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This is an archive collection of entries from my main personal blog, My Mundane Mid-Life.
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This collection of entries is from January 15, 2003.
Wednesday, January 15, 2003
Celebrity Mole Hawaii - Episode 2
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OK, too much horseplay with Stephen Baldwin and everyone else. The first game, "Take This Job", has three groups of two - Short Order Cooks (Kathy & Frederique - Walk across a bed of hot lava to retrieve cooking chicken); Flight Attendents (Stephen & Corbin - Ride in a biplane performing stunts while cleaning the plane's gauges); Lifeguards (Erik & Michael - Plunge off a 40-foot cliff into the crashing waves of the ocean to retrieve a rescue buoy). Everyone has to videotape a prediction on whether the other players will complete their tasks. For every correct prediction, $1,000 is added to the pot, for a potential $24,000. Michael didn't jump. The results of the predictions only produce $17,000 for the pot. The second game was "Six Feet Under". Let's see if we can follow this: Corbin and Michael don scuba gear and act out charades underwater at night. Frederique and Stephen are in a submarine (dubbed "Das Mole") watching, and relay their answers to Kathy and Erik who are in a graveyard, who must figure out the character that died in the movie or TV show that was the answer and dig up the correct coffin, and dig up Josh Hartnet for "Pearl Harbor", Harrison Ford for "What Lies Beneath", Kenny for "South Park", and Chow Yun Fat for "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon". They don't get "American Beauty" as the last charade clue in the alotted time. The money is not in Chow Yun Fat's, or Kenny's coffin, so Ahmad offers $5,000 for the pot to end the game, or go on to look in the other coffins. The go for it. It's not in Harrison Ford's. Ahmad offers $10,000 to to quite now. Now, Erik accidentally opened the casket when it was dug up and he knows there's just bones in there. The whole group - minus Kathy who knows - agrees to go for it. Yes, it's just bones (the money is in the undug Kevin Spacey coffin) - the group gets no money. The pot - $67,000. At dinner, it's time for another game - the players are given 30 minutes to come up with a unanimous vote for who someone to get an exemption. If they do it, they get the $25,000 that was lost in "Six Feet Under". If they don't, they will lose $25,000 from the pot. Everyone - except Corbin - wants to vote for Erik. Corbin wants it himself. No one can agree. The pot goes down to $42,000. The quiz is taken, the cast is assembled and Stephen Baldwin is executed. « hide the extended part of this entry
posted at 10:14 PM | Link | The Mole § |
Wolves 4 - Aeros 5 - Overtime
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Nothing to really say about the game tonight. Hardly anybody was there (probably because a) it's a weeknight and b) it's friggin' cold outside). There's no way there were 3,994 people there. Wolves were up 2-1 and let the Aeros back in the game, losing in overtime. Blech.
On a somewhat unrelated note, Chelby & Damian finally came to a game tonight - they hadn't been there since mid-December, and it's their first game since Edwin, Chelby's dad, died of cancer last week Wednesday (just weeks after diagnosis). It was surprising and sudden and the family his having a tough time handling the loss. They only stayed 2 periods, but it got them "out and about", and hopefully they enjoyed some time watching the game that they love. Too bad it was a bad game...
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posted at 10:07 PM | Link | Wolves § |
Do you have a swollen bubo?How do you lose 35 vials containing samples of the bubonic plague???? Well, they're missing from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. Lubbock City Council member Frank Morrison said it is premature to say the items were stolen.
Update: The FBI says "All of the vials reported missing from Texas Tech Health Sciences Center have been accounted for."
Update: A university scientist was arrested for making false statements to the FBI. He had accidentally destroyed the vials but told his laboratory safety officer that they were missing.
posted at 12:44 PM | Link | Current Events § |
Happiness = P + (5xE) + (3xH)Psychologists have actually found a formula for happiness! They also admitted that the equation was not easy for most people to understand, but it's all derived for a series of questions.
posted at 10:09 AM | Link | Odd § |
No CoffeeI blew up the coffee machine. I didn't mean to. I just ground the beans, put the grounds in the filter, popped the filter basket into the machine and hit the brew button. The next thing I know, I have cold coffee running all over the floor. The machine shorted out, a tripped the GFI-breaker in the outlet. The bad thing? The damn water valve fails open, fills the pot, and empties the rest of the water all over the counter and floor. I can't get the outlet to reset - it sort of arcs when I hit the reset button, so things are not good... I need my morning cafeine...
posted at 08:25 AM | Link | Mundane § |
Six degrees of...It's cold outside. Six degrees. Zero down south in Aurora. Thankfully, Carol will start my car on her way out so after I'm done showering, I can jump in to a toasty car... after I remember to tag and take out the garbage... At least the house feels toasty as well, and it looks like the sun is coming up, so it's another trip to work squinting all the way as I drive toward the sun...
posted at 07:06 AM | Link | Mundane § |
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