In 2005, I went to one of the biggest Super Smash Bros Melee
tournaments in the world (MELEEFC). It was held in Indiana and
probably over 200 to 300 people attended (from all over the world.). I
think it was 70 dollars for the whole weekend, including food and all
entry fees. I drove with Mikey and the craziest thing happened to him
that day of the tournament (hisDad died that day). He chose to still
go to the tournament to try to get his mind off of it. The drive there
wasnt too bad, but once we got near the backroads that led to the
Church at which it was held rain just started pouring so hard that
there was nearly zero visibility. Eventually we got there but that had
to have been the craziest rain I have ever been in.


I was so excited when we got there, the room had like 50 or more TVs.
This was my last official tournament before I retired from playing
smash. I think I have been playing it for like 5 years or more. It is
the most addicting and fun game ever.


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Before school in Elemntary school I used to like watching:

• Highlander The Animated Series (I still want to find these on DVD)


• Duck Tales (I still love it and have every episode)


• Xmen


• Darkwing Duck

After school I used to like watching:

• Rocky and Friends


• Sonic The Hedgehog


• Gargoyles

My mom would always let us eat like 4 snacks after school and gladly we didnt become fat from them. We would watch TV on this small little color TV that my Dad had won or something.

so i decided to head up to wolf lake again with my good buddy chad from kzoo. all ive been thinking about is throwing a frisby in waist high warm water for the past two weeks with an ice cold beverage in the other hand.... so i couldnt pass it up! well long story short just as we get on M10 (i believe) headed to wolf lake, just west of 131, we notice a van pull over smoking a little from the hood. im on the phone with and contemplainting whether we should pull over or not.. so finally we pull over and run over to the driver.. shes just getting out of the van with her daughter still strapped in the smoking-about to be ingulf in 15 foot flames, van. we look under the car and see gooey black stuff dropping from the engine bay to the ground on fire. so we immediately get them to the other side of the road to safety.. we than flag down the next group of cars pulling boats.. the one guy grabs his fire extingusiher and we try to put it out from under the car.. but it didnt phase the . . . Read More..

We had a very busy winter in 2006 because Susan and I planned things to do every weekend. One fun thing we did was take a trip with Cynthia and Susan down to Maryland to meet up with some friends to go skiing. Nothing too interesting happened on the drive there. But toward the end I was freaked out by Susan's driving because there were many winding dirt roads and she was driving with a lead foot. I commented a whole bunch about how I was fearing my life! I think I like being in control in those types of situations.



Anyway, we got to this beautiful mansion tucked away in this really nice neighborhood. Most of the people there were from Maryland and we all just played games and drank the whole night. One game was beer pong which I didnt participate, but we think that either that game (drinking out of random cups) or the hot tub and skiing attributed to Susan getting sick after the trip. That night was pretty crazy. One crazy thing that happened while everyone was . . . Read More..

My grandpa decided he wanted to do some traveling while his health is stable and he decided to go out west. I asked him if I could tag along for a couple of weeks and then fly home from my friend's house in Calgary. Taking this trip is truly a once and a lifetime opportunity for me. My grandpa is the out west professional. He has been driving back and forth since the 1930's and all of his children have been out there with him. Now was my chance to take a really sweet trip with him.

We left on a Thursday and made it all the way up to just north of the Mackinac bridge on the first days drive. We were trying to make it to my cousin Jimmy's wedding in Minnepolis the following day. We ate at the big boy that night and slept in a hotel right next door. Great conversations we have had thus far.

It was a long hike across the Upper Penninsula and across Wisconsin and I did a lot of work on the home page of memorycrawler.

Once we arrived to our hotel, my parents greeted us at the . . . Read More..