ’cause it was “small” (that’s relative). Later on, Mama saw this Subaru that had heated seats, leather interior and double sunroofs! It was a wagon too which was good. 10,000 bucks was rather expensive but they let us borrow it for a day. It seemed very nice but for the price, it wasn’t the dream car it would’ve been $3-5,000 cheaper.
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August 9, 2005.
We had all these green beans in the garden that needed to picked ’cause they’re supposed to be picked early and often. I decided to make a big stir fry. I sliced up mushroom, green beans, Kale, onion, garlic, ginger, the works. It took me 1-1/2 hours to cut it all but it took me 10 minutes to cook it. It was delicious, especially with the teriyaki sauce.
Three hours later, we went to Karate. Somehow when class started, my stomach did not feel good. I soon realized what it was. We’ve been eating the food from the B-day party and not a lot of vegitables. Going from hardly any veggies and then suddenly a high concentration of it (didn’t have too many noodles or chicken in mine) really did made rumblings in the interior. Fortunatly, class was rather slow today and we didn’t move around a lot which I was very thankful for. Halfway through class, my churn felt better and that’s when we did more movement (in Karate that is).
So all in all, that was quite an adventure.
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August 8, 2005.
Today, a little thing called Fun Day happened on our street. Basically, walking into the festival made me feel much older. There was all these kiddy things like the inflatable house that you jump in (that looked fun but I think one jump and I would pop the thing [nothing over 100+ pounds or *pop!*]) by the apartments. They had some interprative dancing thing going on by the electronics shop, a skatepark right next to the dentist office and stuff like that. I saw a martial arts table to sign up for martial arts. I dunno, it didn’t seem like a good sign when seven year olds were wearing third que brown belts. I dunno, maybe it’s just me but it seems a little odd.
John and his odd friend (who’s always saying these inside jokes of adult orgin(I’m guessing and it’s pretty easy to guess, believe me) were wanting Luke and I to enter this raffle for a skateboard for them and they would buy the board is we won.they already entered and wanted us for extra chances of winning. his friend (let’s call him Stu just to keep it simple) said he would buy it for $10 and then John said he’d buy it for $15. Stu said 20, John said 25. Basically I was holding an auction! Luke already shook hands for 20 bucks so if he won, he would only be able to sell it for 20 but I didn’t shake on it so the pot was getting high! The stakes were up to $60! . . . And I didn’t even win the board yet! So we finally settled on $60 (though I didn’t shake on it so if I won, I could hold another auction). The deal was there was a certain amount of marbles in a jar and the person who guessed the closest got the one of three boards. Luke guessed there was 251 marbles in the thing I did some calculations and guessed 221 but changed it to 231. After all that we wandered the festival (the “festival” was only 1/2 block long). People were giving out free water, chips, braughtworst and all this stuff. I can’t believe I didn’t partake in it! Probably ’cause we were loaded on the food from yesterday.
We went to the jam. I was kinda jammed out from yesterday so I played in the car. I shoulda walked home but didn’t. hours later the jam ended. When we pulled into the driveway, John came up and said I won the contest. There were 223 marbles (I guessed 231 but my first guess was 221!) and I was one of the closest. Problem was, I wasn’t there to recieve the board so I didn’t get my 60+ smackers! Oh! . . well. It’s just one of those things to shrug off.