Hello 2008!

Haven't posted in a while so let's just get caught up here.

1) I turned 30. More specifically, I turned 30 while doing a shot of Goldschlager and dancing to "This is how We do It." I wouldn't have accepted anything less.

2) I went ahead and instructed the DVR to record Jeopardy on a regular basis. I enjoy the fast-paced trivia, but mostly I like the painfully awkward nerds with their painfully awkward personal stories when Alex introduces them. The stories are usually about something "wacky" that happened while travelling (i.e. ""they lost my luggage" or a "monkey took my hat"). One lady completely ran out of stories after four days as champ and chose to simply let everyone know she has diabetes. To be fair, if I'm ever on, I will just as painfully awkward.

3) Saw the Sweeney Todd and I'm torn because I love Tim Burton and Johnny Depp, but I can't stand all those boring Steven Sondheim songs. Burton shoulda let Danny Elfman redo the whole thing.

5) I played about 100 games of Scrabble. Maybe, when I'm on Jeopardy, my story will be about the time I spelled "boner."

6) Logged a lot of time with the 90's music channel on the "Music Choice" selections available from Comcast. This is the channel that gives you fun facts about the artist as the songs plays. You can tell that the Music Choice folks sent a survey out to a bunch of artists and only got replies from the ones who aren't very busy anymore.

Like when Prince is on they don't have any personal facts and it's all stuff like "Price sold a bunch of albums" or "Prince changed his name to a symbol once." Or sometimes they've got so little that they just go with stuff like "Columbia records stopped making 78s in 1961" and other generic recording industry stuff.

This brings me to Nuno Bettencourt, the once proud lead guitarist of Extreme.

Nuno must have been the most excited guy ever to receive the Music Choice fun facts survey. This is no joke, after a Tom Petty song filled with generic recording industry facts, and Extreme song (alarmingly not "More than Words") came on and all the list of trivia went like this:

* Nuno Bettencourt was the lead guitarist of Extreme
* Nuno Bettencourt loves Kentucky Fried Chicken
* Nuno Bettencourt prefers baths to showers
* Nuno Bettencourt likes his sandwiches cut diagonally
* Nuno Bettencourt practices the yo-yo all day long and can almost "Walk the Dog"
* Nuno Bettencourt didn't sleep real well last night
* Nuno Bettencourt mixed his whites and colors and totally ruined his favorite shirt
* Nuno Bettencourt spends his days watching Music Choice and waiting for his songs to play
* Nuno Bettencourt isn't sure why it burns when he pees
* Nuno Bettencourt is very lonely
* Nuno Bettencourt sometimes eats relish packets for dinner
* Nuno Bettencourt can be reached at 555-XTRM and hopes you'll call...soon.

No joke.

7) Welp, I'm going globetrotting for a bit, so I might not update for a while as I'm pretty sure the Internet hasn't made it to Europe yet. Don't worry, I'm sure I'll have all kinds of nerdy stories to tell when/if I get back.

Happy New Year!