I Suck At Uno's

Last night, Karen and I (and our twenty one month old daughter, Briana) were invited to dinner. My friend (Pam) and her family were up from Bon Jovi's home state of New Jersey for the holidays. As a result, she wanted to meet up for dinner at Uno's while she was in Massachusetts.

Too bad I suck at Uno's. It has been a while since I have been to the Uno's in Braintree. I had not even realized that Dave and Buster's took over the old Circuit City location. Or quite possibly, I did realize it but forgot about it. Damn you my selective memory. Just kidding.

As a side note, an interesting thing actually happened on the way to Uno's in Braintree. While we were leaving, I came upon a package left at my doorstep. As neither Karen nor I were expecting a package, we were curious as to the contents. It turns out, the package was from Circle Furniture.

Last week, our new furniture arrived from Circle Furniture. We were absolutely delighted by our experience with Circle Furniture. It turns out, Karen's aunt (Denise) also has had a great experience with Circle Furniture. Anyway, the package contained some gifts from the company accompanied with a tiny little note.

According to the note, Circle Furniture had read my post about my experience with them and decided to send me a little thank you present. The company was initially cautious about reading my post because the title of my post, like all of my posts, began with "I suck at..." Upon further reading, however, they knew it was not the case that they "suck". In fact, it was quite the contrary. Because of it, they wanted to thank me with a present.

Needless to say, Circle Furniture's thoughtful gift made my day. It was just a nice gesture from the company; one I'm sure to remember for years and years. Their service is definitely amazing. If only more companies were as great when in comes to service (and yes, I'm still referring to you Alba Restaurant in Quincy).

Anyway, the gift made my night. So thank you again, Circle Furniture! I was pretty happy as a clam when we arrived to meet Pam and her family. Also joining us for the dinner were my friends (Jen and Hot Amy).

Dinner went by pretty quickly. After all, with Briana and Pam's three children, time definitely passes at a quicker rate. For anyone curious, I had the Cabot aged cheddar and sauteed mushroom burger, while Briana practically devoured my fries. The burger was good. I also enjoyed the mango lemonade. Yum!

One of the topics of discussion that I remember from the dinner involved Jen. It turns out that 2012 may be the year she finally gets her driver's license. She seems dedicated and excited, more so than in previous years. So that was nice. Yay Jen. For anyone curious, she is planning to have a party when it happens. As an interesting side note, Pam failed her first driving test.

Anyway, it was a good day all around with the Circle Furniture gift and hanging out with friends.

I Suck At Angel

On Saturday, my friends (Marc and Kelley) came over. On the agenda for the night was completing the third season of Angel. Yes, I suck at Angel.

Awhile ago, we had been pretty dedicated in watching the complete series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Unfortunately, our dedication started to wane simply because of time commitments and all of that. It's similar to the Veronica Mars plans that I had with my BFF (Kerry). We just kept putting it off. The next you know, a great amount of time has elapsed.

In the case of Angel, I think one of main reasons why we kept putting it off was that we left off just as the show was re-introducing Angel's son, Connor. For me anyway, I dislike the Connor character. He is to Angel what Dawn is to Buffy: a show-ruiner. Although I would have to say that I dislike Connor more than Dawn.

Anyway, it was great as usual to hang out with Marc and Kelley. After ordering takeout from Uno's, we watched the final three episodes of season three. And interestingly enough, I still dislike Connor.

Truth be told, I think I was more into pitching my random sitcom idea than watching Connor on Angel. Among the things that came up during our get together on Saturday was my idea to create a comedy called "The Home", which is about a group of elderly people... in a nursing home. Essentially, I thought it could be like the Golden Girls, only much older and with both men and women. I suppose if I were to reference Golden Girls, I guess I would say the "The Home" would be a bunch of Sophias.

The show would have its usual character types like the very old slut or man-whore taking Viagra. There's usually a dumb or naive character. There could be a recurring situation like how the main character always has to reintroduce himself to one of the old folks at the home, because that old person keeps forgetting things... yet miraculously can provide words of wisdom much like Wilson from Home Improvement.

And the best part of course is that the show can be totally inappropriate because old people say the darnedest things. Perhaps there could be an Archie Bunker type of character. Who knows? The possibilities are endless. And I suppose the idea has more potential than the other brainstorm idea that all of us had: Tard the Musical.

Needless to say, I may have spent more time thinking about this television pitch than paying attention to Connor on Angel. Speaking of which, I am dreading season four of Angel simply because of Connor.

Anyway, it was a great time on Saturday. Sadly, after Marc and Kelley left, I decided to watch yet another movie. That movie: Fighting, starring Channing Tatum and Terrence Howard. The plot is about an ex-wrestler who turns into a street hustler in New York. He meets up with a ticket scalper, who consequently leads the hustler into a world where they can profit from his fighting skills.

Sounds dumb? Yes, it absolutely was. The dialog was terrible. The plot was predictable. I'm surprised the movie made money.