My ‘too busy for comfort’ weekend.

Friday Night - As previously advertised, I went and watched "Snakes on a Plane" on Friday night with some running friends. It had been a long time since a movie provided ‘escapism’, and with so much gurgling around in my brain, it was the perfect remedy. People cheered on the humans as they got attacked by hundreds of poisonous and exotic vipers. Bite marks everywhere, literally. You think of a body part that they could bite, and they pretty much did. There was a guy and 12 disciples that watched the movie for 24 hours straight. A charity event of sorts, and we lucked out and got tickets to their last hours in the theatre. He gave a speech before the movie, and all 13 of them joined in on providing some good "color commentary" during the movie to spice things up. It was great!

The entire crowd cheered as they fought the serpents, and of course we all yelled out the famous ‘money line’:

"Enough is enough! I’m tired of these mother****ing snakes on this mother****ing plane!”

I may need to go see it one more time. Anyone up for round 2?!

**Spoiler Notice** - Samuel L. Jackson defeats the sssslithery sssnakes! It was incredible. The idea he and the surviving passengers came up with simply genius.

Saturday morning football - I went to the stadium and watched the public scrimmage at 7:30am. We looked good again. Our running backs look unstoppable; Colt looked great; our freshman DB had a fantastic interception, and Frank Okam and Roy Miller looked like the two largest humans on the face of this earth. Overall, a great time, and I’m glad I went. Nedra's husband, Trey, came with me and he took these pictures with his new snazzy camera. Where were you? Sleeping I bet... you lazy bum.

Saturday Day Painting - Head over to the new apartment on Saturday and picked up the keys, and painted the walls. Well, not all walls, but most of them. Come 3:45 I was dead tired and hungry , and headed over to Freebirds for some Burrito Goodness. (not many people eat lunch at 4pm, I wonder why. I mean, there are no crowds to deal with; if you ask me, I’d say it’s the perfect time.)

Volleyball - My friend Jane (aka banana) is an ex-UT Volleyball player. They had an Alumni vs current players match in addition to some other festivities. Tim (aka Buzz, aka the Enforcer, aka the crippler), Katie (aka, Katie your cruise Director) and I went and watched her (banana) take on the youngsters. Jane played really well, but the rest of the team didn’t carry their weight enough for the alumnus to win the match. [Blogger won't play nice and let me upload a picture of Banana in action]

After the match we went and had some Chinese so the Enforcer could “carbo load” for his Duathlon race on Sunday morning. (Fried Rice for him) I took advantage and ‘carbed’ up (Chicken in Black Bean Sauce and Brown Rice) for my early Sunday morning 8 mile trail run, and Katie carbed too, with Kung Pao Chicken and some Rice.

Packing and Boxing - The rest of the evening involved packing / boxing stuff up, and falling asleep to the final episode of “Hell’s Kitchen” I recorded. I know, embarrassing to say, but I got hooked watching it, and I had to know who got the $14 million restaurant in the new Red Rock Casino in Vegas. ** Spoiler Notice ** Heather beat Melissa. She deserved it more.

Sunday morning; see “Run Update”, then Painting and Packing - After breakfast, I went back to the apartment and did some more painting for a couple of hours, then headed home around 1pm to pack and sort through stuff. I thought I should take a nap, but after lying down for about 5 mins, I was too restless knowing how much packing there is still left to do.
Scott came over at 9pm and helped me get rid of 3 ugly bookshelves left over from a garage sale. They were his to begin with, so I’m glad he helped me. Tux showed up with his 24 foot truck. He just tripled his business’ warehouse space, and offered to store some stuff. He brought 2 pallets and big wrapping tape stuff, so we made two big pallet packages out of all the boxes in the attic and many of my preferred garage toys. We wrapped them up in big plastic stuff, and now they'll go hide in the top shelf of his warehouse, saving me $100 or so in storage every month!

Tux is so cool. “How... cool.... is... he?" you ask. Well, he drove down from Round Rock (1 hr drive) to my house at 9:30pm, and helped me work on all this till 11:30pm on a Sunday night. He then drove all the way back. What a great friend!
(Scott’s pretty cool too, after the bookshelf adventure, he stuck around and helped bring all our stuff down from the attic and helped build storage pallets too.

After a quick shower to wash off the sweat, at Sunday 11:47 pm, I finally got to bed. Please tell me that tomorrow is Friday. I need the weekend to recover.

(where was Marla in all this… She’s in Colorado running the Ascent of Pike’s Peak Marathon. I guess my weekend wasn’t too rough / bad, if you compare the two. I think she did great, but she tells me she missed her goal by 13 mins. She was the first non-Colorado woman in her age group, so as far as I think, she kicked major butt. ) (Not sure she'll grace us with a race report, but maybe we'll get lucky.) Wanna see what Pike's Peak is like? Here's Jon F's phenomenal job of putting together Pike's Peak GPS data. (his blog is pretty darn cool too)