I've become more of a weekly blogger lately. This is mainly because I have less and less free time at work to do these kinds of things. I'm glad for this though since I actually feel like I'm earning my paycheck. Anyways, I've been thinking lately as to why I started blogging. I think mainly it is because too many random things happen to me for me to just keep it to myself. Plus there are just too many things I think about that I would like to be more accountable to. But I think the plan from here on out will be a weekly blog. This will do a couple things. First, it will (hopefully) increase the quality of the blog entries and second, it will give me more time to do other things of which I will probably blog about, ha ha. Anyways, I'll probably break the rule here and there cuz some stuff just has to be posted the day it happens and sometimes there is just more to say in some weeks than in other weeks.

Anyways, as always I saw a movie this weekend. The third installment of Harry Potter was great. All the movies have been great so far. Like the two other movies, this one is jammed pack with as many plot points from the book that will fit on film so the movie feels a little rushed. I felt that this movie was probably the biggest departure from the book, not because it had some new stuff, but it just couldn't include everything so some things were just passed over. I really liked the casting for the new characters and they created that feeling that I had for them in the book. Gary Oldman is the perfect Sirius Black. I was excited to learn that he was cast all those months ago and I'm glad he pulled it off. So it's kinda funny to see all the kids in their awkward adolescent phase. The main three don't look as awkward as some of the others. Draco Malfoy and Neville Longbottom are probably the most different. It may be a problem in the future if these young actors grow into sizes that don't fit their characters. I really don't care though, they should just stick with them, who cares if they look older than they are playing. No one notices if they all age at the same rate anyway.

This weekend I got to hang out with some old college buddies without their wives for the second time in the last 6 years. They really like this board game called Settlers of Catan. I wonder what the deal is with married people and their board games. Anyways, I normally don't play "bored" games, but this one was actually pretty fun. I give it my seal of approval. It's even more fun than a card game (although this game also has cards in it).

Tonight I laughed so hard. We celebrated Aaron's birthday today and afterwards we talked about old times. I forgot how many random pranks we pulled on people in our Bible study. There were so many good ones although I think most of the time only me and Aaron were laughing, ha ha. I can't tell them all here, but here are a few:

Lois Hill is probably the most classic prank. Aaron had gotten this container from some perfume mailer that looked kinda like an urn and it had "Lois Hill" engraved on it. So we put ashes in it from the BBQ and told everyone we were hanging onto this dead lady's remains for some people while they were out of town. People would come over and we would start juggling it around. People were really freaked out about it. We wanted the container to bust open and shoot ashes everywhere to really freak people out, but it never happened. Finally, we set it up upside down with the lid on really loose and put it on the coffee table during out 4th of July BBQ. Someone had to touch it then. Then when I was outside, I heard all this screaming and poor Jim was our victim. He said stuff like, "I hardly touched it, it was like someone had left it that way so it would open on purpose!", ha ha. The really funny part was we forgot to tell him later that it wasn't real, so he actually went home thinking he had dead lady ashes on him, ha ha!

And then we came upon this tape called "I Like It Nasty". It had been in the apartment already when we moved in. So we just planted it in each other's stuff. But we lost it the day that the guys put it in some guy's Bible case. We never heard about it or anything. I don't know how many times we dropped the word "nasty" just to see if he'd react, ha ha. We used other things later on that replaced it such as this cadaver toy that came with one of the X-Files action figures. We used some other random things too. One time I found one of those things in my bag when I went to Albania, I had to hold onto it for three weeks before I could get Aaron back, ha ha.

And then there was the time we put a monkey mask on a really long pole, and then went into the backyard and poked this head up in the window of the girls upstairs (Tiffany and Larissa). That was immediately followed by a cup of water dumped on my head. I admit they got the best of me that time.

Those were good times.