The Eleventh Little Indian Boy

Tuesday, January 07, 2003:

BANG!!!! Did you hear that? That was the sound of 2003 exploding onto the scene......key notes to the first few days of the new year...: A very smooth flight back home against the wind / can't remember the last time I had a decent meal during a flight / inflight movie....Sweet Home Alabama.....rent it when it comes out!!! / taxi ride home......$2.40 per mile?....what a rip!! / coming home to a house full of nothing but emptiness.....priceless, "Catch me if you can" / another notch in the belt for one Steven Spielberg / one day they're gonna come out with a Spielberg collection DVD box set and it's gonna cost like 500 bucks.....what's even scarier is that we the consumers will make them sell like hotcakes / Leo's making quite the comeback this year....looking sharp and proving the critics wrong in that there is life after Titanic / great soundtrack....lot's of soft jazzy stuff.....Rat pack type influence with a touch of Billy Holliday , Ski Trip out to Tahoe with MC and the gang ( see notes below ) , First communion of the new year / I love communion....the symbolism of what was sacrificed.....so priceless.....even more so when you have clear thoughts and humble heart to pray with....BANG BANG!!! What a way to start off this new year!!!

So the only major occurance so far in the last few weeks was the ski trip I went on last weekend in Tahoe. This was my second time EVER being in a snowed out environment and here are some thoughts and observations on the whole shabang.....

1.) I got to build a snowman....YES!!! The only problem that I came across was that it was extremely hard to make one in the moldings of traditional shape. What started out as Frosty the snowman gradually evolved into a Venus De Milo / Academy Award Statuette type figure with leaves for hair and a mad gangsta lean. If you squinted and caught a glance in the right lighting....it actually looked pretty good...haha. Eventually it fell and broke into pieces....so I doctored it a bit with a shovel and some carrots and turned it into something Calvin and Hobbes would be proud of.....=P

2.) Clean fresh air....it is soooo refreshing. Much like the air around sunset when the sea breeze blows in.....but lighter and crisper. I went on a walk with GW and AO around the neighborhood after lunch. Lush forrest greenery, windy hilly roads, dogs dogs and more dogs, all covered in a light frost that whitened everything within sight......note to self....show shoes next year to explore even more.

3.) 8 bit Nintendo.....that is some classic stuff man. Ikari Warriors, Battle Toads, TMNT, etc. I can recount hours and hours of fun and determination in trying to beat all of these games. We got to play a little Mike Tyson's punch out....me thinks that was the most entertaining game of the weekend. Gameplay was comparable to pitching in baseball....you had a starter who got through the early stages, a few middle men who ground down the middle portion of the lineup, and then the closer/stopper...who was sent in to shut down the order in the 9th. That was me....controlling little Mac vs. Mike Tyson...pre prison circa 1987...right after he destroyed Trevor Berbick to become world champ. I was talking a little smack that I could shut him down on the first try....yeah right....TKO'd me in 40 seconds....but eventually the coordination and timing came back and he got beat down....yeah....how sad is that? Haha.

4.) Canadians are resilient to the end. Our Canadian friend....let's call him Mountie....was chilling with us at a buffet in Reno one night. I ordered a tall frosty glass of milk like I always do and the following conversation somehow ensued....

Mountie: Is that skim milk?
Me: No man, it's full milk ( in Texas we say full in addition to whole )...kinda nasty.
Mountie: You don't like full milk? ( I thought I heard him say full milk )
Me: No man, my mom usually bought us skim milk so it kinda tastes like yogurt or something.
Mountie: Man!! Whatever.....my mom always bought us HOMO....it's so good!!
Me, Pictureboy, and Donut: WHAT!!!!!??????

Translation: HOMO = Homogenized milk = Canadian slang or something....too funny! In Mountie's credit he was a great sport and humored us every time it came up....which was often....hahahahaaa.

5.)Black Jack....when dealer shows 10 and you have a 13...always hit.....always hit....HIT!!!!

6.) Sequence is kinda getting old....Settlers is the hot ticket at the moment but I haven't played yet.....Clue is boring.....Scruples is hard if you think on a black and white plane.....Speed is too easy.....Uno....now that's a fun game.....especially if you haven't played in over a decade.....the original screw your neighbor game for all ages....=)

7.) Snowball Fight...oh man....talk about saving the best for last. It was supposed to be a set up. Lure one unsuspecting person outside and just unload on him. What happened? No one knows for sure.....but in the end everyone was just flat out bombarding each other in every manner possible. Regardless of alliances and such. For me it was all about turning on your teamates...haha...in situations like that where you're pitted against each other for fun....it's all about the army of one. The best moment was when someone stuck me right in the back of the head. I was thinking...oh man, it's on. You know it's one of your own so you're just like....Dangit...they're gonna pay!! I turned around and saw the unlikliest of people grinning sheepishly at me....AO...needless to say I was stunned and amused all the same. Payback certainly stinks......but you gotta just laugh and roll with the punches.

8.) Oh yeah MC ambushed me and put me in the stinking guillotine again....but I shoved snow down his draws...yeah baby...haha!!


LIB // 12:28 AM

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