Birthday BBQ Bonanza

Today I celebrated my 38th birthday with family and friends. We had a very nice BBQ in the backyard. About 20 folks showed and we have some great tasting BBQ even though I burned the dogs a bit.. it was all good. The highlight was my drinking beer.. for those who don't know I don't drink.. or I don't drink very often.. maybe a beer or two once a year. My brother said he would stay longer if I drank with him so I decided to have a few beers. This was the first time my brother and I (pictures above) drank together and he got a kick out of it. After one beer I was dizzy, two beers I was feeling pretty good, then on the third beer Jessica encouraged me to chug it which I did and felt sick afterwards.. the nausea passed I went for my fourth beer.. and that when my laughing attacked happened. For those who have experience it I'm sure you remember it well.. for those who haven't... maybe one day you will.

It was a fun time had by all.

First Birthday Gift

Today when I got home there was a package waiting for me from my friend Rick from Aberdeen Washington. Of course my birthday was a few days away and I got online and asked him if he wanted me to wait to open it. He said no way open right away so I did. There were two gifts inside, one was a very cool Marvel 2009 Calendar and the second more personal one was a three section picture frame with some beautiful shots that Rick had taken. He recently got a new camera and has taken some very incredible beautiful shots.. so he framed three that he thought I would like. It's a great gift and I want to Thank Rick and Amy for giving me my first birthday gift this year.

The Guild Shoot

Whoo hooo.. got my call sheet for The Guild shoot on Sunday.. call time is 7:30am. That's kind of early.. but I'm still excited to be part of the team.

Twitter

So I finally joined Twitter, if you don't know what it is it's a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends. Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, instant messaging, SMS, RSS, email or through an application such as Twitterrific or Facebook.

It's a pretty cool way to keep up to date with my life.. if you belong to Twitter look me up. I can be found under Geekyfanb

The Guild Shoot

Just found out that I'll be shooting some behind the scenes stuff this coming Sunday. Can't wait to get started. This should be alot of work.. but also alot of fun.

Getting Old Sucks

Today I had a doctor’s visit. I went back in June and they did some blood work. So today I got the results. Blood pressure is a bit high 89 over 139, but the bad news was my Cholesterol was too high 241, that's the most it's ever been. So I'm now taking medicine to control it as well as having to change my diet. I go back in three weeks to make sure the new meds aren't affecting my liver. There were a few other items that needed addressing but over all everything seems to be working fine. Seems like the older I get the more issues I have.... oh well it could be worse.

Fringe

Tonight Harry and I were able to catch a speical repeat of the premiere of JJ Abrams (Lost) new TV series Fringe. It's kind of like the X-Files but not. Here's a short synopsis, When an unlikely trio uncovers a deadly mystery that involves a series of unbelievable events, they discover it may be part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology.

Both Harry and I enjoyed it enough to want to watch the second episode. Check it out if you can.