Greetings from Pullman

I decided this would be a good weekend to take a vacation, so I have. I went over to visit some of my friends who are attending WSU summer classes. Its good times over here, reminds me of highschool and the funtimes that came with it (because it was sooo long ago).

Life has been the usual, having people come to me with their issues and I being various stages of annoyed by it. Its no biggie, I'll deal with it. If I think about their problems, mine don't bug me, so it works out better that way. No movie plans right now, I might do a wiwille like review of something that is already out, stay tuned. Something I might reccommend to people, is a show on Showtime called Dexter. Its a show about a guy who is serial killer and works in forensics with the Miami PD. Intersting stuff.

Hockey Hangover

So this weekend I played in the annual 'Stacked Deck Hockey Tournament'. It was a blast. The players are a group of us that have a weekly drop in and do various exhibition games. This year I was on the Diamonds. We did finish 4th sadly, but it was still alot of fun. I did enjoy getting the game winning shootout goal in game 3 and being the first star for it. Kudos to Steve Day for getting this all organized (and keeping the supply of pizza and beverages).

However like any other stretch of 4 games in two days, there is some good ole fashoned soreness. Add in some late night Halo/Rockband with Sweezea for the last couple of nights, coffee is my friend today. Its all good though, I can't wait for it next year. Later today I have my regular game against HES North...we might actually win this one...

Something off topic

Blogy picture time

1. What is your first name? Mike
2. What is your favourite food? Pho
3. What high school/University did you go to? Henry M Jackson High School
4. What is your favourite color? Green
5. Who is your celebrity crush? Natalie Portman
6. What is your favourite drink? Roy Rodgers
7. What is your dream vacation? Toronto
8. What is your favourite dessert? Cookie Dough Icecream
9. What do you want to be when you grow up? Taller
10. What do you love most in life? Hockey
11. What is one word that describes you? Meh
12. What is your blog name? Mizzle's place in the web

Mizzle Hardware reviews...BJ II edition

After a bit of a Customer service nightmare with AT&T, I received a new phone from them. The process started with me trying to get the work discounted applied to my phone, and I had to branch off my old contract and pay a sucky deposit. After that I waited a few bills and tried to get on the the 'company owned phone discount'. I was referred by our somewhat helpful rep at work to go into a store, after some run around between stores, internal emails and phone numbers I got it sorted. In the process, my BlackJack phone was determined to be in need of an upgrade. I wasn't gonna argue, and got the BlackJack II.

The BlackJack II in impressive, it has some tweaks to the OS which make things easier (compared to WM6 on the BlackJack which at times was a nightmare). Overall its looks more shiny, which is a pro and con. It does look nicer, but its now a fingerprint magnet. Also the keyboard layout has been redone, but it looks like it for the better. The phone itself is quicker, due to the double memory and faster processor. The battery life on it seems to have improved as well, the BlackJack needed a 'bigger' and 'smaller' battery, the BJ II battery outlasts the 'bigger' on thus far. Signal also seems to be better at work, but my cube overall still is a dead spot. Or it could be Wiwille sapping the signal, I will never know

I would recommend this phone to anyone looking for a smartphone, but still wants something simple. And if you don't feel like becoming an iTool.

No Hulk smash

Didn't see 'The Hulk', plans fell through. Hopefully I can work something out to see it soon. I played quite a bit of GTA IV instead, still haven't beaten it yet. Yesterday I went whitewater river rafting on the Methow river. It was a blast, I had a lot of fun. The sunburn on my face and arms, not so fun.

Midnight Movies...Episode 4...Hulk Smash?

So this week's midnight movie is 'The Incredible Hulk'. Expectations for this one are low as the first Hulk movie sucked. It was fall asleep in the theatre bad. Although this looks like an improvement with Edward Norton and Tim Roth. Two very good actors, in my opinion. Afterwards, I will probably play Rockband all night...sounds like a good night to me.

Mizzle Movie Reviews...mess with the Zohan edition

So Friday night I saw Dont mess with the Zohan...its safe to safe you can mess with him. It was an extrememly dissapointing movie. It was kinda like Click, good start, bad from middle on. The first 30-45 minutes were good, but then it became the same repetitive jokes over and over. It just lost all momentum and become a childish slapstick movie. Normally I like those types of movies, but this one, not so much. My thoughts were shared by most of the other movie-goers in our group. On a side note, definetly going to Alderwood more, less creepy creepy people with swords.

Downtime at work leads to...

'List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now.'

I wasn't tagged in this one, but stole it from Wiwille.

Numero uno:


Number two:


Number three:


Number four:


Number five:


Number six:


And finally number seven:


See how many people read my blog after this one...

I have no shame?

I guess some frown upon asking a girl to dinner...who you just rear-ended. She politely declined due to a boyfriend. We were both okay...my car needs to have it's hood...adjusted. More reasons to hate the rain.

Mizzle Movie Reviews...creepy people outside edition

Last night I did a rare thing, not see a movie at midnight, only at 10:00. I saw 'The Strangers', a horror movie about a couple being tormented by a gang of people while at a romantic retreat. Overall it wasn't bad. Had some decent shock value, which had people behind me screaming. It scared Sweezea a bit (which she won't admit) as well. The one hang up I had was they set it up for a sequel. I am getting annoyed with the movie trend of most ending with things setting it up for a sequel. But that's just me. I would recommend people seeing it, a decent scare for all.