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Seems like old times

March 11, 2014 by Lloyd 7 Comments

What if we held a Bad Movie Night and no one came? It was Bad Movie Night yesterday and it was just Samith and I. Usually we have from 4 to 12 people. Okay, usually we have 4-6 people, but we occasionally break double digits. Yesterday it was like the very first Bad Movie Nights a dozen or so years ago when it was just Samith and I all the time.

We were both 15 minutes late and that meant we were walking into the theater just when Robocop was starting. It was actually a surprisingly good movie. There were about 4 parts that I really hated, but apart from that it was entertaining. It was also surprisingly long –nearly 2 hours long.

After the movie we decided to eat someplace we hadn’t eaten before. They’ve opened up about a hundred new restaurants in the Haymarket. We went to the first one that we saw that we hadn’t been to before. That turned out to be the Rodizio Grill. It was good, but there were only two things on the menu. You could have the salad bar.

Lots of odd dishes  

That was about a third of the salad bar. It could easily be a meal. I wish it had a quarter for scale. Those are actually fairly large serving spoons. Oh, wait. Here is a Samith for scale…

That's Samith

You could also order the salad bar and meat. They had a little sign type thing on the table and if you had it turned one way they would bring you a new meat to try every few (2-3) minutes.  When you were ready to take a break from the meat (to get more salad or whatever) you would turn the sign over. We probably started and stopped a half dozen times or more during the course of the meal.

Each serving of meat was only a few bites and there were easily over a dozen different ones to try. My favorite was the ham, followed closely by the grilled pineapple (which I’m given to understand is not actually a meat). They had beef, pork, lamb and chicken each prepared 3-4 different ways. There were probably more. The last time we turned our sign over they brought something by that we hadn’t seen before.

Grill direct from Brazil 

For those of you not in Nebraska, I would also like to point out that it snowed while we were there. It was 70 degrees out yesterday.

Filed Under: Lloyd Tagged With: bad movie night, samith

Holy Disappointment, Batman.

February 5, 2013 by Lauren 8 Comments

Lloyd had Bad Movie Night tonight (Tuesday), and I had a little bit of hope that I would go into Lincoln after work and bum around. However, as I was packing up my stuff, a mom reminded me, “That meeting is tonight if you want to come.”

Dang it!!! I forgot.

I really wanted to go to Lincoln, but earlier I had expressed interest in her plight and she invited me to the city council meeting where the people on her street were going to protest another street going in their backyard wildlife/farmland area.

That is the short version of their story.

The meeting – just their part – was two and a half hours long!!!! Oy! I had signed on for maybe 45 minutes of support, but as it went on and on and on I felt bad about wanting to leave, so I didn’t. Plus, everyone spoke passionately and rationally (except one lady who sounded a tiny bit crazy), and it was like watching a bad movie or being mostly through a badly-written book: I needed to see how it ended.

I did feel badly that I was sending a lot of ‘I am bored’ texts to Brad and Lloyd. My clicky phone gave me away.

The council voted 6 to 2 to pass the road. Boooo.

Now I am exhausted and headed for bed. What did you do with your Tuesday evening?

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So dark, so sleepy

February 28, 2012 by Lauren 2 Comments

A few days ago Brad mentioned that he’s been waking up in the middle of the night refreshed and ready to do some work, but he goes back to sleep. I happened to find an article that talks about how people in the old-timey days used to sleep in two chunks: four hours or so, then get up and do stuff, then back to sleep until daylight. At first it seemed like they were super-human go-getters, but now I realize that it was just dark.

See, Tuesday night Lloyd was at Bad Movie Night and I was home alone. It started to rain – and actually thunder! – and I lit a candle hoping we’d have a power outage in case the electricity went out.

Well, you light one candle- you gotta light two.

Maybe three.

Maybe four.

… and maybe an oil lamp

Maybe you throw a dish towel over your computer screen until it goes to sleep and it’s nice and dark in the house with just (squeee!) candlelight.

Ahh…. it was very relaxing. There is a website I like where a couple lives in a tiny cabin with no electricity and just light their house with beeswax candles and their fire. I love looking at their house, and it brings me a sense of peace.

I puttered around the kitchen, tidying up and hand-washing a few dishes and feeling very Little House on the Prairie.

Then I started to tidy up the dining room table, but it was too difficult to read if envelopes were junk mail or Important Mail, and it was making my eyes hurt. I went back to the kitchen to do a little more work – like taking a looooooong time to fill the soap dispenser.

Then I was sleepy. Really, really sleepy. I think only ten minutes had elapsed. Zoinks!

Can you imagine living in a house with no bright lights at night?? Good grief! I’d be passed out by 6 every night! No wonder those people got up at midnight to do some work – they’d already had a full night’s sleep. They’d go back to bed after knitting a sweater or whatever? They weren’t over-achievers – they were people who took a long nap after their solid night’s slumber.

And that is something I can get on board with.

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Soooo…….

December 27, 2011 by Lauren 5 Comments

We’re back from Missouri! Lloyd’s sister and brother-in-law hosted Christmas at their house this year and invited us to their new, ginormous house. It was lovely – there was room for everyone to hang out and relax, and Christina impressed the socks off me by preparing Christmas dinner for twenty-two people. It was amazing!

We came back into Lincoln and Lloyd and the boys had Bad Movie Night, but they were going to a movie that I wanted to see (Sherlock Holmes 2), so I snuck in the theater and watched it. I would giggle with glee except I’m actually sniffling with a cold. Yeah, watching a two-hour movie is no fun when you’re blowing your nose with napkins from the concession stand (during the explosions, of course, so I wouldn’t detract from the movie).

Anyway, I came back home on my own and found the octopus that Brad drew in my sketch pad, and he painted it!!! Woo-hooo!! I was super-impressed, as he did such a realistic job and it look so nice:

Look at those spots! And the water!!

Then…. I turned the pages. Before I show you what I found, let’s recall what my watercolors are like:

Circles, lines and triangles, people. Circles, lines and triangles.

Remember? Kinda ‘stuck in first grade’ mode?

Now here’s Brad’s:

Holy Catfish!!

What the what??? What??? I can’t decide if I want to frame it or choke him with it. I know, I know, I know – “Different people have different talents and we can’t all be great at everything; both are good in their own ways; blah, blah, blah.” That’s all well and good, but if we entered these in the county fair, one of us would win first prize, and one of us would get a ‘participant’ ribbon.

Sorry about your ‘participant’ ribbon, Brad.

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Zombies

April 10, 2010 by Lloyd 8 Comments

You might recall that a few months ago we went to Zombieland for Bad Movie Night. There was some talk at the time that it might have been the best movie we’ve ever seen (on Bad Movie Night). Bob Krall liked it so much that he got it on BlueRay when it came out. I wanted Lauren to see it, so I asked Bob if I could borrow his copy. Bob got me a copy of my own, and I think Lauren liked it 64% more than she usually likes zombie movies.

Well, Lauren and I were talking about zombies again last week, and I thought it would be a good idea to keep everyone informed concerning the current level of zombie activity. Some of you may have noticed the Zombie Threat Level information on the sidebar.

When we first first added the Zombie Threat Level indicator it was based on what we were observing around town. The general amount of feet shuffling. People saying, “Brraaiinnnnsss.” That sort of thing.

But then I started to wonder if there wasn’t some better way to monitor the undead, so I wrote a little computer program to keep tabs on the zombie activity by counting the number of times zombies come up in the news, on blogs and on Twitter. Now, I know what you guys are thinking, “That’s all well and good, but why should I care if there’s a zombie outbreak in Florida when I’m in New Jersey?” So I decided to collect the data for individual states.

Alabama        (AL) pop:   4708708 news:  0 blog:    9 twitter:   40 Low
Alaska         (AK) pop:    698473 news:  2 blog:   10 twitter:    8 Guarded
Arizona        (AZ) pop:   6595778 news:  0 blog:    6 twitter:  148 Guarded
Arkansas       (AR) pop:   2889450 news:  0 blog:    5 twitter:   13 Low
California     (CA) pop:  36961664 news:  6 blog:  576 twitter:  780 Moderate
Colorado       (CO) pop:   5024748 news:  2 blog:   15 twitter:   83 Guarded
Connecticut    (CT) pop:   3518288 news:  0 blog:    7 twitter:   20 Low
Delaware       (DE) pop:    885122 news:  0 blog:    0 twitter:    1 Low
Washington DC  (DC) pop:    599657 news:  0 blog:    0 twitter:   53 Moderate
Florida        (FL) pop:  18537969 news:  0 blog:  333 twitter:  182 Moderate
Georgia        (GA) pop:   9829211 news:  1 blog:   10 twitter:  106 Low
Hawaii         (HI) pop:   1295178 news:  0 blog:    6 twitter:   17 Guarded
Idaho          (ID) pop:   1545801 news:  0 blog:    3 twitter:   20 Low
Illinois       (IL) pop:  12910409 news:  0 blog:   10 twitter:  325 Guarded
Indiana        (IN) pop:   6423113 news:  0 blog:    9 twitter:   38 Low
Iowa           (IA) pop:   3007856 news:  0 blog:    7 twitter:   24 Low
Kansas         (KS) pop:   2818747 news:  1 blog:    9 twitter:   53 Guarded
Kentucky       (KY) pop:   4314113 news:  0 blog:    3 twitter:   82 Guarded
Louisiana      (LA) pop:   4492076 news:  2 blog:    7 twitter:   22 Low
Maine          (ME) pop:   1318301 news:  0 blog:    4 twitter:    8 Low
Maryland       (MD) pop:   5699478 news:  0 blog:    2 twitter:  111 Guarded
Massachusetts  (MA) pop:   6593587 news:  0 blog:    5 twitter:  104 Low
Michigan       (MI) pop:   9969727 news:  0 blog:    9 twitter:   98 Low
Minnesota      (MN) pop:   5266214 news:  0 blog:    6 twitter:   65 Low
Mississippi    (MS) pop:   2951996 news:  0 blog:    5 twitter:   15 Low
Missouri       (MO) pop:   5987580 news:  0 blog:    8 twitter:  106 Guarded
Montana        (MT) pop:    974989 news:  0 blog:   14 twitter:   18 Guarded
Nebraska       (NE) pop:   1796619 news:  0 blog:    6 twitter:   15 Low
Nevada         (NV) pop:   2643085 news:  0 blog:    5 twitter:   83 Guarded
New Hampshire  (NH) pop:   1324575 news:  0 blog:    3 twitter:   12 Low
New Jersey     (NJ) pop:   8707739 news:  2 blog:   14 twitter:   39 Low
New Mexico     (NM) pop:   2009671 news:  1 blog:   17 twitter:   27 Guarded
New York       (NY) pop:  19541453 news:  8 blog: 1120 twitter:  628 Severe
North Carolina (NC) pop:   9380884 news:  0 blog:    8 twitter:  157 Low
North Dakota   (ND) pop:    646844 news:  0 blog:    3 twitter:    7 Low
Ohio           (OH) pop:  11542645 news:  1 blog:   13 twitter:    0 Low
Oklahoma       (OK) pop:   3687050 news:  1 blog:    5 twitter:   54 Low
Oregon         (OR) pop:   3825657 news:  0 blog:   11 twitter:  148 Moderate
Pennsylvania   (PA) pop:  12604767 news:  0 blog:    6 twitter:  268 Guarded
Rhode Island   (RI) pop:   1053209 news:  0 blog:    3 twitter:    7 Low
South Carolina (SC) pop:   4561242 news:  0 blog:    3 twitter:   11 Low
South Dakota   (SD) pop:    812383 news:  0 blog:    1 twitter:   10 Low
Tennessee      (TN) pop:   6296254 news:  0 blog:    7 twitter:  110 Low
Texas          (TX) pop:  24782302 news:  1 blog:  539 twitter:  383 Moderate
Utah           (UT) pop:   2784572 news:  0 blog:    6 twitter:   31 Low
Vermont        (VT) pop:    621760 news:  0 blog:    1 twitter:   17 Low
Virginia       (VA) pop:   7882590 news:  1 blog:   13 twitter:  180 Guarded
Washington     (WA) pop:   6664195 news:  0 blog:   19 twitter:  140 Guarded
West Virginia  (WV) pop:   1819777 news:  0 blog:    3 twitter:    3 Low
Wisconsin      (WI) pop:   5654774 news:  0 blog:    7 twitter:   72 Low
Wyoming        (WY) pop:    544270 news:  0 blog:    2 twitter:   10 Low

There you have it folks. Zombie Threat Level for all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Filed Under: Lloyd Tagged With: zombies

You say gay-lah, I say gal-ah….

March 13, 2010 by Lauren 3 Comments

So, it’s Annual Gala time again. This year Lloyd had many members of the Bad Movie Night group together at a table. Curt was there, and Pastor Tooman, Samith and Stephannie (yay!), Bob (a fellow teacher), Matt (another fellow teacher) and his wife Lindsey.

It was a splendid evening. As we drove in, I read the Booklet of Silent Auction Offerings aloud to Lloyd, and almost squealed when I read there would be…. a ukulele! Woo-hoo!!! Needless to say, I made a beeline for it when we got inside and made a super-pest out of myself.

Me: “You should bid on this!”

Random Attendee: “Who are you? Let go of my arm.”

It was out of tune, so I took it upon myself to tune it. Also to shine it. And then to read it a story. *sigh*

Hello, little friend.

We looked around at the many offerings, then it was time to eat. The food was great. They had a delicious salad (with bacon bits and egg slices, so it was basically eating breakfast), then an entree with chicken and beef (which was like lunchand dinner, then a chocolate dessert that was so rich it could have been bidding.

Then it was time for speeches and the live auction. That part gets a little tedious for an ADD person like me, so Steph showed me her cool phone that gets t.v. channels, and then I played with the macro on my camera.

So arty.

Later, we found out that Katie (a fellow teacher) had won the ukulele for her son, so of course I offered to play it for a while to say a weepy goodbye keep it in tune.

As it turns out, the Bad Movie Night people were some pretty high rollers. Curt bid over a thousand on a condo trip and won, Matt bid over a thousand on a laptop and won, and Pastor Tooman & company bid $700 to name the school driveway. Everybody chipped in to help with the big ‘help buy new vans’ project, too. It was a great night. Well done, everyone.

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