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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was good enough.  I think it could have been better if someone would have smacked Spielberg upside the head and told him to leave the Close Encounters of the Third Kind out of it.  Oh well, I guess it could have been a lot worse too.

So yeah… my parents house got hit by a tornado.  They are find, thank you for asking.  Sunday night after it hit I tried to get up there to help them but the neighborhood was being evacuated and I couldn’t get in.  We were able to get back into the neighborhood yesterday (after a series of cops told us ‘no, you can’t get in’ and us replying ‘yes we can’) and my parents faired very well through the ordeal.  The tornado made three holes in their house but from what we could tell there was nothing sentimental/valuable broken.

The scariest part for my family is that my father was asleep on the second floor about five minutes before the tornado blew it’s way through town.  If Mom had not been home to wake him up he could have been hurt… or worse.  It’s all speculation, but it’s still scary.

This picture is of the house directly across the street from my parents.  It’s completely destroyed, obviously.  House, garage and four cars (including the classic) all destroyed.

I can’t imagine having to rebuild your house from the ground up.  Hopefully the insurance companies for the community will fully support rebuilds and repairs, but that has got to be a lot of work emotionally and mentally to get back to where you were.  Forget this paragraph, I’m just rambling.

Best/only good news of today is that my next two college classes will be Intro to Visual Basic and Multimedia for the web.  I can’t wait to get back to classes that actually have to do with my degree.

-Josh

Posted on May 27th, 2008 by schalicto
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• Cops wont let me get to my parents. #
• I can’t even get text messages out to twitter. Cell phones are all jammed. #
• @sorrydad my parents are okay. But it was a close one, my dad was asleep in a room about 2 minutes before that room got destroyed. #
• @iiyoyoguy @docpop yeah, parents are fine. I’ll let them know you’re thinking about them. #
• @Aronj001 standing but not livable #
• My parents are getting back in to their house today, im going with them. Still not open to the general public. #
• http://Www.flickr.com/photos/joshparker #

Posted on May 26th, 2008 by schalicto
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• Trator, wall,ben button, kungfu sanda, eagleeye #
• parents house was just torn apart by a tornado. Crazy huh? #

Posted on May 25th, 2008 by schalicto
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• Working on the bathroom today. Just biked to dq for lunch. #
• Adam doesnt want to see indy? Im so confused by that I think i need to go lie down. #

Posted on May 24th, 2008 by schalicto
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• Can anyone tell me a joke? #
• @iiyoyoguy thats an interesting point. Maybe we should start a group to research jokes for twitter #
• I’ve always found it interesting how similar the words discuss and disgust are. #
• When im playing frisbee golf on a windy day i always think about how disc gusting it is. #

Posted on May 23rd, 2008 by schalicto
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How great is Iron Man?  Just about the greatest movie in the whole world.

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Written and Directed by the same guys who did the last one.  I gotta admit, I love this trailer, however I am convinced that the movie is going to fail to impress.

The Love Guru

This movie appears to be a total crap.  Don’t get me wrong, I laughed a bunch during this well edited trailer, however the character portrayed by Mike Meyers is entirely too Austin Powers and I can’t help but feel that this movie is going to Suck (with the capitol “S”).

Don’t Mess with the Zohan

This film was written by Adam Sandler and Robert Smigle… how weird is that?  The trailer presents a pretty intriguing plot and a likable character.  I actually think this movie could be very good.  The trailer sure is top shelf.

The Dark Knight

The Joker is perfectly terrifying.  Bat Motorcycle looks cool. 

Indiana Jones; Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Every trailer for this film is better than the last and every trailer I see makes me want to avoid all other trailers for the film so I can go into the film without any preconceived notions.  Ah, rats to that, I can’t wait for this film it’s going to be awesome.

-Josh

Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by schalicto
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