This is basically for my friends and I, who are meeting in Anaheim California. We’re hoping to make this trip in the Fall of 2009. That gives me plenty of time to map everything out for trip (expenses, restaurants, attractions, directions, etc).

DISNEY LAND
Park Hopper Ticket: $94 (only online?)
Single Day Ticket: $69 (available at gate)
ALL prices here

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS
2 Day for 1 (must purchase at www.universalstudioshollywood.com) $67.00

RESTAURANTS
Sambi (www.sambi.com) in Downey, CA (expect $30) MENU

FLIGHT + HOTEL through Travelocity.com $361.45
(Charlotte, NC to Los Angeles, CA)
Nov 2 - 5, 2009
Ramada Ltd Ste Anaheim Conv Center
2141 SOUTH HARBOR BLVD ANAHEIM CA US 92802
Anaheim, CA 92802
Shuttle to and from Disney Land

CAR RENTAL $49.99/day for economy car
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
LOS ANGELES AIRPORT (ON-SITE)

EXPECTED EXPENSES
Disney Land $94
Universal Studios $67
Sambi restaurant $35
Flight + Hotel $361.45
Car Rental (4 days) $200
Food, Gas and Other $150
TOTAL: ~$900

So Popeyes in Rochester, New York runs completely out of chicken by dinner time and customers are just irate about this travesty. One customer yells, “People have kids that they [are] trying to feed for the special and you’re telling me [that] I can’t feed my kids!?”

Oh come on lady have you heard of Kentucky Fried Chicken?

Another customer proclaims, “I’m not coming back now, I’m done”.

“No chicken? Or they’re just out of chicken?”

…what?

I love it.

Last year I started to feel rough for some reason and I couldn’t figure out why. I thought it was stress caused by my girlfriend at the time. It was hard to explain, but I remember feeling a loss of energy and maybe breath. At some point my heart started beating rapidly all the time which got worse.

Thought I would look up the symptoms and see which ones I have after going through this for a year now.

Symptoms: Nervous, moody (you may or may not notice that I’ve embraced being a real jerk for once in my life in the last year - I’ll blame that on my condition), very weak, very tired and randomly can’t so much as hold my eyes open, hand tremors, fast and irregular heartbeat (was 120-126 bpm when I was diagnosed), sweat often, hair is falling out (or just not growing), intolerance to heat, have lost 30lbs and can’t sleep (mainly due to my heart pounding away every night) among plenty of others.

I was prescribed several medications, but haven’t taken them for more than two months. I know, what am I thinking. I hate taking drugs, in any form. Just not my thing. Tomorrow I’m calling my doctor and making an appointment, this is getting too hard to deal with anymore.

Hyperthyroidism is a condition in which an overactive thyroid gland is producing an excessive amount of thyroid hormones that circulate in the blood. (”Hyper” means “over” in Greek). Thyrotoxicosis is a toxic condition that is caused by an excess of thyroid hormones from any cause. Thyrotoxicosis can be caused by an excessive intake of thyroid hormone or by overproduction of thyroid hormones by the thyroid gland.

This is my pick of the “Top Video Games of the Past 20 Years”. It’s not your pick, it’s mine, so don’t argue with me that a certain game does not belong here, or that another game should be on this list.

I’m going to attempt to order this list from best to least best, according to the time I spent playing the game, whether I played it through more than once or didn’t finish it or just the amount of fun I had playing it.

#1. Knights of the Old Republic (2003)
#2. Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (2004)
#3. Star Wars Galaxies (2003) & Jump to Lightspeed (pre-NGE)
#4. World of Warcraft (2004)
#5. Doom 1 (1993)
#6. Star Wars: X-Wing (1993)
#7. Battlefield 1942 (2002)
#8. Elder Scrolls: Morrowind (2002)
#9. Half Life 1 (1998)
#10. Half Life 2 (2004)
#11. Battlefield 2 (2005)
#13. Duke Nukem 3D (1996)
#14. Starcraft (1998)
#15. The Witcher (2007)

Honorable mentions: F19: Stealth Fighter (1987-1990)