Tuesday, February 21, 2006
-It has been a rather busy week to say the least. Most importantly I first want to touch on my grandfather's funeral and wake last Saturday. I was fairly quiet for a while until towards the latter part where I remembered, "hey this is the only time I get to see most of my relatives I may as well catch up with them" And I did get to meet a few fine family members I don't even remember before and we all shared some stories. Unlike the last two funerals this one didn't have paulbearers, they actually asked for volunteers right when we got out of the service. No one needed to ask me outright I just walked right up the moment they said and as did Bob and Joe without me even giving them the slightest motion to because it was one of those moments where you do things on instinct and also the fact that it is the right thing to do. My mom was a wreck of course throughout the whole process (she been through way too much these past few weeks) and I felt terrible for her as she kept on having all these unneeded things piling up on her over the weekend to add to the stressload.
One of those unneeded stress factors was us, Jane & Shawn (w/their kids), and Ann went out to eat for Red Lobster for a belated bday dinner last night because of the funeral. The whole meal went by real well without argument to my surprise as it is usually frequent for us to dispute over the silliest crap. But the thing that ruined the day for me was at the end of the meal for what Shawn did to my mom. Now my mom is old fashioned and grew up on a farm and was even a waitress herself before and she never believed in mandatory tipping unless some really good service was there(I may not necessarily agree with that 100% but I wholeheartedly respect it). Now she really isn't the wealthiest person either now that she has been retired for awhile now too (I'm sure you see where this is heading). Shawn knows this and his perspective on tipping is the direct opposite.
It comes time for the ticket and Shawn eyeballs my mom as she makes the payment in her folder, she had an $11 ticket and she tipped $1, and from her to do that it really means a whole lot more because she rarely and I mean rarely, tips at all. While $1 is nowhere near the standard 15%, it was still just shy of 10% of $11. Shawn sees this and you can tell by the look on his face he is furious, he doesn't say a word to her but menacingly grabs the ticket book and stuffs a $5 in there and stammers off. Of all the wrong times to do it, just days after her fathers funeral, and the whole thing was just wrong to do. It infuriated me and if it wasnt for celebrating Jane's b-day that day I would have freaking snapped at Shawn myself. I felt like telling Shawn to pay for her meal himself if he is so unhappy with her tipping. Phew, rant over, I just had to get that off my mind.
-On Jane's actual birthday us siblings drove down to Fargo and met up with Sherrie for dinner at the Olive Garden. Only second time I ever ate there. They were ok....nothing too spectacular. That night I also went out with them to the Diamond and had a few drinks. Was prolly the only calmer moment of that weekend for me. Other than the late night gaming marathon I did with Scott, Joe and Chris where we did mostly Perfect Dark Zero. Chris brought over Full Auto as well, game was allright but I don't think I'll buy it tho. However, the faceplate Chris got with preordering Full Auto is easily the best faceplate I have seen of the bunch so far for the 360. Next 360 games for me are Burnout Revenge and Oblivion. I am also pondering on getting the new Ghost Recon, but I think these first two should tie me over for awhile. I am only about 28% done or so on Revenge in regular Xbox so I won't have a problem starting over again on the 360 version. The enhanced online features and achievements hooked me in for dropping some more dough on the game.
-I am about 100 pages into Shawn Michaels book now that I have finally started reading it a couple weeks ago. I am digging it a lot so far, very good intro on his childhood and his experiences wrestling in his first several territories. Right now I am shortly into his AWA career right then they start teaming him up with Marty Jannetty, speaking of it was nice to see him back on RAW last night but I am dreading his segment next week that Vince has lined up for him. Joey also borrowed me his Bruce Campbell biography book "If Chins Could Kill" that I plan on reading next. I also recently ordered the Eddie Guerrero bio, and an eagerly anticipating that one too so I should have a good amount of reading material for the next few months.
-Are any of you familiar with the indy wrestling promotion Ring of Honor? Paul London and Brian Kedrick were big stars outta there and are now on WWE, and current most current TNA guys like Samoa Joe, Chris Daniels, and AJ Styles put it on the map. It is widely regarded as the #3 promotion in the country right now and I have been hearing nothing but good things about it so I did a search on half.com on some of the stellar DVDs I heard they have available and to my surprise they had several brand new for just under $6! So I ordered the "Dawn of an Era" and "Road to the Title" DVDs yesterday to see what I have been missing out on these past few years.
-Finally, I caught the No Way Out PPV at Wild Wings on Sunday. I hope to catch most PPVs there this year. Unlike the Rumble I had a lotta people there to join me this time. Joe was there for the first half of it, but Bob and his friends Chris and Ben managed to watch it with me too for the night. Was mighty cool of them. Surprisingly decent PPV. I am still surprised there are a lot of Undertaker fans, damn near the entire sports bar rooted for him like mad when he nailed a chokeslam. His match with Angle was pretty good too, not a MotY canidate or anything but definitely PPV quality to say the least, obviously courtesy of Angle. The Orton-Mysterio match was my fave tho, minus the crummy finish- but I was expecting it to say the least. Benoit and Booker T was also a good solid match. Overall, I'd prolly give it a 7 outta 10. Show felt like it easily could have used one more standout match, but what can you expect from the Smackdown roster these days.
-I've rambled for long enough, if anyone has any other RoH thoughts or recommendations please leave them as I am very interested to hear about it.
One of those unneeded stress factors was us, Jane & Shawn (w/their kids), and Ann went out to eat for Red Lobster for a belated bday dinner last night because of the funeral. The whole meal went by real well without argument to my surprise as it is usually frequent for us to dispute over the silliest crap. But the thing that ruined the day for me was at the end of the meal for what Shawn did to my mom. Now my mom is old fashioned and grew up on a farm and was even a waitress herself before and she never believed in mandatory tipping unless some really good service was there(I may not necessarily agree with that 100% but I wholeheartedly respect it). Now she really isn't the wealthiest person either now that she has been retired for awhile now too (I'm sure you see where this is heading). Shawn knows this and his perspective on tipping is the direct opposite.
It comes time for the ticket and Shawn eyeballs my mom as she makes the payment in her folder, she had an $11 ticket and she tipped $1, and from her to do that it really means a whole lot more because she rarely and I mean rarely, tips at all. While $1 is nowhere near the standard 15%, it was still just shy of 10% of $11. Shawn sees this and you can tell by the look on his face he is furious, he doesn't say a word to her but menacingly grabs the ticket book and stuffs a $5 in there and stammers off. Of all the wrong times to do it, just days after her fathers funeral, and the whole thing was just wrong to do. It infuriated me and if it wasnt for celebrating Jane's b-day that day I would have freaking snapped at Shawn myself. I felt like telling Shawn to pay for her meal himself if he is so unhappy with her tipping. Phew, rant over, I just had to get that off my mind.
-On Jane's actual birthday us siblings drove down to Fargo and met up with Sherrie for dinner at the Olive Garden. Only second time I ever ate there. They were ok....nothing too spectacular. That night I also went out with them to the Diamond and had a few drinks. Was prolly the only calmer moment of that weekend for me. Other than the late night gaming marathon I did with Scott, Joe and Chris where we did mostly Perfect Dark Zero. Chris brought over Full Auto as well, game was allright but I don't think I'll buy it tho. However, the faceplate Chris got with preordering Full Auto is easily the best faceplate I have seen of the bunch so far for the 360. Next 360 games for me are Burnout Revenge and Oblivion. I am also pondering on getting the new Ghost Recon, but I think these first two should tie me over for awhile. I am only about 28% done or so on Revenge in regular Xbox so I won't have a problem starting over again on the 360 version. The enhanced online features and achievements hooked me in for dropping some more dough on the game.
-I am about 100 pages into Shawn Michaels book now that I have finally started reading it a couple weeks ago. I am digging it a lot so far, very good intro on his childhood and his experiences wrestling in his first several territories. Right now I am shortly into his AWA career right then they start teaming him up with Marty Jannetty, speaking of it was nice to see him back on RAW last night but I am dreading his segment next week that Vince has lined up for him. Joey also borrowed me his Bruce Campbell biography book "If Chins Could Kill" that I plan on reading next. I also recently ordered the Eddie Guerrero bio, and an eagerly anticipating that one too so I should have a good amount of reading material for the next few months.
-Are any of you familiar with the indy wrestling promotion Ring of Honor? Paul London and Brian Kedrick were big stars outta there and are now on WWE, and current most current TNA guys like Samoa Joe, Chris Daniels, and AJ Styles put it on the map. It is widely regarded as the #3 promotion in the country right now and I have been hearing nothing but good things about it so I did a search on half.com on some of the stellar DVDs I heard they have available and to my surprise they had several brand new for just under $6! So I ordered the "Dawn of an Era" and "Road to the Title" DVDs yesterday to see what I have been missing out on these past few years.
-Finally, I caught the No Way Out PPV at Wild Wings on Sunday. I hope to catch most PPVs there this year. Unlike the Rumble I had a lotta people there to join me this time. Joe was there for the first half of it, but Bob and his friends Chris and Ben managed to watch it with me too for the night. Was mighty cool of them. Surprisingly decent PPV. I am still surprised there are a lot of Undertaker fans, damn near the entire sports bar rooted for him like mad when he nailed a chokeslam. His match with Angle was pretty good too, not a MotY canidate or anything but definitely PPV quality to say the least, obviously courtesy of Angle. The Orton-Mysterio match was my fave tho, minus the crummy finish- but I was expecting it to say the least. Benoit and Booker T was also a good solid match. Overall, I'd prolly give it a 7 outta 10. Show felt like it easily could have used one more standout match, but what can you expect from the Smackdown roster these days.
-I've rambled for long enough, if anyone has any other RoH thoughts or recommendations please leave them as I am very interested to hear about it.
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