How do you waste your time?

Well, if it's Wednesday night, I waste my time watching The Moment of Truth. Seriously, we need the SAG writers to be done with their strike so I don't have to watch this crap anymore. The cliffhanger question on tonights episode, asked of a beauty queen, was, "Have you ever sabotaged another pageant contestant?" I can't wait to find out. Actually, if a good rerun of Seinfeld, or Raymond is on, I'll watch that instead. Actually, I'll watch ANYTHING as long as it's not that Bret Michaels show.


Other time wasters:

• Monday night - WWE RAW
• Tuesday night - Basketball practice with Dillon (not really a waste of time)
• Thursday night - The Office, My Name is Earl, Celebrity Apprentice (be sure to watch this week, Vince McMahon will be their special guest)
• Friday night - 12 pack of Coors light

Call for guesses. OK, I posted a picture a couple of days ago of this mystery box that takes quarters on a wall at the American Legion hall in Louisiana. I'm not posting the answer until some of you actually take a guess and let me know you were here. C'mon, it's a game, let's all play TOGETHER. Forgot what it looks like? No problem, it looks like this:

Family Reunions

So, I had the fortunate experience of getting to visit with nearly every cousin I have on both sides of my parents families this weekend. It was my grandmother's 21st birthday on Saturday, so I loaded up the kids (sans Suzanne, she was ill), and headed down the road 6.5 hours to Lafayette, La. We had a good time drinking 10oz beers (some preferred 1/2 gallon jugs of wine, but that person will remain anonymous), sharing lies, and remembering the good old times. Meme made an incredible shrimp stew and fried shrimp. Saturday was a recovery day for the first 1/2 of the day, and then we had po' boys for lunch.

To view all the pictures I took - visit the January '08 Guidry Reunion photo album I have on Photobucket

Saturday evening was my aunt's 21st birthday party in Abbeville, La (it's as big as it sounds). There were tons of relatives there too. We had a great time and she was completely surprised. The party was at the American Legion in Abbeville. The American Legion has these boxes on the walls, and for the life of me, I couldn't figure out what they were. There was one up in the front, and one in the back. Here's two shots, do you know what these are for? I'll let people guess and I'll tell you in a day or two. Send a comment with your guess. Get it right, win a prize. Josh - No guessing for you.

To visit all the pictures I took (RAW, and unedited), visit the Lewis reunion photo album I setup on Photobucket

All this fun family activity got me thinking of what my top 10 favorite things about visiting Louisiana. They are:

10 - Drive across town in under 15 minutes

9 - Watch people get mad who have do drive an entire 15 minutes to get across town

8 - Drink beer out of 10 oz cans, but pay the 12 oz price for them

7 - Peruse old photo albums that show my underwear hanging out of my shorts

6 - Make a "pallate" for the kids

5 - Park in the front yard

4 - Go barefoot and no one cares

3 - Go ahead, have a dirty white t-shirt

2 - Louisiana cooking

1 - Catching up with family / friends

I've got some movies and other reports from the weekend coming up. It was a really fun time.

In other awesome news, my IT guy has had my laptop for a couple of days. I'm going get it in about an hour, but what's awesome is that it will NOT have Vista on it, it's going to have XP. I'm completly pumped. Vista has a couple of cool utilities on it that I'd like to use, but with Vista continually crashing on me, I rarely have access to those cool utilities anyway.

We LOVE to Fly

So, I got a nice letter in the mail from American Airlines today. They wanted to tell me how important I am to them and how I shouldn't have to be inconvenienced by their delayed flight crew (reason my flight was so late). They gave me 3,000 miles for my troubles. Now, for frequent flyers, you know it's all about the miles and the perks. I'm more than happy to take miles from AA anytime they want to give them to me. 3,000 miles is good, but not as good as the 5,000 I got the time my plane caught on fire.


On to Vista...today marks the 4th crash of my Vista OS in 2 months. If I only had Windows NT back, I could be productive again. I've probably lost a minimum of 40 hours of productivity in the last 2 months due to this POS operating system. Post your frustrations if you've had similar encounters. I've posted a link to Bad Vista for you, so you can have company in your Vista misery. Or, you can always hang out here and we can bash it together.




Alright kids - I'm out for the weekend. Enjoy yourselves while I'm "enjoying" the arctic blast of '08 here in North Texas.

Show me your past

Well...I'm not so proud (and apparently, neither is my uncle who dressed his his 8 year old in a Pabst Blue Ribbon shirt). The black and white picture is my sister and I in 1975. This proves that puberty kills cute people.

This is, from left to right, my sister, my cousin Ashley, my brother Josh, my cousin Joey, and uh...me (pre-mullet)

What a weekend

Well...I had a church that needed assistance over the weekend. So...I took a trip to Chicago to go see them. I got there and it was...well...what's a word for REALLY COLD? Well...There are many, but the bottom line is, -7 degrees just sucks. When I left it had warmed up like 29 degrees to about 22 degrees. It was snowing, and overall, was just miserable.

But things got better when I got a phone call from American Airlines to tell me my 8:15PM flight on Monday had been delayed to 9:30PM. Not feeling confident that I'd get out that night, I decided to chance it and head to O'Hare. While sitting in an airport bar, documenting my trip, I get another phone call from American, letting me know my flight had been delayed again, this time to 11:30PM. Loving life, I finally get on the plane. I got upgraded to first class, which was nice, but I just wanted to sleep, and they weren't serving a meal anyway. The guy sitting next to me was a complete prick. I needed to get up at one point and use the bathroom, here's how the exchange went:

ME - "Excuse me, do you mind letting me out to use the bathroom?"
JERK - "I guess I don't really have a choice now, do I"
ME - "Actually, you do, but you made the right choice by letting me out"

Then, he spent the rest of the flight singing. SINGING. Pretty annoying.

I concluded my awesome evening by stopping at Whataburger at 3:00AM to pick up a taquito. I love flight delays...

Other Stuff

My friends over at List of the Day continue to put out quality blogs. Some of their archives are awesome, especially this one on Glamour Shots gone bad. It's a must see.

Continuing a Lewis tradition, Dillon shaved for the first time, in 3rd grade. He was so excited. Now Kylie wants to shave. I'm waiting for her to grab a razor and go for it. If you know Kylie, you know she will, it's just a matter of time. I'll have bleeding legs or fingers soon, I'm sure.

Family is finally healthy. I'm a mess as the dry arctic tundra air in Chicago has really torn my sinuses up.

Heading to Louisiana this weekend. Should be a good visit. It's my grandmothers birthday and all of her kids, grandkids, and great grandkids will be there. I don't remember the last time that happened, and don't anticipate it will happen again anytime soon.

Peace out

My band photo is better than yours.

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Other news:

• Kids and Suzanne are STILL down with that darned stomach virus. With my luck, I'll come down with it 4 minutes after my plane takes off on Saturday. Suzanne just took the kids' temp. Dillon - 100.1, Kylie - 101. GREAT. Maybe Stomach Flu. Better load up on Immodium before I fly...
• Big Show is coming back to WWE. WHAT??!!! You haven't heard?

Dats it - Stay Classy San Diego!

Did you ever know that you're my hero???

First off, I HAVE to tell you about the new website I found. This is absolutely the best site for your personal surfing pleasure. I recommend TOTALLY that you check this out. MOST stuff is safe for work.

List of the Day

When my kids grow up, I sure hope they don't act like this, because I will be in jail if they do...

http://view.break.com/433536 - Watch more free videos

I'm in Chicago this weekend, so, I thought I'd pull up the weather. THAT was a good idea.

Jeff, you there? How's things? What's been going on?

Yes, I'm here, and things are going well, thanks for asking. What's been going on? Well...quite a bit, quite a bit of nothing. Here's the skinny...

• Dillon's report card came out, all A's again. I told him to ask his Pop about the time he made an A.


• Dillon had his first basketball game of the season. He's a natural.


• COWBOYS LOSE. COWBOYS LOSE. 'nuff said


• Stomach bug of some sort floating through the family. Has taken Kylie, Dillon, and Suzanne out. I'm standing steadfast. I think that's what beer does, it boosts your immune system.


• My cousin, Gena, is in a band in LA. She's a cool rocker chick. They need votes for a contest. Don't be a dud, go vote. Here's her note about it:

Our last record "Lion The Girl" has been nominated by a local fanzine, 'LA Record' as one of the best albums released in LA in '07. If you agree, you can vote for us here- www.larecord.com and then click on- "L.A. RECORD READER POLL: 2007 LOS ANGELES ALBUMS."

She's also in a commercial. She's the one with the drumsticks. Catch it at http://target.com/onestar.

Take it easy. I'll be in Chicago startin on Saturday. Nice to pick JANUARY to visit UP NORTH. Oh well...

Dude, what's going on?

Glad you asked. Let's look back at 2007 (in no particular order)

- Got my halo off 3 days before the end of the year, spent the next 3 months in rehab.
- Took up golf
- Started travelling again. Made several trips over the course of the year to Chicago, Denver, Daytona, Memphis, Shreveport, and Brooklyn.
- Sold the motorcycle
- Threw my dad a retirement party
- Turned 19
- Got a Wii
- Dillon turned 9 (one more year and he's an "adult"), Kylie turned 5
- Went to Disney World (who'd a thunk)
- Started making videos on the internet

What a great segway. I've put a couple of other videos out. One of Kylie singing Hannah Montana, and one of our new years party a few days ago.

You guys have a good week(end).

Logan

I rarely post stuff like this. But sometimes things just touch you and you want to share. This video is about a 13 year old kid, Logan, who was sad for having to put down a calf that was just born on the family farm...