#94 - and that's sunday

ahh sunday. usually the routine is:
- wake up (around noon)
- make breakfast
- read the paper while watching nfl
- go to tennis
- shower
- 1st load of laundry
- church
- pick up dinner
- 2nd load of laundry
- sleep

but today... no tennis lessons and i'm trying this new thing called "waking up early," so far i'm at 8:00 am... and i'm on vacation! wow, that's like getting up at 4 am on a regular work day. anyway, so today it was:
- wake up (at 8 am)
- make breakfast
- read the paper while watching nfl
- go surfing

it was pretty nice today at ali'i (especially since i was there early) and in the morning it was clean, glassy, and overhead on the sets, pretty sweet. there were a lot of people in the water, but for some reason they were all leaving me alone and i was having my pick of waves, nice! i don't know why, i was sitting in a pretty nice spot, but no one wanted any of the waves so i took off and rode 'em all the way in a bunch of times, it was tons of fun. but, once the day got longer people started showing up and pretty soon it was like 5 people per wave (see above), so i got outta there, sat on the sand for a bit before heading out to kua'aina burger, yum!


after that it was home to work on the yard, see? i mixed in all the compost so we're ready to plant grass, woo hoo! brandi's totally right, getting back to earth, working with your hands is a great feeling, especially in the sun with a radio on, it's nice work.


anyway, after church it was dinnertime with the return of american gladiators!!! woo hoo! i was stoked to hear that they were remaking this show, i still watch it on espn classic, but this new version has some tweaking needed i think. it's way over-produced, the contestents get way too much face time (which makes for retarded banter, a la "next" on mtv). way too much camera angles and replays. just get back to the original formula, the whole reason why it was so great is because they treated it like a sport, with sportscaster commentators and real-speed camera work. none of these retarded sound effects or whatever. the gladiators themselves pass the personality test (especially fury up there, my fav of the girls, complete with corny home-made signs in the audience too), but bombed performance wise!

i mean, c'mon, they got completely embarrassed on those obstacles, and "hit and run?" lame. at least they got some things right though, for example, HELGA, haha, with pigtails and everything. and wolf, haha, nice. i'm glad they kept assault, powerball, joust, and those, but some of those new ones are dumb.

last, but definately not least... did you see that first eliminator with the women? HAHAHA! i couldn't stop laughing the whole time! how completely pathetic, haha, it's funny that they put that block wall at the end because they all looked dead crashing through it at the end, haha.

anyway, i think the new american gladiator has promise (especially if they really have the winners from this year become gladiators next year), but they gotta keep those producers hands' OFF the control panel and let the cameras roll, make it more like a sporting event and less like a video game.

now it's early to bed for some early to rise action tomorrow... and that's sunday.