November Update!

Halloween Party
Went to a Halloween party and had a great time. Got my pimp on. 

Recent Movies:
Flight - 3.8 out of 5 stars
Cloud Atlas - 4 out of 5 stars
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - 3.8 out of 5 stars
The Hobbit makes its big screen debut on12/14!

Books
Play Something Dancy
Dee Simon of the Sick and Wrong Podcast writes this expose' on his 5 years as a strip club DJ. He's got some hilarious stories, I highly recommend it, and check out the podcast too, it's always worth a laugh

Proof of Heaven
From one extreme to the other. This book is a non-fiction work by a retired neurosurgeon that contracted a rare form of e. coli meningitis and was in a coma for a week with zero brain activity. While in the coma he visited what could be referred to as heaven and met the higher power we refer to as God. I'm about 2/3 done so far and it's very interesting. I've been trying to wrap my head around my own mortality since my dad passed away 2 years ago, and I have to say that this book is encouraging for agnostics or people with no faith.


Cavs game
Eskimo hooked up me and Slacks with some free Cavs tix. Bad seats but we had a decent time. Tilted Kilt for grub and brews before the game. 

Hurricane
Had 4 days off work due to the "superstorm" that rolled through. It was pretty crazy, there were trees down everywhere.

Poker
Won my session before the Cavs game, and lost after the game. Ended up down a buy-in after winning $160 earlier.  Haven't played since.


Black Pig
Me and Caprice stopped in to check out the place on Friday. Very stylish looking place and the food was killer. I had roasted duck breast...mmmmmmm! We got free drinks and dessert since the owners' kid goes to the place Caprice works, so that was cool too. My only complaint was the classic rock in the background. Just didn't seem to fit.

Election
My Constitution Party candidate sadly did not win. I did get to see Karl Rove get skewered by Fox News. That was a beautiful thing.

Technology
The school levy at work passed, so we will be getting a $500k wireless network installed. They have already started at one building. Pretty exciting.

Also exciting is the like-new Asus laptop I scored on Craigslist. Core i5 CPU, 6GB RAM, 750GB hard drive. I pulled the SSD drive from my Dell and put it in the Asus. This thing screams, I really like it and it looks kick-ass. Gonna sell my Dell Core i3 to TK for $250, which is what I paid for the Asus. The Dell is going for $350+ on eBay right now, and the Asus around $500. Basically I'll get a free upgrade, so that works for me and TK gets a nice laptop at a great price. The Dell is probably the best laptop I've owned.

I'm gonna go check out the new Microsoft Surface tablets sometime soon. Might have work trade in my iPad for it if possible. With a full copy of Win8 on the Surface, I can use it for a lot more work functions.

This past week
Did a hike with the NEO Hiking Meetup the last couple weekends. Got a little lost with week but got some great exercise out of it.


Upcoming
I'm off the week of Thanksgiving! Black Friday road trip is at the CLE Horseshoe Casino this year. Kinda cool, no 2-hour drive in blinding snow. That one year was pretty crazy where we almost went off the road down a monster embankment.

I am also having my annual Nightmare Before Christmas tourney. $40 donkament and low stakes cash game. Should be fun.

Taking my mom out to dinner tonight for her birthday (tomorrow). Heading to Bubba's Q. Never been there, I hear it's good.

That's about it for now. Oh, almost forgot...the weather SUCKS!