Disappointment.... This one hurt

Disappointment sucks! I can think of nothing worse. This morning disappointment got its ugly hands on me and ruined my morning.

My current employer is celebrating my last two days with the company by bringing in bagels for everyone. (actually, they brought bagels because all the global managers are in town, but I like my reasoning better) So I stroll into my bagel party and grab a nice looking cinnamon raisin bagel. I put my regular cream cheese on top and head back to my dungeon…. I mean office. I sit down ready to enjoy my second favorite bagel, clearly they don’t get any better than the everything bagel, I take a bite…….

Disafreakingpointment! I grabbed a chocolate chip bagel. Now some people might be thinking that it’s no big deal and chocolate chip bagels are good. Well those people are wrong. Incredibly wrong! Chocolate chip bagels are disgusting. I like bagels and I like chocolate chips but not together. You can’t just cram two things you like into one and get some great thing.

I give peanut butter and jelly all the credit in the world, I love PB&J sandwiches. But not everything works out like that. How about pizza ice cream. Yummy! Dr. Pepper Fettuccini. MMMMM. Beer salad dressing, caramel pepper, chocolate covered salt. Is there anything sacred anymore? For the love of everything quit ruining great things by combining them with other great things.

Yo Adrian! (its a Rocky post what else would I call this?)

Rocky IV has got to be considered one of the greatest movies of all time. I have been watching it every night for the past couple of days as I go to bed. (The Palmercat Gal has not been to happy when I fire up the DVD player these last few nights!) Here is why it is soooo grooood.

The movie is 91 minutes long and there is about 23 minutes of dialogue.

Seriously has this ever been pulled off before? I cant even come up with a sports equivalent to this…….. Ok its like the 2005 Chicago Bears offense. The game is 60 minutes long and the offense is on the field for like 12 minutes including 14 three and outs. Yet when the game is over somehow the Bears won and you find yourself thinking they are (were) a good team.

He-Man becomes the hateable steroid using Russian who kills Apollo.

Watching Masters of the Universe as a kid I loved Dolph Lundgren. He saved the Universe from Skeletor for crying out loud! But then he became Ivan Drago and He-Man was gone. When it comes to villains Drago has got to be one the most despised of all time. Usually a villain in a sports movie cheats during the competition, but not Drago. He blatantly is taking steroids all throughout his training and the make a point of showing how the steroids make him hit harder than anyone….. ever! Here’s my question, don’t they test for steroids in boxing? Was it ok since the fight was an “unsanctioned” fight? Why was this not dealt with in the story? Oh that’s right it would have required some dialogue. But then when you find out that Drago was doing the juice you realize Apollo should still be alive.

The Russian national anthem being played while a 3 story portrait of Drago is unveiled before the fight.

How did this not cause WWIII? I mean don’t you usually stand and salute your flag for your anthem? Not in Rocky IV, the anthem starts and everyone stands to salute their……….. Drago???!!! A huge painting id unveiled as the anthem is playing. The funny thing is that everyone is saluting it! How Sly got away with this without any backlash is unreal. If I were at a sporting event in which the entire country and surrounding countries were all tuned in, and the Star Spangled Banner plays to the unveiling of a 3 story portrait of Pete Rose, you better believe someone is going down for that. The funniest thought of all of this is, where do you think that portrait went? You have to think Dolph has it hanging on a wall in his house, or it he had it hung from the roof of his house as a way to let everyone know where he lives.

The creepy robot for Paulie.

When you saw this movie for the first time and the robot came strolling out, everyone thought that it was a legitimate wave of the future. I know I thought I would own one by the year 2000. Well it’s 2006 and I still don’t own one nor have I ever seen one since this movie. How could you not think that getting a robot maid who did everything for you would be the greatest day of your life. And since this is getting long I close with why Rocky IV is one of the best movies of all time……

Did someone say Montage

You know how I said the 91 minute movie had 23 minutes of dialogue, well there’s a reason for that. 4 MONTAGES! That is unbelievable, that is more amazing than the 23 minutes of dialogue. The first montage comes after Apollo dies and Rocky agrees to fight Drago in Russia. Rocky gets into it with Adrian and thus kicking off Montage #1. I guess they thought the first montage was so good that they should put a second one in the movie. This occurs about 7 minutes after the first. M#2 is a working out montage Rocky runs around the snowy mountains of Russia and chops some wood. This ends as he comes back to the cabin to find Adrian waiting for him so she can tell him she loves him and ids here for him. Immediately after this conversation we are treated with M#3 a workout montage. Yes another one. Yes about 45 seconds after the first workout montage. Except this one Rocky kicks his training to another notch including crumbling a newspaper cutout picture of Drago. Can you feel the intensity? M#4 is the fight montage. It of course entails the 2 men beating the piss out of each other as the rounds fly by and finally leads us to 2 bloody beaten men about to go toe to toe in the 15th. It’s a shame that there isn’t an Oscar for best montage, because in 1985 the nominees would have been:

Rocky IV: “Rocky alone”
Rocky IV: “Rocky workout”
Rocky IV: “Rocky workout part 2”
Rocky IV: “Rocky vs. Drago”

And the winner is……..
Rocky IV: “Rocky alone”

So there, that’s why Rocky IV was awesome. I can only hope tat Sly follows this structure for Rock V. (Yes I heard that Rocky V came out in 1990, but that movie never existed……. You hear me! It never existed!)

A little something about me

Here is a shocker, I love sports, and I love the Suns more than anything else in sports. I want to go to a game soon but I can not get tickets as they are pretty much sold out for the good games. Does anyone know someone who has tickets? I am more than willing to buy them! I am not looking for a free-B. I just dont want to sit in the last row of the upperdeck. If you know anyone can you let me know or have them contact me. Thanks! I am just a die hard Suns fan looking to go to my favorite sporting event.

Lets review the past week.

Well it is time for my Holiday review. So without any further a-do let’s get started.

• My mom (thats not a picture of her, I promise), whom I love dearly is not allowed to buy me clothes. She is allowed to take me shopping or supply me with money to purchase new clothes. However she is not allowed to pick them out.
• Nate Palmer had the funniest blog entry of the season until Nate Hughes entered in with this dandy tale.
• Sony 6.1 surround sound home theater system is kicking. Its no high end system but it is awesome enough for me to be plenty happy and so grateful to my parents for the gift. I truly was not expecting something so nice. Thank you!
• The 6mp Olympus digital camera the Palmercats received from my in-laws is sweet. There is not a whole lot of gadgetry to it, but it gets the job done well. Its simple to use doesn’t shoot out 400,000 flashes to take 1 picture and actually takes the picture when you push the button. Another great gift, thanks new mom and dad.
• The Epson photo printer my parents gave the Palmercat Gal is totally awesome. It prints quality pictures and pretty fast.
• Being married, on Christmas you get twice as many gifts. It was crazy seeing the X-Terra full of presents. Thanks to everyone who gave a gift! I love you guys. And not just for the gifts!
• Best buy is going to end my marriage. Seriously I need to stop going there, and here’s why:

I was in BB looking for something to spend my $25 gift certificate on when I stumbles across a shipment of Xbox 360’s. I thought they were just display boxes like always, but when I picked one up and it weighed about 20 pounds I knew this was no display box. I quickly got on the phone to call Mark, I knew he wanted one and could afford it, so I was going to pick it up for him. No answer. I call Josh to IM him, no response. This is all going down while the Palmercat Gal is at learning is fun, she has no idea I am about to drop $650 hoping that Mark will still want the system. I call and call and eventually I give up on Mark. I start thinking Ebay! I decided to buy the system and give Mark first crack at it and he doesn’t want it, it’s going up for auction.

Palmercat Gal comes into BB and sees me holding the box and asks what it is, so I tell her what it is and that it is for Mark or Ebay. She was like isn’t that the system that everyone wants but you cant get it anywhere. I was like yeah. She was like oh.

After walking around BB for about 5 minutes I start to fall in love with Box….of X…… I start to want it, it’s my precious and no one can have it! I look at the P.G. and say I kinda want to keep it, she was like oh. Then she made a mistake, “ I knew you would, why don’t you just keep it.” I walk back by the place where the shipment was being opened and the was like a couple left, I grab another one. I cant believe they let me (there were some pissed off people in line with only system while I had 2. Thanks to the P.G. we could pull it off!).

I walk out If BB with 2 premium edition 360’s. Mark calls like 15 minutes later and wants one. Luckily I had 2. So now Mark and I both have 360’s and lonely wives.

• Xbox 360 is sweet! Mark cant stop playing Project G Racing 3. He still hasn’t even opened his other game! I got NBA Live it’s a good game, looks great plays great but there is no features to the game. Madden is amazing! When I fired it up yesterday I was like holy cow! And not like me on Halloween acting like Harry Carrey, like I was in disbelief with the graphics. It is beautiful! Like NBA there are no features to the game, but the game play alone and the absolute beauty of the game cover up all. It’s awesome.

That’s about it for now, If you made it through the entire post congrats come see me to get your cookie. Speaking of cookie’s Jott took care of my home PC cookie problems. Now I can post from home!

Good day.