Happy birthday to me

My mom and Logan came to Calgary for the weekend for my birthday.  It seemed like a waste of trip since I'll be going back to Cranbrook in a few days anyway.  At least I got some presents and a swanky dinner at Swiss Chalet.

Avery sent this present for me.

He wrapped it himself.

Omega Red!  After getting the taco socks for Christmas I was curious as to what he would get me next.  He probably bought it a garage sale.  He likes going to garage sales because he was at one and the guy gave him something for free, so now he's hooked.

Count on it

After work on Friday I went over to Target to buy some milk and bread because I don't shop at Superstore.  I had to look around to see if they got some more awesome cereals.  It's where I first got the Frankenberry, but they had later sold out.  Long story short...

I had go to over to the Halloween section where I found an end loaded with Frankenberry and on the bottom shelf there were a mere three boxes of Count Chocula left.  I bought two and left one beat up box for someone else.  You're welcome.  I had some and while it's chocolate it's actually the same as Frankenberry in terms of shape and marshmallows.  They just added a different colour/flavouring.  I just need to find Boo Berry now.

New video time!

Cody has just released another lost Crapola video!  Son of a Gun and Beer Can Hunt are still planned, but this video is a lot shorter and easier to do.  That being said it's probably took the longest to finish, not sure why as it required the least amount of work.  There is no real set-up as nothing makes any sense.  Anyway, I think the music and effects actually somehow made it worse which I didn't think was even possible.  So yeah, enjoy!

Snow day

I'm sure you've guys have seen on the news that Calgary got snow which kind of sucks.  I was just wearing shorts on Sunday and then Monday night it started to snow.  I had Tuesday and Wednesday off, but the weather was too depressing, so it squashed whatever ambition I had to go outside.  Wednesday was the worst as we got the most snow.  It's supposed to get better with sun and 18C by Sunday.

My shoes were in my car.  I had shoes in the house, but they were slip ons or low cut Cons.  Not exactly made for cold weather and snow.

Any trees with leaves couldn't handle the weight of the heavy snow.  All kinds of broken trees and branches all around town.  The small ones around our parking lot of totally bent over.

Splat!!

In yer face!

I've been meaning to do this for a while, so I'm finally getting around to it now because I don't have anything else interesting to write about.  So last last spring my TV died, so I went out and bought a new smart 3D TV.  Having used it for quite a now, I can say that is is an improvement over my old one, but I wish I had gotten a larger screen.

I'll admit I don't even use the smart features on it that much.  It has apps on it that I don't even use and the games are pretty useless.  I used the streaming feature a few times to stream from my laptop and phone to the TV, but I don't even bother any more.  I would stream Japanese toku shows and the aspect ratio was always slightly off which annoyed me.  Now I just plug my laptop in via HDMI and it's not a problem.

Since it's 3D I tend to buy a lot of blu-rays in 3D just so I can use that feature, sometimes I'll buy movies I wouldn't even normally watch just so I can get the most of my 3D TV.  I'm looking at you Spy Kids.

That is my 3D blu-ray shelf.  The 3D ranges from good to "is this even in 3D?"  Probably some of my favourite 3D movies are Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Jurassic Park, The Monkey King, Tron Legacy and Dredd.  Even though obviously Jurassic Park was converted to 3D some scenes still look really cool and look better than a lot of current movies released in 3D.  Where as some movies that were filmed in 3D like The Amazing Spider-Man, the 3D seems really underwhelming.  The newer Conan movie was filmed 2D and then converted to 3D and it's pretty bad.  When Cody and I watched it I had to ask him if it was in 3D or are my eyes broken because I'm getting nothing.  Also, nothing tops a Three Stooges short with 3D pies getting thrown at the camera.

Finally, just for the hell of it, it's contest time.  The first person to correctly name every single 3D blu-ray on  that shelf wins a prize!  I'm talking about a good prize, not some lame iPhone camera lens.  Good luck!

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day

A lot of my stuff in the freezer happens to be breakfast foods.  After I took the picture I forgot I had some Eggos stashed in the back.

Which reminds of an awesome Eggo product that sadly they no long make.  It was an Eggo with a syrup center.  You could have your syrup on the outside and the inside!  I was boring and just popped it in the toaster and when it was ready I just ate it "plain".  No plate, no fork, no knife, just pick up it and go.   That's how I roll. 

Magnetizing

The other morning I was standing in front of my refrigerator eating my yogurt and admiring my many magnets.  I spotted one that I don't remember buying, so I took a closer a look.  It was a magnet from Louisbourg!  I obviously bought it at the thrift store, I'm think the Hospital Aux in Cranbrook.

I didn't even need to buy a Louisbourg magnet when I went there because I already had one!  The thrift store one is cooler than the ones I bought when I was there!  Maybe if I ever go someplace again, I should just choose where I go by the magnets on my fridge.

I could go to the Hoover Dam or...

Sea World!

Pizza Party!

I left work the other day and was hungry, so I stopped by Little Seizures because it's right on my way home.  They now have a large Hot-N-Ready pepperoni pizza for $7.50.  I totally got one.  Normally, I can force myself to eat a medium, but the large was too much.  What do I do with the leftovers?

My mom gave me this pizza container a long time ago and I finally got to use it.  It looks pretty straightforward, but it's not.  It has instructions!

The bottom of the container has dimples on it, but they are reverse dimples.  Why are they there?  I don't know, probably something to do with science.  Pizza science.

I was watching TV and saw a ad for Little Ceasars new Hot-N-Ready pepperoni pretzel crust pizza.  Sounds awesome, but can someone try it first and let me know how it is please?  I'm a bit gun shy as I tried the deep dish pizza and it was terrible.