Disneyland... Again!!

I have lost count on how many times I have gone to Disneyland since I got my season pass in October. I think I'm getting close to double digits. My friend Jes had a two day pass and used one day a few months back and needed to use her other day before June. So we planned for a day at Disneyland. Of course when we made this plan I had to put it out there to see if any of our friends wanted to join us. Many of my friends are pass holders as well. And as expected several of them wanted to join us. If you read my previous blog post you already know that Robert and Rupert joined us, as well as Jen, Aaron, Anthony and Jennifer.

We got there around 10am and joined up with Jen first. Then shortly after meet up with Aaron. The place was PACKED!! I pretty much expect this as it was a Saturday and gorgeous outside. We grabbed a fast pass for Star Tour (it's always the first thing we do), then headed over to Indiana Jones and got in line. While in line we met up with Anthony and Jennifer who were just getting off the ride. They waited for us as we rode the ride. Next we headed over to Big Thunder Mountain to get a fast pass before walking back to Pirates of the Caribbean, this was Jes' first time on this ride. After Pirates we did a bathroom break and wanted to grab a pretzel. I wasn't feeling so hot, I think the heat was getting so me. We rested for a bit before heading over to Big Thunder Mountain to use our fast pass. After Big Thunder we headed over to the Haunted Mansion. When we were in line for this we over heard this young (teenage) girl ask a friend if this ride was based on the movie.. Robert and I just looked at each other and rolled our eyes.

Anthony and Jennifer headed over to guest service while the rest of us went over to Space Mountain to get a fast pass. Well Space Mountain was shut down so we couldn't get a pass and decided to head over to Disney's California Adventures to get a fast pass for Tower of Terror. We met back up with Anthony and Jennifer on our way over. After getting out fast pass we went to watch the stage play Aladdin (one of my favorite things to do at DCA).

Robert had to leave us, but before he did, we went back to Disneyland to use our fast pass for Star Tours. Jes was chosen as the Rebel Spy which was AWESOME and we had a great combination of stories for the ride.

We headed out of the park to Downtown Disney for some dinner but first stopped by the tram station to say goodbye to Robert. It was sad to see him go but we had a great time while he was with us.

We then went to every restaurant at Downtown Disney and everyone had an hour to two hour wait. When we got to the end of Downtown and the final restaurant ESPN Zone we were surprised that their wait time was only 15 minutes. We had a great dinner while watching some sports.

After dinner we had to say good night to Jen who was not feeling so hot. That left six..  Jes, Rupert, Aaron Anthony, Jennifer and myself. We headed over to Tower of Terror and rode that, we all did our best Vogue pose.. it turned out pretty funny.

We were exhausted and it was about 9:30 but I wanted to go visit my buddy Gabe who just started working at Disneyland, unfortunately we couldn't find him at the Finding Nemo ride. We then headed over to Space Mountain and the wait for that ride was crazy long and as I had said we were tired so we called it a night.

Said goodbye to Anthony and Jennifer and drove Rupert and Jes back to my place as they were both staying the night. Got home around 11:30 and quickly went to bed.

Another fun adventure at the Happiest Place on Earth :)

Hanging with Friends

I love days like these.. Planning to go to Disneyland tomorrow but my friends are so awesome that they came a day early to hang out and spend the night. So first to arrived my by bestie Robert. We went out to Islands for some munchies (Islands). I always enjoy our one on one time, because we can have some very cool conversations. And this lunch was no different.

When we got back to my place Rupert was already at my place making himself some yummies. We played a few games of Clue (I won both :) ) then decided to watch some movies. First up was Wallace and Gromit - The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. The both of the guys had already seen it but I haven't and it's part of the package of DVD's that my bestie Josh loaned to me to watch.

After Wallace and Gromit, which was a very enjoyable movie we moved to Star Trek (re-launch). I've only seen this movie a few times, though I'm a HUGE Star Trek lover..it's not my Star Trek. But I still love ti and it was awesome watching with my buddies.

Rupert made us some yummy dinner (Corn beef and Hash) and we hung out for an hour or so before Jes arrived to complete our quartet. We chatted with Jes for a half hour or so before calling it a night around midnight.. gotta get up early for Disneyland tomorrow.. wooo hooo

Dinner with my Bestie

Tonight my Bestie Chris and I had dinner. Though he lives in Montana now we planned to grill some steaks and drink some wine.

We first played a few hours of Minecraft before getting our grill on.  Unfortunately I couldn't get my grill to work so I moved to the George Foreman grill and Chris' steak was bad so he grilled some saugages instead. As we cooked we chatted on facebook. It was nice hanging out with him, though it was just online. I miss him so much and I'm not sure how I'll get through the next three years without him being around.

I've had an entire bottle of Reisling wine and feeling a bit drunk at the moment. I'm amazed that I can still blog. It was great spending four hours with my bestie.. even it it was just online.

To Beard or not to Beard

Well if you know me you know I have a slight beard.. I have kept a beard for many years now... one because I'm lazy and it take less time to shave, and two I think it works well with slimming my face and hiding my double chins. But as I said I have always had the shortest of beards... never more then a quarter of an inch long. But I've decided that I'm going to try and tough it out and grow it longer. Now I've tried this in the past but as soon as it starts to look all wild and crazy I have given in and cut it down... but as I said I'm going to tough it out and hopefully have a nice full beard by the time SDCC comes around when I dress up as a Hobbit and in doing so must shave off the beard completely. I'll keep you all updated with pictures of my progress. :)

Geek and Sundry

Since this you tube channel launched while I was traveling to Montana I haven't had a chance to sit down and watch some of the videos. Well today I watched all of Felicia Day's Flog videos and Wil Wheaton's Table Top.

Both were very entertaining and I can't wait to see more. I also watched previous seasons of The Guild as they added a bunch of new BTS footage to them.

Minecraft-oholic

I got up around 8am, took a shower and had a nice list of things to do today. But as I sat down at the computer to check my emails I saw the little icon for Minecraft. This is a block building kind of online game. My bestie Chris introduced it to me while I was visiting him in Montana. I had heard about it because it's really big in the "geek" world. I figured since I have crappy internet there would be no way for me to play online, so when I got home from Montana and gave it a try and OMG it worked. I can now play live with my bestie and it's pretty awesome. Now I haven't played much since I got back from Montana but I saw the icon and though I'd give it a go. Well five hours later I realized that I hadn't eaten or drank anything all day.

I pulled myself away and headed out to El Pollo Loco from some yummy chicken. When I got back I planned to get some stuff done on my "to do" list. I stared with yard work, since we had those big rain falls the past few weeks the weeds have been on the attack. I pruned a bush next to my front door and then took the weed wacker and started cutting down some weeds. Did that for about an hour before getting a text from Chris saying that I need to play Minecraft when he's on as well. I told him I'd love to play when he was on as well, he then texted... I'm on now.. so it sucked me back in and I played from 5pm to 8:30pm.

I'm not addicted.. really :)

Catching Up On TV

Ever since my trip to Montana I've been trying to catch up on DVR'd shows. I mean I was already behind on some of my regular shows and then the two weeks hiatus didn't help. So today I spent the entire day in my recliner watching recorded shows.

A few highlights were the latest episode of Eureka.. so happy it's back from it's long hiatus. This was episode two of it's final season. This one had a shocker of an ending that was not only a surprise but heartbreaking.

My friend Felicia Day joined the cast in Season Four and on this episode her quirky character Holly was "supposely" killed. As I said it was heart wrenching.. not only because it's Felicia Day but because Holly was such a great character among so many great characters. But something tells me this isn't the end of Holly.

I also watched four episodes of Lost Girl, again this series just continues to amaze me. So much fun and really reminds of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

It was nice catching up on my TV.. still got alot of watch but it's a start.

Hanging with Josh

I was really looking forward to today. One of my best buddies Josh was coming for a visit.. not just s visit but to spend most of the day hanging out. Well I got a text from him a little before 2 letting me know he's running a bit behind but was heading out soon. He lives about an hour and a half way from me so I was expecting him around 3:30pm.. well 3:30 came and went, then 4 and finally 5pm. I was worried because he ride a motorcycle and the weather was a bit iffy today. I finally got a call from a frantic Josh, who was lost on some dirt roads, cell phone about to die and he's almost out of gas. I felt so bad for him. I did my best to try and figure out where he was as he was close to my place. He was going to try and make his way back to a street sign or actual road. About five minutes later he called me and told me the cross streets. He was only a few miles away so I jumped in my jeep and headed his way. About five minutes later I find him where he said he would be and looking miserable and cold.... Again my heart broke..

He followed me back to my place and told me about the entire ordeal. This is the problem with google maps. It was taking him the back roads to my place but that's been blocked off for years now. Josh is not the best with directions and it just went down hill from there. But he's here now, safe and warm. First thing I did was make him a drink.. he defiantly needed one after his crazy adventure.

We hung out, chatted, watched some movies (The Craft and Moulin Rouge) and made spaghetti and meatballs for dinner. Around 1am I suggested that he just crash at my place as it was cold outside and he didn't have class until 11am so if he got up around 8am he could get home time to change and get to class.. he agreed this was a best plan. We stayed up for another hour or so chatting before calling it a night and going to bed.

I don't get to spend a lot of time with Josh, because of his school, work and theater. So the time we do get to spend together is priceless to me. This day didn't start out that great, but it ended on the highest of highs. Thanks buddy for being one of the most loving people I've ever had the pleasure of calling my best friend.

Top Secret Shoot

Okay well it's not that top secret but I can't tell you what it is. My buddy Sean Becker (director of The Guild among many other things) asked if he could film "something" with Felicia Day at my place. Of course I said yes so they planned to be at my place at 8am.

As I said I can't go into details but it started at 8am and they finished around 6pm. If you read my previous blog you know my friend Jen was an extra for it as well my my former Knights of the Guild co-host Jenni. It was loads of fun and I can't wait until I can share more information about it.

After the shoot I had some dinner and then watched Once Upon a Time live.. I rarely watch anything live but it's been several weeks without a new Once Upon a Time and I was jonesen for it. Of course they hit it out of the park. This series continues to amaze and entertain me. There's only three episodes left for season one. Can't wait for the season one DVD so I can have a weekend marathon of Once Upon a Time.

Charity, Friends and Drunk Texts

Today my bestie Chris was participating in a Minecraft charity event. It actually started on Friday was was going 24 hours and my buddy Chris was on almost all 24 hours with a few hours of sleep in between. Anyways they were doing these Minecraft Hunger Games and Chris was a tribute in one of  the games. Even with my crappy internet I watched the live feed off and on for about 12 hours. I did watch Chris' Hunger Game and even made a donation/sponsor and got Chris a diamond sword which he is contributing to his win. It was pretty epic watching him take out the last tribute and become the sole tribute left standing. They raised over $1300 for a children's charity. I think it was quite successful.

Later in the day my friend Jen came over. She is going to be an extra tomorrow for a shoot that is happening at my house so she decided to come early so we could visit. Jen is one of my best girlfriends and we always have a blast when we visit. She and I can have some very "interesting" conversations. :) Tonight was extra special because our friend, well one of my best buds Robert was home enjoying some wine and texting both of us.... well drunk texting us. He entertained us for a few hours. We kept handing each other our phone to see if we could decipher his texts... loads of fun. This is why I don't keep my phone on me when I drink, you always regret those texts the next morning. :)

It was a fun night, we had pizza and watched some TV and enjoyed each other's company.

A New Podcast

Crashed at Josh's place at 3am, we slept until around 8am and then kind of dozed and chatted until about 10:30am when I finally got up and made my way home. Got home around noon and watched a bit a TV.

There was one picture from our "Geek Mod" photo shoot that I just loved, I mean I loved them all but this was my favorite so yesterday I went to Walmart and had them blow it up to 16x20. Today when I got home I had it framed and hung it above my fireplace.. it looks AWESOME!!!

My buddy Chris was participating in a charity Minecraft Hunger Game event. I watched that for a bit but had to get ready for dinner with my friends Teal and Ali.

Teal has a new webseries coming out soon called 'My Gimpy Life', I saw the pilot a year or so ago and it's finally going into production. When I heard she was going into production I offered my services and of course since I'm a podcaster and Companioncasts were very popular with The Guild websereis I suggested that we do companioncasts for My Gimpy Life and she liked the idea. So today besides dinner we discussed plans for the podcast. We also recorded a promo and a pre-show podcast that talks about the series and creator Teal. It's something to post to get folks excited for the upcoming series. I'm not sure when it will be released.. probably a few weeks before the actual show is released.. so stay tuned for that. The podcast is called My Gimpy Life Podcast (I know very original :))

After hanging out with those guys I came home and jumped back online to watch Chris and the Minecraft charity event.

Visiting Friends & Family

Today I got to go visit my dad, brother, sister-in-law, nephew and niece. It's been about three weeks since I saw them last and my brother just purchased a new house. So I picked up my Dad and we went over to the new place. It's still in escrow so it's not a done deal but it's looking good. The place is huge and had plenty of room for my brothers family. After checking out the house I took Dad out to lunch at my favorite Chinese place Hong Kong. Then we went back to my brothers and I got to spend some time playing with my nephew Kenobi. Molly, my niece is only 4 months.. I did hold her but that's the extent of my playing with her.

Said goodbye to those guys around 6ish and headed north to my hook up with one of my best buds Josh. He had just recently broken up with his girlfriend of 4 1/2 years so I wanted to spend some time with he and see how he was doing. We went out to dinner to Soup Plantation and yes I had a bit of salad (if you know me, you know I don't do veggies). After dinner we went back to his place and hung out in his bedroom just chatting the night away. Around 3am I asked if it was cool if I just crashed there and of course he said yes so we called it a night.

My Montana Trip (overview)

So I've been home a few days now and had time to reflect on my 16 day trip to Montana. Some have asked why I even took the trip to Montana in the first place. Well that's an easy answer, it was for my best bud Chris. Chris is in the Air Force and they relocated him from CA to MT. When it was official and he was leaving CA for at least 3 years I didn't hesitate and told him I would love to "road trip" up to Montana with him. I knew he was driving his uhaul up by himself and that it would take several days to get there. I didn't want him to do it alone and the fact that I was out of work and with no work on the horizon I figured it was a perfect time for me to join him.

Now I didn't know it would turn into 16 days, when I first suggested that I go up with him I figured it would be for a week. We planned to take four days to drive up and then a few days to find him an apartment. As it got closer to us leaving I found out that the military gives him ten days to settle in before he starts his new position. So now instead of staying for a week I figured I would stay until he started his new job and spend as much time as I could with him. Not only to help him get settled in, but because he's awesome and I won't be seeing him on a regular bases for 3 years.

I didn't really have any expectations for this trip. As I said previously I just wanted to spend as much time with Chris as possible. The actual road trip happened a bit faster then we initially planned. It was suppose to be a four day road trip but turned into a three day road trip, which meant we didn't stop alot for pictures (one of my favorite things to do on road trips). Chris drove the entire time, I think he was afraid of me driving the uhaul and trailer. We had some fun conversations and great singing sessions. The drives actually flew by and it felt like we were in Montana in no time.

He thought it would be hard finding a place that he'd like.. but in a matter of two days we had two places that were exactly what he was looking for. I think he choose the better of the two places and we moved everything in and still had nine days before he had to start work. We spent most of those nine days watching movies that I had never seen (I must have watched over 20 movies that Chris wanted me to see) He also introduced me to video games like Assassin Creeds, inFamous, Borderlands, Fables, Legend of Zelda and Mario Bros. I'm not a big gamer so this was alot of fun and very frustrating at times.

For being with someone for 24/7 16 days in a row we got along fantastic. Chris and I have a unique relationship. He's very laid back and I'm a bit high strung. We're both nice guys and both very stubborn. He likes to poke fun at me and at times I would poke back (not as much as he would have liked). There may have been a few times we got on each others nerves but it never lasted long. If Chris was a gay man he would be a perfect partner for me, or if we lived together he'd be a great roommate. I had a fantastic 16 days in Montana and like I have mentioned in previous blogs it was very difficult to leave.

It's true what they say. "Friends are those you want to do things with, Best Friends are those you want to do nothing with."  Chris and I did lots of nothing and it was AWESOME!!!

Getting Back to "Normal"

Woke up kind of late but I guess since I went to bed so late it all worked out. First thing I did was throw away all the "spoiled" food from my pantry/refrigerator. I went through my stack of mail and then jumped on my computer only to find out that my second monitor is not working. So now my computer has a virus that I can't get rid of that prevents me from opening anything google (blog, gmail) and now my monitor is out. Going to have to rebuild my computer and buy a second monitor asap. Luckily for me I have my older computer (that has issues as well) but it will work as a temp computer until I get everything back up and running.

Today was just about adjusting back to my "normal" life. Staying in Montana for a half a month really does a number on you. You get into a routine seeing the same person and doing the same thing day in and day out and loving it. Now that I'm back I have so much stuff to do. I took a 2 weeks vacation from my life but it's not time to get back to it.

The most important thing is to find a job. I've been out of work since Oct of 2011, so it's going on 8 months. That's the longest I've ever been out of work and my bank account is feeling it. Luckily for me I got a decent tax return (which is what I'm living on now) since my savings is all used up. I'm still collecting unemployment (ever little bit helps) but I only have money left for another month or so. So finding a job is my number one priority.

But in the mean time while I'm looking for work I need to work on my podcasts. I kind of lost my "fire" for podcasting the past few months. Not sure why.. lots going on, but I need to step it up and get back on track with this hobby that I love. I need to record some MASH and Alien Nation podcasts before the end of the month and edit my next Confessions of a Fanboy. I have my fifth podcast Epic Geek Out gearing up for it's premiere... which I hope will be in May. As for my Knights of the Guild, it's currently on hiatus but I can't keep it there forever. I need to really figure out what I want to do with this podcast going forward.

I have some yard and house work to do. Weeds are starting to take over my 2 1/2 acres. And then there is dating. It's going on a year and four months since Harry and I broke up and I really would like to find the love of my life and spend what time I have left here with them. I guess I need to be a bit more pro-active as he's not going to show up at my front door.

So as you can see lots going on in my life. It's time to get things back on track and moving forward.

Got some movie marathons planned, Disneyland trips and spending some quality time with my friends and family... life is pretty great.

Adventures in Montana - Day 16 (Final Day)

Today I got up for my final day here in Montana. Chris made some yummy omelets for our final breakfast. We started off the day with another movie that I had not seen... Taken. This is the Liam Neeson movie and I remember when it came out in theaters but I wasn't really interested in seeing it. Well I'm glad Chris put this on the list. It was a very entertaining and action packed movie... loads of fun. I really enjoyed it.

After that we watched my final movie in my (first time viewing movie marathon). He's Just Not That Into You. This has a slew of big named stars and it was a nice ending to my marathon. I love romantic comedies and what was even better is the main character (or seemed to be the main character) was Gennifer Goodwin who plays Snow White on my favorite TV show Once Upon A Time. So it was great to see her and she is so adorable. A very sweet movie.

After the movie Chris and I had a light lunch and then jumped on Minecraft. We played a few hours but for my final hour I just wanted to sit on the couch and hang with Chris, which is exactly what we did.

The time had finally come. My time here in Montana had come to an end. It was time to go home and get back to my life. I figured I'd be more emotional about leaving but I only teared up a bit on the drive to the airport but when we got to the airport and Chris got out of the car and came over to me and gave me one final hug I lost it and sobbed into his shoulder.

We said our final see you laters and I headed into the airport. This was Great Falls International Airport so I expected it to be fairly big but it wasn't. There were actually just six gates at this airport. I did the self check in but then had to wait in line for about 45 minutes until I could check in my bag. After that I went upstairs to the gate but security was closed so I waited another 30 minutes for security to open before getting to my gate. The wait time after security was less then five minutes. I got on the plane and was surprised on how small it was. It held about 50 people total. And for this flight from Great Falls to Salt Lake City Utah there were 11 of us on this plane.

The plane flight was uneventful, we landed in Salt Lake City an hour and 15 minutes later. I made my way to my connection flight which wasn't difficult at all. Delta had people all over the place directing folks to their connection flight. I made it to the gate and had a 45 minute layover.

Once again I was on the same small plane that held 50 but this time the plane was packed. This flight went from Salt Lake City Utah to Burbank California. Once again it was an uneventful flight. I watched some Star Trek TNG to occupy my time. This flight was a bit longer then the last, about an hour and 25 minutes.

I got to Burbank (first time flying into that airport, so much better then LAX). I waited about 15 minutes for my bad and then made my way outside to meet up with my buddy Will, who was kind enough to pick me up from the airport.

It was about 9:30pm so we went to a local Denny's to grab a late dinner before heading back to my place. It was good to be home.. the air in the house was a bit stale from being closed up for over two weeks. Will and I hung out and chatted for another few hours. He wound up staying the night and I think we went to bed somewhere close to 2am...

It was great because I needed a friend and couldn't ask for a better one. I was extremely sad about leaving Chris in Montana, not only because I won't see him on a regular bases but I know how unhappy he is living there now... it's hard for me to see my friends sad, but luckily it won't be forever.

Now it's time to get some sleep and get back up to speed on my life here in California.

I plan to blog about my over all experience in Montana in the next few days.. so stay tuned for that.

Adventures in Montana - Day 15

Got up early and started to play Minecraft before Chris even got up. I died several times, lost all my stuff and was completely lost for about an hour until Chris got up and said that I signed in on the wrong server and was playing in another world. But I finally got on the right server and continued to put a few more hours of work into my castle.

We then watched The Pursuit of Happyness. Again this is a movie that I heard a ton about and wanted to see but never did. I really enjoyed it. It wasn't as sad as I was expecting it to be. I mean I didn't cry until the end and that was more out of joy for all the good things that finally happen for this guy. It's a great uplifting story based on real life events and people.

Next Chris wanted to show me a bit of Star Wars The Old Republic. Now being a huge Star Wars fan I would be playing this game if I had better internet access. Chris showed me around the world with a few of his characters. We watched the cinematic trailers for the game. Those are like mini movies unto themselves and are AWESOME.

Around 3 we finally went outside and it had been snowing, I had no idea. We drove to Chilli's for lunch and then went to the one theater in this town to see Joss Whedon's Cabin in the Woods. I'm not a huge horror fan but it was Joss and love everything this man has ever done. So I had to see this and I'm glad I did.. I mean it had several OMG moments that made you jump out of your skin, but I found it to be more of a mystery. Trying to figure out what's really going on. I loved the overall story. It was great seeing some of the Whedonites (former cast members from Joss' shows). The SFX were really cool and of course the ending was great. Over all I'd say this movie is FUN and I'd give it a B+

After the movie we came home and played Minecraft the rest of the night before heading off to bed.

Today was my last full day here in Montana. Tomorrow I head home... sadness

MASH 4077 Podcast Episode 30

Download from itunes http://tinyurl.com/MASH4077itunes or Direct Download / listen http://bit.ly/eXCRxT

Show Notes

Kenny Mittleider from Knights of the Guild, Alien Nation: The Newcomers Podcast & Confessions of a Fanboy Podcast, Simon Meddings from Waffle On Podcast, & Al Kessel from Tales from the Mouse House, Fast Forward & Just Because Podcast discuss one of the most successful and longest running television series in history.. M*A*S*H

Today we cover Season 2, Episode #6 - Kim
30th Episode Overall

Directed by William Wiard
Written by Marc Mandel, Larry Gelbart, Laurence Marks
Production code K407

Original air date October 20, 1973

Set during the Korean War in the 1950’s

Plot Summary: Hawkeye operates on a 5-year old Korean boy, and Radar can't find his family. Henry plans to send him to the orphanage, and the camp enjoys his company while they can. Trapper decides to adopt him after consulting his wife, and has to rescue him after he wanders into the minefield. Kim's mother turns up at the orphanage looking for him.

Hope you enjoy it,
Kenny

Adventures in Montana - Day 14

Breakfast then I was flipping through the channels and caught the beginning of The Breakfast Club so we stopped and watched the entire movie. I love that movie, I haven't seen it in a while so it was fun to revisit it. It's amazing how you can take 5 people in a room talking about being a teenager and turn it into a masterpiece of film making.

After the movie Chris wanted me to play some more games. First up was The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and the second one was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The only Zelda I played was the very first one for Nitendo. But it was always one of my favorites. A Link to the Past was more old school, with slightly better graphics then the first one and was a lot of fun. The second one Ocarina of Time had way better graphics and the story was very cool. I only played about an hour or so on each game and Chris played an hour or so on each game so I got a good feel for both games. Lots of fun was had.

We then headed out to the Malmstrom Air Force Base. At the main entertance to the base there is this very cool museum of "old" airplanes and other military vehicles including a nuclear missle. We drove by it so many times over the past two weeks and I wanted to stop by and take a closer look and take so pictures.. so we did that today. The weather was clear and perfect for walking about the muesum.

After the museum Chris needed to get a hair cut before he started his new job, so we went to a local place and I waited as he had that done.

Minecraft was next.. I continued to work on my castle. It's such an addicting game. You play for hours and on end and all you have made is a six foot high wall and a few stairs. But it's so much fun and you don't realize how much time is passing by. I'm going to try and continue to play this with Chris from home with my crappy internet.

We had dinner and then started to play Fable. This is another one of Chris' favorite games and after a few hours of both of us playing (we'd switch between missions) it was one of my favorites. I look forward to continuing to play this and inFamous when I get my Xbox.

Adventures in Montana - Day 13

It's getting close to me leaving Montana :( so I booked my flight home. I'll be flying into Burbank airport on Monday at 9pm. My best bud William is going to be picking me up and taking me home. It's bitter sweet as I'm glad to be going home and seeing friends and getting back to my life but I'll be leaving my bestie Chris here in Montana for three plus years.

We had a quick breakfast and then Chris introduced to me Minecraft. I've been hearing alot about this game the past few months.. several of my friends play. I'd be playing as well if I had better internet. We spent the next few hours building our home and exploring caves. You really don't realize how much times flies when you're playing games. Several hours later we took a break to have some lunch.

Next up was another movie that I hadn't seen. This time it was The Forbidden Kingdom. I didn't know much about this movie but it had Jackie Chan so I knew it would have some amazing fight scenes.. and it didn't disappoint. It was a very entertaining movie.

Next I was going to play the original inFamous but Chris couldn't find the game and didn't have it online so he downloaded the demo but wasn't happy with it so he downloaded the entire game, which would take a few hours so we opted to watch another movie that I hadn't seen.

Step Brothers was next. I have to admit that I had no interest in this movie. I remember the previews and just thinking it looked awful. But I'll be the first to admit that I was wrong. I actually enjoyed this movie. I laughed a lot and had a really good time. I liked the movie though some of it was a bit far fetched that didn't take away from the overall story which was great. Now it's not a movie I could watch over and over again but I'd watch it again if needed.

After the movie Chris made a yummy dinner, mac and cheese, rice and broccoli (yes I actually ate some veggies).

By this time inFamous was downloaded and we started to play. Since it's not a two player game we went back and forth with missions and had a blast. We played the rest of the night, about three hours before calling it a night and going to bed.

We didn't leave the house today but had a blast playing video games, watching movies and enjoying ones company.

Adventures in Montana - Day 12

Woke up this morning and began making biscuit and gravy.. it's one of our favorite breakfasts. When I was making breakfast the "internet" guy came to install Chris' internet. About an hour later we were feed and Chris now had super fast internet (I'm very jealous).

Chris noticed that he got paid early so he wanted to go out and grab some things for his house... btw it was pouring outside. Our first stop was the air force base. They have this thing called Airmen's Attic, it's like a thrift store but everything that is donated is given away for free. You must be under a certain rank (which Chris just is) so we went there to see if we could find anything for his house.. the one thing Chris really needed was a microwave and sure enough as soon as we walked in they had one microwave so we grabbed it. Went to the library but it was closed.  So we decided to head out.. well the main entrance of the base to closed (drill or something) so we went to the BX and looked around a bit and then went to the actual thrift store but it was closed. Luckily when we went back to the entrance it was opened so we left base and headed to a local Salvation Army. Chris found a toaster and mixer and I found this really cool Mike Wasowski beanie cap.. and the best part it was only $2.

Headed over to another Salvation Army where Chris saw a treadmill that he wanted a few days ago. It was still there so we picked it up and barely got it in his car. We dropped off  the treadmill and then went to Target and got more movies and a few kitchen accessories and then our final stop was Home Depot.

After shopping we came back home and planned to stay in the rest of the day playing games. First up was more Borderland, I think I'm getting better with the running and looking around. I'm also not freaking out as much when we are attacked. After Borderlands Chris introduced me to Portal 2. Wow that was a fun game but man it made me feel really stupid at times. Chris was a natural and pretty much told me where to put all my portals.. this is another game I wouldn't mind having and practicing with. After Portal 2 I played Assassins Creeds 2 for about an hour. This game has a pretty long start up where you get to practice jumping, fighting and climbing. By the time I became an Assassin I was done playing.

We had leftovers for dinner and while we ate we watched another movie that I had not seen... The Invention of Lying. It was a fun movie with heart. I couldn't imagine having to say what ever comes to your mind. Life would be so much different.

After the movie we watched a bit a TV before calling it an night.

Adventures in Montana - Day 11

Started off the day with some Super Mario Brothers.. you would think I would get better since I've been playing this the past few days.. not so much. It's still a lot of fun to play but I feel like I just frustrate Chris when I accidentally kill him or put a bubble around me all the time to prevent me from dying.

Chris had me play an hour or so of inFamous 2, never heard of this game and I started right in the middle but man I LOVED this game. I liked the character, the graphics and the effects. I told Chris that this is the game for me. If and when I get my Xbox or PS3 I will be buying this game for sure. I had the best time playing it.

After inFamous and a quick bite to eat for lunch we went back to a two player game.. Star Wars Lego. I played a bit of this in the past by myself but it's very different when you're playing with another person.. we had loads of fun with this game.

After Star Wars we watched another movie that I had not seen but was on Chris' "I must watch" list. Book of Eli. I remember when this came out in theaters and it peaked my interest. The movie was slow but not in a bad way. It was very entertaining, I liked the story and the acting was great. Chris asked if I got that the main character was blind and I had no idea, which makes what he did even cooler. I really enjoyed this movie.

After the movie I gave Chris his "final" going away present. I have been working on this "scrapbook" for months. I wrote a poem and little introductions to each section. There are three to four pictures on each page with words "thoughts" that I wanted to share with him. It was the first time I ever made a scrapebook and it was a lot of work but it was well worth it. Chris means the world to me and I wanted to give him something that would represent the past year and all the AWESOME things we had done together. I think it turned out great and Chris really liked it.

We ran to Albertsons to get a few more bottles of wine as Chris planned to grill some steaks.. and when we have steaks we must drink wine. :) As always Chris grills some of the tastiest steaks around.

We watched a bit of TV before calling it a night.

Alien Nation Podcast Episode 4

Download from itunes http://bit.ly/itunesAlienNation or Listen / Direct Download http://Aliennationpodcast.com/

Show Notes

Brothers Kenny and Michael Mittleider review and discuss a short lived but very socially aware TV series from the late 80's early 90's ALIEN NATION. Each podcast we will review a single episode in sequential order starting with the Pilot. Will give you our thoughts on the episode as well as some fun behind the scenes information.

Today we cover Season 1, Episode 4 - Fifteen with Wanda

Directed by Rob Bowman
Written by Steven Long Mitchell & Craig Van Sickle
Original air date October 9th, 1989

Plot Summary: Sikes' daughter visits, accompanied by her radical boyfriend, and Buck Francisco faces expulsion from school.

Hope you enjoy it,
Kenny & Michael

© Geekyfanboy Productions

Adventures in Montana - Day 10

Chris had to go into work for a few hours today so I worked on my blogs. Since I had no internet here I just wrote them in a word type document and will cut an paste them later... I'm so far behind on my blogging. When Chris got home we had a late breakfast/early lunch and then played some more Super Mario Brothers. I'm still pretty bad but Chris says I'm getting better.

After Super Mario Chris wanted to introduce to me one of his favorite games Borderlands. This is a first person shooter game and I have played a bit of these in the past with my buddy Will but always had a hard time moving and controlling the head. And it seemed I still have those issues. We played for a few hours and it was lot of fun. I think I got better with my moment as the game went on.

We took a break from Borderlands and went back to Super Mario Brothers for a bit. We were going to have spaghetti and meatballs for dinner but had no beef so we made a run to Albertsons. While there Chris mentioned that he would make meatballs from scratch and if he was going to do that he wanted to make the sauce from scratch as well. So we buy all the supplies and headed back to his place.

It was fun cooking with Chris, he prepared the sauce and noodle while I made the meatballs. I never made meatballs but with Chris' instruction it was pretty easy. About an hour later we were enjoying some home made spaghetti and meatballs with some yummy garlic break for dinner.

With dinner we had some wine. Now I'm new to wine and am not a big fan. Chris has been slowly getting me to appreciate it more, but we did find one that I really like Riesling. So we drank of bottle of that as well as some Merlot. Half hour later we were both  bit tipsy and then Chris suggested that we play some Super Mario Brothers. I figured I'm drunk and already suck at it.. how much worse can I do. We had a really fun time.

After Mario Brothers and because of the glasses of wine we were both tired and called it a night.

Adventures in Montana - Day 9

Now that we have food Chris made some breakfast for us. After breakfast we did a few more levels in Super Mario Brothers... I still suck.

The Direct TV guy came to install Chris' TV, which took a few hours. I continued to catch up on writting my blog.

After the Direct TV guy left we had to get the moving truck and trailer back to Budget. Only problem is the nearest location was in Helena which is about 100 miles south of here so it would be a four hour round trip. We drove back to base and put the car on the trailer before heading south. The drive was uneventful and we found the budget place fairly easy. We pulled the car off the trailer and Chris returned the truck and trailer.

We stopped by a Walmart because Chris wanted to see if he could find any movies that I haven't seen yet.. but no luck at this one. Chris was really hungery so we went to a Subway that was inside Walmart. I actually had a few bites of Chris' sandwich which was full of veggies, and if you know me that's a big deal. The funny thing is I really enjoyed it.

While we drove back to Great Falls we stopped several times to take some pictures of the scenery. We didn't get to do this on our road trip so I asked Chris if we could stop on our way back. We got some really nice pictures of us and the Missouri river.

During one of these stops I tried to get down to the bank of the river on some very large but loose rocks and manage to fall on my ass. Scrapped up my arm and hand pretty bad and also brused my upper left butt cheek. The picture turned out nice so it was worth the tumble. :)

When we got back into to town we headed to Target. Now that we had food at home and wanted to cook stuff.. only issue was Chris has no pots or pans. So for his "apartment" warming present I got him a set of 5 pots and pans. He also picked up a few accessories as well.

We made some dinner and sat down to watch a movie that I had never seen Inception. I really wanted to see this movie when it came out but never got around to watching it (busy with work and podcasts). So when Chris suggested Inception I was very happy to watch it. I loved the movie overall. I had heard alot of hype about this film and did live up to expectations. The story was very cool. The effects were pretty awesome and now I understand why some folks loved or hated the ending. It was an all around great movie.

After Inception we watched a bit of TV before calling it a night.

Adventures in Montana - Day 8

HAPPY EASTER!!!

Today we started by playing some Super Mario, now I haven't played video games on a regular bases for over 30 years. And now I know why.. I suck at them. Don't get me wrong it's fun and I have a great time but I'm not good at them.

After gaming we headed over to Albersons to go grocery shopping. Now that Chris has a place we no longer have to eat out.. which is great since I'm farily sure I gained all the weight I lost the past few months :( But now we can make food here at home so hopefully it will be a bit healthier.

Chris spent alot of the day setting up his computer/gaming system while I tried to catch up on my blogging, I've fallen a week behind.

We did manage to watch one movie that I had never seen before Adventuresland, and I really enjoyed it. Not quite a comedy, though it had lots of humor. It's more of an off beat quirky kind of film.

Ended the night we some Friends before calling it a night.