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A visit from the Flatlanders initiated an unprecedented double movie feature with Jaird, Keith and
Stavos. First up was the new Terminator, followed by a half hour break at Hooters, then Star Trek. Terminator ranked an average of 6.5/10 while Star Trek was a unanimous 10/10. Saturday started with the
same group tackling
Island Lake bike trail with Jaird voted as the one most likely to give up, but surprised us all by biking the full 6 miles of dirt trail. After a stop at Hamburger Hut to replace all the fat we burned, we took a trip to a local RC dirt track while Lisa slept off her hangover from the night before. An angry RC driver high on Nitro yelled at me for parking on the grass so I ran over his RC car and laughed maniacally. A bonfire to drive out the flatlander infection resulted in
various trippy photos but the stink of flatlander was not cleansed.
After hearing about
Five Guys burgers and fries on the intertubes, it was decided today would be a
work outing to sample their cuisine.
Senator Kelley, fresh off his morning of Facebook work from home, joined us for the adventure and documented it with his myPhone. Luckily, we arrived at 11:30 and got our food quickly before the line extended out the door. With In and Out pegged at #1, I can safely rank this as #2. The burgers were great, and the fries were also cut and fried in the restaurant (no frozen/pre-packaged) like In and Out. While 8 guys eating at a restaurant called 5 guys may sound gay, it was actually more of a metro sexual event, complete with a ride in the metro sexual Pontiac Solstice.
UPDATE: Looks like Obama got my message and decided to
do Five Guys today as well. We got a
great photo together while he was there!
The
Commerce Sonic is
moving along nicely. Compared to the last update when the parking lot was
just dirt, it now has a full parking lot and order taking stalls. Still no opening date anywhere, but my excitement level has risen from a 2 to a 4 about this new location. My 45 minute penalty for a Sonic urge will soon be reduced to 5.
Alas, my dreams of owning a 300hp Focus RS
have been dashed by Jost Capito, head of the Ford global performance division. His fancy word "homologated" didn't lessen the pain either, and he's now officially on my kill list. I can only hope the whimped down version we'll get instead has some tuning potential, the only good news being it will cost less than half what the RS would have cost. Investigation into import fees commencing.
All the Taco Bell locations in metro Detroit are being either renovated or torn down and rebuilt completely. The new "classier" building that replaces it looks more like an upscale restaurant than a fast food location. I'm classifying these new buildings as "
Demolition Man prepped" since sometime in the near future, Taco Bell will be the only restaurant to survive the franchise wars, and will sport this same upper class appearance. The building itself doesn't bother me, but having the drive through operator introduce himself before taking my order, and finding peppermints mixed in with my food creeps me out. At Taco Bell I expect my order taker to say nothing and maintain a look of disillusioned defeat, my food to be crushed into pieces, and the building to have heavy amounts of grease and dust in every corner. Changing all 3 at once can only mean the new morality laws will soon be passed and they'll start serving the protein paste in place of tacos. On the plus side, I'll finally discover how seashell buttons can replace toilet paper, and Lisa will finally have to stop dumping salt on her food as it will be illegal. Hopefully Denis Leary and his counter-culture gang can bring back the Taco Bell I used to know and love.
A half-off
deal on floor coating prompted me to
take the plunge and apply it to my barn floor. After dropping off a truck load of junk at salvation army, filling three trash cans with garbage, and reorganizing I finally had enough room to completely empty the barn. My initial power wash yielded gallons of gunky water, with the follow up de greaser resulting in even gunkier black water. 4 more wash cycles later and the water finally ran clear. Fast forward to today after the floor completely dried, add 4 more hours to apply the coating and the transformation is complete. While the price indicates it won't last forever, it's definitely an improvement, and oil spills should only require a wipe instead of kitty litter. A barn inline skating party is in order.
The
Morlock sent a
game console selection chart that's
the most accurate I've seen yet. I'm happy to say I've made the right choice for my situation. The only thing they forgot to add is consideration for achievement point whores such as myself.
After my bout with
H10N7 flu, I discovered I lost my ability to taste anything. Thinking it was related to the congestion, I ignored it at first, but today I'm relatively decongested and still can taste nothing. Half a bottle of hot sauce on spicy mexican food resulted in nothing, and a follow up ice cream was like eating glue.
Enorym said he's had the same problem and it lasted a month along with a disgusting cold, and I'm pretty confident I'll one day taste again, but not knowing if the food your eating is rotten or not is scary. On the plus side, I could probably win any spicy food eating contest easy.
After a screening of
Fanboys at
Excelciers house, it was time for the
Canadian exclusive beta of
1 vs 100 on Xbox. Why it's exclusive to Canada I'll never know, but my US Xbox LIVE account worked just fine on his Canadian Xbox for the "show," which was actually pretty fun, despite some hopefully beta phase issues such as dropouts and early endings. The show looks pretty slick, with hundreds of avatars (including yours) waving/booing/etc at the command of your Y button (hooray). The game randomly chooses "the one" who faces off against 100 randomly chosen "mob members" with the other players being assigned to the crowd. I can't be sure, but based on our consistent selection for "the crowd" I think the entire country only had one game to participate in, which meant of the 13,000+ people online only 101 got to compete for actual prizes. The game starts with a 3-choice trivia question that the one, the mob, and the crowd all answer simultaneously. "The one" can then answer or choose a "help" which consists of "trust the mob" - most popular answer, or "trust the brain" - answer from the mob member with most correct. Mob members that answer incorrectly are eliminated, but if "the one" answers wrong the mob splits the winnings among those that answered correctly. For every 10 mob members that drop out, the amount of xbox marketplace points up for grabs increases. The farthest we saw was 1 vs 3 which put the total at 5,800 points (about $50). "the one" can choose to take the money or the mob every 3 questions, which means leave with the cash or keep playing. The prizes must not have been real as the one almost always chose the mob, a route which consistently ended with the mob winning (even in the 1 vs 3 scenario). With 13,000 people playing, our odds of actually getting a
chance to win any prizes was 128 to one. I'm guessing in full blown release it'll be closer to 200 to one, which means it's a fun game to play but not if you expect to walk away with any prizes, but for the low price of free it will definitely be worth the download.
Feeling metallurgically inadequate after
Stavos' dad weld-converted my whimpy flat tongue hidden hitch into a full blown 2" receiver for my Cougar, I decided to
cut my bike rack insert shorter, which created lots of sparks and helped me feel useful again. The
end result was definitely unprofessional, but not nearly as bad as the
final result. Satisfied with the
overly complicated solution to transporting my mountain bike, I ran to tell Lisa, who was so excited she
raked up the front yard, again raising suspicion that she is a replicant. With Keith, Morlock, Stavos and now me on board for biking, it looks like an adventure is ripe to be planned.
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