summer? no!

It been really warm here in Indiana the last week. It's been in the high seventies and sometimes in the eighties. What is going on with the weather here? I feel like we're not getting a spring. It's just going to summer. I don't like this. It should be in the fifties and sixties right now, not seventies. I should still be wearing pants and hoodies. I know I was talking about breaking out my shorts less than a month ago, but I just need a day off from pants.

This past year has been one crazy season after another. We had a great fall last year, until it never ended. Now we're having summer. Indiana went from fall to summer! It missed two great seasons - winter and spring! I'm still holding out thinking that it'll cool off again and we'll have spring. It's just to early for this crazy summer weather.

doritos tacos

I did it today. I tried the Doritos loco tacos. They were so good. After eating them your fingers are covered in Doritos dust. Oh, they were so good. They kind of taste like eating nachos with Doritos instead of plain chips. I'm surprised no one thought of this before. It seems so simple, coat your hard shells with Doritos flavoring. BAM! You got yourself some awesome Doritos Tacos. How awesome is that? The one thing I would add is refried beans. I'm a refried beans guy. Taco meat is okay, but those refried beans are the best. I love burritos. I blame my mother for that. She use to make burritos all the time for us kids, but she called them tacos. I still call them tacos and people are like those aren't tacos. Then I have to teach them with my fists that they are. Okay maybe I don't teach them anything, but I think about it. I think about it a lot. Back to those Doritos Tacos. One other thing I would change is the hard shell. I think they need to be soft. Hard shells break to easy. Maybe if they warped the hard shell in a soft shell with a cheese layer in-between the soft and hard layer of shell. They already have some tacos like that. They are so amazing too.

I decide while eating the Doritos Tacos I could so make them at home and better. I am going to buy a bag of Doritos Cool Ranch. Then I'm going to make some awesome burritos and crumble those sweet tasting Doritos over them. It'll be like paradise for my mouth. I get soft shell with refried beans and a splash of Cool Ranch! I can't wait to try this out. Maybe I'll use Nacho Cheese flavor too. I haven't decided that yet. I'm so doing it soon.

cheating

I order a photobook last week. I've decide that I wanted to have physical proof that Allison and I actually did things and had a past. The book came in today. I have been looking for it at work and in the mail. The book didn't come either way. It came Fedex! I couldn't believe it. The guy knocked on my door and ask for my John Hancock. I feel dirty now. I cheated on UPS with Fedex. If I had know it was coming Fedex I might not have order it. Well, I still would have. It wasn't like the company gave me a choice of who to ship from. I just thought it was funny that it came Fedex instead of UPS.

Wordless Wednesday

it's not short weather

On Sunday after church I put on a pair of my shorts. It was not warm enough to wear shorts. Off they went and back in pajamas. I know, pajamas at noon seem like defeat, but most Sundays defeat me. For about week or two I've been itching to wear shorts. I'm ready to turn the heat off in the house and open the windows and have it be hot. Winter never came, but I'm already sick of wearing pants. I've stopped wearing pants to work already. Yeah, I wore them for like two months, when it was below freezing at three am. Now I'm back in shorts at work and it feels a ton better than pants.

Today I decide that 57 degrees is warm enough for shorts. I'm also wearing a hoodie, but that doesn't matter. My caves are so happy. They don't like being stuck in those confining pants. They like the feel of fresh air on them. I wish it really was short weather, I know I'll be back in pants soon. Spring doesn't allow for shorts everyday.

The funny thing is by September I'll be sick of shorts. I always am. I'll totally be ready for pants and it'll still be like 70 to 80 degrees outside. I'm always ready for the next season to begin.

television part 3 drama or sci-fi?

I don't watch a ton of dramas. I feel like my life has way to much drama going on in my life. Which I have to admit isn't as much as people on TV. Then I start to think about it and I watch a bit of shows that might be classified as dramas. I really enjoy sci-fi shows. I remember watch Star Trek: the Next Generation as a kid. I remember having to go to bed before Voyager would come on. Since then I've continued to watch sci-fi. Although there is a lot of bad sci-fi out there and still a lot I want to see. Let's get started.

1. Babylon 5 - This is one of my all time favorite sci-fi shows, I own all five seasons on DVD. This is also a drama in my opinion. It deals with politics and xenophobia. Each season is a large story with each episode in the season building upon each other to weave a complex story. Then The five seasons make for an over arching story. If anything this show is epic. The human race has just come out of a war they should not have won. In fact the only reason they won was because the Minbari stopped fighting right before they hit earth. Now the five large alien races and a league of smaller alien races met on Babylon 5 (a space station) to work out their arguments. Allies are made and lost. Plots to take over earth's government and other governments take place. The show sometimes looks at the large scope of things, but never forgets it's characters in the process. If you've never seen this show you are missing out. The graphics are a little bad in the beginning, but that because they were developing them. Without this show all the computer CGI out there might still be way behind. They pioneered most of the space CGI used out there today. My favorite episode from this show is in season 5, The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father. In this episode Walter Koeing (Pavel Chekov) plays his reoccurring role as Bester from the Psi Corps. He's usually the bad guy in the show but in this episode is all in his perspective. You see a conflicted villain just trying his hardest to do what he think is right. A show worth watching.

2. Firefly - Joss Whedon's space western with Nathan Fillon in it. I watched one or two episodes when it first aired, but they were hard to catch. They played on Friday nights, which is almost always the kiss of death for TV shows. The show was also shown out of order which can be confusing since it builds on itself. There was only one season, but the DVD sells were good enough to have a move made, Serenity. I love this show. Captain Mal fighting the Alliance by being a smuggler. Mal is cooler than Han Solo and has a better crew. They even have zombies roaming out on the fringes of known space. Okay they're not real zombies but they do eat people. This is a must watch for anyone who says they enjoy sci-fi. I've watched it a quite a few times. My favorite episode is Jaynestown. I love Jayne Cobb (Adam Baldwin), he's a dirty mercenary.

3. Fringe - If you're not watching Fringe, what is wrong with you? This show is so awesome and crazy at the same time. During the first half of the first season I thought it was just going to be new X-Files show. I was so wrong. Fringe is an amazing sci-fi show. You have so much more than investigating strange things and aliens. At first I though the show was going to be about aliens only to find out it was about alternate dimensions! Plus Peter Bishop is awesome and Leonard Nimoy makes appearances in the second season. This show also has so much drama in it. One of my favorite episodes is from the first season, The Dreamscape. The opening scene with the butterflies will scar you. You'll never want to be around butterflies again. This show is a must watch show.

4. Misfits - British juvenile delinquents that get superpowers. That alone should totally sell the series. Main thing they do is kill people. The first kill was by accident, they were protecting themselves from a person that went insane. The thing is these kids weren't the only ones to get powers. There was this big storm and a lot of people got odd powers. The show really focuses more on the problems with having these powers. They think they have to find them at first. Then they think they need to tell people about them, but trouble just keeps happening. This show has very few episodes per season. The episodes that do exist are awesome. You are getting their A game for each episode. It's hard to pin just one episode as my favorite, but right now I would say that Hitler episode is one of my favorites. I love a goo time travel alternate reality show. So this show is awesome, but it is British and it's an R-rated TV show. Lots of language and violence and a little nudity.

5. Grimm (supernatural) - This is a new show on Friday nights's on NBC. The first couple episodes were pretty bland and like what ever, then the show kicked it up. I've been slowly hooked into this show. It's about this cop who is related to the Grim Brothers. Now the Grimm brothers did more than learn the stories of the old world, they also hunted monsters. The show is filled with these monsters that hide themselves as humans. The Grimms are a line of people that can actually see them for their true colors when they loose control of their emotions. Regular humans have a harder time with this. The thing is not all monsters are bad. Nick (the main character) is a cop in Portland who's Aunt tells him about his gift. The Aunt is ruthless and kills all the monsters she can. Nick doesn't follow this path. He wants to think that everyone can coexists. My favorite character in the story is Monroe. He's a bultbad or wolf type monster. He's turned his way against eating meat and works on clocks. Clocks of any size. The show is awesome. My favortie episode so far would be Danse Macabre. It's about the piped piper. Pretty awesome.

6. Battlestar Galatica - What can I say about this show. You either love it or hate it. Everyone I've talk to about the show have very strong feelings. I for one liked the show. It has space battles, politics, robots, and the human race fighting to survive. Although sometimes the show feels slow and drags on. It's one of those shows you can watch once and then step away for a few years and watch again, but you need time off from it to breath. There is so much drama in this show. It deals with spies inside the community to religion trying to rule everything. It can be a little to intense at times. Plus no one is safe from being killed or becoming the villain in the show. I don't really have a favorite episode for this show. The whole show kind of melts into itself and you can't really define where one episode ends and the next one begins. That's how it is in my head.

7. Stargate Series - I can't limit this to just one show. Stargate is a large universe of shows. You have SG-1, Atlantis, and Universe. All three shows have good things and bad things about them. SG-1 was the first show based off the movie. This show follows the leading team from the stargate project across it's many adventures to save earth and make new friends. A lot of the episodes are fun to watch. Sometimes it gets campy, but all and all it's fun. Atlantis is the series I've seen the least amount off. A new team finds a stargate address to a fare away planet. They go and get stuck there. They learn that it's the mystical city Atlantis. They fight bad guys and have crazy adventures like SG-1, but in a different galaxy than ours. Stargate Universe never got enough love. The first season was decent, but trying to find it's own feet. The second season found it's voice and was well done. Stargate Universe is about a human base that gets attack on a distance planet from earth. They have to take the stargate to a mystery location. They end up on a starship many galaxies away from ours with no way home. All and all the show is decent for a franchise and deserves a watch for sci-fi fans.

8. Doctor Who - This is a new addiction of mine. I remember seeing an episode from season one and season two on sci-fi. I didn't watch the entire episodes and was very confused. They were quite campy, but not in a bad way. I put Doctor Who on the back burner thinking this show is to weird for me. Cut to last year and Allison saying all her friends liked the show. She wanted to watch it and I was like okay, but I'm not promising it'll be good. I don't know how I could be so wrong. I've seen the first three seasons and can't wait to get into the fourth. It can be very addictive. The Doctor is such a compelling character. He sucks you in. Plus he flies around in time and space in a little police call box. So far I've learned two very important things from Doctor Who, 1. Don't Blink 2. Never look in the corner of your eyes. My favorite episode so far is Blink from season three. It's about these weeping angel statues that kill. It's so good. If you like fun sci-fi this is so your show. It can be over the top sometimes, but it so well done over the top. I could totally live in the Doctor's world.

9. Dead Like Me (supernatural) - This show was on was on Showtime, so I had to watch it on DVD. It's so good I own the two seasons on DVD. What happens to us after we die? We go somewhere, but where? This question is not answered at all in Dead Like Me. No, instead we get to learn about the undead, the reapers. The people who take our souls from our body and show us the way to where we are going. You would be surprised how much they are just like us. How they are trying to deal with the afterlife just like we are dealing with our lives. The show is awesome and very dramatic.

10. Star Trek Series - Can you really talk about sci-fi and not include Star Trek? I love Star Trek. I enjoy all the TV series. I've been watching Deep Space Nine recently and realized it was way better then I remembered it. If you don't know about Star Trek than I'm surprised you read this blog at all. Everyone has their favorite characters and series in Star Trek. I love Data and Geordi Laforge. Just get a series and watch it. Sometimes they might be campy, but that's sci-fi for you.

I hope you enjoyed my look at dramas today. I know I really only looked at sci-fi dramas, but I don't really like most dramas. They seem silly to me. Why do I need more drama in my life, especially if it doesn't have spaceships or alternate realities. What are some of your favorite sci-fi or drama shows?

what time is it

The other night I woke up in the middle of the night. It was 10:45 pm when I woke up. I had been down almost three hours by that time. It was dark in my bedroom and I was really confused. Allison was sleeping next to me which is a good sign. I looked at the clock thinking it must almost be time to get up. When I looked at it I thought it said 1:45 am. I couldn't decide to get up or not. I only had another half hour till my alarm went off. So I got up and looked at my phone. It said 10:45 too, but I still couldn't register it my head. So I went out to the living room and then into the kitchen. When the kitchen clocks said 10:45 I finally realized I was up way to early. So I went to the bathroom and crawled back into bed with Allison. I was scared I wouldn't fall asleep, but I was out in a heart beat.

I was so thankful for the extra four hours of sleep my body thought it got. Life can't get better than realizing you still have a couple hours to sleep till you have to get up.