I'm worried about my marriage

My wife has been infatuated with another man. I've tried to give her the benefit of the doubt and look away. But now I've found the bastard IN MY HOUSE! And what's worse is, it appears my in-laws are actually encouraging the relationship; since they are the ones who invited him into our home. Please if you ever see this man around town, give him a stiff kick in the nards! :)

Holiday recap

This year was nicer/crappier than last as far was the four-day weekend. On one hand we had Thanksgiving at our house and everyone came to us so we didn't have to travel to four-baghillon different places this year. Natali organized the evening and it went swimmingly, good food (cookies and desserts for days), minimal family annoyance, all around good time. Not to say it was not without drama, a family incident here, forgetting the cranberry sauce there, etc... The latter was a BIG deal. I cannot eat turkey without cranberry sauce on it (if you haven't tried it I don't want to hear anything).

But just as every year, the peace and fellowship of Thanksgiving gives way to... bum... bum... bummmmm... Black Friday. This year being in the middle of a recession, meaning both: people have less money to spend for the holidays and stores are needing as much business as possible, made it a deadly combination (literally). But we thought we'd give it a shot anyway since it is becomming a bit of a tradition and its nice to have all of your shopping done a month in advance (so I can procrastinate wrapping for 30 days as opposed to one).

The short version of the story is drove around from store to store finding very few good deals, went home found great deals online and realized I could have slept in. sigh.

We also had Holly of HollyJones fame come by and take family photos yesterday. It was probably a little more than she bargained for, but we really appreciate her patience and are very excited to see how they turned out!

As far as today... TBD :). Hope everyone else's weekends went well. How about you? What did you do for the infamous Black Friday?

I killed a mountain!!!!

One of my favorite games is Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, its a first person shooter based in modern times with modern day weapons. Back in August I even got to go to the game developer's studio (Infinity Ward) and had a chance to meet their Community Relations Manager (Robert Bowling AKA: fourzerotwo)
When we have friends over we often will play a few rounds of multiplayer. One of my friends doesn't have an Xbox 360 and usually gets owned pretty badly when we play (he's getting better as he gets more time on it) and as we razz him about it he usually barks back that he's "actually fired these weapons!" (He's an MP in the Air Force).
This past Saturday I got a call from this buddy, asking me what I was doing on Sunday. I thought he was going to invite me to golf and hadn't played in a while, so I told him I wasn't doing anything in particular and would be down for whatever. He then proceeds to invite me to fire off some automatic weapons and riffle mounted grenades... wait... did you just say riffle mounted grenades!?!?!? Um... Hell Yeah I'm down! So we get to the range and I'm told I'll get to fire two types of light machine guns (LMGs) the M249 SAW and M240 as well as an M203 grenade launcher mounted on an M16. Good times. All in all I squeezed off 200 rounds on the M249, 400 rounds on the M240 and 5 M203 rounds.

There's more pics and video here.

In the wee small hours.

Its mid-morning and already I've experienced the full gamut of human emotions. This morning I awoke to the sound of fighter jets flying by (there is a USAF air defense base in Fresno).
Annoyance: I am not generally a fan of being awaken by loud noises. I turned my head, still drowsy, and see this:

Panic: I start work at 8:00 (even though I am usually late, this is bad.)
Embarrassment: I realize its Saturday and I only work on weekdays.
Panic again: Why isn't my son up yet?!?! He's usually up between 7:30 and 8:30. I turn to where my wife sleeps... She's gone.
Relief: my son is fine and downstairs with my wife.
Guilt: I realize she's probably been taking care of the baby instead of sleeping for at least an hour and a half.
Fear: Worried about how I'll have to make this up to her.
Joy: When I see them smile at me when I creep downstairs.
Hunger: Going to take care of this now...

Great weekend!

So I took the weekend off from blogging, because we just wanted to chill and enjoy the last "unofficial" weekend of summer. All and all it went pretty darn good. Friday night we met some friends at BJ's Brewhouse for happy hour and then rented What Happens in Vegas ("...you know why!"). Saturday night a friend came in to town that we hadn't seen in a few years and we caught up, had some drinks and rocked out with Rock Band. Sunday morning we rode our bikes to Le Parisien and met friends for crepes and then went to the movies. The guys saw Tropic Thunder and the girls saw The Pants Movie 2: Dirty Denim (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2). And then Monday we chilled at home and watched the Fresno State Bulldogs whoop on Rutgers 3000 miles away. We capped the weekend by watching a few episodes of Heroes. And on top of it all the weather was wonderful. Friday it was 106, but by the weekend the high had dropped to about 92!