This Lovely Thursday...

Today I went to the comic shop and picked up some CHEAPO comics... 5 for $1.00.

Then I came home and worked on a few different ideas for my website... still sort of in a corner for what exactly I want to do but it's starting to get somewhere... should expect to see something up by next week. 

after a bit I decided to see when the new mario baseball game is coming out for the Wii.. and it was out today, so i had to go pick that up. Not a bad game, although I've been playing the old Nintendo game, RBI baseball... so I'm sorta used to baseball games right now. It's pretty fun, with all the different pitches, hits, ball parks, and players. 

Weekend Madness part 2: Renaissance Festival

Sunday:

My aunt Joann, her boyfriend Ted, and my cousin's Jesse and Danielle, Gretchen and I all went to the Renaissance Festival yesterday. That was probably the best Renaissance festival that I've ever been to. It actually rivaled the State Fair. We all had a blast. As soon as we got there, Joann and Ted both said that they needed to buy a couple mugs because then when you buy drinks they just put the beer, wine, or mead right into your mug/cup and you just walk around with that all day. I purchased a Leather mug from a shop that everyone said was the best for leather mugs. they have an online store HERE. I also got a cork topper for it and leather strap to latch it onto a belt, or in my case, a belt loop. 

For most of the day I was drinking Premium beer. But Ted had me try some mead from this one little stand and I ended up linking that a lot. So I finished the day with a few glasses of mead. I tried the regular mead, the Egyptian mead, the raspberry mead and the honey mead, but I ended up going with the strawberry mead... Oooh that was good. Might have to try to make some of that myself. 

Weekend Madness part 1: State Fair

Friday:

We went to the Minnesota STATE FAIR. My family and I. Grandma, aunts and uncles, cousins, parents and Gretchen. We got thereat about 7:30am or so. Most of the food stands didn't open until 9:00am so we walked around and checked out a few things before we began a nonstop eating frenzy. 

Gretchen couldn't make it as early in the morning but she showed up around, I want to say 11:00am. The first thing I always get when I'm at the fair are the Luigi fries... pretty much just breadsticks with melted mozzarella cheese on them and served with a side of marinara dipping sauce. Doesn't sound like much but WOW, they can't be beat. Cheese curds are also a must for many of my family members and myself. I also love the corn on the cob, corn fritters, pronto pups (corn dogs), ice cream from a certain stand near the Kid way, mini donuts, alligator on a stick, honey sticks, cinnamon rolls, Australian Potatoes (Ausi Potatoes), 1919 root beer, and probably many more things that I can't think of right now. 

My cousin Chevis, her husband Dan and their son Daniel all showed up later because Daniel wasn't feeling very well earlier that day and he had a fever. After a while everyone left and it was only Chevis, Dan, Gretchen and I left. My aunt Janice brought Daniel home when she left. We stuck around for the hypnotist show that was starting at 8:00pm. Once we got there and were seated, Dan volunteered to go up on stage and be hypnotized along with about 20 other people. It was great, the hypnotist, Hypno-Chick, had him thinking he was Donald Trump and he was signing autographs for people in the audience. 

That was a good night...  

Trading party at Robotlove

So I went by Robotlove and picked up a few new simpsons toys that just came out... and noticed this nice little thing...

Desktop Landscape — How To from keenley projects on Vimeo.

It's a little desktop landscape...

check it out at desktoplandscape.net

I saw it and was planning on buying it until I flipped it over and saw the price tag... $45!

wtf

More Comics.... more confusion

Today I went to my comic joint and picked up the 3 new issues that came out today... then I found a bunch of back issues that I want to read... then I got a call from Dan, telling me that he was going by a different comic shop and was wondering if I needed any from there... so I ended up buying about 20+ comics today... 

the collection is building...

Now to figure out which OTHER comics I need before the Fall-Con this October. 

Star Wars Clone Wars

Just got back from Star Wars the clone wars. Good, not great. I think it was another one of those movies where I was expecting too much.... I mean, IT'S STAR WARS!!! I guess I just thought it would be more like the clone wars cartoons. The animation wasn't quite up to par. It almost looked like the movie was rushed and not as much time was put into it as there should have been. Especially when they talk. The mouths being synced must have been a real challenge for the animators. 

Overall, if you're a star wars fan, you'll probably like it, even though it's a bit childish. But I'd still wait for DVD. 

Visitors

My aunt and uncle, Barb and Tim, just got into town yesterday and will be staying for about a week. They live in Denver Colorado and let me stay with them when my friends and I go down there for snowboarding every winter, so I figured they could use my room for as long as they need it. Until then, I've taken over the Living room. Moved my computer out here and everything.