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Only 36 More Days

Posted on September 19, 2008 by Ching under Life.

Remember the Halloween poker cruise I blogged about a while back? We are going on it! We will be working, but it will still be loads of fun. Only 36 more days to go. I’m super excited!

20 Questions

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Brian under Memes.

1) If you chose a new name for yourself, what would it be? Superman.

CHING: What? Really?
BRIAN: Sure.

2) If you were given an extra $10 in change at Wal-Mart, what would you do with it and why? Give it back. Bad karma.

CHING: I answered this the exact same way. We are so compatible!

3)What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learned from your past relationships? Patience.

CHING: That’s it? That’s all you’re going to say? Alright. Next question…

4) What’s one of your worst habits? Not bathing everyday, I guess.

CHING: At least he’s being honest.

5) What was the best day of the past week for you and why? I didn’t have any good days last week.

CHING: Wow, that’s so depressing. Not at all? Not a one?

6) What are you wearing today that is most reflective of who you are? Nothing, because I like being naked.

CHING: He really is wearing nothing right now.

7) Choose a unique item from your wallet and explain why you carry it around? My ticket for failure to yield to an emergency vehicle, so that the next time an emergency vehicle comes through and I pull over immediately and cause an accident I can show it to the police officer.

CHING: You still have that thing in your wallet?

8) If you could change one thing about your physical appearance, what would it be and why? I’d be more fit-looking because Ching likes it.

CHING: I do? What? Really?

9) What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever eaten? Chocolate covered ants.

CHING: What? When was that?
BRIAN: In Tennessee.
CHING: Really?
BRIAN: They taste like rice crispies. I ate a roasted tarantula, too. The legs taste like rock candy.

10) What’s your favorite thing to do in the summer? Go to the drive-in.

BRIAN: What? You didin’t have any smart-alecky remarks about the drive-in.
CHING: No. I like going to the drive-in.

11) Name one of your favorite things about someone in your family. My dad’s sense of humor.

12) What three words best describe you? Patient, loving, and funny.

CHING: Funny-looking!

13) If you were forced to sing one karaoke song, what would it be? I better be forced at gun point, and it better be a really big gun. Umm… Aenema by Tool.

14) If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live? That’s a damn good question, because there’s a lot of places that I’d like to live. Most of them South, and most of them warm. Probably my own island. I’ve always wanted my own island. Some place where I could walk around naked and not give a shit.

15) Do you collect anything? If so, what? I used to collect action figures. I don’t anymore, though. I used to collect comic books also.

16) Would you bungee jump? Hell, yes! I already did. It was fun. I’d do it again, too.

17) Were you named after anyone? I’m not named after anyone.

CHING: What about your middle name?
BRIAN: My middle name is my dad’s first name and my brother’s middle name is my dad’s middle name, but I’m not actually named after anyone.

18) What do you usually think about right before falling asleep? I usually tell myself a story to get me to go to sleep.

CHING: Like what? And you don’t tell me stories?
BRIAN: No, it’s just in my head. They’re usually very brief. Just enough to get me to go to sleep.

19) If you were given a million dollars and 24 hours to spend it in, what would you buy (no depositing it in the bank or investing it)? I would probably play poker.

CHING: That’s not what you told me when you answered this the other day. Copy cat.
BRIAN: Well, that’s before you told me that you wanted to play poker.

20) Besides karaoke what is the one thing that you loathe the most? Stupid people.

CHING: Excluding yourself, right? Just kidding!

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Team Ponderosa Strikes Again

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Ching under Family, Life.

The Ponderosa Poker Posse (what’s left of the old group, anyway) poses for a picture outside Cracker Barrel.

This is the post-dinner huddle where we agreed that we’d rather eat donuts for three hours than pay $50 bucks to see a football game. Well, most of us anyway. Cory wants to go. Brian is the exact opposite. You couldn’t pay him to go. LOL.

A good time was had by all. Although, Dill totally massacred me at checkers. Ugh.

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The Fruits of Our Labor

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Ching under Life.

These are the fruits of our labor on Sunday. After working on cleaning out the basement, we ended up with Brian’s truck bed completely full of stuff, David’s trailer completely full also, and then we ended up just piling junk along the side of the house because we simply ran out of room. The funny thing is that David has been meaning to clean out the basement for years now. He just hasn’t gotten around to it. Now the basement is completely cleared of junk. It sucks that it took a catastrophe such as this to get the basement cleaned out, but the upside is that it is. There’s always a silver lining, right?

Obviously, because Brian’s truck was full of junk we just ended up leaving it there for the day. We are lucky that we can carpool. Brian and I drove to work together this morning and then he took the afternoon off so he could help his dad take all that stuff to the dump. I drove him there at lunch and then he just took the truck home when they were finished.

By the way, just so you all know, the city dump won’t accept clothing, fabrics, and plastics. Brian and his dad ended up going across the street to the Waste Management facility to dispose of most of the stuff. Brian said it was more expensive, but worked out better because then they didn’t have to sort through the stuff. Waste Management will take anything. Good to know for future reference. Although, Brian will probably tell you that he’d much rather not have to go there again because the rotting, decaying garbage stank to high heaven.