March 29th, 2008 by
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Easter weekend was filled with all sorts of activities, candy, and gifts. Mainly Easter baskets. The boys weekend started off with lunch and an easter egg hunt at our neighbors The VonZumwalts. Aiden and Chase did surprisingly well looking for Easter eggs. Dorothy had set a whole bunch out specifically for the little kids. It was a little warm that day and the boys needed a few breaks in between the day. On Easter Sunday we woke up in our normal routine and set out the boys baskets in the front yard. Christine had purchased some other gifts behind my back because I don’t believe Easter should be about presents. But either way the boys loved there new things and played with them all morning. Later we had an Easter egg hunt for them in the backyard. Again they enjoyed looking around for them. Christine’s parents came over and they got to play with the kids a give them their presents. I didn’t know that when Jesus awoke from the tom that a rabbit came in with a basket and gave him gifts. But before he left he hid a bunch of eggs around the outside of the tomb of Jesus and people had to look for them before they discovered that the tomb was empty. Sorry! that was sarcastic. Later in the afternoon we went over to my parents house for a early dinner. Again more gifts and Easter egg hunts. In all they got 6 baskets. 100 eggs, 30 plushes, and a crap load more stuff. Oh well I guess i should not complain. They are rather spoiled. We had a very enjoyable Easter weekend and look forward to next year. Maybe I will buy them a real rabbit and say it’s the Easter Bunny like my parent did to me. I will try and not let a dog eat this one.
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March 17th, 2008 by
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This weekend Aiden and Chase received their first real haircut. Everyone was commenting on what cute girls we had. So we took them to our friend Sara Lyall who now works at a new salon. The beautiful, talented, gorgeous, friendly, sweet, effervescent Sara did a fabulous job cutting the boys hair. Christine and I did not realize how scrappy and long our kids hair was. They did surprisingly well sitting in the seats and Sara had a steady hand with her scissors and our kids heads. They came out looking beautiful which I know is a poor adjective for boys. But you can see how they look here.
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March 11th, 2008 by
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Sunday we took the kids to the Irish festival in Pomona to hang out and meet up with Meghan and her family. It was a very nice day and wasn’t hot at all. Usually I have bad experiences at fairs out in the open. Aiden got sunscreen in his eye when he discovered it sprayed. He had leaky eye all day long. The boys really enjoyed the music and storyteller/magician/comedian that is in the picture. I thoroughly enjoyed the sheep dog herding demonstration. Those dogs are awesome. They can keep the sheep straight or turn them in the desired direction. It made me want to get one to wrangle my kids. I think it would be extremely usefully. We ate pretty decent Irish themed food and had really good beer. In all it was a very fabulous day. I would also like to point out that my dad got me a gps magellen unit as a gift. It got us from Pomono to Christine’s parents house in chino in 18 minutes. It was awesome navigating us through surface streets and freeways that i would not normally take. Fantastic little piece of equipment. As revolutionary as TIVO. Anywhoo! You can see some pics from the Irish festival here.
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March 10th, 2008 by
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This Weekend I participated in my first No Limit Texas Holdem Tournament.
A neighbor of mine holds annualy a large tournament in his driveway and garage. I have seen it the past of couple of years and always thought it looked fun. I fancy myself a mediocre card player since I have been playing from birth. I joined this year and made it down to the last 2 tables right before they were going to be joined. I am not sure of my ranking yet but I believe I was somewhere between 7th and 10th. Out of 60 people I thought that was pretty good. It gave me a good confidence boost and I have really been thinking seriously about entering some more tournaments. And who knows. maybe go Pro!
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March 2nd, 2008 by
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So I finally got a chance to watch The King of Kong. If you don’t know, it is about 2 guys trying to get the top score in Donkey Kong. According to the documentary Donkey Kong is the hardest game in all of retro gaming. This movie is pure magic on all levels. Cristopher Guest could not make movies this good. The characters seem like they are right out of a comic book, expect they are real people. You question yourself the entire time asking could these people be real? Is this scripted? But it isn’t! The film is humorous but at the end it is touching. You find yourself rooting for the main character. If you get a chance please rent this movie. I cannot recommend it enough.
Update: Since I am on the subject of retro gaming. My Tron project is going well. I have taken a week off of it but plan to jump back into the rehab next week.
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