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So it's been a while since I've posted anything substantial here, mostly because I've had a hard time motivating myself to write. Why?
Well, for one thing, my fantasy football team stinks. I'm 0-2 in They Speak English in What?, and I have the worst running backs in the league. It's no fun writing predictions and recaps when you suck, and right now, I suck. I can't even root for Gina's team. She's the other one at 0-2. :(
My Broncos started the season with a loss to the lowly Dolphins, though they salvaged an ugly win against the Chargers. Monday Night Football this week is Kansas City at Denver! I have to track down Matt Lai.
Stanford football...ugh. All I gotta say is, we should have gone with Norm Chow.
My left elbow and shoulder are really sore, so I've been forced into taking a week off from playing golf. Booty.
But things are getting fun again!
Tuesday was my first Google softball game. The fields are amazing. Well-groomed, professional...a great place to play, unlike my weekend league, where the infield resembles the surface of the moon, and the grass is dry as wheat.
We had a large turnout, so I had to rotate in and out, but I made a couple of solid plays at shortstop and third, and I scored a couple of runs, even though my batting was pathetic. Hubert's swing looked like a golfer's, but he managed a couple of runs as well, and he ran his pitching record in our two leagues to 3-0! If it weren't for a couple of brutal errors by his defense, he probably would have given up only 2 or 3 runs. We dominated!
*****
Wednesday was of course the premiere of Lost, three days after it snagged a well-deserved Emmy for best drama! Gina had been tormenting me for a week with threats of hatch disclosure, so it was a relief to finally watch the episode.
SPOILER ALERT: So many new questions! Who the @!&% is the guy in the hatch? How long has he been there? What is he doing there? Why does it say "Quarantine" on the inside of the hatch?
And what is his relationship to those damn numbers? Andrew pointed out that you can see him typing the numbers on his keyboard right before hitting the Execute button, and they are also imprinted on his drug bottles. My contribution to this easter egg hunt was the 108 (the sum of the numbers) graffitied on the wall leading to his room . And when he meets Jack in the flashback, they sit down in section 4 of the stadium. Anything we missed?
Other finds: The time of death of the guy in the SUV was 8:15. And his last name was the same as Shannon's.
I'm guessing we won't get much on the new guy in next week's episode, as the focus will probably shift back to the guys on the raft. What was the deal with Walt dripping wet in the jungle whispering jibberish? Yikes, creeped me out.
There's a lot of pressure on the show now to live up to all the buzz it's generated with the DVD's and the Emmy. Ratings for this week's episode were higher than for any episode last season, including the finale, which shows that its audience is still growing. The total number of viewers Wednesday was 48,151,623. HUGE! Okay, not really, but the real ratings share was a 23. Eerie.
*****
Thursday was the best work day ever, as my group took an all-day trip to Napa Valley for some wine tasting and mixing. Tough life. I'll have some pictures to share soon.
*****
Lunch at Google today was great. The Food Network was on campus to tape a segment on our end-of-summer barbeque for Bobby Flay's BBQ show! I don't know if he came, but I saw the camera crew rolling around. We had a bunch of different options, including kalbi, huli huli chicken, shrimp scampi, grilled pork skewers...so much tasty meat! They even had lumpia!
Not much in store this weekend. Still on my golf hiatus, bye week in softball, all the housemates out of town...what to do?
Well, for one thing, my fantasy football team stinks. I'm 0-2 in They Speak English in What?, and I have the worst running backs in the league. It's no fun writing predictions and recaps when you suck, and right now, I suck. I can't even root for Gina's team. She's the other one at 0-2. :(
My Broncos started the season with a loss to the lowly Dolphins, though they salvaged an ugly win against the Chargers. Monday Night Football this week is Kansas City at Denver! I have to track down Matt Lai.
Stanford football...ugh. All I gotta say is, we should have gone with Norm Chow.
My left elbow and shoulder are really sore, so I've been forced into taking a week off from playing golf. Booty.
But things are getting fun again!
Tuesday was my first Google softball game. The fields are amazing. Well-groomed, professional...a great place to play, unlike my weekend league, where the infield resembles the surface of the moon, and the grass is dry as wheat.
We had a large turnout, so I had to rotate in and out, but I made a couple of solid plays at shortstop and third, and I scored a couple of runs, even though my batting was pathetic. Hubert's swing looked like a golfer's, but he managed a couple of runs as well, and he ran his pitching record in our two leagues to 3-0! If it weren't for a couple of brutal errors by his defense, he probably would have given up only 2 or 3 runs. We dominated!
*****
Wednesday was of course the premiere of Lost, three days after it snagged a well-deserved Emmy for best drama! Gina had been tormenting me for a week with threats of hatch disclosure, so it was a relief to finally watch the episode.
SPOILER ALERT: So many new questions! Who the @!&% is the guy in the hatch? How long has he been there? What is he doing there? Why does it say "Quarantine" on the inside of the hatch?
And what is his relationship to those damn numbers? Andrew pointed out that you can see him typing the numbers on his keyboard right before hitting the Execute button, and they are also imprinted on his drug bottles. My contribution to this easter egg hunt was the 108 (the sum of the numbers) graffitied on the wall leading to his room . And when he meets Jack in the flashback, they sit down in section 4 of the stadium. Anything we missed?
Other finds: The time of death of the guy in the SUV was 8:15. And his last name was the same as Shannon's.
I'm guessing we won't get much on the new guy in next week's episode, as the focus will probably shift back to the guys on the raft. What was the deal with Walt dripping wet in the jungle whispering jibberish? Yikes, creeped me out.
There's a lot of pressure on the show now to live up to all the buzz it's generated with the DVD's and the Emmy. Ratings for this week's episode were higher than for any episode last season, including the finale, which shows that its audience is still growing. The total number of viewers Wednesday was 48,151,623. HUGE! Okay, not really, but the real ratings share was a 23. Eerie.
*****
Thursday was the best work day ever, as my group took an all-day trip to Napa Valley for some wine tasting and mixing. Tough life. I'll have some pictures to share soon.
*****
Lunch at Google today was great. The Food Network was on campus to tape a segment on our end-of-summer barbeque for Bobby Flay's BBQ show! I don't know if he came, but I saw the camera crew rolling around. We had a bunch of different options, including kalbi, huli huli chicken, shrimp scampi, grilled pork skewers...so much tasty meat! They even had lumpia!
Not much in store this weekend. Still on my golf hiatus, bye week in softball, all the housemates out of town...what to do?
posted by Chang Kim at Friday, September 23, 2005
12 Comments:
where are all the housemates?
i took possibly my final test in med school today..and i have nothing to do.
I'll be around - maybe watch a movie or DVD? I'll need a break from studying...
Almost everyday this week, one of my guy friends would tease me about losing to UC Davis... sheesh.
Wow, I didn't realize that Lost threw in so many things concerning the numbers!
yea fantasy football sux especially when you're losing...i'm 0-2 too! let's make a club.
if i were by myself on the whole wknd i'd be scared to death of robbers coming in and attacking me. you guys should get a dog in case one of you guys is alone on a wknd again!
chang != girl
Are you calling my man a girl???
wow, i donno how you got through the wknd without us.
we should make a trade in fantasy football... my team blows, but i have a lot of good RBs :)
when the new clubs arrive this week... driving range time!!
I'd be more concerned about that ghost in our house than robbers.
!= is "not equals"
gina didn't take cs106 =)
how about the killer monkey in his room?
the evil monkey is harmless. he's all threats, no action.
are you talking about max?
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