Care to Share?

So, I'm on my Itunes right now at the Best Western in Sayre, PA, and I'm picking up on someone elses Limewire files folder under my Shared folder and me being the curious (nosey?) person I am, I have open that person's folder. And this person has only two files, and they are listed as:

Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle Dvd Rip.mp4

Rape Fantasy - Mother & daughter gangraped by 4 guys - (French) (forced sex, fuck, blow).mpg

Man, if I only could have two video files, you know those would be my picks....

My new favorite game...

After our show yesterday in the gymatorium of Reynolds School in Upper Saddle River, NJ, as we were packing up the set, kids were having P.E. on the basketball court in front of us and were playing the most awesome game called "Builders and Bulldozers." In this game, the kids were broken up into two teams, boys and girls, and the two teams took turns being 'builders' and 'bulldozers'. The object of each round for the builders was to pick up as many plastic cones possible on the court and stand them up, and the object for the bulldozers was to demolish by knocking down all the standing cones with their hands. At the end, if there were more cones down than up, then the bulldozers had won, and if more cones were left standing, the builders had won. At the blow of the P.E. teacher's whistle, the children went mad! A boy builder would try to protect his three newly standing cones, but a girl builder would come in for the kill and knock them all over in one fell swoop! INTENSE! A boy bulldozer would hawk a girl builder, following her as she rapidly tried to stand up cone after cone, but in less than a second of a cone standing upright, the boy would slap it back down. BOOM! And, oh man, who can forget the boy how sat for a good few seconds, zoned out, after whistle had blown, not realizing the game had started, until the teacher told him to "Go!" HILARIOUS! We also had some little cheats, who continued to bulldoze cones even when the whistle had been blown at the end of the round, when the teacher wasn't looking! SCANDALOUS

Man, I really wish I had play this game in elementary school, it almost like a kid war! Also, it's like they were tricked into exercising! You teachers. You sooo sneaky.

On a side note, whenever we pack up the set in front of kids, they instantly recognise us and start calling our character names or start talking to us. Yesterday, my favorite thing a kid said was: "How's it acting with Ruby, duuuude?"

Gambling...

Note to reader: I'm currently living like a poor person, so $20+ is a lot of money to me.

I've never really been a gambling man, and when I do gamble... I am pretty conservative about how much money I am willing to dish out. (Even when I play Facebook Poker... with fake money, I play it safe.) But now that I'm on tour, I've been playing riskily with what little money I have with per diem.

A few weeks back, when we were staying at the Isle of Capri in Biloxi, Mississippi, I tried to limit myself on how much I spent in the casinos, capping myself off at $20 dollars at the slots. But after I had gone through that much and left the casino, I found out that Mara had won about $70 at the Ebay slot machine (A machine I dabbled with a little earlier on in the day). So naturally I thought, if Mara can win big, I too can win big. So, here's the deal with the Ebay machine: it had 5 individual slots machines which were connected to a giant screen slot machine. Occasionally, there would be a bonus round in which the giant slot spins 10 times, and everyone playing benefited from whatever points came from those spins. So I kept playing hoping for a bonus round, trying to figure out what triggered the bonus games, while putting in more and more dollar bills. Anyway, long story short, I eventually got a bonus round, but it didn't help me much, and I ended up being down $55, a whole days worth in per diem. And then I said to myself, next time if I'm losing money early on... I need to just walk away.

Well, today in Nashville... I had a little bit of issue doing that.

Today, Josh and I, after dropping off Virginia and Colleen at the Country Hall of Fame, made our way to the glorious Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center. It was glorious hotel with a bio dome like world inside with shops and boats on a mini river. Here are some pictures to help describe what I mean.

Well, Josh and I discovered the Arcade, an arcade with huge prizes. (Gambling for Kids.) There was a grab claw machine that gave you a shot at winning a... Sony PSP! (Whaaaaaa?!?) I didn't even want to try that one, cuz I never get anything with those games. But then we found other machines. There was the stacking machine, in which you had to stack, row by row, electronic blocks which were moving back and forth horizontally very quickly on a screen by pressing a button to stop them. You had to press the button in time so that the blocks stopped on top of another set of blocks or else it was game over. (Think Tetris, but the object of game is to get your blocks to hit the top of the screen). If you made it to the very top, you got a choice of taking home an IPOD or a Nintendo DS! (The stakes man!)

But this here is the machine that hooked me:

So, this game had a small plastic box (containing a key) standing on a rotating turn table. The object of the game was to try to knock the box off the turntable and into a hole using a thin metal rod which was triggered by a button. If you got the key, you be able to open the case on top of the machine which contained... a Nintendo Wii!!!! So it was all a timing thing. And I got close... too close... too many times. I actually got the rod to touch the little key box, and even got it to push the box up against the walls right next to the hole, but never into the hole. I started by getting $2.50 in game tokens to play with, which was all I was I was willing to waste at first. Then it was another $5 in coins. Then another $2. I still hadn't won, but I thought if I could only just play a little more, I would get it. Josh allowed me to use another $5 dollars, and held my wallet, so I wouldn't be tempted to spend more. So I played some more, and nothing. So at that point I walked away having spent $14.50 (That could have two meals!)

I think I need to stop gambling with money, because if my total losses at the end of this tour amount to the value of a Wii, I will slap myself.

Josh... keeping me from my wallet.

How to Eat on Tour....

Oh man... I've been sucking at the blogging, but I'm trying to jump back on the bandwagon.

Since, I'm traveling, I do not have the chance to cook. The closest I get to making my own food is microwaving a frozen dinner. But being on the road has exposed me many fun dinning options. Here is a short best of!!

3. Buffets

I love buffets! Only at a buffet can I combine chow mein, quiche, and fried chicken, all on one plate! Plus, it's all you can eat!! So far we've experienced the buffet at Paula Deen's 'Lady and Sons' in Savannah, Georgia, and the buffet at the Isle of Capri Casino and Resort in Biloxi, MS. We keep passing by a bunch of China Buffets... I can't wait until we get to stop at one of those!

2. Hooters

It's true. I went to my first Hooters! I went with the girls in the cast, and it was a great family dining experience. There were babies and kids everywhere! Also, where else can you get great burgers with a side of boobs. Plus, I think I really like being called 'Sweetie' every time a waitress brings me something. "Here's your Sprite, sweetie!" "Here's your Pulled Pork, sweetie!"

1. Bojangles (All over the south):

Oh, man. Bojangles. Where have you been all my life? Bojangles has to be my new favorite fast food restaurant. Currently there is a two piece crispy chicken dinner special, that comes with one fixin', and a biscuit for... yes... $2.99!!!! Every time we find a Bojangles, Josh and Mara get the glorious Boberry biscuit, which is a blueberry biscuit drenched in gooey gooey frosting! I'm writing a letter to the Bojangles corporation to have Bojangles placed in the New York Area.