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The Bottom Line: "Superb"

One of my favorite Disney Channel sports movies that deals with bowling!

Here you have one pop jock trying to get the four outcasts to fit in to his society.

My favorite character is Delia Graci (Mimi Paney). The shy, quiet type who comes through at the end. If you compared Alex, Ken, Elise & Delia to the Scooby Doo gang, Delia would fit the part of Velma like a glove!

Another character was Bubba who kept calling Alex "Bowling Dude"! The teen looked like an early Josh Peck when he started on Drake & Josh.

If you like bowling whether you play or watch it on ESPN, you'll like Alley Cats Strike.

Another plus goes to that song, "Right Down The Middle".

The Bottom Line: "Great"

It may not have been as great as the previous one, but this episode was still okay. There's nothing bad I can say about the show. There are a few glitches, but I guess it's in a good state now. We actually got to see Devon and Roxanne again. I wish Roxanne had a bigger role, but it seems that either Tatyana Ali isn't available or that the writers just con't care much about her character. Karen and Neil were okay too.

The Restless Style stuff was okay, but nothing special. The best part of the episode was Billy, and the funniest was when Cane happily hugged his brother. I wish Billy would slap him and tell him to become a man. Jill was also great. Everything else was meh. I guess it was okay.

Stairing Contest

So Baxter now has the ability to get anywhere in the house. Thursday night we coaxed him to get up the stairs, as he was already hurtling himself to get to around the third step before falling down. Of course, we then thought, "what have we done?," as he could get pretty much anywhere then. Still, he'd likely have it on his own in a week's time anyway. The kicker was he could not get down the stairs yet. On Saturday, armed with some training treats, I went ahead and got him the confidence to do that as well. Now he can bother us wherever we are, but at least we never have to carry him up and down the stairs anymore, either. Baxter also added a new experience to his résumé this weekend. New girl takes him Sunday mornings to the nursing home where she volunteers, and yesterday he was being held by a patient with a pemanent tracheotomy and licked inside his neck hole!

I've really neglected The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion this past week and would like to race and wrap up the main story, which will give me the full 1000/1000 achievement points. I may tackle a new game before going back and doing the Shivering Isles expansion, just to take a break. Meanwhile, I've really gotten back into GTA IV online play, and am now only around $90,000 from advancing to level 7. The online games are as busy as ever, and found playing around 7:00 Friday nights here on the East Coast almost always yields full games of 16 competitors, I'm guessing because at that time people in Europe are still up, while almost all of young America is home from school and most adults from work. Also, people are still as immature as ever, including me.

That's all for today. Thanks for reading, everybody!

A Helping Hand

Morning people! Not much to talk about in my personal life today so just a quick round up, I'm sure there's other stuff you're more interested in today...

So it was a pretty uneventful weekend this week, I was just pleased to get the working week over with for a bit although this week is so busy it's unbelievable. I think I overdid tennis this week, from last Saturday to this Saturday I played on 7 different occasions and on Saturday I was just so knackered when I was playing. It's been a long time since I've felt glad to finish playing. I also think I've picked up my first tennis injury, I have a really bad hand/finger at the minute which I think I did on Tuesday. It just hurts when I play and now when I type. I've done more typing this weekend than I normally would and my left hand is suffering at the minute.

In gaming I'm nearing completion of Assassin's Creed. I've taken down the full 9 targets and have completed all the side missions so it's really just a case of wrapping up the game now. Plenty of cut scenes to go through I've noticed. I'm also close to getting the most achievement points I've managed for one game, I'm yet to hit 700 but I fear I might be 5 points short. I have hit 7000 total gamer points exactly which is nice.

To the main part of my blog I guess is my tv.com news. As most of you are well aware now I became a site mod on Friday. It's been a long wait since I was first asked thanks to the redesign but it was certainly worth it! There's a hell of a lot to read up on, now I really do have to know the ToS inside out which I've never really bothered with before. Plus I need to play catch up with the other mods learning who to look out for and how the moderation process works. My only concern really is that I do things differently to how they currently do it. I knew there was a lot involved in being a mod but there's more than I could've imagined that we can do. Thanks to everyone who has already congratulated me, it's much appreciated. I'd like to mention here as well that for those of you who don't know more_ncis_now is also a new site mod so go congratulate her as well! We'll officially be added into the 'Here to Help' section in a week or so, but starting now if anyone has any problems regarding moderations (or anything in general) do come to me! I'll be able to help one way or another so don't hesitate to send me a PM.

I also guess that now my submitting days are going to be more limited in numbers, I haven't had too much to moderate yet so maybe I'll still be able to submit plenty. I'm pretty relieved though to have a new focus on the site, finding subs to continue submitting for a year and a half is pretty tiresome. I've made over 58,000 subs so a change was well overdue in my eyes. It also means I don't have to worry about holding onto the third place spot on the site. I know I've never needed to worry about it but as submitting was all I had I thought I might as well try to be as good as I can. I'd still like to hit level 90 and reach 60k subs but I guess that'll take a bit longer now, I'll be content for the time being to just look after my current guides rather than focusing on getting new ones.

As for TV, I didn't manage to watch all the new airing episodes this week as there's just so many now! First up I watched Dirty Sexy Money 'The Birthday Present' which I thought was good. The show has just picked up right from where it finished which is no bad thing. Next up was Heroes 'One Of Us, One Of Them' which was another great instalment! I still really don't like Niki/Tracey, not really sure why though. I also saw Criminal Minds 'The Angel Maker' which saw a return to the regular episode set up. It was a good episode, I like a good back story behind the case and I'm glad to see that Hotch saw sense in the end. After finishing season 2 of Ugly Betty the other day I was able to begin on season 3. I watched 'The Manhattan Project' and it was like I'd never been away...maybe because I hadn't! Not sure about the new magazine set up but I do like the way the show is progressing.

My album for the day is One Of The Boys by Katy Perry.

My shuffle song for the day is 'Ruby' by The Kaiser Chiefs.

My thing to ponder for today is: Why don't woodpeckers get headaches when they slam their head on a tree all day?