Resurrection

If I was told that I could only go to one concert for the entire time we're overseas, but that I could choose which band, I would without a single doubt pick Chimaira. Well guess who's coming to town in march?

Hell yea.

The six month prank

The setup: 

The base for our cordless phone is in the same room that our personal gym is in. On said phone base there is a "page headset" button. When you push that button, the headset (which we keep in the living room) starts ringing very loudly and nonstop until you hit its off button.

Kim knows not of this button.

The execution:

About six months ago, I was working out in the gym room with the door closed and the music blasting while Kim was in the living room. Then I had a great idea. I would push the button every few minutes and see what Kim does. After the fourth or fifth time, she came into the room to ask me if I knew why the phone was all jacked up. Somehow I was able to keep a straight face while I asked her what it was doing and said that I had no idea what was up. She went back into the living room and I pushed the button a couple more times before finishing my workout.

About two months later I pull the same stunt. Kim comes in and says it's doing it again, and again I'm able to keep a straight face. When I come back out of the room, the phone is still ringing, but it's all muffled. Kim had put a blanket over it because she was sick of pushing the off button over and over again.

Flash forward to just a few days ago:

Same thing as the other two times, Kim's all frustrated with the phone randomly ringing every couple of minutes, I play dumb. At this point I decide it's time let her in on the prank. I start dropping little hints like telling her that it's strange that it only ever does it when i'm doing my workout and she's in the living room. She doesn't pick up on this. So I start pushing the button and then immediately come out to hit the off button. Still nothing from Kim. Now, there's about a two or three second delay from when I push the page button until the headset actually starts ringing, so I get to the point where I push it and then run out to the living room a split second before it start ringing so I can turn it off a quick as possible. I do this about 15 times in a minute before Kim tells me to just forget about it and let it ring. Keep in mind that my music in the gym room has been blasting and there's no possible way I could have even heard the phone ringing from in living room, not to mention that I haven't been able to keep my face straight anymore and am about to explode with laughter. I am absolutely amazed that Kim has not figured this out yet, especially since it's usually very hard to pull one over on her. I was actually thinking of prolonging the joke, but I didn't think I'd be able to do anything grander that what I had just done. So at the end of my workout I call her into the gym room and tell her that I think I figured out what was wrong with the phone. I ask her if she sees the page button on the base. She says yes but apparently still has no clue what's going on. So I tell her that it seems like the phone only rings every time I push that button. Her face is blank and expressionless for about 5 seconds (I'm staring at her with a huge smile on my face) and then it hits her all at once. I can tell she wants to be mad at me, but neither of us can stop laughing our asses off. 

She finally admits that it was probably the best prank ever pulled on her, then spends the rest of the night pouting and calling herself retarded.

Question:

How can you tell when Kim is away on a business trip?

Answer: The "Artsy Fartsy" set on the Flickr page gets bigger and bigger.

X-Mas, New Year's, etc...

Wow, it's been over a month since my last post. Part of it is because I didn't really have anything exciting enough happen that I felt like it needed to be shared. Part of it is because I just didn't feel like it. And another part of it is because we were so busy around the holidays. So I'll try to remember what happened and sum it all up for you in a nice little package.

A few days before Christmas I met up with some guys Kim works with for a guys night out sorta thing. Nothing too exciting, just hanging at a restaurant and drinking Polish beer. The three most popular Polish beers are Zywiec, Tyskie, and Lech. The first two are very good, but this was my first time trying the latter. It was just as good, but it gets extra points for being served in gigantic 1 liter glasses that look like a barrel with a handle. I had 2 and a half liters. Then I had a very fun tram ride home.

Christmas day was fantastic. Kim's parents go a little overboard with the presents every year, and being on the other side of the world didn't deter them at all this year. They sent us two big boxes of stuff back in november that we had to just let sit in the living room for about two months before we could open them. Plus they sent a full suitcase of booty along when my mom and step dad came to visit, so we had plenty of loot to open. There was a ton of good stuff, but what really blew my mind was the Sony PSP they got me. They got me a Ratchet & Clank game that's pretty fun, but I'm gonna have to start buying some games with all the Best Buy gift cards I also got.

New Year's Eve was pretty fun, even though we both wanted to go downtown and watch fireworks but were cornered into going to a house party. There were more people then we expected and we had a lot more fun than we thought we would, so it wasn't so bad. The Poles go absolutely nuts at midnight. There are fireworks going off everywhere you look. And these aren't just little wimpy bottle rockets, these are the big boomers. The skies in the neighborhood were ablaze for about an hour and a half straight. It was really cool, but next year we're definitely going downtown. I was downtown earlier in the day and they had two big stages set up in front of the Palace of Culture & Science and it looked pretty incredible even when there wasn't much going on. I've heard the fireworks there are better than back in DC, which is quite the bold statement. I'll let you know if it's true next year...

On New Year's day we headed out to Praque again. It was the second time I've been there and was just as fun this time around. Just when you think you've seen everything, you head down an alley you've never been through and you come out to a whole different part of the city. In doing so, I stumbled upon the greatest store ever: A handmade armor store. Unfortunately, the guy wouldn't allow anyone to take pictures of his stuff, but I did get a shot of the cool suit of armor that was standing outside by the door.

I also went to the Medieval Torture Instrument Museum, which was very cool and pretty damn creepy at the same time. It was kinda small, but they had lots of stuff crammed in there. One of the funny things about it was that half of the descriptions were talking about the constant need to devise better torture devices. But every device they had was always able to force a confession, wether it was true or not, so why the need for new ones? People were definitely twisted back in the day (mostly the Austrians, from what I read). The coolest piece they had was called "The Virgin of Nuremberg", which you may have seen in the movies. It looks like a sarcophagus that stands straight up, while the inside is filled with nails that pierce the skin. Pretty wicked shit. Photos weren't allowed there, either.

So that pretty much takes care of our last month. I'll try to keep this thing updated better from now one, but no promises.