The Madness of March- Join Us!

Yes, it's the most wonderful time of the year. Screw Christmas- The NCAA men's basketball Tournament is here!
So fill out your bracket! http://www.ncaa.com/uploadedFiles/Sports/Basketball_(M)/d1_mbk_bracket_2008.pdf
Join a group of friends in a competition (my ESPN.com group is named "VP17" btw). http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/frontpage
And, just like Nascar fans root for a crash, and hockey fans root for a fight, root for the underdog to win in an upset!

And, of course, root for the 8-seed BYU Cougars to beat the 9-seed Texas A&M Aggies in the first round of March Madness in Anaheim, CA (4pm, Thursday March 20, televised on CBS, with recaps on CBS College Sports, formerly CSTV).


3 Good Things:
April Fools Day (April 1)
The iPOD
FRIENDS (the tv show)

Overrated- Seinfeld

I'm Cool Like FoxTrot

3 Good Things:
Kirby (preferably blue)
Village Inn Pie, or Pie in general... Mmm, pie.....
Living near a Railroad Track

Overrated- The Big East in college basketball

Smash Day!

Everyone has a holiday that means something special to them, perhaps much more than it does to a regular person. Each year, my wife celebrates the day I married her (she's so sweet). To my mother, the birthday of her first grand-child is a special date. My bro annually celebrates the burning of Gabriel Jones. And The UnMighty has a thing for Leap Day.

Me? I'm better than all that. Yearly (even quad-yearly) holidays and the like are for the average man. I'm interested in the special days that are so filled with awesome they can only happen once in a lifetime. You know, like Rex Manning Day, only non-fictional. Tomorrow is one such day. Smash Day!

Throughout time and history, multi-player gaming has awed humankind. And like the chick in the new Terminator tv series (which isn't very good, by the way), multi-player gaming has evolved. Let me provide a brief history:

First, there was... Scorched Earth, the game that got us all through computer lab.
















Then, there was... Worms, the computer lab game good enough for home play.












Next came... GoldenEye 007, the original ultimate hang-out game. Golden Gun sucka!






Finally... Super Smash Brothers!
The game came out for the Nintendo 64 on April 26, 1999. The Idea: Let's create a 4-player game where all the classic Nintendo characters can beat the crap out of each other! It was, quite simply, the best game of all time. It sucked up all of my free time and blew my mind. The creator should have a statue in Washington D.C.




Not to pass on the opportunity to make more money, the sequel came out for the Nintendo Gamecube December 3, 2001. Super Smash Brothers Melee has sold over 6 million copies since that day, and though it didn't fully live up to the original, SSBM is clearly the greatest Gamecube game ever to be manufactured. New characters were added, such as Princess Peach, Zelda (not to be confused with Link), Bowser, and Ganon, and the legend continued...







And now, we as a race of human beings, bonded in brotherhood all across the planet Earth, face brightly forward to Sunday March 9, 2008 as the day that the trilogy is completed with its Wii entry, extending us all past our most highly developed senses and into a transcendent future that is sure to be filled with Brother Smashing peace, love, and hope...
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you:
SUPER SMASH BROTHERS BRAWL!





















It's a whole new world of Smash. Online Play. Tournament Mode. RPG-esque Single Player Mode, Including Character Attribute Power Ups. A Level Editor, to create your own fighting arenas. And The Final Smash Attack.
Welcome Wario. Welcome Sonic. Welcome Diddy Kong. Welcome Ash Ketchum. Now fight!














































3 Good Things:
Survivor
Naruto
The Color Blue

Overrated- Major League Baseball

INTRODUCTION

Okay, let's see- What have I been up to the last 8 years of my life since High School graduation back in 2000?

I went to BYU.
I worked construction.
I served a 2-year Mormon mission to Michigan.
I went to BYU.
I got married (2004).
I sold home security in San Diego.
I went to BYU.
I dropped out of BYU.
I was a wildland firefighter for the summer.
I went through structure fire academy.
I did another 6 months of forest-fire fighting.
I bought a Nintendo Wii.
I had a daughter (2007).
I spent four months doing research funded by federal grant (unemployment).
I got a job working for an ambulance company as an EMT.
I am currently looking for a job as a city firefighter.

And... that's about it!

Those who knew me in my golden youth may now point their mocking fingers and laugh me to scorn. Yes, I know, I'm taking a long path. It's cool though, as I'm quite happy. My two women and I, we have a good time. I'm always entertained.

Oh, and for those who may say, "You've left out the most important detail: What is your twin brother upto nowadays?", my reply is- GO TO HELL AND DIE. This is MY blog!
...he's linked along the right hand side.