Unruly Behavior

Ok,

So I went to my 20 year High Shcool Reunion on Friday and Saturday nights last week.

Oddly enogh, I had an incredibly great time on both nights.

On Friday night, Friendswood High School hosted all 20 year seniors at the Homecoming football game. I ended seeing a bunch of old friends that I had not seen in years. Many years, twenty in some cases. I also saw folks I hadn't gotten along with so well in High School, and for the most part, figured out that there was no animosity left. We all talked to one another, and while we will never all be best friends, we all were happy to see that we had turned out so well as a whole. One guy in particular, who used to live down the street from me growing up and was always in trouble had joined the Marines, and became a Military Journalist. Pretty cool. Our class vandal is now an FBI Special Agent, and people had all kinds of other interesting jobs.

The best part though on Friday was seeing the two class bullies standing by themselves, and no one stopping to talk to them. I know it sounds petty, but there was some vindication in seeing that most everyone had to remember what assholes they were to everyone.

There was a reception after the game in the school library where we were handed Class Biographies. We were all sent surveys earlier in the year, so this is how I found out about the interesting jobs. Also found out in this that three of my classmates had passed away. One was carjacked, one had complications of epilepsy and the last most likely had some kidney problems. It was sad news, but in a realistic sense, it is less than 1% of our graduating class that is deceased, and that is quite surprising considering how insane we all were back then.

Saturday night was a dinner and dance at South Shore Harbor. The Houston Astros were playing the first game of the World Series, and someone brought in a large TV so everyone could watch.

That was a little distracting, and the 'Stros lost. Can't win them all.

They had a cash bar, with some of the most expensive, worst drinks, I have ever had. $7.00 for Crown & Coke, $6.00 for a Margurita, and couldn't taste the alcohol in either. The dinner buffet was acceptable Mexican food. My advice it avoid food and drinks if you ever hit South Shore Harbor. Sneak in a flask and a pizza if you get the chance.

We saw some more people, and talked to some folks who had read the bios. Everyone had a good time. We went home around 10:30 PM, as I had seen enough of most of the folks there to last me another 20 years.

If I wrote everything that comes to mind here, this post would be about four times longer.

So I would recommend to anyone that is interested, go to your reunion, you can always leave early if it sucks, but you can never go again if you skip the possible disaster.

Sargent Pepper taught the band to play.

(A little Beatles for your enjoyment.)

Hard to believe it, but I was a High School senior at Friendswood High School twenty years ago.

This weekend is my 20 year reunion, the school does it at the Homecoming Football game, with a special reception after the game for 20 year seniors. Then there is a dinner/dance (Prom?) on Saturday night.

Ok, so I hated high school. I was a geek/athlete/loaner type. Yeah, I didn't really fit any one group, and didn't have a lot of friends.

So, why did I spend $120 on dance tickets, and why am I going to a high school football game, which I avoided for four years when I was in high school? Why am I driving my wife, who hates everything high school related even more than me, along?

Becuase I've been practing things to say when I see folks.

1. Wow, you've really put on weight.
2. Sorry about your career, looks like you really peaked in high school.
3. Funny, I didn't think you would be out on parole so soon.
4. I always figured you were gay.
5. Really, that wasn't you in that porno I downloaded from the net?

I'm sure I'll think of other things to say to people, but I've got to practice the ones above to make sure I forget none of them, and overuse all of them.

On a related note, children should be an interesting subject. I'm going to run into folks that got married and started up right out of high school and have kids that are or nearly are college age. Here I'll be toting pictures of my two year old. Should make for an interesting weekend.

Send me any good questions/things to say that come to mind. Help me make this a memorable weekend for all.

Ok,

Went to lunch with a couple of guys from the office at The Flying Pig as we all happened to be at the same client that is right up the street form there. They have an excellent all you can eat Spagetti Bowl on Tuesdays for $4.95 I think it is. Anyway, ate two huge bowls of pasta and sauce. I've needed a nap for the whole afternoon.

But now, to the fun part of the story. On the way back we were discussing my afternoon service call that was scheduled at the time. We were on the parking garage elevator, and it was full of people. One of the guys reminded me that I needed to hurry up, becuase the appointment time was near and I was supposed to go to the customer's house. I said, "It's OK, I don't have to be on time, the boss knows she is insane, so I can say I got there on time and she is just a crazy woman."

After we got off the elevator my buddies said the thought I had offended everyone on the elevator. I told him that was great, as I consider myself an Equal Opportunity Offender.

More fun to come.

-Dren

Ok,

Had to work today. Not a big deal. But I decided to go to Burger King for breakfast and try out their Enormous Omlette Sandwich, and the Turbo Joe coffee. Both were excellent. I won't have to eat or consume caffene again till tomorrow.

But on to my Real Life Adventure. The person in line before me was hispanic, and I would venture to guess from Mexico. She had what appeared to be a couple of grandkids in tow. She apparently only spoke Spanish. This was causing problems with ordering and completing the payment transaction as the cashier (looking to be a white high school aged girl) apparently only spoke english.

At some point in her frustration of not comprehending that her credit card was declined by the payment system, the old woman looks at me and says something in Spanish.

I looked her in the eye and said, "Sorry, I only speak English. If I lived somewhere like Mexico, I would learn to speak Spanish. Maybe you should learn English if you want to continue to live here."

Now, I know she did not understand everthing that I said. However, I am rather certain that she got the gist of my message by the dirty look she gave to me before turning back to the cashier.

After the old woman got out of earshot, while I was placing my order, the cashier smiled at me and said, "Thanks".

I told her she was welcome.

Ok, why should I have all the fun? I think it is time for the official Unruly Behavior Store.

If any of you acatually buy some of this stuff, I'll design and sell more.

Ok, if you read this blog, you know my feelings about movies, going to the movies, and the movie studios.

So today, I made one of my rare treks to the multi-mega-plex near the house.

Went with the wife to see Serenity. Now, I had never seen the show Firefly, but I had heard the buzz about it on Slashdot. Didn't know anything about it the story, or even who was in the movie till I saw the previews. Then decided that it looked interesting. The reviews I read were good, then I heard on Slashdot that they were making the first nine minutes a free download. Didn't go watch that on purpose.

After the first nine minutes, you are filled in pretty well on the back story, and jump into the plot fairly quickly. After the first act, basically a bank robbery and escape, I thought to my self, if I go home right now, this will still be the best movie I have seen in years.

If you like great sci-fi, go see this movie. If you want a movie that is not completely predictable, is a pleasure to watch and a good escape, go see this movie. If you like hot chicks in revealing outfits, go see this movie. Hell, just go see the damn movie. It is worth the money.

I'm heading to Deep Discount DVD right now to order the Firefly series on DVD to catch up on the stuff I missed, then maybe back to the theater to see the thing again. It was that good.

Update (6:30 AM 10/10/2005):
Remembered why we didn't watch this when it first came out. The Geniuses that do programming at Fox put it up opposite Star Trek: Enterprise on UPN and Stargate: SG-1 on SciFi. This actually shows the blatant stupidity of programmers at networks. "Hey, all the sci-fi geeks watch that established show SG-1, since ours is so much better than theirs, we will run it up at the same time." Figuring that all the fans of one show will jump ship for something new and unproven is just plain stupid. The most annoying part of this is that all three are good shows, and had they been left not opposite each other on three networks, possibly all three, instead of one of the three, would still be on at this time.

Wife and boy off at her mom's for the night.

Stopped on the way home. Got a bottle of Patron Silver, a bottle of 100 Proof Southern Comfort. Picked up some hot links and tortillas. Got a nice big Cigar.

Sat out on the porch, drinking really good margaritas, ate some sausage, had a shot of patron, some Sambucca. Now I'm playing Xbox Live with my friends and drinking SOCO. Only had to type most of this message twice.

It's damn good to be me!

"There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses."
-Ezekiel 23:20

Guess Ezekiel was more of a Prophet than anyone realized.

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