KingLou Drops Science 2.0

Today was the end of the days at the beach. So sad. On a weird note, no one came to pick up the dead seal that we found yesterday. But instead this morning there was another dead seal and it was laying across the first one. WHAT? HUH? WHY? Yep. No explaination just a new dead seal on top of the other one. I guess that cop was wrong about the tide pulling out again. Durrrrr. I was actually surprised it didn't get pulled out because the tide was crazy high last night. Typically the high tide is about 20 - 40 feet from the house but last night it was maybe 6 feet. Thats a high tide. It was high again today during the day and the waves were insane. I went for one last boogie board and felt like I was getting my ass kicked. The waves were massive. Like 6-9 feet higher than me, easy. And I was having terrible time getting to them. I was stuck in this no mans land of white wash. And even the crashed waves were pushing me back to land. However when I did catch some waves they were so scary and awesome at the same time that I wasn't complaining. Every wave I caught was like a water rocket. I was going so fast that I was back in shore before I knew what had happened. I was clinging to the boogie board for dear life. A couple of times the waves were so crazy that they tore the boogie board out of my hands and tossed me aside. At one point my mom decided to join me for some boogie boarding. I was actually a little concerned for her. These were nasty conditions and I was more than a little scared myself. She battled it out and rode some loser to shore, but still pretty scary, waves. I would have stayed a lot longer in the water but I knew I had a 5 hour drive ahead of me so I wanted to make sure I wasn't falling asleep from water induced exhaustion. The ride home was pretty good. We gave Ace some dramamine and he didn't throw up until maybe about an hour out of NYC. That's 3x less than on the way up to NH. I count that as a success. He was also a lot more docile on the dramamine and he was really sweet. The people who were watching our cat while we were gone really cleaned up the house. They also closed all the mouse holes in our kitchen. The place looks very nice. I wish that they had fixed the sink so that the water leaking out if it doesn't ruin the new floor we had put in. Oh well.... Must sleep. Work begins anew tomorrow.

Actually like day 14 but whose counting. Today was our last full day at the beach. Once again the weather was shitty. Jodi went shopping with my mom while I watched Ace. Ace and I walked the short way on the beach. It was a fun little walk. Ace gets so preoccupied with sand castles and digging and jumping that he is easy to walk with. He has recently discovered the extremely fun game of "Daddy, I am getting you." This game involves Ace chasing me and laughing hysterically the whole time. It's very silly. On the way back from the walk I noticed something weird washed up on the beach. I went up closer and realized it was a dead seal. Probably about 3-4 feet long and pretty fresh as far as dead things go. I called the local police and they said they would check it out. When the guy showed up he looked really like he was put out coming out to the beach. I showed him the seal and he said "Oh yeah, there it is... the tide will take it out." and that was that. He said if it was still here in 2-3 days to call again and THEN he was going to look into it. My moms friend actually looked up who comes and takes away dead seals. Turns out that the aquarium and some other places study why seals have been dying around here. So good for us for calling it in. Right now it's high tide and seriously, the tide is very high. The seal may well have been swept back into the depths. I don't know because I was out seeing "The 40 Year Old Virgin." It was pretty fucking funny. Jodi actually cried because she was laugh so hard. Tomorrow we're heading back to NY. We've had a really great trip this year. It was a lot busier than normal but still a good time. Tomorrow will be basically packing packing and more packing. I don't know how we're going to get all this shit that we bought home. Pray for no traffic jams and no vomit. God Speed! Good bye beach.

According to the paper tonights full moon is known as the "Green Corn Moon." All I know is that the last 3 days the moon has been huge and the tides have been high. The day time temperature has also dropped about 10 degrees and the night about 20. It's freaking chilly here now. Last week was like 90's and now it's like 70's. 60's or colder at night. Crazy. As the vacation winds down my days have been less interesting. Not much to blog about. Mainly catch up shopping, eating and walking on the beach. I am not complaining. My mom has been watching Ace so Jodi and I have had some nice time to go out and have a dinner and buy crap to our hearts content. Yesterday Jodi, Ace & I went to the Seacoast Science Center which is about 10 minutes drive from here. It was pretty cool. It's a small place but there are a lot of little displays and a bunch of cool tanks representing the local ecosystems and animals. Especially cool was the 40 year old Lobster which looked like it weighed like 30lbs. It was massive. But even cooler than that was the Blue Lobster The info about it said that the lobster was super rare. Like 1 in 5 million or more. It was so cool looking! We also learned about aquaculture (ocean farming) and lobster traps. It was a good time. After that we went for a walk on the grounds. The place has a huge network of trails. We only walked the shortest one that basically is a tour of picnic spots. We were warned by my mom that perverts had been exposing themselves to people on the trail recently and there were signs to report suspicious activity. Luckily we didn't see any pervs. Tonight I tried to use Wal-marts online photo ordering service but those fuckers don't support Mac for their uploading. Instead you have to manually pick each photo and then the damn pictures wouldn't upload. Total bullshit. I am testing Snapfish's uploader now. Normally I use my .Mac acct to order pics but I thought I would give Snapfish a shot so that others (see Grandparents) could order pics. Snapfish's tool was awesome and worked like a charm. Stupid Wal-mart. The stupid Red Sox game is in extra innings and it's 1:30am here. I guess I am trying to get back to my NYC schedule early. Sigh.

Day 9 Mike and I tossed around a baseball for a while. I was trying desperately to learn how to throw a knuckleball. It's my only hope for getting to the majors now. I managed to throw 2 or 3 good ones out of about 90 That night my mom offered to watch Ace again so Jodi, Mike and I went to Hampton Beach. Continued my mastery of the Hampton Beach Casino Arcade mini-golf course. Click that link for a hilarious review of it. Brief but accurate. I think I have won every year except the one whit the famous 3-way tie. I was doing poorly early on in the game but eventually I found my sweet stroke and came roaring back. Jodi was doing okay but had an early collapse and entered a pretty serious level of despair. But she stuck it through even though she finished 11 strokes behind us. In the end I won by 2 strokes. I didn't have any holes in one but I guess that didn't make a difference this year. This year is definitely marks the last year we'll go to that golf course unless they fix it. It is seriously ghetto now. When I was young we used to go there and they had some cheap, home made Star Wars cut outs on the course. They were totally random. The course wasn't Star Wars themed or anything they were just there. The rest of the course had a weird "elf land" theme or something. Lots of toadstools and little windmills. Then about 10 or so years ago they re-did it. New carpet, paint, got rid of Darth Vader, C3PO and R2D2. It was very nice. But like the aliens who built the mayan temples and left them to ruin the owners of Funarama haven't done shit to keep the mini-golf up. The course is all torn up. Lights out, fountain not working, gravel and shit all over. We decided that next year we're going to have a 3 course play-off. A different course every day. Luckily this area has a nice selection of places to play the sweet mini-sport. At Jodi's prodding I tried my hand at the retarded oval basketball hoops. For the 3rd time in 4 years I won. I came home with the super awesome Finding Nemo rip off stuffed animal.

Then we went down to the street level to shoot the air guns. Jodi was a crack shot.

The last time we went here I shot a picture of Jodi and Mike with my digital camera and the flash set off the entire shooting gallery at once. The lady running the place gave me a dirty look. After the golf we went to the Playland Arcade to hit the video games. Now I am definitely getting old when I say that I feel like arcade games suck now. The amount of innovation in these games is really low. I miss going to the arcade and being totally blown away by some new and exciting game. Now it's all like the same shitty franchise games. Sure Time Crisis II is fun but it's a quarter eater. Where are the Gaunlets? The Crazy Taxi's? The Mario Brothers? The Bagman? The Space Ace? I mean, I just feel like the arcade industry has gone to pot. Everyone is busy making console games. The river of quarters has staunched for the arcade and so have the worthwhile games. Occasionally there will be a new and kind of fun game but usually they are impossible to be very good at so you end up wasting lots of quarters to see the next level and then you just end up getting a little farther and needing to add more quarters. I guess what really gets me is the fact that there aren't enough of the old games scattered through the arcades any more. It's all either stuff that is new and sucky or really old. I mean they have all the Pac Mans and Centipides and asteroids but no Burger Time, Food Fight or Narc. I want all eras represented! DOUBLE DRAGON WHERE ARE YOU?! After all that we drove to the Bratskeller and had some delicious pizza and ended the night. Giant Finding Nemo knock-off fish in hand we went home. Predictably Ace loved it. NON BEACH NOTE: Seriously, this "Ranch Tooth" commercial is the worst TV commercial ever. I probably will kill some kid in the street who thinks saying "Ranch" out loud randomly is funny. Please forgive me.

Day 8 It rained all night and the day started out really crummy. My mom offered to watch Ace so we could do some rainy day fun. Jodi and I decided to hit the outlet malls. One thing I find depressing is when stores you used to be able to depend on for years do a market shift and start selling clothes you'd never wear. Partially it's me getting older. Partially it' J-Crew selling vomitous preppy eye-stabber clothing. Calvin Klein, whom I have shunned in the last few years actually had some clothes that I was into and the prices were right. However I would say that CK was expecting a midget army to come marching in because EVERYTHING was a Small. Throw in a couple of Mediums and one Large and you have their inventory. I was seriously pissed. Next we went to the Ralph Lauren store. Usually I score big there in pants. RL store had nothing. I almost bought a nice pink long sleeve shirt there but I was pretty sure it only looked good on me because I am nicely tanned right now. Come long sleeve weather I will be more my usual jaundice color. Finally we cracked the buying wall with little things. Ace brand hot sauce at one cookery type store. 2 pairs of cycling socks at a shoe store. At the malls we repeatedly had unpleasant run ins with French Canadians. Apparently they like to cut the lines at stores all the time. There must be plenty of fights in Quebec at the register. Jodi had to assert herself a couple of stores in a row. Each time some canuck tried to do an end-around her to snake the next open register. "Uh, NO!", said Jodi, her place in the buying pecking order preserved. Went to York's Best for lunch. Jodi ordered the Maine Shrimp Plate. It consisted of a pile of batter fried shrimp, onion rings and french fries. I ordered a cheese burger which also came with O-rings and FF. We ate and felt a lot better... for a minute. After eating we went back to shopping. We stopped at Old Navy and I found some kind of OK shirts that were only $5 (down from $20). As I was trying my 2nd shirt on when I got that familiar feeling. The feeling that says "Lou, you have less than 5 minutes before you shit your pants." I threw my clothes at Jodi and hurried to the restroom. We had passed it on the way from the parking lot and it suffers from poor placement. The ladies room is well marked but the mens room is around the corner and there is no sign. As a result men often think the ladies room is unisex and head on in. Thankfully this was the case because the mens room was empty when I needed it to be. I was able to have my emergency and return to shopping with out further event. I did feel really nauseous for a while afterwards but as I belched up the York's Best for the next few hours I felt progressively better. I ended up buying a new sporty jacket thing at Puma, some shoes at Timberline and some carpenter pants at Nautica. That was the most surprising since I have NEVER had any luck there. Consider that streak over. The rest of their look continues to be pretty faggy in that preppy sailor kind of way but their jeans are A-OK in my book. Especially at $25 a pair. The saddest place we visited at the end of the day was the KTP X-Sport outlet. It is a new place that houses surfing, wake and skate boarding, paintball and several kinds of cycling. I love going places like that but I never buy anything. The paintball section is always a draw but those kind of places are always doomed. The people who play paintball always seem super cheap. Maybe I am just talking about my own cheap ass. I know if I lived somewhere near a nice outdoor paintball field I would probably drop tons of loot on it. I freaking love paintball. The same way I love Halo and other FPS. I love fake killing people. Some jackass just started shooting fireworks outside our house. Cops were called. We're spoil sports. Watching the Red Sox game. There was just a streaker on the field. The announcers were laughing so hard they couldn't comment on the game for a minute. Very silly. Now they just lost in the bottom of the 9th to Detroit. Terrible.

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Day 6 Today was probably the least active. The rest of the Fernandez family is leaving today so things are going to get dramatically less busy. My cousin Amanda and her Husband and Brother in Law already left this morning. Amanda is headed back to Ghana in Africa to finish up their year there. Insanity. Next my Aunt, Uncle and Cousins will all head back to their respective parts of New York and Massachusetts. It's been greta having so many dudes around. The camaraderie has been awesome. It really reminds me of when I was a really little kid and all my moms cousins would come up with all their kids and play football and stuff. I was just too young to really participate back then but I still enjoyed the vibe. I was like this little shy jerk from New York and all the horsing around and huge touch football games were totally alien to me at the time. Next week is going to be totally quiet. That's when we'll begin... THE SHOPPING! Outlet malls beware! Jodi and I took ace into Portsmouth for the farmers market. The trip was short but Ace barfed anyway. We've gotten good at feeding him stuff that is less likely to reek when he pukes. Mainly cantaloupe and other watery fruits. The farmers market was small but full of good stuff to eat. We bought a bunch of zucchini and hot peppers and so on. Ace got to meet some real live chickens. He enjoyed them at a safe distance. I just came back from boogie boarding again. Again it was awesome. The water was a little more freezing than yesterday but as always I got used to it. By chance I grabbed the shittiest beat up boogie board and that was hampering my efforts in the beginning. It basically bends in the middle when you try to catch a wave. Sort of like trying to ride a wet noodle. My superior ocean skills prevailed and I caught many a tasty wave. Did I mention that today was miserably hot? Like crazy hot. And the water was stupid cold. At the end of the day we went for a walk and the air was super hot and the sand near the water was uncomfortably cold. So it was really a weird walk. The beach house was actually cool during the day but super heated in the afternoon. Outside is actually nice right now but the house only started getting bearable about an hour ago. The weather is supposed to eat it for the next few days so I guess we should count our lucky stars that we had a full week of really decent weather and waves. Now they are saying a tropical storm will be missing us by a bit later in the week. That means serious waves very very soon. Pray for waves.

Today was so busy that I didn't get a chance to write anything in advance like I normally do. Suffice to say that I boggie boarded. The waves were gargantuan again. Like life threatening but awesome. I woo-hoo'd again. Last night my cousin Dan and I stayed up late to watch the meteor shower. I saw another meteor shower a few years back and it was a spectacular thing. This one was less awesome but the few that we saw were pretty cool. The best falling star we saw was actually like a insane sparkler shooting across the sky. It was no quick flash. It tore across the sky and kept going. We saw maybe about 10-20 shooting stars in total but that was definitely the highlight. This is the first update that I am writing that wasn't completely sent via hijacked wifi signal. I finally talked to a knowledgeable DSL Verizon guy (after a 40 min wait) and the guy had me up and running in time for dinner. It's pretty fast but the whole process of getting it up and running is assinine. I might buy a wireless router for it but then again I think they are going to cancel the service at the end of the season anyway. So retarded. Today Ace got up way too early and played totally hard. At noon he actually told Jodi, "Mommy, I want to go upstairs and lie down" and then tonight he said "Mommy, I want to have a bottle and go to sleep." Amazing. I doubt we'll see that again... ever. Finally I just got word that my self portrait was posted at Dyna Moe's portrait project. See it here. I think it's pretty funny. Enjoy

I forgot to add that yesterday I witnesses man on dog brutality. I actually saw a man punch a dog repeatedly in the side and then pick the dog up and body slam it to the ground. The dog was getting a little rowdy with another dog and the owners reaction was to attack his own dog. Totally uncalled for. Surreal actually. Today featured more awesome boogie boarding. I guess it was raining in Boston and Maine but nice here so the waves were just scary in a good way. More than once I found myself beneath a monster wave saying to myself "Oh man.... AHHHHHH!!!!" before I barely had time to hurl myself over the top of it. I rarely say "Woooo!!!!" on waves but I said it plenty today. My brother arrived this afternoon. He will only be here for a few days since he has to get back to New York. He brought his iBook to the beach, too. Now there are 4 wifi iBooks here. I am the only person taking advantage of it for the most part. I hope that the DSL starts working.... assholes. In the morning I went to the Sandpiper, a local beach goer rip off store, and picked up a wiffleball bat set and a bag of extra balls. I was rewarded with a late afternoon wiffle session that was pretty cool. My uncle Richard who used to be a pitcher came out and tossed pitches to me. He was throwing all kinds of crazy pitches at me. If you go to the wiffleball website they describe 3 ways to grip and throw the ball. http://www.wiffleball.com/about_rules.htm#rules Basically Curve, Slider and Fastball. My uncle was throwing Wiffle Knuckleballs, Wiffle Screwballs and an assortment of other pitches. I will say that the wiffle knuckle threw me even though I hit it pretty hard. As it was flying toward me I was "WHOA! WIFFLE KNUCKLE!" It is very weird to watch a ball coming at you with zero rotation. The wiffle openings coming at you are mildly mesmerizing. I did manage to paste it high into the sky but I was kind of wow'd by it. After we were done he showed me how to throw a couple of cool pitches. I was pleased. Most of my pitching time I was just tossing meatballs so people could hit. My mom put on a hitting clinic with me pitching. I think it was her best outing in the last few years. Jodi even got a pair of hits. Back to the weird things on the trip. I witnessed a french canadian girl change her tampon in the ocean. Apparently she didn't want to do it on the beach? She came into the water up to her bikini bottom and produced a tampon inserter. She pulled her suit open in the front and squatted down. Grim. I don't know what happened to the original tampon if there was one. We've been to Taco Bell twice and so far the only thing I am sure of is that in order to work there must be missing at least your front teeth. Also ran into missing tooth folks working at Wal-Mart. That guy recommended the seltzer water I was buying as being really good. He neglected to tell me that it was retardedly sweet because it had aspertame in it. GROSS. My cousin Dan just got scolded by the cops for having an open beer on the beach. Got off with a warning. Lucky bastard. Tonight we're staying up late to see if we can spot any of the meteors in the big shower that is supposed to happen around 1am. Last time I sat around waiting for it I saw a meteor tear open the sky and leave a trail in the atmosphere for like 20 seconds. It was really impressive. Lets hope mother nature comes through again.

It's Weds and my hunger for power strips has not been satisfied. I am seriously pissed at verizon for their shitty policy of shipping you your DSL modem days before it's ready to be used. What the fuck is that about? Now I have it and can't do shit with it except be angry as fuck at it for not being able to do anything. My re question is why the hell does this house have DSL? Why not cable? This is a vacation house. It doesn't have tenants 7 months of the year. I presume we freeze the cable during the winter and that the modem is freezable, too. Can you do that with DSL? Not to mention that Verizon DSL is garbage from my experience with it when Verizon was still Bell. Some people have had great experiences with DSL but mine have been pure frustration. Mainly dealing with overseas call centers for hours before they just say "Oh yeah, there is a service outage in your area." Thats basically what happened last night. I was on the phone for 68 mins. The breakdown of my awesome Verizon tech phonecall. 20 mins waiting 3 mins talking to a lady until she finds out I have a Mac. Then she wants to send me to a Mac tech. 30 mins waiting. While I waited I sat at a dinner table with the phone to my ear while my family made pleasant conversation. 25 mins walking through the steps of setting up the DSL until the guy finally said wait a second let me talk to my supervisor and ONLY THEN did he bother to look at the account status and tell me it wouldn't be ready until Friday and that NO he can't just turn it on right then and there and that I should call back tomorrow after 5pm to see if it can't be turned on. Now I had already spent over an hour running their gay-ass install CD on my moms mac. During my informative call I found out that it doesn't work with the brand of modem that we received. Hooray. I mean they are falling over themselves to push irritating non-working shit on their customers. Today, I made Ace a couple of little ditches in the sand and he had a great time. I dug them in the wet sand so they filled with water. viola! Our own little swimming pool. I spent a lot of time micro managing the water flow to make sure we didn't have dam break. I finally bought the new TV that I said I would for the house. It's a really nice 20" Emerson flat screen. Lets hope that it isn't like the other nice things we have here. Meaning that I hope that next year it isn't mysteriously gone. Fucking beach thieves.

I FORGOT to mention the part of the first day when the I bought beer at the gas station. When I got carded the woman, who was a sun aged 40's lady with a boring tattoo of something flowered around her wrist, scanned my ID for a long time looking for the age. Then when she figured it out she said "Wow, you don't look that old. Your mom must have used some real nice Johnson & Johnson lotion on you when you were a baby. I told her that my mom never let me see the sun. She laughed but then added, "It'll catch up to you." She said this with a surprising bitterness. Like she'd woken up recently and suddenly realized she was old and working at an Irving Gas Station mini-mart. Not to besmirch the Irving family of gas stations whom I find to always have very reasonable prices and polite help. Perhaps they are a tad to open with their opinions on the ages of their customers but they man the counter with poise. Day 2: Brought Ace down and boy was he excited. We took him down to the rocks and I found him a crab. The next day I found him 2 crabs. I am awesome. Went to walmart. Bought crazy crap and one is wont to do there. However as is often the case with me I forgot to get the thing I went there for. Power Strips or as they say in Europe "Powerbars." Unfortunate because of the US energy snack of the same name. I wonder if the Power Bar snack is called "Energy Bar" in Europe? The beach house is sorely lacking in power sources in these times of chargers, rechargers and gizm-o-tectry so we need more power strips(bars). I think I forgot due to Wal-Marts startling lack of wiffle ball sets. No wiffle ball bats or extra balls. Nothing. I almost shat myself withy rage. At least thats what I blamed it on. Ace went swimming and hit his face with the handle of a shovel. At the end of the day we had a massive feast of chicken and hot dogs and ribs. Day 3. Ace has really taken to the water like the little water boy we know. We loves the waves and rocks and sand, Basically he really likes it here. Today we chased him all over the beach. Ace has now officially added the words seagull, buoy, sand castle, surfboard and ocean to his vocabulary. I have made 2 seriously awesome sand castles. Okay, they were your basic bucket shaped towers but they did have deep tunnels connecting to the outer moats. Also they both survived high tide. No easy feat. Someone left some kind of off brand string cheese here. I am eating it and it not very good but ace really likes it. I got into a very funny argument with my cousin dan about the movie Orange County. My feelings about it were "It sucked" and his feelings about it were that "It has good scenes. very funny scenes." and that means that as a whole the movie does not suck. He argued his side with a lot of conviction. I could not argue because I had only seen parts of the movie once and determined it wasn't worth watching. He has watched the whole movie several times and watched parts of it repeatedly when it is on Comedy Central. His argument consisted mostly of repeating scenes of the movie and following them up with "See? That's funny!" and then trying to insinuate that I was just being difficult because I do comedy and feel obligated to put things down. someone in our family ordered DSL for this beach house and the modem came today. It didn't work. I spent 68 mins on the phone trying to get it to work and then the guy tells me that the account isn't supposed to be active until Friday. DSL is bullshit A mosquito just landed on my keyboard.... not cool.

Beach Trip 2005 - brief impressions. 3-4 hour wait for reserved car at Alamo. Finally get a car and it's got a broken trunk. hey ask me if I want it anyway. I tell them no. I am driving 300 miles. I prefer if my possessions stay in the car while I am driving. It's an SUV so stuff would be falling out of the car like a laundry shoot. Met family from Manchester,UK. Talked Skiing. 2nd car arrives and guy who brings me the car hits me up for a tip for bringing me my car and trying to help me get my bike in the car. I felt really put upon. Drove out of NYC. Getting out of city hectic. Even @ 3pm on a saturday. Ace barfing Got food in Massachucets. Stop at same stop where we stopped last year completely by chance. Went to McDonalds this time. Last year it was under construction so we went to Burger King across the street. Lady at the McD's gave ace a nice little car that lights up. Ace almost hit by car in the parking lot of McD's Ace barfed a lot. Arrived. saw Fernandez Clan. Dan told story of Hoola-hooping maniac at some ozomatli show he went to. HE witnessed hairy woman dancing poorly and witnessed a hippy animal fight dance. Someone on the beach set off like a $300 fireworks brick. Really impressive. Too bad we were putting Ace down when it started. YOu hooligans! I discovered that our neighbor has unprotected wifi. Hello Neighbor! this update is brought to you by them. So many stars out tonight. Yemperature is awesome. Trying to convince my mom to buy a new TV. We have always had the worst TV at the beach. Definitely the smallest. That trend still persists today. So sad.

I have been so tired lately. So very tired. I think it's the culmulative effects of Halo induced sleep loss and riding my bike to work everyday. Don't get me wrong. I am loving the effect that 20 daily miles of bike riding have on had on my physique. I am feeling great. Great, except for the overwhelming tiredness that I have at work and at home. My creative output has been at around zero for a couple weeks now. Just flatline on the comedy front. I had a dream I ran into Toby Yoshimura. He was a guy I went to High School with. He wasn't a friend or anything. For the most part I would say we ignored each other. I went to a couple of parties at his house that I wasn't invited to. In my dream I was reallly excited to see him. It made me think about why I would dream about that guy. He was relatively popular so I guess him recognizing me would be a plus to some degree but really I don't know why I have these dreams about people I didn't like in HS. Why don't I dream about Costas or Matt Kalem? So retarded. We're off to the fabled land of New Hampshire on Saturday. 2 weeks of what will hopefully be relaxing times. While we're gone a guy Jodi knows will be hopefully patching the last of the mouse holes so buster will no longer have to be a murderer! I just watched War of the Worlds. Scary! But what a shitty ending. Total cop-out.