It's Halloween and I am drawn back to memories of me and the guys meeting up at Jeff's house to go door to door to hunt down the best candy. I was usually a masked mummy with purple hair, Jeff was "Jason", and I think SJ normally was a hockey player. We would go up and down Woodward Ave, making sure to stop at the rich houses on the north side and also stopping at the old folks home to see what kind of stuff they had.
Still remember when Matt, who was dressed as Mortal Kombat's Rayden, was asked by an old lady if he was dressed as a lamp.
Thinking back I really wish I had put more thought into my costumes. I remember once being Bret The Hitman Hart, but other than that they were all pretty blah. The pictures and videos that you see now are nuts! Maybe it is because there are better characters now, whatever it is, it sure makes me want to be a kid again.
On a more skewed note, I just discovered PedoBear. Definitely "out there" but friggin hilarious. Here is one of my favorites. I have also seen a picture of someone going out for Halloween dressed as him with a chick dressed as a girl escorting, fuuuunny.
The weather guessers have been flirting with the S word for a few days now and when I was driving home from work last night I couldn't believe my eyes. As I was coming down the last hill towards Baden the sky looked a little off. It was almost like a fog that was all over and through the town.
Snow.
Seriously, it was just snowing in Baden. It was pretty hilarious to see it coming down so early in the season. Unbelievable really.
It must have been pretty windy in the day too cause I came home to this on the deck.
Tiger Woods, Tom Brady, Erik Johnson, these are some true atheletes. The list could go on and on, but it stops here. These people, all in their respective sports have gone above and beyond what is expected for the betterment of the team. In Tiger Woods' case it for himself and his buckets of money. The point is they lay their body on the line over and over to make the big play.
There is someone I would like to nominate to be added to this list. Someone who as also gone the mile and pushed through the pain to reap the reward at the end of the tunnel. My brother, Ryan Kendrick.
Ryan blew out his ACL...yeah that's right. The man -correction- the legend of Burlington Central High School football is laid up on a couch after a devastating injury, which will side line the retired right guard for 4-6 weeks. I would like to be able to tell you that he is going to be the same #67 from back in his glory days, digging it out in the trenches on the back field on Baldwin St, however the future is unpredictable.
The repercussions from this devastating injury are going to resonate for years to come. Every dropped pass, every duck thrown, every Thanksgiving Day Family Sprint 2nd place finish, there will be an asterisks beside his name. The most important of all these fall outs will of course be a lost game of darts. The constant leaning on his front leg will reek havoc on his game. If only there were someone that could take advantage of this and rain down 180's all over his ass, while he sits to the side with a cold beer nursing his slowly swelling knee.
Seriously though, I feel for you Ryan. It wont be easy coming back from this one. I know you can and I know you will but it will take time and patience. Just hang in there and set a goal for yourself. Whether its getting up to get a beer, walking the dog, or hitting that double 1. You are a very strong person and nothing is going to keep your ass down. You're the champ, go get your belt back.
It was Fall cleaning day in the Kendrick house on Saturday...and holy hell we own a lot of crap. The main focus was the basement, which over the past year has been packed fuller then one basement should be.
It was becoming common practice to answer "put it in the basement" to just about any question referring to shit that needed a home. But now it is looking pretty good. We have a growing pile of give away items, the patio furniture is nestled nicely in a corner and the cold room is looking normal again. And I am one step closer to having some old school video games systems hooked up too. Just need some help lifting a TV then the NES, SNES, and Dreamcast will be back from the dead and reading to rock it! If only I hadn't lent out my N64...I will never see it again...
With the calmer weekend Kerri and I also had a chance to clean the house top to bottom which has not been done in, well lets say a while.
We caught up on some PVR materials we had been slacking on and also watched a crap load of How I Met Your Mother. Which is a great show and I suggest you watch it if you can.
Oh and the Leafs beat the Senators on Saturday HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Eat it Ryan :)
Kerri and I met up with Mark and Erin last night for dinner down in Cambridge. It is something that we are trying to do every couple of weeks. We have this idea to try out a bunch of places and try something new every meet up.
Last night we hit up Applebee's. It has been a least a couple of years since Kerri and I had been there, and from what I remembered it wasn't anything special. Not much has changed.
The food was just okay, and the service was decent. It kind of seemed dead in there which was fine. And the price of the food was a touch high, well at least in regards to the appetizers.
However, the beer, oh my friend the beer, was cheap. For $5 you got your self a mini pitcher of either Coors Light or Canadian. The pitcher was 32 oz, and given the glass you got I ended up with a little over 3 beers. The also had draft and domestic on for $2.50, shit Kerri's sprite was $2.59! So if you are looking for cheap beer with some decent food check out Applebee's.
Sounds like next time we go out we are going to hit up Boston Pizza. Mark has been going on and on about a spicy perogi pizza that is awesome. So awesome that it is already on the menu for Super Bowl Sunday. Must be one hell of a pizza.
They find out the sex of the baby (hopefully) today. Erin and I think boy, and Mark and Kerri feel it will be a girl. As usually I'm sure I will be wrong.
Oh and in case you missed the Lucic hit on Van Ryn last night...
This past weekend was Oktoberfest! It was a much smaller group then usual, but still fun as hell.
This year we kicked it up a little differently, with it being a small group and with Kerri and I living outside of the city we decided to get some cheap ass hotel rooms and just crash there for the night. Now when I saw cheap ass I mean CHEAP ASS. We booked a room at The Knights Inn just off Weber. The price was right and that was all that counted, it was dated to say the least.
Kerri ended up getting sick a couple days before and didn't make it out festing which sucked, as Oktoberfest is something that we look forward to every year, and have always gone ever since we have known each other. Of all the days to get sick the mighty flu bug decided it was that day.
The group hung out in the hotel for a bit before heading over to The Aud. Did a little (some a lot) of pre-drinking and decided to walk the 30 mins to the hall. During the walk I quickly found out that I had been heavily invested in the pre-drinking part of the evening. Thankfully the walk sobered me up enough just in time for the HUGE line that was formed outside of the fest hall.
The night went great with lots of beers, a couple sausages, and even some dancing, 4 dudes dancing together in a circle but still dancing! I had some worries about the table when we arrived but the cool guy who hand wrote a "Reserved" sign was quickly booted from the end of the table, by a new group of much nicer people. The end of the evening arrived and we took a cab back to the hotel and passed out on the floor.
Next year we are going to try for Concordia Club, hopefully Kerri will be able to come out too, it wasn't the same without her :(
Oh and the tradition of building a big pyramid of cups only to have someone drive their head through it continued! Sorry about the singing on the clip, by that time I was ziggy'd out!
For Thanksgiving Kerri, Mocha, and I went down to Burlington to have a nice turkey dinner. It was an awesome meal and was great to see the family.
The football was brought out and we played a much lazier version of pass then in previous years. I guess we are getting older, that or we are drinking more, which ever the case, the football only managed to last in short increments.
Tim and Steph looked happy, you could tell Tim was ready to jump in the car at any second if need be to drive Steph to the hospital. Should be any day now that she pops, and out comes a little boy or girl. I'm thinking girl again.
As mentioned dinner was awesome! My Mom makes her turkey in advance, she cooks the turkey the day before then carves it up. She then pulls off some voodoo magic with romaine lettuce leaves and a BBQ. It is so moist and doesn't taste at all like lettuce. Plus it means more time for her to hang with her family. All the trimming were there too, Kerri and Oprah potatoes, cheese and broccoli, rice and broccoli, neep, stuffing, you name it! I crammed two plates into my gob and was stuffed. And what do you do when you are so full you feel like you may exploded if poked? Time trials!
The football was brought out after dinner but didn't last long. Ryan, Jessie, Tim and I were out front looking down the street when the question was asked. How far do you think it is to Nanny's? I guessed 100 yards, and then proclaimed that I could run there and back in less then 32 seconds. It seemed do-able, didn't seem that far, and I figure the fastest guy in the world could do it in under 20 seconds, why couldn't I do it in 30? So the mark was set at 32.
The challenge is on, I ran first and make it there and back in 25.2 seconds. I thought I was going to collapse. Running there wasn't an issue it was once you made the turn. I looked up and thought "what the hell am I doing" the run back to Mom's looked like forever away, but I couldn't stop. Half way back my legs were like rubber. I was panting like a dog, then I crossed the finish line. 25.2 seconds.
Tim went next, then Jessie. I was still in the lead by a decent margin. Up stepped Big Red, Ryan who has a bum knee was encouraged not to run. But he wouldn't listen. He took off like a rocket! The years of Petrie football rushed back to him as he made the turn and headed back to the finish line, his eyes were glued to that line, determined and confident he crossed the line in under 25 seconds. 24.9! His arm was raised (cautiously of course, bum shoulder and all) and the coughing and hacking ensued.
There was a moment (during the coughing) that I thought "wow he got me", but what fun would it be if I didn't try to beat him. So I set up again to race, again thinking "what am I doing!?". The second time racing was not any easier, alas, 24.6 seconds is the new Annual Thanksgiving Day Family Sprint record!
We arrived inside after the event to some Nanny apple pie :) There is always room for pie...
Check out the video below, if only I had some Alf theme music playing.
You would think that Clark Kent has it great. He is a super hero when he isn't at work and can do some pretty crazy shit in plain clothes if he really felt like it. Seriously, you haven't once wished you could throw down some X-Ray vision while at the bar, or at the mall?
But he is running two lives, two very different lives. One where he can do no wrong and everyone adores him and screams for him when seen. The other is the unsuspecting reporter who can't catch a break and will for ever be the "that guy" in the world.
Maybe the benefits out weigh the negatives, but it makes me wonder if he could pick; which one would he pick?
You could fly around, see through walls, heat and cool shit with your eyes or breathe, you could be the man of steal! Lots of responsibility though, I would imagine.
Where Clark he can just chill and do his thing day in and day out. Get a promotion and get a corner office with a view of a building that is twice the size of the one he is in.
It's a tough call...
I would rather be Clark Kent. I think there would be less email.
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