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26 years? Whoa.

Imagine a picture of Bono with a mullet here. Philipp loves Bono with the mullet. Did Germans ever grow a mullet? Or was that North American tradition back in the day?

Anyhow, Vero cut my hair yesterday during the beautiful day yesterday. I dig it, but she thinks that it may grow into a mullet in a few weeks so she wants to do a touchup.

I say NAY! If I’m going to grow a mullet, I say grow for it! This will be a good segueway into the moustache that I must grow for Katie’s cottage. Considering the amount of facial hair that comes my way, I figure I should start growing the moustache around Canada Day to be ready for the August long weekend. I hope they have some amazing challenges lined up for the moustache-off.

In other news, as I have grown older, I have not cared to bend over all day long with a sponge to wash my car. Last year at Rob’s, he introduced me to an amazing invention – a scrub brush with a handle. I’m sure everyone in the world has one and is laughing at me right now, but I had never had one. So I picked one up yesterday at Wal-Mart and I am loving washing my car again! No more bending over…just scrub a little with the brush and you are gold. Or, the car is.

You know, while I’m just speaking about things randomly, can I just say that corn is amazing? Vero and I bought corn for the last two days and it’s amazingly cheap and filling. Granted, an hour later, I think your body has processed whatever it can and then you’re hungry again. But for 50 cents, I can get two corn and be full off of it. You cannot go wrong. In fact, I’m going to start a street vendor shop that sells corn.

The Glebe Garage Sale has come and went…was I impressed?

Well the sale itself is always impressive. I’m not very impressed with my purchases each year – Benoit seems to get crazy good deals out of thin air.

But, I succeeded in purchasing the one item I wanted. A weed wacker.

Oddly enough, when we went to pick up Eric and Annie, there was a garage sale going on across the street and when we got there I heard the owner and a woman talking about three weed wackers sitting right there.

Owner: Yeah, we just don’t want them anymore. I think some of them work, one has a problem with the choke. I’ll sell them each for $1.
Myself (thinking): Dang, of all the times to show up, I’m losing out on a $1 weed wacker.

I look over at Mike and his eyes are saying something to me.
Myself (to purchaser): Lady, I’ll give you $2 for one of them. I just want the electric one, not the gas powered one.
Purchaser: Oh, I’m not buying the electric one at all.

That’s how I bought an electric weed wacker for $1. It doesn’t have the spool on the end, but no big deal. It still works. Mike ended up finding one with a spool on the end at the Glebe so we will see if it works.

I loved how I didn’t even have to leave Orleans to find what I was looking for. So, in the end, I purchased a James Bond book and a book about Souvenirs of Canada. Not too bad.

Total money spent:
$1 – weed wacker
$2 – Souvenirs of Canada book
$0.25 – James Bond book
$4 – sausage from street vendor.

Puts things into perspective really.

First off, there will be no spoilers in this post, however, I will be expressing general sentiments towards which seasons I liked better and GENERAL reasons why. For example, I may say something like “I liked Season X more because they introduced some better characters”. I won’t list the characters or anything.

So if you don’t think you could handle that, then don’t bother reading this entry.

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5 years later, Alias is over and what do I think?
Not bad.

Alias follows the life of spies, specifically Sidney Bristow who is spy trying to juggle her real life at the same time – so you have a bunch of “Oh, where were you last night Sidney?” and she says “Oh, working on a term paper.” while in reality she was kicking some ass in Munich. The story revolves around conspiracies, family life and an ancient 15th century inventor: Milo Rambaldi. (think Da Vinci.)

So, the first three seasons were top notch. Top, top, top TV viewing notch. It was awesome. Cliffhangers abound. Made by our favourite JJ Abrams.

But then Season 4 came along and added a new storyline (along with the old) and it was meh. They redeemed it near the end of the season when they went back to the old storyline for awhile.

Then Season 5 started off just as bad as Season 4 with new characters. Plus, Sidney was pregnant considering her real-life alter ego Jennifer Garner was pregnant. I’m not saying pregnant ladies aren’t cool, but when they are kick ass spies, sometimes it takes away from the storyline.

Then, mid-way through Season 5, there was a decision to end the show so the Season started closing out the story we’ve been following for years which was great. I wouldn’t say the finale of the series disappointed me, but it wasn’t awe-inspiringly good either. Wait, that’s not right. Let’s just say that the finale kicked bigtime, but there are still unresolved plotlines. So that took away from it. Whereas, if you take a finale like…Star Trek: The Next Generation, that was an amazing finale. But at the same time, they knew there would be other stories via the movies.

All in all, Alias has been one of the best television series I have ever seen. Even though I thought Seasons 4 & 5 were sub-par, I believe the entire series was top notch and I would recommend it to everyone.

Granted, Lost has now replaced Alias in my books as ‘must-download TV’, but hey, that’s what you get when you focus your energies on a new show instead of the last two seasons of Alias.

FYI: JJ Abrams is creating a new show this fall called The Nine where nine lives are intertwined without them knowing it. Sounds like classic Lost material, but based in New York.

In reference to the American Idol finale (and no, I don’t watch this show, never have.)

Singer Billie Joe Armstrong: “I don’t know, but I had an idea. I think how America votes on ‘American Idol,’ the next presidential election they should vote in the same way and have a massive TV show that’s once a week that keeps you updated. … The new way of voting. Screw singers. Let’s go for the politicians this time.”
Drummer Tre Cool: “That’s a good idea, Billie. And for 50 cents a pop, all those calls could pay for all the campaigning.”

Honestly, the best thought that’s come out in awhile.

If you value your friendship with me, do NOT tell me how Alias ended. I just found out the series ended last night, unbeknownst to me.

If the weather was anything like it was in Ottawa this past weekend, I am sorry.

Vero, Mike and I decided to go up to Matt’s cottage regardless of the rain because the long weekend fever hit us hard on Friday.

Surprisingly, it had not been raining at all up there so that was a welcome change. We sat by the campfire for the remainder of the night and much hilarity ensued until 4:00 AM. It’s funny how time works…one moment you notice that time is moving slowly, then the next, you lose track of 4 hours. Whoa.

The next morning, we awoke to someone shooting paintballs at the cottage and someone mowing their lawn in the middle of the rain. Odd. The paintballers were especially odd as we never found out who they were.

Shannon and Adam were heading out to paintball for their bachelor party but it got cancelled unfortunately, due to the rain. We all met for some breakfast in a Population: 40 people town which was nice. It was good to see Adam again as it has been a few years. I like how some friends can just go back to being how they were together without a care in the world.

A slew of us ended up going to the bowling lane in Smiths Falls which ended up being a vintage, vintage joint. I asked the 90-year old shoe guy if the shoes I was getting for the day were used by the bowlers who bowled 450. He said something like “You only wish Sonny!”. We had a good laugh.

Smelly old cloths and some serious mid-game resets aside, it was fun times.

After that, Alex, Mike and I returned to the cottage to cook up some sausages and then we packed the car and left. It is unfortunate that it was raining…it really puts a damper on the weekend.

That night, Mike and I headed out for some bachelor party debauchery which included a hand of poker in which I split the pot at the end with Dave as it was getting late. Nothing wrong with money in my pocket.

All in all, I thought it was hilarious how we packed up the car so much that we could have lived out of it for a week, but ended up staying there for one day. The same thing happened last year also. Really bad weather. But, Matt is a gracious host and I thank him for having us up.