Board Bubs

I am just finishing up my final projects for my masters classes. Usually when teachers say projects, they mean a huge paper. That was the case for my first class for which I wrote an 11 page paper, replete with spelling errors and grammatical mistakes I’m sure.

My second class, the teachers told us we could do a creative project, but no one has ever done one before in her class. Our choice was a creative project or a 20 page paper. The choice was clear. Plus the teacher all but double dog dared us to do a creative work.

So I made a board game about motivation. The object is to be the first one to move their teacher piece and their student piece from August to June. It involves a time machine for which you have to answer a motivation question correctly in order to skip half the year.

So that got me thinking about another list.

My Favorite Board Games

20 – Life – this is more like a bored game
19 – Scrabble – most overrated game in the history of the world… that might be an exaggeration.
18 – Trivial Pursuit – What group of people occupied Spain from 711 to 1492? The Moops.
17 – Checkers – King me
16 – Candyland – Extra points for the unique player movement situation
15 – Chinese Checkers
14 – Careers
13 – Chess
12 – Uncle Wiggly – Props for the sweet name
11 – Monopoly – I’m not sure if I’ve ever finished
10 – Clue – or Simpson’s Clue… Homer at the Bowl-a-rama with the poisoned doughnut
9 – Compatibility – John and Devin win by choosing the clown every time
8 – Mancala - I dominate my students at this game all the time. Silly kids.
7 – Sorry!
6 – The Farming Game – with Topinish Tom et. al.
5 – Backgammon – only this high because Matt worships this game
4 – Risk – Back in the good ol’ days, I’d dominate Brett, Chad and Justin when we played at the cabin
3 – Pirateer – The game of outrageous fortune
2 – Aggravation – Matt usually wins because he can roll a 6 on command
1 – Settlers of Catan – Good game, plus the bargaining aspect is a plus.

So… if anyone has a better name for my game than ‘motivopoly’ then let me hear it. And no suggestions with the word ‘nerd’ or any other derisive word in it… this is serious business.

The Donald

Bumper Car Bubs

First things first, here is this year's summer softball schedule...

4-18 6 pm
4-25 8 pm
5- 2 7 pm
5- 9 9 pm
5-16 7 pm
5-23 6 pm
5-30 9 pm
6- 6 9 pm
6-13 6 pm
6-20 7 pm
6-27 7 pm
7-11 6 pm
7-18 8 pm
7-25 9 pm

For those intersted, here is a list of teams in our league:

Salt Lake Blues
Demay Plumbing
XMission L C
Video 2
Building Dynamics
Rocky Mountain Carpets
R Wood CPA

Our first game is against Video 2, then Demay.

Yesterday was my first Lagoon day of the season. Short lines = much fun. Bad news, Wild Mouse is waiting for parts that have been 'delayed'. Cliffhanger was up and running according to Clark. I didn't see it with my own eyes, so consider the source. Mike Tyson's Punch Out is also up and running for it's second year of operation.

We spent an hour or so at Boomerang trapping people as usual. I was exposed to a new form of fun. This one kid chased after Clark's friend the entire time shouting 'You stole my car'. I thought that was a pretty good one, clearly not as good as our strategy, but somewhat creative. Needless to say, he was our 'target' for the next several times.

Mork

Road Trip Bubs

This is my 40th post, and I can't think of a better way to celebrate my 40th posting than by telling everyone about our quick trip to Idaho Falls.

Clark and Lincoln went with me since nobody else would. Clark took this picture of Lincoln on the way up with his cell phone.

Notice the drool on his chin. Yes, Lincoln is a drooly baby.

Of course we were late, so we went straight to Chad's reception. Luckily, I am the master at finding things, even in a Foreign city, where they don't always put Easts or Wests on thier addresses, so I found the place without incident.

I'd have to say the food was pretty good, as was the reception, but anyone knows that receptions are judged by food, so if the food is good, that automatically makes the reception good unless an ugly incident breaks out. I hope I go to a reception one day that is serving steak. That's a good idea for Brett. If he wants to have a good reception, he should serve steak, and avoid ugly incidents.

Courtney's baby Tarak (sp?) was there, Lincoln and Tarak were excited to see each other...

After the reception, we went to the Fullers, where Jackson witnessed the most intense Double Dribble game on a big screen known to mankind. Needless to say, I beat Clark.

Frank and Tammi were nice enough to let us stay the night, and mooch their food. We visited with Grandma and Grandpa for an hour the next day, went of to see the Parry's for a little bit, and headed home.

We stopped off in Far West at a McDonalds that was so decked out, I almost left a tip. I figured I should change Lincoln's diaper, but he wasn't wet or messy, so we carried on... big mistake. When we got home, Lincoln had not only covered himself, but also his carseat with poo. And that was how Ange got to see her baby for the first time in 24 hours... covered in poo. She was so excited, that she wanted to change him, which I didn't complain too much about.

That'll do 'er

TV's Frank

TV Film Critic Bubs

Oh boy

I just got done watching the Ten Commandments. I didn't see much of the second half as I was packing for Idaho. I do have some comments on the first half

Things I found absurd about the first half of the new Ten Commandments TV movie:

No particular order

- Aaron is mega jelous

- Burning Bush looks more like the singing bush... I was half expecting to see Steve Martin. "Excuse me, are you the singing bush?"

- I am who I am? That sounds like Popeye. The real quote would be "I am that I am."

- The first 40 years of Moses's life only occupy 10 minutes of the movie.

- Moses has this huge chip on his shoulder the entire time.

- Miriam has an English accent.

- No 'aging' after visiting the buring bush.

- After 40 years in the desert, comes back to Egypt still looking like a spring chicken.

- Moses's rod only kills Pharoah's snakes instead of eating them.

- Some madman has a spaz, thus prompting Pharoah to kill all the little boys.

- I only counted 8 curses.

- Moses pushes open Egypt gates Aragorn style.

- Red Sea is split by an underwater A-bomb

Plus

After someone thells Pharoah to let the slaves go, Pharoah kills him, then asks if anyone else has the same counsel, thus purposefully surrounding himself with a bunch of yes men.

Yes, I know people like that.

Ange also thought it was ironic how they were talking letting the slaves go and so forth, and the news teasers were about the immigrant 'slaves' the entire time.

I'm in Idaho to see Chad et. al.

Bubble Boy

Copyright Bubs

Ange wanted me to enter the picture below in this one baby picture contest. The rules were that there had to be a hat involved, and I guess it needed to be on a baby. In the picture below, that baby is Lincoln.Clearly he has a hat on, unfortunately, said hat does not have three corners, nor is it my hat. Cathy made this one for him, her first attempt was to small for his head. Like father like son.

Anyway, I was reading the fine print, and apparently I don't own the copyright to this picture anymore. I am putting it up anyway just to defy 'the man'. I feel like Kramer when he sold all his stories to Peterman, and then couldn't tell them to his friends anymore.

Peterman: "The very pants you were taking to the dry cleaners?"

They provided an option to send emails to all my friends about how they should vote for Link. I think this is both annoying and unfair. They are clearly trying to drive traffic to their website. I will not be party to such tactics. Plus, I know all my 'friends' would have just voted for some other baby.

In conclusion, we'll know it's rigged when the ugly baby wins.

Elaine: Some night huh?
Doctor guy: Yes, some night.
Elaine: Some ugly baby.

The Villain

Cecil B. Demille Bubs

I’ve got to get this in before conference starts… and yes John, I am going to pretend like I want to watch conference.

Yesterday, I was watching some America’s Funniest Home Videos, known as AFV. Why it’s not known as AFHV, I’ll never know. I think it has a better ring to it, like ADHD, but anyway…

I’m watching a cat jump into a window, and a dog dragging himself down the stairs, and a guy getting hit in the crotch by his kid’s baseball bat, and Tom whoever making bad jokes when mercifully, they went to commercial.

ABC was pumping up their new version of The Ten Commandments. Now, I know how TV networks always mess up,(drop good shows, bad movie about Noah, etc.) so I have a few suggestions for these fools.

Lines/things that need to be kept in the new Ten Commandments from the old Ten Commandments

13- Blood makes poor mortar.
12- So let it be written, so let it be done.
11- Thus sayeth the Lord God of Israel: Let my people go.
10- There needs to still be that one evil Israelite guy.
9- The movie needs to be long so Grandpa Millburn can still compare long things to the Ten Commandments.
8- Moses jumping in the mud with the rest of the Israelites
7- Behold His mighty hand!
6- How Moses ages several years after his vision at the burning bush.
5- Just give me those pastel shelled chocolate candies. (Wait, that’s on my list of suggestions for the Easter Bunny)
4- O Moses, Moses. You stubborn, splendid, adorable fool
3- God opens the sea with a blast of His nostrils!"
2- When Moses destroys the golden calf by throwing the tablets at it… big explosion.
1- His God is God.

In conclusion, if any of these things are missing, the movie is dumb, and whoever made it doesn’t know what they’re doing.

We’ve all heard of the disaster that was the remake of the Poseidon Adventure. I think this movie is on TV next weekend.

That will do it from here for now

Peace Out

Charlton Heston (spell check)