The Results Are In!

For my last post I had nothing to talk about so I came up with something or other about needing quests to go on. I genuinely wanted stuff to do, but I was a bit wary, knowing the kinds of things you bunch would come up with. Luckily they were all (the two of 'em, not including Ian's crazy suicide mission) awesome.

Erik's Quest: "Alright, here's your mission. At the top of any hour of your choosing, you will get on your bike and ride to 7-11 (or walk, but I doubt you'll want to). Buy a slurpee, ride back to your house, and quickly drink it on your front lawn. Then, go back to 7-11, rinse, and repeat. See how many cycles you can do in an hour. You might lose a little weight in the process."

Now...I didn't do this...per say. That is, I broke it up into separate quests. First, I rode my bike around the development in freezing flurries. It was pretty awesome, needless to say. (On a side note, I'm being forced to watch QVC as I type this and they just mentioned the amazing hands-free features of a purse.) Then, a few hours later, once the frozen bike ride's excitement wore off, I walked over to WaWa (much better than 7-11) to get a slurpee. Unfortunately it was pretty damn cold so I wasn't in any rush to finish it. So screw that part of the mission.

Mrs. Gillies' Quest: "Write a short story about the cable man who is faking that he has knowledge about installing cable."

I thought about this. I liked the idea, but I had no idea how to write a short story about it. So I came up with a premise type thing instead, titled Harry the Cable Guy: Harry, the Cable Guy, doesn't actually know how to work cable. But when he sees that there is a spaceship headed for Mars and that they're looking for hundreds of specialized civilians to start a colony, he decides to go for whatever he can get. He figures that he likes watching reruns of the Brady Bunch so how hard could Cable Guy be? Through some kind of twisted mix up he gets the job unaware of the fact that Cable Guy is one of the most important roles on the ship. A team of psychologists (working on the secret Jonas Project) came to the conclusion that the only way to keep people sane on a multi-year inter-planetary trip was to have satellite television continuously numb them with infomercials and telenovellas. Of course the cable gets messed up halfway through the trip and all hell breaks loose. Harry manages to barricade himself in a closet for the rest of the trip (a closet full of food of course), the whole point of all this being that when the colony starts up a new mankind on mars, it's one without TV. How different would life be for the Martians? Stay tuned to find out. (Hahahahah a pun.) All thanks to Harry, the Cable Guy.

And that's pretty much what I did with my week.

Breakfast: This morning my dad wanted me to try out some parallel parking. Of course my dad has to have a long, wide car that's impossible to figure out where the ends are. I practiced on a random car by the curb in front of a house - the whole time I couldn't help but wonder what would happen if the guy who lived there walked out and wanted to drive off. AwkWARD. Oh. Breakfast. So then I drove myself to WaWa for some good ol' Root Beer to start off the day.

Lunch: Today being my last day of work my boss seemed to be determined to get as much work out of me as possible; I licked and stuffed envelopes all day. I mention this because for lunch I walked over to Tony's for some pizza and some more Root Beer but waddayaknow! I couldn't taste anything! Damn Comptech...

Dinner: I very nearly went to the WorldCafe in Philly for an Israeli Jazz duo. It was nearly and not really because it was sold out by the time we actually decided to go. With my plans for Falafel and Who-Moose shot I settled for the next best thing: tuna fish sandwich with pesto. Yummm.

P.S. To the Gillies household, I'm sorry that I was not able today to make my fated return to drop off the most excellent Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for your viewing pleasure. (I thought I had to get to Philly pronto for some jazz.) BUT, for appeasement purposes, I'll clean your screen for the low low price of free!