As it was said, a felt this great sense of relief come over me.   Barney is back.   SPOILERS FOR HIMYM follow:

In what was turning into a horrible episode with Barney becoming a shadow of what he once was, they redeemed themselves in the end.   After forcing NPH into a fat suit, they decided to break up Robin and Barney.   That led to the ending with Barney arriving at the bar and pretty much every girl in the place noticing how awesome he is.   

Also exciting revealation from last night, Alan Thicke and Robin once had their own variety show.   We have seen NO footage but I am hoping that we get to see some soon.   

I think Slapsgiving is coming up soon!   How can you not be excited about that?

I said I had second thoughts about my theme week.   Well I decided to delete some posts.   Thank you everyone who responded to those posts.   I am not sure where things are going but I don’t want thoughts on a blog to ruin anything or hurt anyone’s feelings.    Do you think I am over-reacting?   I felt I should do this, although we haven’t had the talk, I think we are serious.

Have you ever felt that you should delete a post?   This is my first time doing this.

Reid’s Dairy – Richmond Hill has closed down.   I went there last week to buy some egg nog for my brother and it was closed at 4pm in the afternoon.   I got out of the car for a closer look and there was a sign typed up by the manager saying “Thank you for your patronage but we are closed down” or something to that effect.   This came as a big surprise to me especially since it was just a month or so ago that they changed their name from Reid’s to Quickert or whatever the founder’s name is.   I thought if the business was having trouble then they wouldn’t take the time to go through all the name changes.   I stand corrected.    I still remember when the location was originally openning, I was so excited.   I remember I was like a kid in a candy store.    Now where am I going to get chocolate milk for cheap?

The NBA season kicked off last night with the marquee teams playing each other.   Tonight the Raptors face one of those marquee teams as Lebron and Shaq visit the ACC (ex-Raptors AP and Super Jamario also visit!).   I knew that trying to get tickets to this game would be costly so I didn’t even try, instead I was cool with watching it at home.    In the end, I will be out watching the game with my basketball team at a bar (skipping basketball with baller).

Now I don’t usually do this (it is more of a WIGSF thing) but I am going to make some NBA predictions.    First, San Antonio Spurs win the championship.   Lakers, Cavs, Celtics and Magic are good but I think the Spurs if healthy can take them.   How do you stop a line-up that can have a 19 ppg player as their 4th option?   I can’t believe they stole RJ like that.   He would have been perfect for the Raptors.    Speaking of the local team, I think they will make the playoffs, probably the 6th seed and probably with something like 43 wins.   Check back at the end of the season to see if I was right.

The third college kid from Super Troopers (the one who ate the weed at the beginning of the movie) married Christina Hendricks.   Christina Hendricks is the hot redhead from TV shows like Life, Firefly and most recently Mad Men (which is what she is well known for).   I think she is amazing and I can’t believe she married a guy who looks like Gollum.   Here is a picture of the guy in Supertroopers and a picture of her just looking awesome.  

Do you agree with me?

I have been going to the same place off and on for 5 years.   What i liked about the place was that you served yourself and whatever amount of food you can fit in the container you would get for $5.   Also I could have short lunches by going to the place.  

The place has changed ownership and names twice since I started going there but I felt lately that the food was on an upswing.    I was going there more often (although it wasn’t good for my waste line).   I have been going to a lot of schools lately, so I hadn’t been by for the last week.   I went in on friday and found out that the newest ownership had made yet another change.   It was no longer self-serve.   Instead of being about how much you can fit in a little container it was just like every other Chinese place in a mall, it had different prices depending how many items you wanted and they had special prices for rice with a roll and chicken balls and stuff like that.    My jaw almost dropped.   I turned around and walked away, I never plan on going back.

First, I am not believing the hype when it comes to the swine flu bullshit.   The chances of getting it is slim and the chances of dying from it is even slimmer.   Any ways, I heard about this story on the radio today, it is about a cheerleader who got a flu shot.

I saw the season premiere of Nip/Tuck last week, man it was good.   I forgot how much I miss these guys.   Mario Lopez and Rose McGowen have joined the show.    One person I have not missed is Matt.   Man, I don’t want to spoil stuff but I have to so if you care about the show and don’t want to be spoiled stop reading now.    Matt is living with his Dads and he decided to try a new occupation.   He has decided he wants to be a mime.   I will give you a minute to consider this.

So there Matt is on Venice Beach, with mime make-up doing stupid stuff.   I know, I know.   He gets his ass robbed and ends up trying to buy a drink at the end of the day.   He tries to order the drink without talking.   The woman behind the counter was not impressed, I wanted to hit him through the computer screen.    In the end, Matt found that he didn’t have enough money for the drink, tried being cute in order to still get the drink and he was un-successful.   He must have been really thirsty because he pulled his prop gun out and held the diner up. 

Linda Hunt and Newman guest-starred in the episode and Julia was back in New York with the other two children, let’s hope she stays there.   Episodes are on wednesdays.

I haven’t been to KFC in over a year.   In a couple of weeks they will be giving away free chicken.   I just might have to visit them for that.   On Nov. 1 they are giving away free Boneless Chicken Fillets between 2-4 pm.   If you are still in line and they run out of fillets or the promotion ends then you get a raincheck.   Limit of one fillet per customer.

At least it is new to me.   I think it has only been in Toronto for about a year but there are a couple of locations.   I almost suggested going there saturday night but then decided against it because of our overall health.   It is called “Smoke’s Poutinerie”.  They have almost 20 different types of Poutine on their menu.   Here is the website: http://smokespoutinerie.com/

Here is an exerpt from a Toronto Star review that you can find through the website:

“Most people would want to consume fries on the spot, but a good chunk of the crowd are bringing the murderous mounds back to their cubicles.