So yesterday we were all minding our own business playing WoW when Sam, who is sitting next to Brook, suddenly exclaims “wow, Brook, have you been working out? It looks like you’ve got a hot bod under that shirt.” Brook blankly stares back at Sam as he goes on “…what would I need to do get you to take it off?” Brook was pretty flabbergasted, but eventually gives in to Sam’s wily ways under the condition that Sam also go shirtless.

Sam happily agrees and I managed to capture the moment with my handy camera. I guess Sam just really wanted some man eye-candy next to him as he tanked ToC. Whatever gives you motivation, I guess, Sammy.

On Friday night, I saw Phantom of the Opera with Melissa and some of her friends. It was my first time seeing it, and was pretty enjoyable. =) Walking around campus makes me feel a bit old though… However, what makes me feel even older is the fact that I have my 10 year high school reunion next year. 10 years! Eep…

On Saturday, I took Melissa to Lockhart for some tasty BBQ. I had only previously ever been to Black’s and Chisholm Trail, so I figured it was time for me to hit up either Kreuz or Smitty’s (which I feel are actually the more well known/visited places). We ended up going to Smitty’s but I must unfortunately say that I was underwhelmed. They ran out of prime rib, so we didn’t get to try that, but the brisket and pork chops were both fairly dry (yes, I asked for fatty brisket). The pork ribs were pretty good, though. I might be down for giving them another chance, but I didn’t get a very good first impression. It made me want to do another meatcation…

Sunday, after church, we had a bit of an introduction lunch at Arpeggio Grill for Viraj and Stephanie King to meet Melissa and for two of her friends, Sarina and Helen to meet me. Can’t go wrong with a tasty 30” Greek pizza. =) That was pretty fun, then I went home, hung out for a bit and passed out for a few hours.

Throughout the weekend, there was Pushing Daisies watching as well… we’re approaching the end of the second/final season. It has also been pretty enjoyable, so I would classify this as a solid weekend. =)

On to the work week!…

So I got bored and I went back and found archives of my “blog” posts from 1999-2004. Back then, there weren’t many (if any) blog platforms, so I was using some funky “news” posting software. Apparently it stored all the posts in a text file with delimiters of “x”…

Anyways, I whipped up a quick script to convert it into an XML format WordPress could import and… tada! I wouldn’t be surprised if links were broken, by the way…

It’s kind of crazy to see over ten years worth of blogging on the right sidebar now…

I made a fake Sam Ni FB account a while back and Sam made the foolish decision of friending it last night, which gave me access to post to his wall…

I figured the account would get closed shortly, so I’d make the most of it…

…and I think I was being nice… I could have done far worse. =)

Yes, I’m posting this while at work, but it’s my lunch break! ;)

So I apparently underestimated Sam as I predicted he would FB friend Melissa within 24 hours of meeting her (at karaoke on Friday night). I sent myself an email to timestamp my prediction.

I should have been more aggressive with my estimate though because as I picked up Melissa on Saturday morning and told her about my prediction, she said she’d already got gotten a friend invite at roughly 5AM, which was <6 hours after meeting her and not even 3 hours after I sent the above email to myself. Sorry for underestimating your social swiftness, Sam. :)

On the topic of weekend events, there was karaoking on Friday night, which was pretty fun. I’ll get around to posting a few photos/videos eventually… Melissa and I finished the first season of Pushing Daisies, which is a pretty enjoyable little show (only nine episodes in the first season). I took a break from ultimate this weekend, and probably next too, as I’m trying to let my shins heal in preparation for next month’s 10k run… which I’m still iffy on if I’ll actually be able to do. It’s a bit tricky since I need to rest my shins, but I also should probably train for the run…

With that, I will leave you with the tail end of a wonderful chat I had with my sister who’s visiting London currently:

Ah… I love having sisters. :)

During a chat with Melissa recently, I recalled this gem of a video I had stored in an external hard drive and I was shocked that I didn’t already have it online. Well, I have rectified that issue… =) (warning: contains profanity).

“No no no no no no no high velocity! No no… like that’s… NO! SHT C**K!! SHT C**K!!!!” - Sam Ni

Oches got a puppy!! She looks sad a lot… probably because Ochs got her.

This weekend, other than the super windy ultimate game, Melissa and I finished watching Firefly and Serenity (ahhh… I <3 that show/movie so much). It’s been decided that the next show will be Pushing Daisies, so I ordered both seasons on blu-ray, which should arrive shortly. I’ve heard good things about that show from many sources, so I didn’t mind buying before seeing any of it… looking forward to it. =)

Sunday, I went to Vox, ate at Ho Ho, went misc. shopping a bit and got cleaning supplies (but did not clean). Took a short nap, then visited Austin Stone (hence the post title… har har!) with Melissa. It was my first time and boy… a lot of people go there! After going to Vox for so long, it would take some getting used to should I visit Stone again (not necessarily in a good/bad way). I found out Melissa hadn’t seen Up, so I decided to try my luck at this whole social thing and sent out a tweet asking if anyone had a copy I could borrow. Carolee graciously obliged (thanks!) and so we closed out the night watching that.

As many of you will know, the temps dropped to the lower 40’s and the wind picked up to the mid 20MPH with gusts up to 45MPH. Well, that didn’t stop us from playing Ultimate and we got in a solid few hours of game time, which was pretty impressive. The hot shower I took afterwards felt awesome and I discovered a number of bruises on my hand once the feeling returned to them.

We finally got our first frisbee casualty today as the disc we’ve been playing with finally gave out. Time to buy a new one (or two…)!

Now I think I will take a nap…

“In open fields of wild flowers,
she breathes the air and flies away
She thanks her Jesus for the daises and the roses
in no simple language” - Jars of Clay

I took the day off since I felt like I needed a good day of rest (particularly since my cough is still lurking around). I was planning on sleeping in and perhaps being productive and getting my car maintenanced, but I opted to just turn off the “maintenance required” light so I could ignore it easier (it’s kind of pointless anyways). I did, however, get some Round Rock donut holes, bought more flags for ultimate, ordered new checks, and sent off some mail. Now I am just bumming at the house.

I have had an unfortunate run of WwF games and have a longer losing streak (across different people) than I would like… I think I’m playing too haphazardly… and I need to learn more words with an abundance of i’s in them… I hate i’s.

Itching a little to try to do a small video related project with my camera, but feeling rather uninspired right now…