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After recovering from 8 hours (7 p.m. to 3 a.m.) of Halo 3 cooperative game play and a quick stop for the premiere of the new Matchstick Productions ski film "Seven Sunny Days," I headed out to Capitol Hill to celebrate Courtney's birthday at Havana.

Having a laugh with Walker.

Deer in headlights.

Yes, that actually is Katrine! Christmas card potential if my eyes weren't drunk?
More photos are at Scott's Photobucket album.

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My sincerest congratulations go out to my longtime friend and focuspoint lead singer/guitarist Chris Watson and his wife Allie. Now let me introduce you to Tristan Gabriel Watson...

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You might recall my proclamation about diving into the murky pools of online dating. Jeanna asked in a recent comment, “Totally off the subject, but are you still online dating?” and I figured that answer deserved its own post. I realize now I haven’t given an update recently.

I imagine, Jeanna, you’re referring to the fact that my profile is no longer up on The Stranger personals. Well, I took my profile off when I went to Europe because I knew I'd be unresponsive anyway.

Basically, I've met some nice girls online, but...

  • Nice girls = friends
  • Hot girls = girlfriends

I have too many of the former (which is why I started this madness) and haven't met or discovered any of the later online. Sure, I've had success in meeting people, getting responses, etc., but I'm not meeting the physical quality of girls I was hoping for. God intended for me to date models, and I must do His willing.

I think I'm going to stick to the old adage of meeting girls in person because it's just a waste going out with girls I'm compatible with on paper but no so much in person.

Clearly, God intended for physical attraction to come first in the act of courting. That's why Eve appeared to Adam naked. Now I must ask God's forgiveness for forsaking His plan and trying to covet thy neighbor online.

During my pilgrimage to Italy, I met an astounding number of beautiful women with relative ease and came to the revelation that:

  1. Women overseas are very approachable (and attractive).
  2. Women here are generally not as approachable (or attractive) in comparison.

Thus, unless I hop abroad for some extended period of time, I intend to tap the great confidence I gained in my interactions overseas to be more bold in approaching women here. I may or may not repost my profile, but I doubt I'll spend much time skimming through profiles or updating my own. Rather, I'll be out at a local pub or concert, and you can find me talking to the tall, hot blonde in the corner.

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Just more than 24 hours after its launch, Halo 3 has sold $170 million and eclipsed all entertainment sales records -- beating out first day records set by "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" for literature and Spiderman 3 for movies.

CNET reports more than a million players have logged on to Xbox Live to play the multiplayer version of the new game.

To answer your questions, yes I do own it and it does kick ass.