Nick and Dion's Room

The last 2 weeks...

In an effort to keep my posts from being exceedingly boring by posting every other day, I suddenly let 2 weeks go by with nothing posted. I'm gonna try to keep it around 1 a week or so. That being said, here's the rest of my post.

A couple days after my last post the free cable Andrew and I had been getting since last November was turned off. When the cable guy showed up last November to install the basic package we had ordered, he said they had given him the wrong part, so we ended up with the mid level package, which was all the cable channels but no HBO, etc. Every month we only had to pay for the $10 basic package we had ordered. It was a glorious system, but they finally caught up with us.

The big problem was that the finale for Joe Schmo was a few days away when the cable was turned off, but Ram was good enough to let me watch it over at his and Parker's place. He recorded it using his DVR for Andrew, who has yet to watch it. The ending was awesome. Parker and Ram both got into it enough to ask questions about it and watched the finale with me. It was a very cool show.

The same week our cable was turned off, Andrew and I played a couple rounds of miniature golf at this new place called Austin Park 'N Pizza. Afterwards I was in a golf type mood, so I thought I'd give his Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2002 for PS2 a try. That game is easily as much fun as Gran Turismo or the Grand Theft Auto series. I can't really explain it, but it's addicting. Sadly I'm very near the end of the game. However, to Andrew's delight I've decided to rent Tiger Woods 2004 after I'm done with this one.

Last weekend was my family's annual Halloween party, not just the Wilkys but all the aunts, uncles, etc. In keeping with my family's "Griswold" status it isn't just a regular party, it's a lip-sync contest. I assume we all know what that is, but basically it's pretending to sing a song while doing some sort of routine with it, trying to be as funny as possible. We videotape it and oh yeah, this year was the 17th one we've had. You can see some pictures from the party here.

Finally this brings us to Monday, a scant 3 days ago. Where Andrew and I while flipping between commercials during Monday Night Football found a new show to watch religiously. This one is called Average Joe. It's like the Bachelorette, which was a show where a very attractive woman chooses her soulmate from a group of equally hot guys. Average Joe, however adds a twist to it, 95% of the guys are not hot, in fact some of them are downright nerds and dorks, and some are bald on top of that. The girl, Melana, is a former NFL cheerleader, and had no idea that the guys aren't as hot as she is until the first contender gets out of the bus and she sees him in all his 5'4 bald software test managing glory. The expression on her face is priceless as all 15 "average" guys meet and greet her. A couple are decent looking, most aren't. Mine and Andrew's favorite is a 21 year old university professor who is nearing completion of his PHD. His name is Tareq Kabir. He's by far the coolest looking guy on the show, he's got the Indian appeal, but he has no game whatsoever. He exudes a terrifying amount of self-confidence and pretentiousness. On Tareq's being pretentious, Andrew said, "He helps define the word, he is on par with Akash."