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The Price is Right - Bob’s End

The Price is Right

I don’t know about you, but The Price is Right played a HUGE role in my childhood, everyday I would be dropped off at my Grandmother and Aunt’s house when my mom would leave for work and be left there for the day, to watch TV and sit in the living room, I always started my day with some random talk show at 9AM, move on to nothing at 10AM, and when 11AM rolled around we all agreed that it was time for The Price is Right!

Every single day I’d always watch The Price is Right, I’d get so into the games, I’d be yelling at contestants when I thought they made a wrong move in a pricing game, it was just insane I loved it.

Today was the air date of Bob Barker’s last filmed episode of Price, which aired at it’s usual 11AM timeslot and again at 8PM tonight, I missed the second half today due to a final exam I had at 11:45 so I watched the whole episode again when it aired at 8PM and I must say, as weird as this sounds I felt like Bob symbolized my childhood and now that he’s retiring it will never be the same. Most children/teenagers know it’s like an unwritten rule if you’re “sick” or you skipped school that you have to watch The Price is Right, which I always did whenever I was home from school.

Granted nobody can replace a man like Bob who was on the show for all 35 years, and a total of 50 years in television on various shows, Price will never be the same once they find his replacement at the end of the summer for the season premiere.

From the bottom of my heart Bob you will be truly missed, you were and always will be the face/voice/personality of The Price is Right, and nobody can fill those shoes!

Prom 2007


See all the photos on flickr.

On May 11th, 2007 (aka last night), Stephanie and I attended my schools prom, at Brierwood Country Club in Hamburg, NY from 6:30PM - 11:30PM. The night started out by everybody meeting at a couple places, the group of us was Derek, Me, Stephanie, Cartman, Flora, Lucca we all pretty much just stuck together the whole night. When we got there, we entered, had the option of taking pictures, we passed, picked out a table, we chose the table in the far corner with different colored (red) chairs (versus the normal green), to you know be different. Then soon after that they started to serve dinner, I wasn’t too interested so I didn’t eat anything except maybe a dinner roll so dinner was kinda null, just joking and talking to each other for a couple hours, in fact we made friends with one of the staff members there, his name was Dave, nice guy.

Next came just time to socialize and relax before the “dancing” started, that mostly involved talking, making fun of one another, walking around, mingling with other friends. We ended up going outside for a while and just sitting absorbing the air, talking to a few teachers just social time. Then time came where the DJ started to play music, they had packed over 400 kids into I swear to God a “dance floor” that’s a little bigger than my room, so it was quite small, everybody was complaining, but the banquet hall and “dance floor” were connected so Stephanie and I stayed towards the outskirts of the floor but closer to the banquet room in case we wanted to sit down. Eventually, after a few songs and a slow dance, we spent the remainder of the time outside sitting on the balcony just relaxing with each other and some friends would come and go.

Overall, it was a good time, and next week I’m attending her prom at Creekside.

DeskDock

I can honestly do a writeup if anybody really cares about this, I think it’s pretty neat.

Destination: Florida

Florida!

Well expect the blog to run dry again over this coming week and the week after that, we have our 2nd week long break coming up April 6th - April 15 so my parents, a good friend of mine and I are driving down to Deltona, Florida (NOT Daytona) to stay for a week with my Dad while my parents go to my mom’s husband’s parents house for the week.

They have internet there, but I’m not that much of a geek, I’ll be out in the sun, etc catching some rays and just relaxing, so I’ll be outta here for a while.

See you guys around! Don’t miss me too much.

Participating in Shutdown Day

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I’ll be participating in Shutdown Day tomorrow, so my MacBook is about to be shut down until Sunday morning, I suggest you do the same, because hey, us “geeks” need to get out in the real world sometimes as well.

See you all on Sunday, so if you need me, send me a txt on my phone (716) 597-7057 or zip me an email and I’ll answer it Sunday.

Thanks!

I couldn’t do it, it’s 1PM and I kept myself as busy as I possibly could, got up around 11 after watching TV, showered, shaved, vacuumed, dusted, etc and to top it off, my friend had to cancel our plans due to some family issues, so I wouldn’t have had anything to do anyways, oh well, there’s always next year.