Finally! Friday has come! It's an easy day, so far, here at work. A fellow employee decided he was going to celebrate another employee getting fired by treating a select few of us to pizza from Hungry Howie's Pizza. Yum-yum-yum! Gotta love it! I know , I know...I can just hear most of you saying "It's not Italian pizza" or "It's not INSERT PIZZA PLACE HERE" but I gotta admit, I love me some Hungry Howie's! It tastes even better when someone else paid for it too!

After work today, if it doesn't rain like it has been every day around 4 PM, my best friend and I are heading over to the beach to play some 2-man beach volleyball. We have played together as a team for over 10 years. We used to play a lot when we were younger but work and life forced us to stop. Recently he wanted to get the band back together for one more time around the beach volleyball scene before we are too old to enjoy it. We are pretty good. I'm short (5'9 ½") and he is only slightly taller so basically I am the setter and he is the hitter. What I lose in power when hitting I more than make up for with control. I can almost put the ball anywhere on the court. My friend is average size and I guess I would be slightly overweight but you couldn't tell from the way I play. Because I have always been the big guy I have always pushed myself harder than anyone else because I didn't ever want to hear anyone say "I don't want him on my team because he is big". That has never happened and I plan on never having it happen. If I can't handle my side of the court then I won't play.

I hope to spend some time playing some games this weekend. I am playing through Half Life 2 for the 3rd time. I played through on the PC twice and then decided to get it on the 360 to play it on there as well. It is definitely one of my favorite first person shooters of all time. It also helps that the game comes with Episode 1 and 2 plus Portal and Team Fortress 2 (which is awesome if I only had some friends who own the game).

I will probably finish Rock Band on Medium this weekend which means that I will be attempting it on Expert. We'll have to wait and see how that works out.

I'll probably end up throwing in Gears and COD4 for a couple rounds too. Most of my friends are playing one or the other these days so I'll definitely play them to get some friends time in.

I purchased Burnout Paradise and Medal of Honor: Airborne from Gamefly for cheap. I've never purchased anything from them or rent from them so I have no idea how this is going to turn out. I think one of my online friends told me that the disks work perfectly but they are scratched to hell because of the way they buff them. I don't care about the scratches as long as the game works. Hopefully I won't get screwed in this deal.

I'll talk to you all next week. Take care!