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This weekend was all about Birthday parties. It’s the thing no one warns you about when you have kids… At some point (Usually when they get into school), many of your weekends are going to be spent at kids parties. Saturday it was a bowling party. Both kids had a great time, and it was Bing’s first time back on the lanes since breaking his finger… He did great, suffered no injuries and even picked up a spare! Sunday was a party at Chuck E. Cheese… As good an idea as this seems, it almost never really is. The party itself was really nice, but the CEC was horrible… It was packed (As they always are on weekends), under staffed, unclean (As many of them are) and full of out of control kids! The process of CEC is exhausting… Let’s exclude the actual party part, first you get tokens, which you must wade through the broken games to find ones to wait in line at to actually play, you are rewarded with 3 to 6 tickets on the average, you do this until you run out of tokens (Which can take quite awhile), then you have to feed the tickets into a machine (That you will most likely have to wait a long time to actually get to use) that “eats” them, but it doesn’t always work smoothly and it “eats” up more time than tickets, when the tickets are finally counted you go to the counter where dozens of tired kids are trying to make choices (between a slew of crappy toys), anyone who has been around a kid knows that “choices” are not their strong point, now factor in a day at CEC eating junk food and running and climbing through the habit-trail for children, it can take for ever, now it’s your kids turn to pick crappy toys and you have to get a 3 year old to understand the concept of having 432 tickets to spend… And at this point, if no one is crying (including you!) you are a winner!!!

Speaking of winning tickets, Bing loves to play Skee-Ball… Only thing is he really can’t muster the strength to get the ball up the ramp. Here’s Bing, 1 Ball and 2 minutes of attempting to sink it:

It’s looking good for the Podcast!  It will most likely be a two level system, where you can keep the old subscription rate and get the daily show as normal or buy a premium (Although it’ll have a better name than that!) and get not only the normal show up an additional 15 minutes of content everyday.  We will also be putting “classic” Jack and Stretch Shows on itunes once a week to hopefully spawn subscribers to our new material.  Thank you all so much for sticking with us and coming up with so many great ideas!!!!

I have to admit, as much as I don’t like Guy, NBC’s new Minute to Win It is pretty good.  I kind of want to try out.  Celebrity Apprentice I’m not as into.  Lately I have been liking Modern Family, Scrubs, Cougartown and In The Middle…  The Parenthood is OK, I think I need to see a few more episodes before I make my final verdict.  And I can’t forget Lost, which has been excellent.

I’m not going to lie, I’m dreading tomorrow morning… The first day back to school/work after the Spring Forward always sucks!

See, she did beat him!  R.I.P. Peter Graves.  Avoid Mexico.   Love breaks up with Kennedy.  Mummy go home.  Runaway Prius may have been a fake.  What the buck?  Hero dog needs help.  By Beep.   This is disgusting.   This is one tough cabbie!

Rock On, Jack