Monday, May 25, 2009

I Killed Pedro

New Thing #2.

For week 2 of 52, I killed Pedro.  Then I ate him.  

I picked Pedro out of a group of about 15 of his closest peers.  I drove him back to my place and introduced him to my roommates.  They liked him, but agreed that he should be killed.  I put him back in his bag and stuck him in the fridge for a couple of hours.   Pedro is a lobster, or was a lobster.  Now he's dead.


Around 5:30, I figured I was getting a little hungry and it was time for Pedro to die.  I boiled a large pot of water and pulled him out of his bag.  I read online that if you rub his belly, it hypnotizes the lobster in order to make it easier to throw him into the pot.  That didn't seem to be the case with Pedro.  I rubbed his belly, and then when I tried to put him in his pot, he freaked out.  He wiggled all over and for some reason it caught me by surprise.  It shouldn't have.  I had a live animal in my hand.  Live animals move.  Live animals especially move when they get hurt.  Boiling water hurts.   Nonetheless, it freaked me out and I didn't get him in the pot on the first try.  
I did on the second try.  He was still alive for a couple of minutes.  

I felt pretty bad for Pedro, but I not bad enough to save him.  Had I saved him at this point, he'd probably would have been a vegetable for the rest of his life anyway.  If not that, his brain would be really slow and he'd no longer be able to do sudokus.  What's the point of life without a sudoku?  Remember 2004 and the presudoku era?  It sucked.  So, I figured it best to put him out of his misery.  I left him in the pot to boil a slow, painful, tasty death.

Pedro tasted good.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Taking the Plunge

I'm 24 years old, and I've pretty much been drinking every weekend for the past nine years.  Well, not exactly every weekend, but I'd say the bulk of them.  It wasn't that I felt like I always had to be drinking.  It was simply that that's what my friends and I had always done for fun.  It became what I knew.  When Friday came, I'd buy alcohol.  It was just the norm.  

So, I was thinking there are probably a lot of other ways to have fun that I've been ignoring. I had a conversation back in January with a friend of a friend about her friend's New Years Resolution.  So, the conversation was about a friend of a friend of a friend.  This conversation obviously took place at a bar.  Anyway, this guy's resolution was to do something he had never done before once a week for all 52 weeks.  I thought that was genius, and planned to do that for 2010.  But, now I figure why wait?  Why not start now and make my own year?  The Earth is still going to make a full revolution back to this point, right?  That is the definition of a year, so that works.  There is no finish line that the Earth passes on December 31.  So, I'll do it now, and it's got to start with a bang.  So, to start- I went bungee jumping. 
There's this place in the Angeles Mountains called the Bridge to Nowhere.  You hike five miles there, bungee jump off the bridge, and hike back.  A friend of mine, Sean, and I did this on May 10th, thus making May 10th my New Year's Day.  
The hike takes your through the mountains, across the San Gabriel river 10 times or so, and finally to the bridge.   I'm not going to lie, I was scared as all hell for the last mile of the hike.  Then, at the bridge, they go over like 115 ways that you can make yourself look like an idiot.  So, now on top of being scared, I'm worried that I'm going to forget to do something correctly and look like an idiot.  Once I got on the platform, I blacked it all out of my mind and just jumped.  It went all right.  Good times.  Here's the video of my jump.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AtL5B_4hBU

And of Sean's jump.  Sean jumped with a camera in his hand and I filmed it from the bridge, so it's split screen of the two vantage points.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RRnaY-pZwM&feature=channel_page

I also saw the Shins in concert that night, so does that count for 2 in 1?  Because, I went home the next weekend to Saint Louis and didn't do anything new.