Mutant Ninja Turtles of an Unspecified Age

Since I last entered a bunch of stuff has happened. I'm sure stuff has happened for you too and if you have the time I'd like to hear about it.

Firstly though I have an apology to make. I got a digital camera as my present for Christmas, which is awesome, but I haven't had one before so a bunch of the photos that I put up will probably be crap and uninteresting to most people, at least to begin with. They are on my social-networking page of choice.

So there was Christmas which was cool, although the dog didn't appreciate being dressed up like a decoration. It wasn't my idea I was seriously opposed to the whole thing. There's not too much else I can say about Christmas it was pretty much stock standard stuff.

I have continued to train at UCLA. My shot wasn't looking particularly pretty (think of the girl you take home at the end of the night because your first two choices are already taken...yeah I mean its OK, its all runs on the board I guess, but I mean we can do better) but thanks to some outside help that was fixed up. Apparently upon release of the ball sometimes my wrist goes out too the left instead of going straight down.

The Other day I went to Venice beach to have a look. Its a bit like the Freo Markets except its right on the beach. It is also covered with Freo type characters. If you have ever been a Freo resident or frequent there regularly, you'll know what I mean.

I think what's unique about Venice Beach is that they have an outdoor gym located on the beach and a bunch of basketball courts where the real street level stuff is. Judging from the number of t-shirts that were being sold with his face on it, I'm guessing Arnie must have pushed some weights there.

Speaking of T-shirts, there were a few stalls that sold novelty ones and I would have bought them for people if I had some money, but didn't so I figuired I'd just post them here and you could lay claim to them.

'I'm big in Japan'
'Dunder-Mifflin'
'FACT: Dwight Schrute is selling tickets to the gun show'
'Such is life'
'I play field hockey and I'm not gay' (controversial?)

There were a bunch of others but I forgot.

The other thing about Venice beach is the animal freak show tent. I didn't actually go in mostly because I'm not sure that its the kind of thing you should be profiting off. That said if the animals are taken care of its probably ok. The spruiker said their was a five legged dog and outside they had a turtle with two heads. I didn't seem particularly useful to me, but its probably better at fighting crime than regular mutant turtles. Two turtle heads are better than one?

Wow. That was terrible. I apologise.

Last night, (nye) I went to my first ever NBA game. The Clippers vs the 76ers. Think Western Force vs Queensland Reds or Freo vs Richmond. I had an absolute blast, half of the fun is what goes on when the basketball isn't being played. If your in the US you have to go. I've talked about basketball a lot so I won't waste too much time on it. I was pretty stoked that during a timeout I stuck up the left duke and caught a t-shirt that was thrown into the crowd. That never happens.

Oh and steer clear of the 'cheese' nachos. You'll pay now. You'll pay later.

I then came home, had a beer and watched the CNN coverage of New Years Eve. Although it was a quiet new years eve I think it was a good one namely because I didn't risk having my head in a toilet bowl around 2am and starting the new year tasting vomit in my mouth and wondering what I said last night. Perhaps this will be a new trend.

I also went to a Kosher Subway. I don't fully understand the whole 'Kosher foods' thing. But from what I understand its an aspect of the Jewish religion that forbids the mixing of meat and dairy products. If you can give me a run-down of what the deal is I'd be pretty interested to know.

Today is the big 'Bowl' game for College Football is CA. Local side USC (University South California) is taking on Penn. State. I don't quite understand the full story (I'll work it out) but it seems like a big deal.

I hope you had a successful nye whatever you were doing. Good things for 2009.

ctb