Blogs and Belts

Bloggers are extremely useful. 

People write about weird stuff. They blog about their stuff in great detail. In insane, minuscule detail. 

Thank goodness they do. Our trivia team benefited from their bizarre cadre of knowledge. I don't know how we could have found some of the answers without them. We had to find a race car driver by his pit crew, which we only found from some guy's blog. 

Next year, we should remember to look at the saying on the Belt's sign, so we can actually get that question right next year. 

I'm tired. I'm glad we're on question 7 of hour 54. 

Trivia 40 Hour 3

So it begins.

The searching and questioning and googling. 

Hour after hour after hour. After hour.

But, now we're still in the beginning. When it's fun and exciting and I can't wait for the next question. Instead of when I'm addicted. When I want to stop, but I continue on, for just one more question. Just one more. And then, one more. 

It's a marathon, not a sprint.

You can stream it on-line if your interested. 

http://www.90fmtrivia.org/

If you know me and you know an answer, give the husband's cell phone a ring... unless you're here. Then just say the answer. No need to call him. 

Trivia Recap

Trivia was long, but fun this year. I say 'was', but actually it's still going on.
It turned out so much better this time than last time. I'm tired, but not sick. That's a definite plus.

I think we actually did pretty well for our first year. Some of those questions are hard!

Here's a recap of random thoughts from throughout the weekend:

1. There is NO 2000 Chrysler Aspen
2. Mr. Blume is mean
2a. Mr. and Mrs. Blume keep their bowls up too high
3. 11 adults + 4 dogs + 3 children = Chaos!!!
Not in a mean way, but it was kind of suffocating me at one point. Escaping for a walk with the dogs helped though.
4. Snoop has mad Internet searching skills. I bow down to his Internet searching skills. I don't know how he found some of that stuff... I'm in awe
5. Mrs. Blume is a great hostess. I can't believe they had us all over and weren't just aching to kick us all out. (Mr. Blume isn't a bad host, but see #2)
6. Ate a lot of delicious foods that are very, very bad for me. (Toppers, cheeseburger, Belts) I won't say I feel guilty about it, but I will feel better once I've been back to the gym again.
7. I'm going to concede a point to the boys. Mustaches can be funny. I wanted to giggle every time I saw a certain mustache this weekend.

(Side note: when spell checking this blog mustachio came up for mustache, which I guess you know I can't spell. Apparently, although mustachio is not Spanish for mustache it is Italian for mustache. According to dictionary.com mustachio: A mustache, especially a luxuriant one. :) Ha ha!)

8. The husband likes to claim that he "didn't go to bed" during trivia. Well, technically, that's true. Instead, he just slept on the couch for hours and hours. Just like at home! Actually right now, he's downstairs sleeping in a darkened basement (for about 1.5 hours now). I asked him if he wanted to go to bed. He said no, because he just wanted to rest for a minute. I bet he'll come to bed around 2 - 3AM.
9. There is an insane amount of information on the internet. I can't imagine why anyone would ever want to find this information if they weren't involved in the world's largest trivia contest.
My favorite example: http://www.comicbookreligion.com/ a listing of all comic book characters by religious affiliation. Awesome!!!!
10. Sometimes a best guess is as good as a real answer.

I researched so many trivia question answers I even started to dream about them. Hopefully, my dreams will be normal tonight. I hate task-based dreaming.

Sleep Deprived

Up until 2AM last night.
Then, Milo was up shaking and whining until 3 when I dumped him on the husband to watch.
Who promptly dumped Milo back on me as soon as I had fallen asleep.

So, so tired.
But, you can't abandon ship when you're on the verge of cracking the top 100.

Trivia - Part II

Trivia is HARD!

British Invasion

Today, my first day on vacation (yay!), is also the first day of Trivia.
Trivia goes from 6 pm tonight to midnight on Sunday.

This isn't my first time playing trivia. We did it once before. All I really remember from it is being sick as a dog on Sunday. We turned off the computer, the tv, the radio, everything and pretty much just laid on the couch in silence.

I'm hoping this will be fun and significantly less painful.

There will be more people, so hopefully there will be more sleep involved this year.

Managed to get a work out in this morning before we leave for Point, so at least if I don't get to do anything this weekend, I'll already be taken care of.

Go Loons!