• Autoerotic aspyhxiation has to be one of the less dignified ways to die.
• Good editorial about the Pro-Life movement.
• You are being treated like a criminal, sir, because you are accused of first degree murder. Next.
• Would like to just point out that being pro-choice DOES NOT mean that I am "pro-death" or "pro-abortion." It really doesnt.
• Self-Defense course I'm doing is a go. Let's see how it goes. If you want to play Mock the Ray, we will be in Wash Park on Sunday between 3-4:30, by the tennis courts.
• All healed up, loving Krav more than before my tailbone nearly shattered. There is something lovely about simple violence.
• You know, as opposed to complicated violence that many TMAs teach.
• Looking forward to one game that was shown at E3--Modern Warfare 2. I didn't even realize it was a sequel to CoD4 until my cousin told me.
• Watching Star Trek:tOS. One thing that I've noticed-not only are the episodes longer (by about 10 minutes) but the season is longer as well.
• Bonfils closed down the donation clinic that was next door to my house. There is a plasma buyer right near there and I'm debating doing that instead. Not sure yet, but small amounts of cash are always good.
• Federer-Soderling. C'mon, Roger. This is your best chance for a career slam.
• Penn & Teller Bullshit, season 6--not very good. Their heart was really not in it.
• Really hoping that my cousin doesn't get raped by Gypsies while he is in France.
• Found the secret to weight loss. Not eating 3000 calories a day. Started using dailyburn.com to record my caloric intake and I've been keeping it at around 1700 per day. Oh, and working out. Not even a lot.
• They are repaving the road into my office--no one can get in or out. It's awesome and worrisome all at the same time.
• Not thrilled by the Denver Post. If my wife didn't hate the internet I would suggest canceling our subscription. It's not just the format, but the entire paper is a little too right of center for my taste.

• The crew did not attend academy together. You never get that sense from the original series; at most it's possible that McCoy and Kirk know each other but that's it. The rest have been thrown together on a ship and that's where the frienship starts.
• Sulu doesn't know how to fence. He is shown fencing, but it's because he is a swashbuckler at heart and had a desire to learn fencing. So now he is a martial arts master?
• Both Kirk and Spock lust after Uhura? Um, no. Honestly, Uhura is the one woman in the series Kirk never lusts after. Random alien girl/android/Janis Rand? Sure. And Spock? There's that whole ponfar thing.

But I am totally behind their new program of charging "people of size" for two seats. I'm a decent sized guy but I fit in my seat; I have been on flights where the lady next to me did not. Sure it sucks if you can't fit in the seat--I feel squeezed in. But that's more a sign for me to keep running, lifting, and training and avoid the Twinkies instead of a sign that the airlines hate me.

It's not discrimination, but it is a way for the airlines to make some extra cash and also increase passenger comfort. Making the seats larger will not help, because humans will just grow to fit into them.

And by the way, Frontier now charges $15 for the first checked bag. Moving my flying to Southwest--may have to deal with a cattle call for seating, but at least I can still bring my luggage.
 

• I didn't hate Philadelphia. The list of cities I hate is still at population of one, with that one being New Orleans. People can make any argument they want about New Orleans but that city would be well served by being razed. Philadelphia is also not as low as Sacramento, but the problem with Sacramento is just that it's a boring city. Philadelphia was nothing more than a big city with an angry population.
• Philadelphia is only the second place I had no desire to drive, the first being Jamaica. Driving style is similar--no brakes, lots of horn.
• Homeless story, part 1: Philadelphia has a ton of homeless people. On the second day we were there it was super windy and the wind came up and pretty much threw a guy about 10 feet.
• Wife's solo dancer came in 22nd out of 58. Her team came in 15th out of 18. For their first time competing in World level competition, not so bad.
• Bad was the fact that the team competitions on Sunday started at 1830. 18 teams, each team had 15 minutes to set-up. There were also two 15 minutes intermissions. Why is this a problem? Philadelphia is the 29th most dangerous city in America and my wife, not mention a variety of age group dancers were out until 0130. Plus we had to be at the airport for our flight by 0630. My wife ended up sleeping on the plane and the most of the day yesterday.
• The buildings and statues in Philadelphia (at least the part I was in) were really cool. Took over 200 photos of buildings and statues.
• Homeless story, part 2: On Good Friday there was a small demonstration of African American men in white robes preaching how Jesus was a black man and that white history was keeping the truth from the public. I wanted to point out that Jesus was an Arabic Jew, but figured why bother (I also want to do this to all the people who think of Jesus as European). Toothless dude walks up and says "we should have never given you niggers the right to vote! Now you got one of your own running the world and Armageddon is coming fast!" Toothless dude goes on like this for about ten minutes. I wanted to punch him, so I can just imagine what the African American group wanted to do.
• Saw a dude dressed as Jesus get thrown out of the Cathedral of Sts. Peter & Paul (our hotel was right next door to this church and Logan Square, which was awesome). He goes in right before mass on Good Friday. A group of priests are standing across the street chatting when two priests see "Jesus" enter the church. They tear after him and physically remove him from the property. One of the priests screams at him to "stay the Hell out and stop bothering the nice folk!" I missed getting all of this on video by like four seconds.
• I only saw the sun once while in Philadelphia. The rest of the time it was a mix of rain and clouds, usually with a strong wind.
• Had a really good pizza from this little dive place. Medium was the size of a large from Pizza Hut and it only cost $10.
• The dance venue would not accept payment other than cash and they hadn't told anyone before the start date. Luckily my card is set-up for cash withdrawal, but I really didn't like the fact that I had to pull $600 cash out to cover my wfie's dancers (tickets sold out for one event and we prepurchased tickets for everyone). They also removed the ATMs from the venue, so everyone had to walk two blocks to the nearest money source.
• Philadelphia Zoo is really lame compared to the Denver Zoo. I don't care if it was the first, it was pretty mediocre.
• Homeless story, part 3: While waiting for my wife, two dancers approach me. I'm wearing jeans and a hoody. They snap a photo of me, hand me a couple of dollars for a "warm meal" and tell me I can clean up if I want to. I wanted to be like "I'm not homeless" but instead I gave the money to a street performer.
• Took photos from the top of the Rocky steps. What a view. Love the movie. Meant to the run up the steps, but due to my injury didn't feel like running.
• Our hotel was nice enough. It was in a decent location and the beds were decent. What was odd was the house cleaning. They apparently had no set schedule and didn't work on the weekends. I didn't mind, it was just odd and the one thing I would really say bad about the place. Oh, that and the elevators. The place had six elevators and each had a personality. My favorite was #2 which would often go to floors randomly and the return to either the top floor or the ground floor. We only rode it twice, but it did that each time.
• Here is the greatest competition dress ever (and here it is from the back). By way of comparison, here is what a normal dress looks like.
• There was a Whole Foods nearby, so that's where we purchased a ton of snacks and breakfast supplies. If you like corn bread Whole Foods makes decent corn bread that is really filling. I had a block for breakfast and it kept me going until lunch.
• Only gained two pounds in a city known for the cheesesteak, so that was a plus.
• One of the weirdest things I saw was a Panda Express in Chinatown. It was just odd that in the middle of all of this good Chinese food, there was the mighty Panda Express. Also had vegetarian Chinese. I had sesame chicken, because really if you order sesame chicken, orange chicken, or any of the other fried chicken dishes can you really tell what you are eating anyway?
• Homeless story, part 4: Last night I'm there I just want some fast food. Go to Wendy's. Half way into my meal some workers throw two homeless men out of the bathroom. Apparently they were really into what they were doing, because the mounter never left the mountee during the eviction. It was really an odd sight.
• I did not get a chance to see the Liberty Bell, but I did see it recreated in Legos at the airport. I did see Independence Hall, which is tiny.