the alamo and me

I WANT TO SPOIL THIS FOR YOU!
BUT I WON'T.
YET.




Last night I attended the screening of the Dark Knight in IMAX and all I can say is "holyfuckingshitthiswasamazingandicannotbelievehowgreatitwasandicannotwaittoseeitagain."

That's all I will say for now.

Labels: Excitement, Movies

MOVIE CONFIRMED!!!

Labels: Excitement, Newsworthy

King Tut is coming to Dallas! The exhibit, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, will be at the Dallas Museum of Art beginning October 2008 through May 2009. You can pre-register for tickets here. I've already pre-registered. Now to figure out a good weekend to go. Anyone in?

Get the rest of the scoop at the official site.

Labels: Excitement, History

New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research team recently took a 35-day trek to Antarctic waters collecting over 30,000 marine life specimen and discovering many new species along the way. Some of the most interesting collected were gigantic starfish, sea pigs, sea spiders, new octopuses (or is it octopi? I never know), several new fish, crustaceans, and so on.



Pictured above is a sea pig (really a sea cucumber) and pictured below is an octopus found 3,280 feet below sea level. Is it me or doesn't this octopus look like the alien baby Will Smith had to deliver in the back seat of a car during Men In Black?



Go check out the rest of the photos here at National Geographics. The starfish are gigantic.

Labels: Animals, Excitement, Newsworthy

The essential every-day, user-friendly, portable hookah! Promising to turn almost any bottle into an instant hookah. The kit comes with a stainless steel pipe promising to fit on almost any bottle or vase, a six-foot hose, clay bowl, tongs and carrying bag with room to include a one litter bottle.

Climb a mountain and use your now empty water bottle. Hard night of drinking? Use that empty Absolut bottle. Hell, you can even use produce for your base. A pumpkin probably works much better than a potato.

Let me sum this up with: I want. Available for purchase through Amazon.com.

Read more product info and testimonials at HoboHookah.com.

Labels: Excitement, Hookah, Party, Wants

As if you probably haven't read it somewhere else already... today was my last day in hell. I said my byes to those who matter and those who matter actually returned the goodbyes. And yes, I am indicating that there were certain people who did not say goodbye. Instead felt it was oh-so necessary to call a client that they have never cared to really call before. Nice move. Not that I'm upset that I didn't get a "peace out" or at least a wave goodbye because quite frankly my darling, I don't give a damn.

I do however think it was very rude and inconsiderate that you didn't say goodbye to the one stable person within your company who helped you do a whole hell of a lot within the last fifteen months that you apparently could not accomplish yourself. And what made that lack of gratefulness even worse is that the other employees noticed your lack of goodbye when I received each of their text messages asking, "did he even say goodbye?" Whoops. I let it slip, it is quite clear who this particular person is since I gave way to their gender and that that person is the only gender of its kind in the office. Well aside from the same gendered person who started yesterday but he doesn't count.

So my question to him is, "Is that bitterness in your mouth or did the cat get your tongue?"

Labels: Excitement, Jobs

If you haven't heard... I'm going! And I'm uber excited. We got our vacation house settled and ready to rock. It was once owned by this guy, Lord "Tally-ho" Blears. And to save you the trouble of Googling (because I already did it)... he was a radio-officer in WWII, professional wrestler and played a bartender on two episodes of Magnum P.I.

Happy Birthday to myself!

Labels: Excitement, Hawaii, Vacation

Labels: Excitement, Geeky, Harry Potter

Heh, heh. I thought last week was busy? I worked about 70 hours this past week and I'm tired as hell. I was at work from 830am one day all the way to 630am the next morning. 22 hours. WTF? And the night before I had been there till 130am. Several coffee runs were made. Had to do with a proposal and a kick-off of collateral at the airport. Definitely the most insane week I think I've had in my entire life.

Fiesta started in San An on Friday. And if you don't know what Fiesta is then think of it as a Mexican Mardi Gras. Which is a week long celebration of drunkeness. We were going to hit up the Oyster Bake but opted to go see Hot Fuzz instead. I think we made the right decision. Especially because Oyster Bake is supposed to be ridiculously crowded. Then again so is NIOSA but I'm so down for that. I want a giant turkey leg. This upcoming week is gonna be busy again. Thursday is the Current party and then Ben's birthday is Friday but he has an Air Force banquet he must attend so I'm taking him out for dinner on Saturday. And his mom will be in town that weekend as well so we'll be over at his grandmother's a lot.

Sleep is just not in my future.

But the best news of all is that I'm going to be in Hawaii June 30th thru July 6th!!! I'm stoked.

Labels: Excitement, Out of Commission, Sleepy

New HP: Order of the Phoenix stills up for you to see here.



As you all should know by now... this was my favorite book of the series so far and I'm uber excited about seeing it. Uber! I mean I freaking cried during the book. And I'll definitely end up crying at the same part during the movie. Here's a link to the teaser again.

Get here July 13th!

Labels: Excitement, Harry Potter

I've been ridirkulously busy as of the past week and a half. I didn't leave work before seven any day of the week last week. Deadlines to meet and RFPs to take care of. Had a horrendous time getting back to DFDub last weekend for two birthdays. Flight was cancelled twice due to stormtastic weather (which I would have greatly enjoyed if I wasn't trying to fly home) and then eventually delayed on the third flight. But nonetheless I made it in, saw my ladies, ate some OTB plus Babe's and wished my pop's the big one. While I was back in DFDub I expressed my dissapointment in San An for not having a Taco Bueno when Lauren told of a tale that there was in fact one Bueno in the Alamo City and that a girl we know drove from San Marcos to San Antonio just to eat there. So when I got back I started searching and found it. Oh yes. There is only one Taco Bueno and it is less than 10 minutes from my house. Heaven in a taco shell.



I made sure to get the facts on this Bueno. It just opened as of the beginning of the year and I was told that there would be 11 more opening over the next 3 years - which is also about the expected duration of my living time in this town. I am set for now.

Lately I've been using my lunch breaks to brush up and re-teach myself Spanish. Apparently it is having a deep mental effect because I have had two dreams in complete Spanish two nights in a row. One involved Mandy with a boyfriend who was a larger version of Enrique Inglesias sans the mole. The other wasn't interesting enough for me to remember but I know it happened.

And I'm jealous of you bastards back home who got snow again (!!!) this year. What is the world coming to? Snow in April in Texas? Say what? I didn't get snow here but I got lots of cold and lots of rain. There was even a rain drop that fell directly into my eye. How this happened... I'm still not sure but my eye hurt from the freeze of it all.

Labels: Excitement, Random

Aside from the fact that I haven't had the time to update lately...

I will be out of the blogging commission over the next six days. Four for partying. Two for recovering. Mandy and Lauren will set forth on a journey to visit me tomorrow and we will then spend the next four days on a drunken stupor here in San An. Which I have officially dubbed "The Real Margaritaville."

See you on the other side...

Labels: Drunkeness, Excitement, Out of Commission