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Weekend Stuff.

Monday, February 8th, 2010

On Friday I drove to St. Louis to hang out with Jennie and John for the weekend. We went out and had crab at a Crabshack place. It was good, but I wouldn’t have it more than once a year or so. We then watched The Hangover, which was funny, but not for everyone. The Mike Tyson cameo was the best part.

On Saturday night we went to the Blues game against the Blackhawks. The Blues got totally screwed by a stupid ref who couldn’t see the puck and that cost the Blues a goal. So instead of regulation ending with a tie, the Blackhawks went home with a 2-1 win. We also went to the Hardrock Cafe, which is tasty.

On Sunday we had the Super Bowl party. It was hard to care too much about the game since I honestly didn’t care much about who won. I’m glad the Saints won since they never won it all before and all that. But I would have been glad if the Colts and Peyton Manning had won it too. He’s a very cool guy. During the party a 3 or 4 year old boy got really interested in World of Warcraft. So he asked what you could be. So I put my guy away and went along and showed him the “Create a new character” page and I showed him what he could be. I teased him a little saying he looked like a Gnome. His older brother told me to make a Tauren hunter. So I did. And they thought it was really cool he had a gun. But he kept pushing me to be a zombie (The Forsaken in the game). So I made up an Undead Warrior for him, he couldn’t be a Warlock or anything like that because those guys are wearing dresses and he said they couldn’t have hair because that’s girly too. So I started doing quests with the bald warrior when he said he wanted a guy with two daggers. So I quit on that guy and made an Undead Rogue for him and did a few quests. At that point, my laptop ran out of power and the football game was hitting the middle of the fourth quarter and I wanted to see what happened so I told him that’s it for today and he got up and did other stuff ’till his grandma wanted to leave. After everyone left, Jennie and John put on Family Guy and I fell asleep during it.

This morning I woke up and started reading through teh blogz and I looked outside and noticed it was snowing out. I thought I better get going. So I quickly packed up and left at about 6:45. It’s amazing how much worse the roads were in Missouri compared to Iowa. Missouri, the roads were about 1/2 covered in snow. In Iowa, crossed the border and the roads were all clear. Also in Southern Iowa, I noticed a giant billboard that had a green background and in white had the name Jesus. That Jesus guy sure is narcissistic for putting his name up on a billboard like that. Got back to Dubuque around 1:00 and had everything unpacked and put away by 2:00.

Now back to my regularly scheduled programming.

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We toured the city and elsewhere.

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

The Baseball Players Union basically covered up A-Rod’s steroid use. Next they warned the players in 2004 when the random drug testing was happening. I guess it wasn’t random enough. Of course in 03 and 04, A-Rod did not have his best offensive years, with a rather unspectacular OPS+ of 147 and 131. Of course after that, he took off with some really good years. 

So yesterday morning I had breakfast and just sorta hung out here in the hotel room until about 11:45. Then Jennie and I left and we finished off our Texas Roadhouse meals at her apartment. Then her friend John showed up and we went from there to Busch stadium to go on the Busch Stadium Tour. There was only about a dozen people on the tour. The tour guide made a big mistake though, when he claimed that the Cardinals were only the 2nd team to open a new ballpark with a World Series title. He, of course said that both the 2006 Cardinals with the new Busch and 1923 Yankees with the old Yankee Stadium were the two. He must not know about the 1909 Pirates opening Forbes Field with a World Series win.

After that it was to the Arch where it basically took forever to get up to the top. We got there at 2:15 or 2:30 and they didn’t have tickets until the 4:10 departure. So we had to wait around a lot. Then we got in line so that at 4:10, we’d be ready to go, but the told us to go wait at the end of the line, which we did and it moved so fast we were up front and they told us to go back again, instead we wondered off and did some other things for a few minutes and when we got back we ended up not being able to go up until almost 4:30. But it was crazy, the whole premise seemed to be to wait in line in order to wait in another line and then wait for the ticket color to be called and then wait for the lift. And the first line was horribly inefficient. They should have called the time on the PA so that people knew when to get in line. At the top, it was pretty much the same as I remember it in 1990, which is kinda disappointing, but oh well. It was pretty cool seeing how some stuff changed since 1990.

After that we walked back to the car and drove over to Union Station, had some food and then went to the hockey game with Jennie’s roommate. The first period the Blues were just ok. They didn’t score, but allowed the Avs to score a goal about halfway through the period. Jennie and her roommate left to walk around for a while so John and I went back to our seats to watch the game. The Blues came back out in the second period and scored three goals right away, so of course Jennie missed that. That was very cool, suddenly everyone was really in to it. Then the third period they scored about five minutes in and then we learned that if the Blues scored 5 goals, everyone would get a free blizzard. Of course that didn’t happen. Overall, the Blues were very good tonight and just dominated the Avalanche, something I didn’t expect to happen. Now, when I come back here for opening day, need to see the Pirates dominate the Cardinals.

Overall, a great, but busy day with lots of really nice weather that just made it even better.

Then it was back to Jennie’s apartment where we turned on SNL and I just about fell asleep on the couch. Jennie decided to drive me back to the hotel then. I came up to my room, sat in the chair, turned on the TV and fell asleep on the chair until 3:30 in the morning and woke up about 40 minutes ago.

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