4th of July Weekend was cool
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Saturday:
So it’s been a pretty good weekened so far. It started off with UFC 116, Saturday night. Sam and I went to the Buffalo wild wings, But it was full. We waited for a seat for an hour an decided to buy the PPV online. So we walked back to the apartment. On the way back I went to CVS and I bought some Shiner. Sam went to his car and then drove four blocks to go to Randall’s to pickup pizza and some teriyaki boneless wings. Basically, Buffalo Wild Wings is 3 blocks away, CVS is on the way there and on the way back. It the second block on thew way. I got home before same did, so while he was gone I went to the UFC section on Yahoo! Sports and ordered the pay-per-view. We have a home theater pc hooked up to our 55″ tv. The PPV stream quality was excellent and worked fine in Linux. It looked great on the 55″ LCD. Every fight was good. this was my first time actually buying a PPV in the 10 years I have been watching UFC. I have always just gone to sports bars. Let me tell you what, it was worth it. Every fight was awesome, and that shit never happens. I don’t want to ruin the outcomes if you haven’t seen the bouts yet. There were crazy reversals of fate, crazy positions, and crazy finishes. I think I liked the Brock Lesnar vs Shane Carwin fight the most, as far as comeback kids go. about every fight ended in the finish. Really, the fights were so good, they gave out two fight of the night bonuses. We watched the post fight press conference at 12:30am. It was cool hearing all the journalists, who’s columns I read daily, ask their questions and get their answers.
I pretty much banged out a few hours of wins on League of Legends after all of that. That game is so extremely competitive of the weekends. Everyone is always crying when they lose and bitching at their teammates. I almost wish that the chat could be filtered for known crybabies. I think I only lost 2 games, and that was because of AFK’s. I was watching movies and Rewatching the first two seasons of True Blood the whole time I was playing League of Legends.
Sunday:
Good ol’ July 4th. Yes, before you ask, I watched Independence Day, Apollo 13, Good Morning Vietnam, and The Patriot in HD 
. Sam and I ended up at House of Pies for Philly Cheesesteaks and onion rings. It doesn’t get more American than that. We were surrounded by loud ass idiots the whole time. Diners are just like that, I guess. Then we went to go see Toy Story 3, and it was awesome. Pixar has yet to put out a bad movie. That studio is kind of like Blizzard Entertainment. They only put out quality stuff. You could see the fireworks going off from our parking garage roof. There were a lot of people up there with beer, just kicking back, relaxing, and enjoying the show.
I tried to get Fatima to hang out with us several times this weekend, but she would rather do crap on the internet then hang out with real people 
In other news: I should be posting my iMac, mac mini, and Remington 700 .30-06 SPS on ebay soon. I know its been like 2 weeks, but I’ve been pretty busy. Harold sounds interested in the rifle, but we’ll see.
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Random Friday Ownage
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So I think I’ve figured out how to fund my general mac and iPhone tech refresh. The new mac mini just came out this week and it is running about 700. I can get 500-600 for my iMac. I can get 500-550 for my Remington 700 .30-06. I can get about 300-400 for my old mac mini. I don’t shoot it often and I’ve been wanting to built a bolt action bench rest rifle from a barrelled action. That can wait though. The pressing needs are: Mac Mini ($700), another NEC Multisync EA231WMi, and the iphone 4. The monitor will be about 300, the iphone will be about 300. I’ll probably need to sell a guitar i don’t use very much, also.
The A-Team was funny. Get him to the Greek was really funny.
Need to watch: Splice, Toy Story 3, The Karate Kid, Brooklyn’s Finest, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (not out yet), Knight and Day, Grown Ups, Prince of Persia, Robin Hood, Date Night, The Big Four
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I’m finally on Season 6 of Lost
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I absolutely am loving Lost. Glad I picked it up after it completed. Waiting for those episodes to come out and then an interruption between seasons from the writer’s strike would have been hell.
Sam and I have been making more social appearances in Midtown Houston. The NBA and NHL finals have been more conducive to sportsbar awesomeness. Astros are always playinf, so that’s cool. We never miss MMA when its on. UFC watching parties are great. We also figured out that the grocery store preps wings. We add Frank’s Red Hot and it’s great.
I’ve been playing a lot of League of Legends and Starcraft 2 beta a lot. Thanks to glhf.tv for the all the cool replays and commentary. Phreak has also been bringing a pretty good commentary game.
Tim Kennedy and Babalu did great at strikeforce this week.
I’ll probably have another blog up this week.
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Lost
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Now that Lost is over, I finally decided to start watching it because all I have to wait for is netflix. Halfway through season 1 so far.
Been watching a lot of SC2 events on www.GLHF.tv . Been playing lots of League of Legends and Starcraft 2.
Gutted my media box to backup all of the data. I’ve been having issues with it.
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Cousins are in town
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two of my cousins live in houston now. party time?
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Moved to Houston in February
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Its pretty awesome here. Expect me to start posting more.
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K-1 Final 16 Wrapup and how I did on picks #fb
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Here’s how I did on my k-1 Picks last week
Melvin Manhoef vs. Remy Bonjasky – Remy by decision
Jerome LeBanner vs. Musashi – LeBanner by Decision
Daniel Ghita vs. Semmy Schilt – SO UPSET, Semmy Schilt by Decision
Peter Aerts vs. Alistair Overeem – Overeem by Decision
Bader Hari vs. Zabit Samedov – BADR F’IN HARI. KO
Ruslan Karaev vs Kyotaro Fujimoto (Keijiro Maeda) – Karaev by Decision
Glaube Feitosa vs. Errol Zimmerman – Zimmerman by Decision
Ewerton Teixiera vs. Singh “Heart” Jaideep – Teixiera by Decision
Final 8 Bracket:
Side A:
Badr Hari vs Ruslan Karaev <-epic war
Ewerton Texeira vs Alistair Overeem <-overeem
Side B:
Jerome LeBanner vs Semmy Schilt <- Schiltuuuuuu
Remy Bonjasky vs Errol Zimmerman <- Bonjasky
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I am going to start counting calories so I can live a somewhat healthy lifestyle. #fb
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So guys, I am counting calories and stuff. If anyone who went to A&M with me knows Kristen Thompson (she’s probably married to Jackson now so I don’t know her current Last Name), could you get her to email me. I might try and give her a call to see if she’ll hook me up with a good calorie count to use as a guide. Right now, I’m going to shoot for as low as possible. You might see some medifast stuff posted, that’s left over from something my mom’s friend gave me. Its a cool, but pricey program that is actually easy to follow. I’ll be shooting for 20-30minutes of cardio everyday. That sounds easy I’m sure, but if you don’t really feel motivated then you won’t do it. I’m curious to see if I’ll stick with it.
The idea of posting stuff here, is so friends and family can hold me accountable and check in to see what I’ve been doing/eating. I expect my roommate james to give me crap for not following this.
I have a goal of 2 years to be in the 225-240 ballpark. I honestly don’t know what my weight is now. I don’t care. I just want to fit in smaller clothes. I want to be able to fit into a gi. I want to be able do jiu jitsu. That’s the honest injun reason. I could be very good at it, my brother and my dad know why. I can see the setups and transitions to finishing moves 3-4 moves ahead. Now I just need my body to be there so I can join in on the fun.
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#fb UFC 102 post-fight & K-1 World GP Final 16 picks
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I’m pissed off that they didn’t air Gabriel Gonzaga vs Chris Tuchscherer. I read about the epic ballblast and then the TKO afterwards. Apparently there was a ridiculous lowblow perpetrated by Gabriel Gonzaga that had everyone dying on the floor grabbing their testicles in agony from just watching it.
That being said, I forgot to post my picks on my blog, but I did ok.
I picked Couture Vs Noguiera (I picked Noguiera via sub R2).
KRZYSZTOF SOSZYNSKI VS. BRANDON VERA (I picked Vera R.2 KO via Kick)
DEMIAN MAIA VS. NATE MARQUARDT (I picked Demian Maia R.2 Submission)
JAKE ROSHOLT VS. CHRIS LEBEN (I picked Rosholt R.2 TKO via strikes)
THIAGO SILVA VS. KEITH JARDINE ( I picked Silva R.1 KO via Punches)
AARON SIMPSON VS. ED HERMAN (I picked Simpson R.1 TKO via strikes)
CHRIS TUCHSCHERER VS. GABRIEL GONZAGA (I picked Gonzaga R.1 KO via Kick)
MIKE RUSSOW VS. JUSTIN McCULLY (I picked Russow R.2 Sub via N/S Anaconda Choke)
I didn’t really care about the other fights.
I went to go watch the fights with James, Chris, and Brent in grapevine. We proceeded to get pretty hammered that night. It was a good night overall.
Let’s change gears to K-1
Good lord, it seems like K-1 is blowing their load a little early on matchups World GP F-16. They still have Finals and New Years Eve matchups to choose (superfights etc). Here is the event info: http://bit.ly/3aNQD
Here are the matchups if you didn’t watch the vid:
Melvin Manhoef vs. Remy Bonjasky <—– OMG. Remy won the first one, but can melvin win this time? Remy had him on the floor a lot of the time from kicks. A kick finally took melvin out. I think Melvin is just too short to take out Remy.
Jerome LeBanner vs. Musashi <—– LeBanner for the win. He beat Musashi last time via KO in the second round VERY convincingly.
Daniel “SUPER ROOKIE” Ghita vs. Semmy Schilt <— This is like Brock Lesnar fighting Randy Couture for the title in his 3rd fight. Ghita is absolutely devastating though. I have a feeling Semmy Schilt will need new knees after this. I pick Daniel Ghita. Win by TKO (leg kicks or liver kick) (hahahahhaha @ the k-1 video calling Daniel Ghita “SUPER ROOKIE”. K-1 is going to be pissed off when Ghita pulls the upset. He literally walked his way through all of his opponents so far in the GP.
Peter Aerts vs. Alistair Overeem <— 
DEMOLITION MAN!!! Unfortunately Overeem can’t throw elbows in this. I still pick him to win. Peter Aerts can’t handle Overeem.
Bader Hari vs. Zabit Samedov <—- BADR F’IN HARI. That’s all I need to say about that.
Ruslan Karaev vs Kyotaro Fujimoto (Keijiro Maeda) <— KARAEV. This was a tough choice but I see Ruslan Karaev pulling out the win over Kyotaro because he’s just that much better. And he doesn’t come in to the ring wearing dresses and shit.
Glaube Feitosa vs. Errol Zimmerman <— Glaube with the Kyokushin FTW! I know he lost the first fight, but I don’t see errol pulling the repeat on this. Glaube’s headkicks will win it for him.
Ewerton Teixiera vs. Singh “Heart” Jaideep <—- I’m going to have to pick the Heart pulling the upset in this one. I know, this is a bad pick, and I wouldn’t bet this way unless you are going for the underdog payout. I see a lot more potential in this guy than most people do. He would learn a lot if he just flew up to holland and kicked it (literally lol) with some of the locals.
Anyway, those are my K-1 Picks. TUNE IN to hdnet on sept 16th at like 1-2am and watch live, (unless those assholes delay it until friday >:( ) I’ll have it on the TV at work hopefully.
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Strikeforce Results. I picked one wrong.
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OFFICIAL RESULTS
- Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos def. Gina Carano via TKO (punches) – Round 1, 4:59 (to win first-ever women’s 145-pound title)
- Gegard Mousasi def. Renato “Babalu” Sobral via TKO (punches) – Round 1, 1:00 (to win light-heavyweight title)
- Gilbert Melendez def. Mistsuhiro Ishida via TKO (strikes) – Round 3, 3:56 (to defend interim lightweight title)
- Fabricio Werdum def. Mike Kyle via submission (guillotine choke) – Round 1, 1:24
- Jay Hieron def. Jesse Taylor via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
- Scott Lighty def. Mike Cook via TKO (strikes) – Round 1, 2:05
- Justin Wilcox def. David Douglas via submission (rear-naked choke) – Round 3, 3:16
- James Terry def. Zak Bucia via TKO (strikes) – Round 1, 1:23
- Alex Trevino def. Isiah Hill via submission (side choke) – Round 1, 3:56
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