Weekend at Bernie's

Long overdue
Sorry for the delay folks, lots going on with both of us, but here is a nice, rambling blog.

1. If you have kids or plan on having kids you probably made a statements along the lines of "my kid is gonna love watching espn" or "my kid is gonna love listening to 80's rap" or "my kid's stuff will not take over my home". Sadly all of these statements are true. Well maybe not the music totally, I've seen jackson bopping to the 80's music channel on tv. We hit rock bottom on trip to Williamsport Pa, a few weeks ago (3 hour drive) about half way there our son started getting a little fussy so we thought popping in one of his kids music cds we made may help. It did, only there was 1 major problem. Kids songs are no longer the 2 minutes, so a CD of 20 songs is still only like 25-30 minutes. Well I think we listened to the CD like 4 times on loop. During the 3rd run through Ady ad I were just singing and laughing at ourselves b/c we were jamming out to "itsy bitsy spider" and "you are my sunshine" amongst others. It was then we realized how far we had fallen. If you are reading this and you have been to this place, you know exactly what i'm talking about willis (RIP Gary Coleman). And if you cannot relate, you will someday and think of this.

2. So I go to drop off some stuff at the dry cleaners the other day, not thinking anything would happen to dumbfound me, but then I walked in. The man behind the counter was wearing baseball batting gloves. I was speechless. Still kinda am. Batting gloves? Yes batting gloves like the pros wear. They were white Easton batting gloves. Why batting gloves? Why not some rubber gloves? I have never even seen a dry cleaner person wearing any kind of gloves, let alone baseball batting gloves. Toll booth workers sometimes wear rubber gloves, as do some checkout people in stores, but a dry cleaner? I need some explanation on this one.

3. RW/RR Fresh Meat....What a crazy final quest. Talk about challenging, holy crap. Canoes, crazy uphills, 80 lb bags, ice axes? I was tired from watching it. Kudos to Landon and Carly. They peaked at just the right time. In the last 3 episodes the won an exiile, huge obstacle course and the finale. They really handed it to kenny and Laurel who dominated the entire season. Jenn/Noor...thanks for playing, that sucks. Overall great season for me. I think the events/challenges were a great change in "beautiful British Columbia" How many times you think TJ said that? Seriously.

4. Andrew McCarthy......So we had a school retirement party this past week. The woman retiring is the aunt of none other than the star of Weekend at Bernies and Manequin, two great movies from our childhood. I entertained the idea earlier in the week that he would be there, but who goes to their aunt's retirement party? I would not, so I quickly dismissed it. Fast Forward to the party and who's in the program as being a speaker? You guessed it, Andrew McCarthy. A quick buzz immediately washed over our table, and many others unknowingly. He missed cocktail hour so when he arrived we were all seated and the speeches had begun. We quickly plotted our attack. No joke, the second people started to get up when it was time, he was flooded with people. Its gotta feel good for him, after not making a hit movie since Weekend at Bernies, that people still wanna meet him. He was a nice guy, I was drunk, who knows what I said. Night goes on and we were outside the place and he comes out to leave and I decide lets get another photo while we wait for the valet. We are posed for the photo and the person taking the picture is fumbling with the camera for what seemed like a good minute. So there we are in a semi awkward situation with an arm around each other, I could not help but laugh and mutter something about Weekend at Bernies. He took the photo and quickly dove into his awaiting car. Meeting famous people is cool and if you say otherwise you're a liar. I hate the Giants but have met Simms and Strahan and both were still cool to meet. Anyhow Andrew if you are reading this, sorry for the drunken semi-harrassment at the Landmark, your pal Rob