many thanks to huffine for moving me to atl. I'm currently in an ethics training session down in orlando....snore.
can't wait to get home, sleep n my own bed, see my wife, and play with anna~kate... more to come about my time in orlando but blogging on my phone is kind of hard.
Not that I'm Peter Gammons or anything but here is my take on Ankiel. It was a great story tarnished by a little boost/help from his friend HGH. Even if he didn't take it in the past 12 months he still took it plain and simple.
Now the thing that is so stupid, MLB doesn't even test for HGH. So its illegal, but you don't test for it, so is it really illegal. Thats like saying its illegal to rob a bank but we're not going to police it. If you happen to rob a bank next to a police station and we happen to see it.... well we might arrest you.
Well this won't mean much to those on chattablogs since Huffine and Roe won't move me to ATLblogs, but janelle and I ate at the Orient Express last night. Had crabb come over and watch anna-kate/play xbox while we went out. This place had the ultimate gimick to get me in the door, the outside is a traincar, this old timey metal train car which i think, "Man o man I'm eating chinese in a train car all day!"
Well you walk in and you kind of realize the train car is pretty much just a facade. Though a very good marketing gimic. The place is actually three restaurants, hibachi, sushi, and chinese. We opted for the hibachi just because we just ate chinese and janelle, being pregnant, can't eat sushi. It was good stuff though we though bout it and have you ever realy had bad hibachi? I haven't even at the chains its generally always good.
The only thing i think they were missing was bean sprouts, and janelle thought they needed snow peas. We sat with some yuppies and they didn't pay much attention to the hibachi dude which kind of cheesed him off so he totally gave us way more food than them so that was cool.
After that we went to Sports Authority on Cobb to test out some tread mills.... yeah kind of funny go pig out and then go look at exercise equipment. With my hours at work I just can't get a good "running" time established. The morning runs just are too early for me as I go it in at 6:30 somedays running at 5 or even 6 just is not manageable. Its hard enough to set up a routine let alone one where your half asleep while running. And at night, well I'm just lazy... and havne't seen the wife all day and don't want to go run for an hour. Plus with the preganancy she's wanting to get more active. We go on walks but its rained the past few days so thats made walking a no go, so a treadmill would be nice so during naps she can walk, and when i get home we can hang out while i run.
We're looking a few, gonna check out consumer reports take on them and see what they say, see if I can't find a cheaper one thats not a piece of junk. company reimburses you up to 50% ($500 max) for exercise equipment, bikes, etc. So it seems silly not to take them up on that offer. We'll probably check out play it again sports as well as I'm sure they have a ton.
After all that, went to barnes and noble and just read magazines.
Tonight is ladies night bunko so that means the crabb and i doing some halo.
Chris Matthew's reaction is just priceless
This is funny regardless of your political affiliation. Craig's an idiot and needs to get out of DC before he becomes any more of a laughing stock.
ok that's my politcal post for the year
In case anyone forgot, this is the school that beat Michigan...
I'll try to keep this brief since no one I know reads these posts...
First off two games I've played recently for Xbox 360 Gears of War and Command n Conquer 3.
Gears of war (GOW) was pretty cool and I can see why it won game of the year. Great graphics, different take on the shooter (third person done very well), and lots of violence. But my big thing with games is story. I think if a game especially a shooter doesn't have a great story then its just more of the same. Halo was cool because it brought so much to the console in terms of a great fluid shooter that worked well with a controller. But also the story has been well developed and somewhat interesting.
GOW had so many plot holes, and on top of that its like they forgot to film a few cut scenes. Unless you read the manual you really have no back story. The game starts off with you in prison for breaking rank but you don't know in what regard... unless you read the manual... no flash backs or anything. And then you're thrust into a battle with no clear idea of what you are doing, what the significance of it is, all you know is there are bad guys and they have guns. And its on another planet so its not like you can go, "Oh I'm fighting in Trafalgar square or Times square... etc."
The game also is very short which was kind of disappointing I expected a lot more gameplay. Also the game is completely linear with a few forks in the road, so in essence theres little reason to play it through twice. It ends with a bit of a 'to be continued' so hopefully the second one will have some more plot and cut scenes and what not.
Command and Conquer however is pretty much the same as it always is. Kane is back and up to his old tiberium tricks again. And for some reason we went from having mechs, walkers, space ships, and mutants, to going back to tanks. I loved the second one the walkers were awesome, and the story went in a cool sci fi direction... so this game in essence fails to deliever the continuity I expect from a sequal.
One thing I hate is when game series don't connect. I can't stand how the zeldas are basically just rehashments of the same old story, same with mario. The stories in no way connect or build off each other. One of the few that does and does it very well, is metroid. Every metroid game ties into each other with a few gaping holes but never the less they connect in one way or another.
The thing CC3 does have... Billy D Williams as the president... now theres a candidate I can support. If he can take down the second deathstar then solving the Iraq quagmire would be a piece of cake. It also has Grace Park (Boomer) from Battlestar Galatica, and Sawyer from lost, and the teacher from Starship Troopers.
But after playing this game for a bit I am realize why these games have run there course with me. They just get repetitve and old. Plus they get freaking annoying, I'm playing and yelling at the bad guys, "Look can you stop attacking me for 2 seconds and let me get my base set up... geez!"
All this to say, these games make me wish I had Halo 3.