TV is gone...

So most people are aware of my current dilemma where my (roommate's) 60" TV is gone. I woke up Saturday morning elated to watch the beginning of college football to find the TV gone. My roommate had sold it. Great timing. First weekend of college and NFL football, the start of Entourage, and also the MTV Awards show. He had no clue. The new TV (a 72") isn't arriving for a week. I was like "Dude, you couldn't sell it on Tuesday?"

This has been a building issue...for the Men's Olympics Basketball Semi-finals game, I woke up at 8AM to watch the game and the Comcast box was missing. He had taken it to get a new one even though the day before I had asked him to wait until AFTER the Olympics bball game...it was a Saturday after all. I watched the first half at Clyde's and returned home for the second half hoping he'd be back...and sure enough, he was and TV was already on the game. Great. As I threw myself on the couch..before my feet even hit the ottoman, there was a knock at the door. 2nd half tip just went off. It was an Iranian woman looking to "see" the TV. Now, I was watching the show in HD...so of course what's her first question? "Can I see the old movie channel?" She had no idea which channel she needed. My roommate start scrolling through the channels (not menu...actual channels). Game off...that took 5 seconds. After 60 seconds of pinching my leg, she pulls out some DVDs she wants to try. I immediately grab my keys and head to the Green Turtle. I watched the 2nd half with some great people...immediately after the game I go home and she had JUST left. She was there over an hour and half...and of course she didn't buy the TV....ha. What a mess.

So life without TV has been good I guess. I ran into an old friend catching the Sunday night game at Rocket bar, and I've begun trying to learn the guitar again. I still stink miserably so I got that going for me, which is nice.

Memphis/Nashville Flights

So the flight out was primed to be a rough one. The pre-boarding cast included the normal group of kids and elderly, but also a handicapped person that had the special wheelchair with the tray and neck piece and 2 blind women (where one had their seeing dog). Pre-boarding alone took 20 minutes. I am usually beyond impatient when it comes to Airline staff efficiency in these situations, but since we were due to arrive before my sis, no big deal. When I got to my seat, I got hit again...mother and baby in the middle seat next to me.

I really can't complain. I've had a Cal Ripken-esque streak going without a kid in any row near me for over 6 years now. The last time was when I was flying back from Mardi Gras on Southwest with my friend and there was no joke FIVE babies within the immediate 4 rows around me. The baby in the row directly in front of me was screaming so violently...it would stop crying to catch its' breath and we all knew the next round was about to start. As soon as one baby stopped crying, another one would start. I guess its better that a bunch weren't going off at once, but after a 5-day bender in New Orleans, 2 hours of a screaming baby was pretty rough. I just remember being shocked that the mother was not doing ANYTHING to comfort this baby. We constantly checked to make sure it was not being injured because it was screaming that bad.

The flight home from Memphis...my great luck struck again. Except this time I was the middle seat and the mother/baby was against the window. It's almost too perfect, but right as the captain announced "we have made our ascent to 30,000 feet"...the baby made a descent into her diaper. The REALLY foul smell lasted only for 5 minutes or so then it waned. OK, enough of this potty talk for tonight.

Welcome to my Inferno

So I have been quite busy and this is a story I've meant to post for some time. When my roommate cooks chicken, he puts the stove on HIGH and just throws the chicken on the frying pan (no SPAM or nothing). You know what you get? A LOT of smoke. Our apartment completely fills with smoke where I either go for a walk or I go in my bedroom, shut the door, and start playing curse songs on my guitar.

Living in a high rise, we don't have windows you can open...so whats the solution? Open the front door of course and let the smoke pour into the hallway! He cooks this usually 2x a week. I told him "You know, if you oil the pan and cook it on Medium...you can avoid all this smoke and your chicken won't be black on the outside." His response, "Thats how I like it." Wonderful. Of course he doesn't believe in using the dishwasher for pans so all the pans are charcoal black. Whenever I fry eggs, they come out black. Lovely.

The video I captured here is the chicken being on the pan for the first 30 seconds...multiply the smoke x8 because he leaves the chicken on there for 4 minutes. It seems kind of weak, but the smoke is much thicker on the real video.


The obvious question is: Don't you own smoke detectors?
The obvious answer is: Umm...I think so? They went off once actually, but yeah, I bet he pulled the batteries out.

Roger Mason Jr, Fundraiser Party

You can view my write-up and some videos of the event here...
http://aherninquirer.blogspot.com/2008/07/andray-blatche-has-nice-formthrows.html

Private Tour of Nationals Park

So my friends and I got a private tour of the new Nationals Park. Highlights were the $400K/per year suite, the locker room and the dugout. The 'President's Club' seating (which are the seats pictured behind me) have access to a private bar which has windows that allow you to see batters take batting practice during the game. The batting cage is just inside the dugout steps and players use it quite often during the game .

I also got to throw a pitch in the Nats bullpen which was entertaining. They had a fake batter setup where people are suppose to throw strikes but of course I went for the plastic batter. I just missed but gave it some good chin music (video in link).

http://picasaweb.google.com/ewoldt/NatsParkTour/photo#s5227452129608371394

Cruefest

So after a nice weekend with the family in PA...I drove back to DC since my friend scored 2 free tix to Cruefest (Motley Crue, Buckcherry, Sixx AM, Trapt, and Papa Roach). It was absolutely monsooning most of the show but it cleared up by the time the Crue came on stage. It was a great set as always...here's the opening.


The scene in the parking lot was white-trashy as could be. There were a lot of really young kids there dressed so inappropriately I cannot even begin to explain. There were mullets everywhere and I was in the minority of people wearing a t-shirt. Either way, the Crue put on an amazing show, and I was extremely surprised at how good Buckcherry was. I downloaded their 3 albums this morning and all 3 are quality. I look forward to seeing them again.

Shark Attack

So here are the pictures from the last wedding I was at where my friends ran into the Aquarium mascot in the hotel and had it wake me up. Full story is here.