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The Top 5 Laziest Inventions

Mario kart came out for the wii Sunday and we headed to Best Buy to grab a copy. They had boxes and boxes of them along with 8 wii consoles on a table right in front. We got mario kart and an extra wheel. Took me a bit to learn the tricks, but I was kicking butt right away. Theresa was a bit scared, but by her 3rd race she took first. There are bunches of reviews out there so I will spare ya. Will just say it is pretty fun, but nothing too amazing. A great party game or to get folks to play wii if they have not and have a good time.

we rented pinball hall of fame and I love it. I am a huge pinball fan and this game is the absolute best emulator I have ever played. The graphics are spooky real. Sure the wii does have graphic issues, but the playfield is beautiful. The games are completely accurate down to the little quirks of certian games. Like how the bumpers work with the multiplier lights on the game taxi. I am gonna pick this one up for sure.

This guy is not a fan of pinball, but it is the best vid I could find.

Last we rented Mario and Sonic Olympics. This is your usual wear your arms out shaking them in diff ways kind of game. It follows the mario kart system where you hace to win rounds to unlock more events. Still fun though.

before:
I have heard some negative info about it this year. I have gone to many of these beer fests over the past decade and served beer at most I attended. It used to be if you wanted to participate you brought your beer as a donation to the cause. I think they are charging those who bring beer now. Also the peeps I got the ticket from donated $500 cash and a couple thousand worth of materials to this fest and got very few tickets out of it when they had gotten many in past years. Seems like greed is working its way into this.

After
this was so frickinglame

I am pissssssssssssed off

I mentioned above how many folks who donated got hosed, well it was the folks who bought tickets that really got forked. For your $30 you got 10 beer tickets and 5 wine tickets. Wine bottles had measuring pourers on them so you got 2 ounces of wine per ticket. The beer glasses were small and were not supposed to be filled all the way, so about 4 ounce samples.

Lets do the math
10 ounces of wine and 40 ounces of beer fo $30. Sure you could buy more tickets for a buck each.
Forking lame as hell.

There were only 4 breweries and about the same wineries.
The food provided from the fest was pretty lame. Cheese chunks and wheat thins, grapes, and peggler egg rolls. There were food vendors like bread and cup, brown baggers, goat cheese guy and Le Quartier. They had really good stuff.

Turnout was weak, they got too greedy. If I had paid for my ticket I would of been much more furious than I am. Lucky for me I know all the brewers and got my buzz on with many tickets to spare.

Nice article in the LJS

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the flyer is awesome

Ahhhh the joys of being a state worker.

If the weather plays nice I will be doing yard work most of the day, so might be a light post day.

Wisco posted about this. He is a member. Man does that bring back the memories. I love the rotating griddle. My family went in the evening cuz pancakes for dinner is awesome. If only they had bacon.

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