For your sake, I hope that tonight is a little more exciting than last night. I am totally fine with lying on the couch and watching outdated coverage of the Olympics, but it doesn’t make for much to talk about:

me: Did you know that the US men’s hockey team lost to Slovakia?
edpaffjr.com reader: Again? They just played on Saturday.
me: Not again. I just got around to watching the game last night. I’m still three days behind…

The most productive thing I did last night, besides cooking dinner, was adding our pictures from Omaha to the site. This took all of ten minutes right before I headed to bed last night. Usually it wouldn’t even take that long, but I was trying to get a video added along with the pictures. I thought that I could do it, but I haven’t had any luck yet. It’s pretty dumb anyway, just some guy doing a Napoleon Dynamite dance in between periods.

We took it pretty easy on Friday night. Kim was a little tired from her trip to Minneapolis, and I was equally tired from a busy day at work. Neither one of us wanted to cook nor were we very hungry, so we decided to walk down on the plaza for appetizers and drinks. As soon as we stepped outside, we knew we were not going to make it far. It was freezing outside and the wind wasn’t helping. We settled on M&S Grill, mainly because it is the one of the closest places to our apartment. I had never been inside, but I knew that it was related to McCormick & Schmick’s so I wasn’t expecting much. If you didn’t already know, I’m not a fan of seafood. I like my fish in a tank and not on my plate. The little food that we had wasn’t bad but it wasn’t really good either. I was happy to have a few rounds of beer though. Mike, Christie, and Christie’s parents also stopped by for a few drinks. Her parents were really nice and I wish we could have hung out with them more.

We took a little road trip to Omaha on Saturday with Doni and Phil. After arriving at the hotel we quickly walked over to the Old Market area. We had a round at Upstream and then headed to Jobber’s Canyon (another microbrewery) for dinner and some of their beers. I think I’m a bigger from of Upstream, although I will rarely complain about a microbrew. Next stop was the Civic Auditorium to watch UNO take on Michigan. We had great seats for the game (center ice, less than 10 rows up) thanks to Doni! It was a great game that ended in a 4-4 tie. Of course I would have liked to see someone win the game, but at least we got to see a good game with a bunch of goals. After the game was over, we continued on our tour of the Old Market bars which included T. Henry’s, Mr. Toad’s, and finally the hotel bar. Another great trip to Omaha!

After the long drive home on Sunday morning/afternoon, we decided to be lazy on the couch and watch some Olympics coverage. We did eventually head to the grocery and get some dinner, but it was a pretty lazy day. Late last night, the Kansas City Moose won yet another hockey game to remain undefeated in this session!

Everyone’s favorite summer time party is back! Pig-Fest XIII will be held this year on July 8th, so mark your calendars now. If you have any ideas for logos let me know. I could just use this year’s bonnaroo logo, like I did last year. I just got confirmation that Greenstreet will be back again this year.* I’m also talking with another band’s manager who is also interested in joining in the festivities this year.

Last night I spent an hour or two finalizing the layout for the Sig Ep site that I’ve been designing for the past few weeks. Feel free to critique it using comments to this post. Now I just need to get the content that they want to be displayed on each page. From there I headed out to Charlie Hooper’s for the infamous import night. I met up with a couple of guys from work and friends of theirs. It was nice to get out of the apartment for a bit, while Kim is in Minneapolis wondering around the Mall of America.

In exciting work news, I got another raise yesterday. Go me!

* Greenstreet goes from confirmed to unconfirmed in one day. The 8th is the same day as the singers mom’s 50th birthday. I guess that means they are out, and it’s probably too late to consider alternate days for the party. Hopefully I have better luck with another band.

Well I must have spoken too early about volleyball. I thought that we had a chance to at least be co-champions, but after last night I don’t know if it’s possible. Going in to the match, I thought we were pretty even with the opposition, but that was quickly proven untrue. They took a quick lead on us in the first game and never looked back. We tried a few other strategies against them, but I don’t think we ever had a lead in any of the three games. In the end, we lost all of the games to ‘Kinky Sets’ and they are now in first place, one game ahead of us. We are currently tied for second with two other teams. Hopefully we can redeem ourselves next week against the worst team in the league…

I have been trying to stay up to date with the Olympics, but have fallen a day or two behind. I setup the ReplayTV box to record every appearance on NBC that would not conflict with an already existing recording. I believe that right now I have nine hours saved that I have not watched. Of course it will take me much less time to watch all of that, with the skipping of commercials, any talk of Michelle Kwan, and sometimes figure skating in general. :) While browsing the web this morning for Olympics coverage I found a few interesting sites related to google maps or earth. First I found a mashup featuring daily schedules and results. I then found another mashup showing all of the Olympic venues. And finally a placemark file for google earth (the link works only if earth is installed) that again will show the venues. More on this at the Google Blog.

Pictures from this weekend are up! Our dress was not as complicated as some of the other teams, as you’ll see in the pictures, but I think it fit the best with our team name. A group of guys on the bus said that the winners from the year before were dressed as characters in Caddyshack. I guess if it was done well enough, that deserved to win, but personally I don’t think people like the pimps have what it takes. I’m a fan of something with a little creativity! Who knows if/when the results from this year will be posted on their website…

Oh yeah, happy Valentine’s Day!

I finally got to another show on Friday night, Robert Randolph & The Family Band. Mike, Maria, Joel and Amanda all met us at our apartment before the show, and after a couple of drinks we headed up to the show. They played one of the longest sets I have seen in awhile, it must have been over two and a half hours. I started my recording a little early, before they started playing, but they were still playing when I reached the three hour recording maximum. Oh well, there were a few other tapers there. I think everyone had a good time, although I did hear Mike comment on the length of some of their songs. He swears that one song was 45 minutes long!

Saturday we had to get up early to prepare for the Barstool Open, a pub crawl involving a miniature golf hole in each of the nine bars. Team “Hole In Juan” starred Mike as Jose, Christie as Rosa, Kim as Zita, and myself as Juan. We started the morning off at the Levee and then moved on to Mike’s, Charlie Hooper’s, the Brooksider, Lew’s, Tanner’s, Dark Horse, and finally Kelly’s. You might have noticed that the list is only eight bars long. The crawl was so popular, and the bars were so crowded, that we didn’t have time to make it to all of them. In fact, we only putted at six of these eight bars. Luckily, they only count your top six holes, so we made it to enough bars to qualify for the prizes. I think we only really have a chance at winning the “best dress” though, since our putting wasn’t that good. Wait until you see these pictures…

Speaking of pictures, I added Kim’s San Antonio pictures to the site over the weekend. Sunday was a relaxing day. I caught up on some Olympics action and messed around with the computers while Kim ran some errands and hung out with Bianca. Later in the night, I finally got to play hockey again. I think the last time I played was about a month ago, so it felt really good to be out there again. I’m happy to report that our team is still undefeated this session!

This question was posted on OARfans.com yesterday, when the author had someone ask her, “What’s the revolution? Are they supporting a cause or something?” If you didn’t know (and I assume that most of you do) O.A.R. stands for ….of a revolution. When I read the thread again this morning I stumbled on this response:

the revolution is…
– their music
– their views on taping/trading
– their fans (loyalty)
– their endless touring
– their rankings in the music “industry” (how they don’t get any recognition on TV or the radio, yet they still managed to sell out MSG
– the fact that they stay loyal to their music roots (to some extent)
– the differences that set them apart from any other bands
– this website and oarsa
– ed paff

Viva La Revolution! :)

The results are in and we are back in first place in our volleyball league! The former champs, Kinky Sets, must have lost all three games two nights ago. So as long as we win one game against them next week, we should at least have a share in the championship. Well that also assumes that we sweep the team we play in the final week. This is very likely though, given that they’ve only won one game all session. I guess I shouldn’t count them out though, anything can happen.

Kim is back from Texas. She was pretty tired last night, so we just ate some dinner and then caught up on some TV. American Idol is back, and we had a couple weeks of try-outs to watch. I still think those are the most entertaining episodes that we’ll see all season. We also watched the first night of the Hollywood round, but nothing exciting happened there at all. I consider this the down point in the show, but luckily there is only one more night of Hollywood. Then the real show begins!

Johnson County Park and Recreation District has done it again! They’ve taken forever to enter the results for last night’s volleyball matches, and they still are not up. You have to start questioning what exactly we are paying for.

Despite missing two of our regular players, Kim and Christie, and playing with only five players, including the one substitute we could find, we managed to win all three games last night! I believe that I’ve mentioned the game time limit before, and I’m sure I was complaining before, but it actually went in our favor twice last night. Two of our games were ended by the time limit when we were only up by one point. Overall, I still think that this was quite a victory, and we have a great chance to take back the top spot when we play the league leaders this coming week.

After the game, the good luck continued. I was finally able to format the C: drive on the old machine, so that I could get a fresh copy of Windows XP installed. I am now in the process of making sure all of the critical updates have been installed, and from there I hope to get the server up and running very quickly. Once that’s done, assuming all of my tests pass, I’ll have to get busy redesigning edpaffjr.com.

I really don’t have too much to write about today. Last night I sat at my computers and tried to get various things done. I still haven’t got windows XP setup on the old machine like I’ve been wanting to. Currently the machine is sitting on the floor, with the case open, and various parts missing. I’m not having much luck with it. Perhaps I’ll have more time tonight after volleyball.

Kim is still down in San Antonio with work. I’m still not sure why I didn’t tag on to the beginning or end of this trip like I’ve done a couple times before. Just look at the hotel they are staying at, and you’ll probably be asking the same thing. Adding further insult is the fact that I’ve never really been to Texas before. I have had a layover or two there, but I don’t count those. I think we decided that it was just going to cost too much, especially since I wanted to spend time in Austin as well as San Antonio. I guess we’ll just have to arrange for a different trip down south.