Blogging

Things have been wonderfully buys lately. In the last week I've been to a zoo, a conservatory, a carnival, a Rush concert, two Grace Potter shows and the Maryland v WVU football game. What a week! All of it was amazing except for the Terps game.

I'm in love with Grace Potter.

Family Ties

It's only Saturday, but it's already been an amazingly fun weekend. In the last 24 hours, I've taken my niece and nephew to a water park, an amusement park, a conservatory and a zoo.

Let me tell you, it is the most amazing and heart-warming experience to watch children's eyes widen and smiles brighten when they experience these types of good times.

Tonight, we are going to make dinner together - asado style.

I am truly blessed to have a close-knit family that I love and who love me.

Feelings of fatigue

Hi everyone. Sorry for the lapse in blog entries. My long weekend in Florida has thrown me off my schedule a bit. As for the weekend, I hope you all had a wonderful one. I did, for sure. I spent the weekend at a friend's house in Florida. He lives on the beach and has a pool and hot tub and what not. We definitely lived it up for a few days. Snorkeling, swimming, volleyball, etc...just a blast. Oh yeah, he had a big party too, to launch this website. You can probably imagine how crazy it was. 750+ people, a DJ, contests and games...a lot of stuff bordering on debauchery. It's no wonder I am dragging a bit today. ;o)

Oh yeah, I'll post pics later.

It's what makes a male walrus, a male walrus

I can't think of what to say that's appropriate and still has decorum.
Click here for ancient walrus penis.

Lunar Eclipse Tomorrow

If you've never seen a lunar eclipse before, you should wake up early tomorrow morning (or go to bed very late tonight for my West coast readers) and check the next one out. It's quite an amazing thing to see.

Dalton Carriker's dream moment

Earlier today, Warner Robins, GA won the Little League Word Series when Dalton Carriker, 12, hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 8th inning, to cap their come back victory, 3-2, over the heavily favored team from Tokyo, Japan. This marks the third straight year a team from the United States has won the championship.

All of this is great, but I have to tell you, the thing that got me wet in the eyes was Dalton's quote after the game: "I felt like I was flying, like Peter Pan," Carriker said, "I didn't know what I was doing."

Any time a young boy feels like Peter Pan, the world has to be a better place for it.

Congratulations, Warner Robins. Way to go, Dalton. Way to go!

Battle at Kruger

This is one of the most amazing videos I've ever seen.

It's an amateur video of a young buffalo, which gets attacked by a pride of lions, then a crocodile. After a few minutes of playing tug o' war with the buffalo, the lions claim their prize. Alas, the game is not over...a herd of buffaloes enters the fray and let's just say, they are very angry.

The entire scene is over 8 minutes long!

Snoopy versus Odie

Oh....my....god. I just saw clips of pit bull fights on ESPN and it was one of the most disturbing things I've seen in my life. Absolutely sickening.

Anyone involved in dogfighting must not have a conscious or must have no value for a dog's life at all.

I need to get these images out of my head. I'm going to go force myself to throw up and hope they just fall out.

Hipster Olympics

I thought this was really funny. Plus, it mentions both of my brother's names. Well, sort of: Benjamin and Gideon (my older brother is named, Gwydion). What are the odds? Enjoy

I made it. Now what?

My whole sleeping situation is messed up thanks to last night. As you may know, last night (Wednesday night) I had insomnia and I couldn't sleep the entire night. It made yesterday really tough on me, to say the very least. To make things worse, I had to fulfill my civil obligation to the city of Baltimore by serving jury duty. If you've never done this before and you get summonsed, do your best to get out of it. Unfortunately, I couldn't (long story, I'll spare you). The combination of exhaustion and the smell of the tightly crowded jury rooms was just about unbearable. I'd have almost rather been tied to a bed, flat on my back, with slowly dripping water coming down onto my forehead. One thing is for certain, thank goodness for my Blackberry. It may have been illegal to use in a courtroom, but I did - all day long.

For those of you who do not know, jury duty is akin to going to church for a very long Catholic wedding, playing golf on a very crowded city course on a Saturday in June, shopping the day before Christmas or waiting in the Grim Reaper's waiting room - literally. You sit and stand and sit and stand and pace and run your hands through your hair all freaking day long, just waiting and waiting for someone to call your number. It's so exciting in that brief moment when you hear, "285...285, will you please approach the bench?" Oh, the joy.

The room you're in is very hot and you have nothing to eat or drink and your in these hard, wooden chairs that clearly were not designed for the human ass. Eventually, your number is called for the last time, you're asked a ton of questions, and finally, you're interviewed one on one by a judge and either released or chosen to serve. This process takes a good 8-9 hours. I was one of the lucky ones as I was not chosen. The walk to my car was probably similar to how it feels to be released from prison. You know you're free, but you have a sense that any minute you could hear your number called again and have to turn right around. For, the people in the black robes, they run the show, and you have to do what they say.

The only interesting part of the day was learning that the courtroom I was in is used for filming quite often. Aside from several movies, it is often featured on the HBO show, the Wire, and was the main court room in the show, Homicide. Both are Baltimore-based shows. Finally, the court was made from marble that was donated by one of the Leo Popes and was actually shipped from the Vatican. Like I said before, it was exactly like being in at a Catholic wedding...all the way down to the walls and floors.

Due my lack of sleep from the night before, I went straight home (this is at 4:30pm, mind you), and after a small dinner, went directly to bed. I was hoping I could stay awake for a couple hours until maybe 8:00. I knew if I didn't, I would wake up earlier than I wanted. Of course, I fell asleep around 6:00pm. Hence, my banging away at my keyboard at 3:45am. I just woke up...my mind started racing about the things I had to do tomorrow and over the weekend and now Jonny A is officially screwed. HA HA