Mama's House

No, this is not another Squishie and The Prophets post. Rather it's a Dodgers post. Go Dodgers!

All-Star center fielder Andruw Jones and the Los Angeles Dodgers reached a preliminary agreement Wednesday night on a two-year, $36.2 million contract, SI.com has confirmed.

That's the great news, now for the "say it ain't so" part.

The Dodgers are expected to move Juan Pierre to left field, leaving Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier for right. The surplus of outfielders could make either Kemp or Ethier expendable.

Are you serious!? Juan Pierre getting a spot ahead of Ethier or Kemp!? SAY IT AIN'T SO!

In my never ending quest to provide as much a steady stream of content as possible I've decided to include clips of shared items from my Google Reader. For those who don't know, Google Reader is described by Wiki as "a Web-based aggregator, capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds online or offline." Or more simply put by Google,

Stay up to date
Google Reader constantly checks your favorite news sites and blogs for new content. Whether a site updates daily or monthly, you can be sure that you won't miss a thing.

Simplify your reading experience
Google Reader shows you all of your favorite sites in one convenient place. It's like a personalized inbox for the entire web.

I started using Google Reader only yesterday and I'm already in love with it.

So basically I'm sharing with all of you articles I've come across the web that I found at least semi-interesting enough to share. If any of you use Google Reader or any other aggregator and would like to share what they like to read on the web here, feel free to send me the necessary code and I'll update the site.

Bruin7089: are you really learning how to throw a ball?
lindsey: im doinga project on it
lindsey: for my kinesiology class
Bruin7089: so are you throwing a ball or what?
lindsey: no.
Bruin7089: are you going to be able to teach someone how to throw a ball?
lindsey: we're just talking about the mechanics and the phases it goes through. and the injuries
lindsey: yeah
Bruin7089: really?
lindsey: i researched step by step instructions on how to
Bruin7089: so you're going to know how to throw one and with practice you'll be good at it?
lindsey: possibly
Bruin7089: Could you teach your brother how to throw a ball?
lindsey: hahaha ill send him my project to read

ARE WE COOKING AGAIN????
Mama has been asking me if are going to be cooking again. Wayne suggested that who ever wants to cook, either cousins or Tita's would be better. So let me know which of you would like to contribute a dish for Christmas so I could let mama know.

This year rather than our $15 gift exchange, I will be collecting $15 dollars from everyone. Tita's, Tito's, Cousins and anyone who will be participating. So let your parents know. The money collected will be used for prizes for games played. This year I decided to do something different so we will be playing games like pictionary, karaoke, mad gab, possibly rock band or guitar hero, etc.. Let me know what other games we could play. But I would like to have all the money collected by Dec 20th so I could get some other stuff rather than just cash as prizes...

Last but not least I mentioned this idea to a couple cousins... The alcohol exchange amongst the cousins or any adults that would like to be included... Price range is 25 bucks of either alcohol and glasses or just alcohol. Just make sure its worth 25 bucks... Let me know whos in or out for this...Cause i know Joni already got hers...

Let me know asap about all three things....

From that list, I can recall playing six of them:

Contra
TMNT
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out
Friday The 13th
Ninja Gaiden
Mega Man

Of those six I remember finishing only Contra and Mike Tyson's Punch-Out. Mike Tyson was particularly frustrating and satisfying when finally finished. And I don't I would've passed Contra without the cheat code. As for the other games, I remember spending a lot of time with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on The Dam level. Such fond memories.

Outside of those games mentioned I didn't really come across any other frustratingly impossible games. It was perhaps because Darryll and I stuck mostly to sports games which weren't frustratingly difficult to beat. Unless it was me trying to beat Darryll in a basketball game that is.

A notable exception would be Smash TV and its neverending waves of swarming enemies, which Mehran has far fonder memories of than I do.