Well, this past week wasn’t a terribly exciting one, but in the name of science, I must press on with these posts.  This week my main activities included eating and watching sports.

My Week In Review for 2009-05-03:

• Made a batch of pasta sauce and ate pasta on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
• Had some funky tasting chicken at Pei Wei.
• Watched the Rangers play a hard fought game 7 but lose to a beautiful goal in the last three minutes by Sergei Fedorov of the Capitals.
• Enjoyed some delicious Maggiano’s chicken parmesan.
• Watched the Mets walk in the winning run against the Phillies.
• Watched the Pacquiao-Hatton fight only to see Hatton get lit up after two rounds.
• Watched a 51-1 longshot win the Derby.
• Bought Mets tickets at CitiField for a game in August.
• Shot a 517 in bowling and the team is 7 points off the lead with two weeks to go.
• After 2+ years of owning a Wii, I finally broke down and bought Wii Points so I could download Guitar Hero tracks, and purchased “We Are The Champions” by Queen and “Salute Your Solution” by The Raconteurs.
• Decided to keep the playoff goatee going by turning it into a “make the bowling league playoffs” goatee.
• Tweet of the Week: “Dear 2007 Corey: Thanks for hiding $50 in your desk. I just found it. Love, 2009 Corey”
  

Given that I’ve launched a new website to talk about awesome things with a wide appeal to everyone, appropriately called Awesomeopolis, I’d decided that my own personal site will get, well, more Corey-centric, appealing to those who I already know.

With that in mind, I’m launching a weekly segment called “My Week In Review”, which will be a place where I write down things that happened to me during the week, mainly for my own memory.

So without further ado, here was my week in review for the week ending 2009-04-26:

• Created a Google Profile.
• Picked up my new glasses.
• Bowled a 608 series.
• Concluded a lovely visit from my lovely lady.
• Kept score by hand when the machine stopped keeping score.
• Shot a personal best of 49 on the nine-hole Nelson D. Clayton Memorial Golf Course in Glen Mills, PA.
• Was sad to discover that Wally’s Wiener World, the hot dog shack across from the golf course, has closed up shop.
• Spent a fun Saturday evening with friends in Atlantic City where I ate my money’s worth in shrimp and walked away with the same money that I came in with.
• Watched the Rangers take their 2-0 series lead against the Capitals and drop three of four to be forced to play a Game 7 this upcoming week.
• Trimmed my playoff beard to a playoff goatee so as to be kempt for work.
• On Wednesday, it rained for five minutes, and I got caught outside in it.
• Discovered frozen mango pieces at the grocery store and promptly made mango smoothies with them.
• Had my desktop die on me, and after three hours of messing with it, discovered it was a half-burnt-out connection to the motherboard.
• Promoptly backed up all of my data after getting the desktop to work again.
• Went to Ants Pants for the first time in forever.
• Rediscovered Picasa.
• In Picasa, realized that “favorite” information for the photos is embedded right into the metadata of the photo itself.
• Used Exifer to update metadata EXIF information on a bunch of pictures where the date was incorrect.
• Discovered I have over 18,000 digital photos on my computer, all taken since my junior year of high school.

The Stouffer Dutch Auction is a yearly event held at Stouffer College House, my former residence when I attended Penn, which is a fundraiser held in honor of Melissa Sengbusch, a former Stouffer resident who passed away from leukemia.  Money raised at the event goes towards the Melissa Sengbusch Inspiration Scholarship Fund, a scholarship awarded to a student in the School of Nursing at Penn.

Each year residents put up goods and services to auction off in both a silent auction and a live auction, and this year, like every year, was a lot of fun.  Here are some pictures from the event. For some more pictures that aren’t mine, check out Alyssa Rosenzweig’s Picasa album of the event.

Each day I am becoming more and more of an old man, because I find that if I miss Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune, I am usually very grumpy for about three hours afterwards.  This is one of my primary reasons for not getting a job in investment banking out of college because I know I would never again see my beloved shows.

However, tonight I made it home with plenty of time to watch both, and I crushed Final Jeopardy tonight.

Tonight’s Final Jeopardy Category: “Colleges and Universities”

Answer: “This two word term for a famous group of colleges 1st appeared in an AP story that ran in the Providence Journal in 1935.”

Question: “What is Ivy League?”

I knew this because I may or may not have read the wiki page on said answer many a time.  I wonder how many questions Jeopardy pulls off of Wikipedia?

Only one guy got it right.  The other two guessed “Seven Sisters”.  FAIL.

Screenshot.  And by “Screenshot” I mean “I took a picture of my TV”:

Also, a guy from Temple won $100,000 on Wheel of Fortune tonight.  Wooooo Philly!

I was walking down the street to dinner today, Easter Sunday.  I spotted a SEPTA bus running down Chestnut street, but something was off.  On the LED sign which usually shows the route and the destination, the bus was rotating the sign between the route number and a “HAPPY HOLIDAYS” message which was flanked by Christmas trees.  While I greatly appreciate the sentiment, shouldn’t the message have been at least flanked by Easter eggs or maybe even a bunny instead of using the trees?

As a follow up to my past post on hitting 100,000 miles, this past week I hit 111,111 miles on my car.

This picture is also the picture of the day on my Project 365 site.

Woooo!  Still waiting to hit 124,274 miles.  We’ll see if my baby holds out that long.  At this pace, it’ll take until June 2010 to hit.

For the past month or so, I’ve been working on a side project with a group of friends.

The idea was to provide a platform to accomplish two things:

• Share great things that we find on the Internet
• Create original content based on topics that we’re all interested in (like video games, science, food, etc.)

And after chipping in some spare time every now and again, I’m very happy to introduce my new project: Awesomeopolis.

http://www.awesomeopolis.com/

My good friend and roommate Matt has penned the first post, and (hopefully many) posts by me will soon.  I’ve got my first post completed and it will be published on Sunday.

So what does that mean for my own good ol’ blog at coreyhulse.com?  Well, I’m going to keep this going as a place to post personal pictures and rants about the trips I take, while awesomeopolis.com will be a new place for things like my plinko odds post.  Think of this site as a place to go for people who know me already, and the new site for content that would potentially be interesting to people who don’t know me.

I enjoy traveling whenever I have the opportunity.  I’ve decided, mainly for the preservation of these things in my own mind, to plot out points on a map the places that I’ve been to.

I’ve set up a new static page on the site where I embed a Google Map I’ve created that plots out the places that I’ve visited since I started college.

http://www.coreyhulse.com/places/

I’m pretty sure I got all the places, but knowing me I’ve forgotten at least a few.  If I have, let me know.

It’s a few days late, but here are some of the pictures I took at the Relay For Life at Penn event.  For some more photos, be sure to check out Alyssa Rosenzweig’s Picasa album.

Full Disclosure: The rain started falling pretty hard after midnight, so in order to keep my phone from getting soaked, I stopped liveblogging after the 1:30am update. However, after I got back home I updated the rest of entry for what did happen that night.  Enjoy!

4:00am: Closing Ceremonies.  Allison and Michelle, The Chairs, get on stage and thank everyone for braving out the weather.  Carly, our American Cancer Society representative, tell us that they’re still counting up all of the money, but they’re approximating $130,000 raised!

3:50am: A decision has been made to call Relay early.  The rain continues to fall pretty hard, so we’re packing up and leaving.

2:45am: The rain is continuing to fall, so unfortunately most people have left.  A cappella groups continue to belt out songs while my team plays Apples to Apples in the tent.

1:40am: Billy and I are soundly defeated in Round 1.  The game involved six cups each, and traded off the first three cups, until the other team went on fire and nailed all three of their last cups in a row.  Should I be proud or concerned that my 11-year old brother sank two in a row?

1:30am: Root beer pong tournament begins. Billy and I look to win it all.

12:30am: Rain! Oh no!

11:15pm: Luminaria Ceremony! Cancer survivors share their stories, they turn the stadium lights off, and the luminaria bags spell out ‘HOPE’.  And now they’ve changed the word ‘HOPE’ to the word ‘CURE’.

9:15pm: Survirors Reception. The survivors have gathered to celebrate the evening and enjoy free food courtesy of Maggiano’s.

8:15pm: Opening Ceremonies! The survirors were honored and lead the first lap. Relay has begun!

7:00pm: We’ve made it! People are slowly pouring in and setting up their tents.

6:11pm: Made my way to campus. However, we’ve made a quick detour at Mad4Mex.

5:19pm: Testing out post updating from my phone. All clear, Houston.

5:10pm: Tonight is the 6th Annual Relay For Life at Penn! And what better way to celebrate the event than by liveblogging it? Well, I can think of at least five better ways but oh well. Follow me as I blog the event LIVE as they happen, or better yet, if you’re in the Philadelphia area, come on down to Franklin Field on the University of Pennsylvania campus!

Relay For Life at the University of Pennsylvania
Historic Frankin Field
TONIGHT, March 27 2008 8pm to 8am

Relay Website: http://www.relayatpenn.org/