I think it’s a childhood fantasy of most young boys to have a pet dragon. I remember really enjoying Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher and an assortment of other dragon pet books. Dude, and Neverending Story? Yeah, that dog/dragon guy was pretty cool (I don’t think I should watch that movie again and just bask in my childhood memories of it).

Anyways, Sunday, I went to Vox with the usuals then went to Estancia for Sam’s 27th birthday (happy birthday!). After that stuffing of the face, I lasted about an hour or something playing WoW at home before I succumbed to the food coma and slept for almost 3 hours. I woke up to various tweets regarding How to Train Your Dragon 3D, and seeing that it has a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, I opted to try to catch the last showing of it at Alamo South Lamar. I also managed to steal Melissa away from her studying (I might be a bad influence) to come along. I enjoyed it pretty well. I noticed that a few reviews on RT called it “Avatar for kids” which is an easy comparison to draw, although I enjoyed it more than the Cameron behemoth of a movie. IMO, James could learn a thing or two from this “kids movie” about story telling and bringing out emotion. I just felt like it had more character and soul, I suppose. =) Plus, I would take the stealth-fighter “Night Fury” dragon over whatever crazy bird thing that was in Avatar any day.

Going in reverse chronological order, on Saturday, I spent a bit of time at Zilker with Melissa and some of her peeps, then went back up north for some ultimate action only to have Sam bust my ankle. Needless to say, I didn’t run the 10k I had signed up for on Sunday (I might’ve skipped anyways, but that’s not the point ;-)). Wrapped up that day by spending a bit of time at Chancy’s for Sam’s pre-6th, pre-birthday bash then started watching some Modern Family, which is solidly amusing.

I think that’s all I can remember for now… tata!

So here I was minding my own business casually throwing a frisbee around for ultimate warm up, when Sam goes ballistic and charges me yelling “I’M GOING TO SMASH YOU BECAUSE YOU’RE BETTER THAN ME!” Luckily, he is slow and I managed to avoid him, but unfortunate for me, a rock or something on the ground was too slow and did not avoid me at all. I stepped on it in a rather poor fashion causing me to roll on my right foot. So now I have a sprained ankle. =( Thanks a lot, Sam… and you too, rock.

There shall be retribution.

So yesterday we were all minding our own business playing WoW when Sam, who is sitting next to Brook, suddenly exclaims “wow, Brook, have you been working out? It looks like you’ve got a hot bod under that shirt.” Brook blankly stares back at Sam as he goes on “…what would I need to do get you to take it off?” Brook was pretty flabbergasted, but eventually gives in to Sam’s wily ways under the condition that Sam also go shirtless.

Sam happily agrees and I managed to capture the moment with my handy camera. I guess Sam just really wanted some man eye-candy next to him as he tanked ToC. Whatever gives you motivation, I guess, Sammy.

On Friday night, I saw Phantom of the Opera with Melissa and some of her friends. It was my first time seeing it, and was pretty enjoyable. =) Walking around campus makes me feel a bit old though… However, what makes me feel even older is the fact that I have my 10 year high school reunion next year. 10 years! Eep…

On Saturday, I took Melissa to Lockhart for some tasty BBQ. I had only previously ever been to Black’s and Chisholm Trail, so I figured it was time for me to hit up either Kreuz or Smitty’s (which I feel are actually the more well known/visited places). We ended up going to Smitty’s but I must unfortunately say that I was underwhelmed. They ran out of prime rib, so we didn’t get to try that, but the brisket and pork chops were both fairly dry (yes, I asked for fatty brisket). The pork ribs were pretty good, though. I might be down for giving them another chance, but I didn’t get a very good first impression. It made me want to do another meatcation…

Sunday, after church, we had a bit of an introduction lunch at Arpeggio Grill for Viraj and Stephanie King to meet Melissa and for two of her friends, Sarina and Helen to meet me. Can’t go wrong with a tasty 30” Greek pizza. =) That was pretty fun, then I went home, hung out for a bit and passed out for a few hours.

Throughout the weekend, there was Pushing Daisies watching as well… we’re approaching the end of the second/final season. It has also been pretty enjoyable, so I would classify this as a solid weekend. =)

On to the work week!…

So I got bored and I went back and found archives of my “blog” posts from 1999-2004. Back then, there weren’t many (if any) blog platforms, so I was using some funky “news” posting software. Apparently it stored all the posts in a text file with delimiters of “x”…

Anyways, I whipped up a quick script to convert it into an XML format WordPress could import and… tada! I wouldn’t be surprised if links were broken, by the way…

It’s kind of crazy to see over ten years worth of blogging on the right sidebar now…

I made a fake Sam Ni FB account a while back and Sam made the foolish decision of friending it last night, which gave me access to post to his wall…

I figured the account would get closed shortly, so I’d make the most of it…

…and I think I was being nice… I could have done far worse. =)

Yes, I’m posting this while at work, but it’s my lunch break! ;)

So I apparently underestimated Sam as I predicted he would FB friend Melissa within 24 hours of meeting her (at karaoke on Friday night). I sent myself an email to timestamp my prediction.

I should have been more aggressive with my estimate though because as I picked up Melissa on Saturday morning and told her about my prediction, she said she’d already got gotten a friend invite at roughly 5AM, which was <6 hours after meeting her and not even 3 hours after I sent the above email to myself. Sorry for underestimating your social swiftness, Sam. :)

On the topic of weekend events, there was karaoking on Friday night, which was pretty fun. I’ll get around to posting a few photos/videos eventually… Melissa and I finished the first season of Pushing Daisies, which is a pretty enjoyable little show (only nine episodes in the first season). I took a break from ultimate this weekend, and probably next too, as I’m trying to let my shins heal in preparation for next month’s 10k run… which I’m still iffy on if I’ll actually be able to do. It’s a bit tricky since I need to rest my shins, but I also should probably train for the run…

With that, I will leave you with the tail end of a wonderful chat I had with my sister who’s visiting London currently:

Ah… I love having sisters. :)

During a chat with Melissa recently, I recalled this gem of a video I had stored in an external hard drive and I was shocked that I didn’t already have it online. Well, I have rectified that issue… =) (warning: contains profanity).

“No no no no no no no high velocity! No no… like that’s… NO! SHT C**K!! SHT C**K!!!!” - Sam Ni

Oches got a puppy!! She looks sad a lot… probably because Ochs got her.

This weekend, other than the super windy ultimate game, Melissa and I finished watching Firefly and Serenity (ahhh… I <3 that show/movie so much). It’s been decided that the next show will be Pushing Daisies, so I ordered both seasons on blu-ray, which should arrive shortly. I’ve heard good things about that show from many sources, so I didn’t mind buying before seeing any of it… looking forward to it. =)

Sunday, I went to Vox, ate at Ho Ho, went misc. shopping a bit and got cleaning supplies (but did not clean). Took a short nap, then visited Austin Stone (hence the post title… har har!) with Melissa. It was my first time and boy… a lot of people go there! After going to Vox for so long, it would take some getting used to should I visit Stone again (not necessarily in a good/bad way). I found out Melissa hadn’t seen Up, so I decided to try my luck at this whole social thing and sent out a tweet asking if anyone had a copy I could borrow. Carolee graciously obliged (thanks!) and so we closed out the night watching that.