1. Went to Toronto. Oh the hilarity. 2. Went to BrickFair! Hats, plushies, MOCs, oh my. 3. Traveled around Washington, D.C. late at night with Brickeens and his dad. (As well as a lot of corny puns from everyone.) 4. Survived an earthquake. 5. Waited for BZPower to return.
I heard this song just the other day. Set to the tune of "Yesterday" by the Beatles.
It's by a fellow by the name of Tim Hawkins.
Chick-Fil-A
Chick-Fil-A
I could eat there seven times a day
Where the people laugh and children play
Oh I'm in love
With Chick-Fil-A
Suddenly
I need waffle fries in front of me
With some nuggets and a large sweet tea
Oh Chick-Fil-A
You set me free
Kids get in the van so we can go there today
But their stores are closed, 'cause it's Sunday...
We got up in Spokane today and went to the stadium of the Spokane Indians. Being a short-season team, they were not playing, but they let us in and sold us a hat and pennant all the same. We briefly went through Idaho afterwards - but through its thin panhandle, so we weren't in the state for very long. In fact, we went through only two counties. Getting into Montana, we had our sights set on Missoula, where we were going to get something to eat as well as see if we couldn't get a pennant from
The Great American Road Trip -1: The Hidden Buffalo A decade before my birth, my parents (and my mom's parents) took off on a road trip to South Dakota, to see Mount Rushmore, the Badlands, and the surrounding region. While in the Badlands, they went to a restaurant/gift shop for something to eat. My grandmother ordered a bison burger, but she could not eat it all, so she discreetly wrapped the rest of it up in an array of napkins and stashed it in her purse while no one was looking. Later
VALENDALE AND TAKUMA NUVA WIN AT BINGO DUPLO REVIEW: VINE AND FULL VERSIONS EXPANDING OUR NEWFOUND BEAN CORE AESTHETIC SPACESHIP SPACESHIP SPACESHIP VENDOR RAIDS? VENDOR RAIDS IS IT POSSIBLE TO EAT ALL OF THE BREADSTICKS IN A PIZZA HUT/TACO BELL? YES MOUSE SALAD WITH GERBILS RETURNS LATE-NIGHT MINILAND FIG CONSTRUCTION? YES
After waking up and making ourselves look at least somewhat presentable, we steeled ourselves for going out and getting a hotel breakfast. After the burned toast debacle of last night, we were concerned that whatever breakfast we got would be inedible. It was not inedible - it was undrinkable! We all got coffee and modified it with a number of creamers and sugars, but upon sampling it we all nearly puked due to its extreme bitterness - sort of like what I imagine liquified anthrax would taste
Wait … someone stole home?: I personally didn't see it. Oh well.
Sleepless in Seattle: Now Griffey apparently wasn't sleeping in the clubhouse? This is too confusing.
Saltalamacchia's Troubles: Get this: he's having trouble throwing it back to the pitcher in Triple-A. But let's give ol' Salty some slack: he's had surgery and the weight of his name on his back is probably weighing him down.
Binocular Controversy: Phillies bullpen coach Mick Billmeyer was seen looking through binoculars from C
It's Tuesday once again, folks, and the penultimate Tuesday of the year. Happy (slightly early) Hanukkah to the Jewish BZPers out there. I have taken time out of a war waged upon the clutter in the house (and more specifically my room) to post an older tablescrap from about a year or so ago. (Posting a newer one is nigh on impossible, considering the general semi-reorganization of things. I do have newer ones, though!) | | I'd also like to note that while some of the outer parts (ob
-----Mercifully, for the first time since Minot, we awoke with cell phone reception. It’s a minor miracle, and it meant that we no longer had to calculate our phone’s morning alarms from central time backwards, which was a great annoyance. Texts from Alaska’s 511 service poured through to my mom's phone, which proved a hassle as updates on the Glenn Highway popped up periodically with no obvious way to unsubscribe. (We eventually were able to do so, though not without significant hassle.) -
The day started out with an adventure in getting across the street. We had originally planned to stay in Provo, which is on the southern edge of the Salt Lake metropolitan area. However, since Orem has a minor-league team known as the Owlz, we switched the reservations just ten minutes north to that city. As it turned out, our hotel was literally across the street from the stadium. Which, of course, you can't just get to normally. We had to take a myriad of turns and navigate a seemingly i
XAERAZ'S FLUFFY BEARD PREMIERES ROAD TRIP TO STAPLES (MUSIC BY WEIRD AL YANKOVIC) PABLO GETS COLD BREADSTICKS HOW OLD IS AVOHKAH TAMER'S LAPTOP? WE JUST DON'T KNOW BINGO AND DOOR PRIZE DISAPPOINTMENTS: GIT GUD EDITION TEAM FARM ANIMALS: PART OF THE BEAN CORPS
YARD SALE TIME BREADSTICK STREAK BROKEN BEAN CORE? BEAN CORE PABLO'S SEMINAR: MOVED BUT STILL GREAT (I WAS VIDEOGRAPHER) NICK BLUETOOTH: PABLO PURCHASE, REVIEW MADE KEK POWERIZER: $5 FROM EVERYONE, REVIEW MADE, PARTS TOMORROW, NUKAYA HORRIFIED AT OUR PURCHASE #GALIDOR2015: I KISSED A GORM (AND I LIKED IT)
We got up in Bozeman and headed on towards Billings. After getting a hat and pennant at the stadium of the Billings Mustangs of the short-season Pioneer League, we went to the site of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, where General George Armstrong Custer and his forces were annihilated by Native American warriors defending their ancestral homeland. The battle - and the war that it was in - was prompted by the way the federal government handled the Black Hills, which were considered to be sacred
XAERAZ ASSISTS IN THE BALL JOINT HUNT #arthriticwhale EPIC DEALS AT THE YARD SARD/YALE SALE #yalesard LADY KOPAKA RIDES IN THE TRUNK AND THEN BUYS US DINNER #southernjmj TOXIC WASTE BUNNY: "THIS ISN'T EVEN MY FINAL FORM" #ladyk AVOHKAH TAMER'S EPIC MASHUPS #gangnamfunk HEY WHO TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS #references VEZOK'S FRIEND DOES AHNOLD LABEOUF #yesterdayyousaidtomorrow MOON BOUNCE #nooxygen STAFF INTERVIEW: TOA OF SUSHI REVEALED #hoarse
We got on the road a few minutes after 11:00. Our hotel breakfast - at least for my parents - consisted of sliced sausages called "pork ham." This is, of course, repetitive, so we thought that it was probably something we could chalk up to some local custom. A brief Google search tells me that it isn't. My faith in the overall intelligence level in human society took another hit. Before noon, we found ourselves in New London, home of the US Coast Guard Academy. It's a lot different in look and
My grandmother died this morning at the age of 77. Words can’t even begin to describe the misery she went through in the past several years of her life. Her immense medical record was just about as long as the list of doctors who were mortified at the prospect of having to navigate the murky medical waters of a woman who, by all rights, should have been dead five times over. Between her assisted living facility, the various wards of the hospital, and rehab facilities spanning across several
...but Up was not as good as other Pixar movies I've seen. Look, it's not like I hated it, it was alright, but it's not the type of movie I'd buy on DVD. It was just too slow in parts. C'mon, Disney, just get the point across and get to the part we all want to see. I dunno, I just think they could have improved on the final product.
But later my friend and I got in our pool for the first time all year, and that was pretty sweet. We also used some Nerf guns to shot down Bionicle sets, and when
We woke up in Carlsbad early, and got to Carlsbad Caverns. It is eerily quiet at the top of the mountain where the visitor’s center is – the only thing you can hear is the gentle waving of the flag on its pole. They are redoing some of their elevators, so only two are in action, making the wait slightly longer than it would be otherwise. The Caverns are huge, and I mean huge. I’ve seen caves before, but this was just huge. The only part of the cave that is self-guided is the Big Room, which is
BZTOWER: BREAKING DESPITE SUPPORT COLUMNS SUMIKI'S DAD HOLDS COURT NUKAYA'S BENNY PAINTING GOES FOR $2000 AT THE CHARITY AUCTION BREADSTICK LUNCH? OBVIOUSLY VENDOR RAIDING: THIRTY BALL JOINTS - MAYBE MORE WAL-MART RAID FOR BATTERIES AND MIXELS: VALENDALE HATES IT, MY WASP IS NOW DERPING BRICKEENS GETS FULL SKYPE TOUR NOT ONE, BUT TWO TARAKAVA-RELATED VINES MEIKO PRANKED WITH EMPTY NINJAGO BOX (SORRY) KOPAKA NUVA SMELLS GOOD BEAN CORE BRICKS ARE BEAN CORE TAKUMA "M-DIZZLE" N
