Fun Fact: Dark roast coffees actually have less caffeine
than lighter roasts.
Last we left our heroes they had just traveled 3,000
miles back to Rhode Island to watch the Bruins lose in spectacular fashion so
that’s where I’ll pick it up! Hello
everyone, Jeff here. lots has happened
in the last three months since I last posted a blog – it’s been tax season and
although I don’t do taxes I get the benefit of working 1,000 hour weeks still J. For those kids or parents reading at home
tell your kids to practice hitting a curve ball instead of reading books.
Anyway, I guess since I already made a bruins reference
I’ll work backwards on this post. Also
my memory isn’t too great so we’ll see how much of the last two months I can
recall at the moment. This past weekend
was St Patty’s day weekend and although we didn’t go to the parade in Newport
(RI) like we did those couple years before we became accountants, we still
managed to enjoy some festivities. The
Bruins made their annual west coast swing so they played games on Friday night
in Anaheim (against Coach Bombay and the Mighty Ducks) and Saturday night
against Quasimodo and the Kings.
Quasimodo sporting a fine black tunic ahead of his match with some bears.
In September when tickets went on sale we couldn’t resist
buying them to see the Bruins in Anaheim but as last week rolled along I
couldn’t help but try to convince Carissa to let me get tickets to the Kings as
well. We ended up going to both games
and they were a blast but unfortunately the flying V and non-stop quack chants
rattled the Bruins to a 4-0 loss against the ducks and the Kings protected the
castle and the Bruins lost again 2-1 making it two consecutive years where they
went 0 for 3 on their west coast swing (they lost in San Jose on Monday of last
week). That concludes this week’s sports
talk. Tune in later in the blog when I
remember that the super bowl also happened in the last two months and the
sports talk actually continues briefly!
So the week before I traded Saturday in the office for
Sunday in the office and we took a trip down to a beer fest in San Diego. It was a beautiful sunny and 75 degrees
(obviously… because that’s all San Diego ever is) and the beer fest was right
on the water next to multi-million dollar yachts. Carissa can explain the yachts better than I
can though.
As Carissa pointed out above, this boat not only has a boat on it but also has a helicopter (sans blades) on the top deck. It was quite an impressive sight to see.
(It's almost like you can't even tell this was recorded after a beer fest)
(It's almost like you can't even tell this was recorded after a beer fest)
The beer fest ran from around 1-4, there were food trucks
where I got bacon wrapped mac and cheese bites (almost brother’s competition
quality) and we went out on the town after for a few hours before returning
home and sleeping off a long day… before I had to wake up and drag my dead body
into work because that’s what champions do… they drink too much and go to work
the next day anyway!
Thursday March 10th was the celebration of the
day I was born 26 short years ago! As
always I celebrated the only way I know how – by going to work! Luckily the manager I was working with found
out it was my birthday around 3pm and felt bad about not knowing all day so he
told me to leave at 5pm (instead of the more traditional 9pm that I had been working
until the rest of that week). So Carissa
and I went out to a lovely dinner where I ate steak and drank some
chardonnay! Then we came home and
watched Straight Outta Compton. It was
good but the most interesting part of the whole thing is that they just painted
Eazy-E as a complete dingus (PG rated language alert) which is interesting
because he’s now dead and couldn’t really add anything to the story. Who knows? Maybe he was a dingus? Either way – good movie.
So working our way back chronologically, I don’t remember
anything else that happened between Super Bowl Sunday and my birthday so let’s
go there! Going into that weekend we
were already into the swing of busy season and working too many hours including
Saturdays (and by “we”, I mean “I” Carissa managed to find a diamond in the
rough (the Aladdin of accounting firms if you will) where she doesn’t have to
work overtime during winter). So
checking the weather report we noticed it was going to be nice on Super Bowl
weekend and we decided to go to the beach.
In February. On Super Bowl
Sunday. It was in the low 80s and it was
amazing just to be at the beach hanging out… after all it’s one of the only
times we really “celebrated” the fact that we moved to California. We hung out there for most of the day then we
watched Peyton Manning do his best to lose to the Panthers only to be bailed
out by his defense. But after a Broncos
win and a Peyton doing a little advertising for Papa John and Budweiser the
night went on. The cool thing about the
west coast is that big games like that usually end around 10pm so you don’t
have to feel like a zombie the next day!
Although you still do because it’s the Super Bowl. That concludes our sports talk for today,
stay tuned for more interesting topics!
So arguably the most exciting thing that happened in the
last two months (and in all honesty about 75% of the reason we packed
everything and moved to California) was that we went to be in the audience of
The Price Is Right! So basically this
should have been an entire blog in itself but I f’d up and I apologize. I also can’t give away any spoilers because I
signed an official looking piece of paper that a perused beforehand and said I
shouldn’t or Bob Barker would kick my ass.
So basically all of their filming is done during the week but we (Carissa)
found a rare Sunday filming and we (Carissa) got tickets for us! The tickets said there was a morning and an
afternoon filming so we chose the afternoon which meant we were supposed to be
there by noon. So in order to make sure
we were there on time for what we thought was a noon filming we got there at
like 10:30am. What we did not know
however is that they wanted us there at noon for the pre-show stuff. What this means is that they have to take
everybody’s information and SSN and everything to make sure you don’t make a
living trying to get onto The Price Is Right (unfortunately). So for about 4 hours we did everything from
filling out some paperwork, to waiting in line, to getting our official TPIR
nametags, to getting our picture, to getting interviewed in a group of about 25
at a time to see if you’ll be worthy enough to go up and be on contestant
row. Basically it was a long process
that was totally worth it because we got to go inside the Bob Barker Sound
Stage! So *Spoiler Alert* neither of us
got selected, I think the guy liked me during the interview because he talked
to me for a bit longer than other people but as soon as I said I was an
accountant (like an idiot) I knew that was the nail in my coffin. TPIR is looking for an average joe, not
somebody who makes them pay taxes (is that what people think accountants
do?). Anyway lesson learned and next
time I go to a filming I am telling them I’m a plumber or a student or
something. Going inside the sound stage
was pretty amazing, we got to see Drew Carey; he told a lot of dirty jokes
during the commercial breaks. We got to
see some people win some games and some people lose some games. Probably the funniest “crowd” experience I
had was there was a game where there were 5 numbers in a row in the price of
whatever and it was like 47512. The goal
of the game was to pull out either the 7, 5, or 1 to get the actual price of
whatever it was. So the girl next to us
(who didn’t know the contestant) was screaming, SCREAMING 1 over and over. Louder than anybody else in the audience it
seemed and I figured I wanted to take a stab at it too, why not right? So I
yell 7. IMMEDIATELY after I yell 7
(thinking I’m helping the person playing the game) the girl yelling 1 whips
around and yells “NO!” at me as if I was stabbing her cat. At that point I was like ok fine 1! 1! And it
turns out the answer was 1 and that girl was spot on so I just followed what
she said on every game after that (except one where I was right and it was
awesome – she was actually right on like 95% of the games so it sucks for her
that she didn’t get called up… she obviously did some research
beforehand). Speaking of research, they
told us multiple times before we went in that we couldn’t bring phones
(obviously) or price listings which I thought was funny. Like you just print out a list of prices of
everything you can think of just in case anybody you know gets called up so you
can help. Everything from Toyota Camry
to Flintstones vitamins just to be safe.
Stroll on in with an alphabetized ream of price lists. Anyway… thought that was funny that they
specified it multiple times. All and all
I have not given up on my dream to meet Drew Carey, call him Bob, have nobody
anywhere find it funny but me, and ultimately do something stupid to lose it
all. The episode we were on is airing on
April 26th and we are in the second row behind the contestants so
you will absolutely see us! After busy
season is over we will work on getting on TV more so you can all see us more –
our goal for the next show we go watch is Who’s Line Is It Anyway (we are doing
a Drew Carey tour).
I think that’s the high points for the last three-ish
months. We will do our best to do more
interesting things to blog about and I will do my best to remember them and to
remember to blog about them! Until next
time – have a great day!
May your poops be plentiful! (and you thought I forgot my
closing line).
