NCIS HOUSE crossover

I recently became a fan of the TV show NCIS due to the fact that I do not watch regular Network TV (ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox). The USA channel has been showing repeats of the show along with another show, HOUSE, which I love watching. Although this season of HOUSE is causing sea sickness due to the moving camera effect. To that effect, the camera shots on NCIS have a stuck zoom lens effect going as well.

I got the idea of a two part episode while watching Samurai Sentai Shinkenger. (Don’t ask.) This is a quick ruff draft I thought out as I was driving from Durham to Wendell one afternoon. I haven't seen all the shows of both series so don't get upset if this madeup story doesn't really follow NCIS and House storylines. This folowing story is just for my fun.

Part One (NCIS) (cliff note version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ9EilqyFEw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yyywq6BCzk
McGee, his sister Sarah and Ducky are attending a book signing in New Jersey for McGee’s new book. Ducky tags along to meet his God-son, Dr. Robert Chase and his wife Dr. Allison Cameron. Sarah came to do some shopping. Due to a crazed fan, Gibbs had McGee carry his gun with him. Just in case.

Chase and Cameron are walking towards to the book store chatting about his God-Father when multiple shots are heard and people running out of the book store. As they get closer to the book store they see 3 people get into a van and speed off. Upon entering the book store they witness Dr. James Wilson, who was there to buy some books, shot in the arm, Ducky treating McGee who is unconscious, two dead guys and McGee’s sister standing over one of them with McGee’s gun.

Everyone is carried to Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital and quarantined. Earlier during the book signing as Ducky is impatiently waiting for his God-son and Sarah is surprised how popular his big brother is with his books when a guy carrying an oversized backpack is seen running from a group of others plus a van tries to take a short cut through the book store but the terrorist start shooting into the store at him. He gets hit but as they rush into the book store, McGee already has his gun drawn as Ducky helps Sarah cover for safety.

McGee kills one but is quickly hit by two others shooters. They are trying to grab the oversize backpack that is now leaking a gas. Wilson is shot in the arm when he is helping Ducky treat McGee’s injuries. As two of the terrorist grab the guy and the backpack and carry him into the van, one of the terrorist makes his way over to McGee, Wilson and Ducky to kill them when Sarah grabs McGee’s gun that is laying on the floor and shots him dead. Hearing the shot, the other terrorist fires into the store as they leave the scene quickly in the van.

Gibbs and team show up and go over the crime scene but they get a call that someone who was exposed to the gas is now dead. Thinking its McGee, Gibbs and Ziva get to the hospital and see that the gas is a combo mixture that is similar to a nerve gas (I making this up as I go folks) McGee is in surgery and House is making fun of Wilson as he is getting a cast on his arm after the bullet was removed. They meet Dr. Lisa Cuddy to where Gibbs order all those in the bookstore to get treated for the mystery gas and to stay quarantined.

Tony shows up with a surveillance video tape as Gibbs and all plus House and company watch it. Tony and Ziva are joking that McGee actually did a good job, House, remembering Dr. Lawrence Kutner suicide, sees how close Wilson came to being killed. House makes a comment about ‘girls with guns’ to which Gibbs replies that there would have been 3 dead bodies if it wasn’t for Sarah. With Abby’s help, they do get a positive ID from DNA and the video.

Gibbs and team starts tracking down the terrorist only to find the van at an airport with 3 dead terrorist, plus the guy who was originally carrying the backpack. The backpack is missing but except for the one guy who was killed for the backpack, the other three were killed by the gas that came out of it. Eye witness says that the van basically nearly crashed as they came to the airport but another SUV (stolen) was there and 2 men wearing mask grabbed the backpack and left on a small plane.
They track the plane to another state and find out more info on the terrorist really and their plans. Similar to James Bond’s Goldfinger, the terrorist are planning to make a nerve gas and on multiple airplanes, spray the gas over major cities during major sporting events. Gibbs gets a call from Tobias Fornell. The one running from the terrorist with the backpack is a deep undercover FBI agent who was trying to get away and alert his officials when he was spotted near the bookstore. They find a flash drive on him with all the info they need.

They find the terrorist main location and take them out and were able to find the locations of the other airports being used in other cities. Other NCIS and FBI units are called in to deal with them as well. As they wrap up operations Gibbs gets a phone call saying McGee has turned for the worse and others are showing signs of the gas taking effect with 2 more deaths. The team gets samples of the gas. One goes to Abby and the other one to the hospital in hopes of an antidote.

The show finishes with a scene of House playing with his cane and looking at his marker board filled completely with all symptoms McGee is experiencing as Forman, with a mask partly on enters the room and saying that Wilson just collapsed.
End of part one

Part Two (HOUSE) (cliff notes version)

After Gibbs and team leave after watching the surveillance video, Ducky takes the dead bodies back to his lab to do an autopsy but not before making sure Sarah is OK. Dr. Lawrence Kutner enters to check on McGee as he seems to be in stable condition but he doesn’t say in front of McGee that his condition is starting to decline a bit.

House and Cuddy visit Wilson who appears to be in a mild shock. He keeps seeing the gun being point right at him and thinking this is it. House says get over it; I did when I got shot. Cuddy interrupts and says it looked like the girl saved you and the others when she shot the terrorist. Wilson agrees commenting that if she wasn’t there then he would have been killed for sure.

House asked why he was there to begin with and learns Wilson likes reading McGee’s books. House gets a call and leaves Wilson and Cuddy taking with him a copy of McGee’s new book. House goes to see McGee and as he enters McGee is acting funny and becoming non responsive. House stabilizes him and looks over to see Sarah terrified and in tears for her brother.

With everything calming down, House takes Sarah to talk with her. He, in House fashion, thanks her for saving Wilson’s life and learn McGee has been teaching her to protect herself. (Relating to an earlier episode where she was framed for murder). House treats her to lunch where he is surprised by the type of pizza she loves to eat. House also learns more about McGee. (A computer nerd, mystery writer, military police and part time dad to Sarah due to a family problem with their parents.) House is paged to the quarantine area. One person is found dead and a few more are starting to get very sick. The scene cuts to Ducky and Palmer are preparing to do an autopsy when Ducky collapses to the floor.

House says they can try all the medicine in the book but until they know what kind of gas it was, there is no way of knowing how to treat and cure them. He goes back to his office and goes over the board again for a possible answer when Forman enters telling House about Wilson. House turns around looking at Forman when he gets that look in his eye and leave to go to McGee’s room. As he enters the room he see’s McGee now on life support and Sarah standing next to him.

House goes into a long winded speech about the whole situation finally getting to the point where Sarah doesn’t seem to be getting sick. Sarah is the only person at the bookstore who is not affected by the gas. She agrees to blood work and other test to see how she stands out over everyone else. While the tests are run, a sample of the gas arrives and with all the results are in they learned that it’s not nerve gas. The undercover agent was able to change the formula a bit to fool the terrorist but he was unable to weaken the gas enough before he was found out.

As Gibbs returns to the hospital they learn from Abby the formula for the gas that is on the flash disk. House looks at the formula the same time he is looking at lab results of Sarah and notices a connection. Her unusual favorite pizza, which she ate before the book signing began, immunized her from the major affects of the gas. House gets the ingredients for the pizza and finds out what is needed to make an antidote for the gas. It is tested on everyone at the same time due to their medical conditioning getting worsen while Abby gets a copy of it as well to give to Ducky. Sarah is also given the antidote as House states that she would eventually be affected by the gas.

Everyone else is cured and as the NCIS team is visiting McGee before returning to DC, House enters the room and chats for a while. House begins to describe everyone there even though he is really meeting them casually for the first time. Almost like Sherlock Holms, House correctly describes Gibbs, Tony and Ziva and as everyone is amazed by his powers of deduction, House simply says that he read McGee’s new book. He then looks towards Tony and Ziva smiling asks when the wedding is. They both grab the book on the table while making comments about McGee trying to read it as Gibbs smiles on.

House looks at Gibbs and thanks him for getting the formula and stopping the bad guys. House also makes a statement that it is great that McGee will get better and take care of Sarah. Gibbs says Sarah lives with her parents. House says “You mean you don’t know?” Gibbs looks straight at McGee. (Show credits)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_wubzYw1bc
The End

Parking the Car

The other day while I was driving around, I was coming up to a waterfall park near Zebulon, NC. I was also approaching a police car helping out a motorist who had parked his car a little too far off the road.

Bike Weekend

There is an old saying, Life is like a Dogsled Team, if you're not the lead dog, the scenery never changes. As I went to one of the stores I service today in Zebulon, NC, I had to drive behind a couple of guys on their motorcycle's. For at least 7 miles I had to look at one of these guys who needed a belt to keep his pants pulled up. The worst part was that he didn't wear underwear.

On the other hand the next biker had a girl with him. To be more accurate, a girl wearing a bikini top. As I entered Zebulon I found something even more interesting. There was a Bikefest event in town. As far as the eye could see, I had to look quick cause I was still driving, there were motorcycles everywhere. There were bikini girls, heavily tattooed guys, yuppie's, weekend bikers, people of all ages plus girls in bikini's. All in all, it looked like a good size croud was there. I took the picture as I drove by one area where the bikers were parked at.

A-Peeling Situation

A few days after the beach trip when Aquaman Jr. finally came out of the ocean, everyone started peeling all over. He is gone from looking like a Ganguro to his normal shade again.

Swamp Man

I just found the new cover image of High and Mighty Color's new CD called swamp man. I also listened to one of the songs called XYZ. Halco can REALLY sing. I'll be looking forward to buying this CD when it comes out.

Here is my personnel top 10 favorite songs.

1. Remember
2. Tsumi
3. 手紙
4. ミラー
5. Rosier
6. Here I am
7. Amazing
8. Over
9. Dive into Yourself
10. Mushroom

Cherry Point, North Carolina

My family vacationed at Emerald Island but stayed near the Cherry Point Marine Air Station in Havelock, NC. Everyone got sunburned except me. I'll post pictures as soon as I can. My working vacation is over now and I'll have to get into a mind set for going back to my regular job tomorrow. At least it will be less stressful than my vacation.

Natsu-Matsuri Festival

Here are a few pictures from the Festival held in Raleigh near Pullen Park by NC State University on July 11Th. A lot of people turned out for the event but I must say that me and my 2 boys stood out a bit wearing Go-Onger t-shirts while everyone else was a bit more casually.

All in all it was a great event from the Raleigh Japanese Center overlooking the downtown Raleigh high rise. We would have stayed until the closing of the event but the boys built-in patience timer went off which resulted in them wanting to do a marathon race around the entire event while screaming out the others name. Not that they were the only ones doing it. Matter of fact, nearly all the kids were and for that everyone from newborns to great grandparent were having a great time. The whole event felt like a huge family reunion.

Suntory 2009 Summer commercial

The Suntory Beer Summer 2009 TV campaign kicked off last month with their south pacific paradise theme featuring Japanese comedian and actor George Tokoro with Japanese gravure idols Mikie Hara and Yukie Kawamura for the Suntory nama jug (big 350 and 500ml can) beer.

I researched countless video's of half naked Japanese women before I remembered my original purpose of looking for interesting things to post on my blog such as Suntory's new promotions. And those video's I've observed were very interesting. And as I continue my research, I promise to write down what my objectives are. As soon as I get around to remembering what I have to write down.

I had to take out the You Tube video's for it seems to have been slowing the blog site down a bit.

Now on with the research!!!

Click here for the news/video article.

Just a Theory (for fun)

Please bear with me as I try my own theory, or at least a good sci-fi movie. Also I’m not that great on long fancy correct wording so please once again bear with me on this.

Theory no. 1
Extinction of the Dinosaurs (Cliff note version)

Currently the moon moves about 2 centimeters away from Earth a year. The gravity is strongest on the sides that always face the Earth due to centrifugal forces. Millions of years ago the moon was a lot closer to the Earth. Remember the scene from the movie ‘Joe vs. the Volcano’ when Tom Hanks see’s the moon come over the oceans horizon and you get the idea. Also all the land masses were bunched up together into one land mass called Pangaea. Whether it was one land mass or just starting to drift apart the whole planet looked like a giant eye ball from space at this time.

And now the hard part.

An asteroid belt lies between Mars and Jupiter but what if millions of years ago there could have been a planet there. Or to be more precise, a duel planet. Imagine Space Cruiser Yamato or the English title Star Blazers anime where the ship goes to a duel planet system for help. Now as all the planets in the solar system orbits the sun in an elliptical orbit, the duel planets orbit constantly changes depending on each planets location as their obit is closer to the sun. Over time these two planets would eventually collide giving way to the greater gravity forces of the sun. This would lead to the mother of all domino effects.

As these two planets collide into each other, they naturally break apart violently and slowly. As this huge mass is approaching an elliptical orbit, huge chunks of rocks from these two former planets are being pulled towards a now greater gravity force, the Sun. Huge boulders and debris the size of small countries are flying through space being pulled on by the sun with the nearest planet Mars in the way. Mars at this time period for all intense purposes could be just like Earth is now. But it is now being bombarded by a meteor shower like no other that is directly cooking the atmosphere. Whether the meteors made land fall or not isn’t important, the atmosphere is being cooked away exposing the planet to the solar winds and radiation. Think of the 1961 movie called ‘Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea’ when the Van Allen belt catches fire.

With little atmosphere, the entire planet starts to chock from a lack of oxygen and no protection from Solar radiation. The surface of Mars is beginning to erode away in a non stop sand blasting effect that is still going on today. If any life and or water are still on Mars today, it would be deep underground. But the next planet, Earth is becoming the next target.

Again at this time the moon is a lot closer to Earth that looks like a giant eyeball from space. As the meteors approach Earth, the moon which at this period of time was a rotating moon just happens to be lined up to take the brunt of the attack. Countless meteors are hitting the Moon as it is rotating around the Earth. For a long period of time the Moon is a shield to this devastating effect. While some do get through and strike the surface of Earth it is during this bombardment a unique thing starts to happen.

The moon has a very thick powdery surface. As the moon is being nonstop bombarded by meteors, the surface powder is being shot up away from the surface. With close proximity to the Earth at this time, the surface material is caught and pulled towards the Earth’s due to the planet’s gravity. The particles being so small and light, they simply encircled the plant as if the planet now has cataracts. With so much destructive effects towards the moon; losing surface materials, major craters and having its orbit changed due to the angles at which the moon was hit eventually causing the moons rotation to be the way it is now. Imagine tetherball, hitting it in certain areas can change its direction and course.

On Earth now, these tiny particles are encircling the planet like a nice quilt blanket. On a planet that is the perfect environment for cold blooded animals is now quietly and constantly cooling down. Over time many of these animals adapted and changed with the new environment. And many more of these animals basically died out. Other forms of life now have a better fighting chance of survival. This goes on for a great deal of time. And during this whole time those tiny particles that have been located on the other side of Earths atmosphere are beginning to slowly drift through and collecting towards the upper atmosphere. Think about the 1984 movie ‘Night of the Comet’.

By this time the dinosaurs have already died out and covered in sediment. And these tiny particles eventually rain down onto the planet giving the land surfaces a nice burnt snowy effect. Sediment as always, builds up as land masses continually move, changing the atmosphere conditions for the whole planet. By that, imagine what the planets weather would be like if Antarctica or for that matter any land mass wasn’t located at the South Pole. And imagine what the weather conditions would be like in the future if the land masses continue to move.

If the collision of the two planets never happened eventually the naturally shifting land masses on Earth would change the weather conditions of the planet but it would be over such a long period of time that the cold blooded life forms of that time would have adapted easily while the warm blooded animals would have stayed at their current evolutionary forms. The species that eventually evolved to become know as Homo sapiens would have been nothing more than deer meat for the evolved Dinosaur form.

This concludes the cliff note version on my theory of what happened to the dinosaurs. If anyone is offended, disgusted, annoyed, inspired, and grateful or whatever please try to remember that I have a great imagination and extremely poor penmanship. Finally writing all this down was for my entertainment. I also have a theory about Communism in the 1960’s America, a TV show called WKRP in Okinawa, Hogan’s Heroes movie, a pre-Thundercats movie and a Power Rangers show as a few things to keep my imagination busy.

Working the 4th of July

If the end of the world were to take place in a few days it is a sure bet the first place people will go to is the grocery store. The planet will disintegrate into a million pieces but not before we stock up the fridge. I had to work during the Forth of July Holiday and I have never seen the likes of people shopping except in times of blizzard or hurricane. These people were buying drinks and foods as if they were having a cookout for the entire state.

I only wished the Masked Magician was there to explain how so many 12 pack drinks kept disappearing. I loaded up a cart with over 100 12-packs on it and rolled it to the drink isle. I then left the cart and walked over to check a few pallet displays to see how they were. When I came back, the cart was nearly empty. And after many days of long hours with little to no break I am finally glad this holiday is over.
Luckily I was able to get home just in time to take my family to see the fireworks at the local baseball stadium.

My kids love parking along the roadside along with other family as we all listen to the game on the radio, drinking drinks while chatting away about the good ole days. When the game is over and the lights go out, it’s as if time has stopped and all eyes are to the sky. No matter how old one gets it is still pretty cool to watch. The down side was that we didn’t get home until nearly midnight when I had to be at work by 6 AM.

And now on my day off I shall treat it like the directions of a shampoo bottle. Sleep, turn over and repeat. No more listening to customers asking questions only to hear the answer they don’t want to hear. Going to the back room to look for a certain drink package that you know is not there but you do it anyway because you can stop off at the water fountain or go to the bathroom, then go back out to the customer to tell them you’re out of it and it that it might be on the next day’s delivery.

No more dealing with shopping carts lined up on the drink isle with customers staring at you like a junkie looking for a fix. Having to fill up a section of drinks only to see that particular customer, who you know who has been watching you, come by and take everything you just filled up while you’re in the backroom. Then has the gall to not only ask for more but to apologize, when we both know it is a fake apology, for taking every last package off the shelf.

These next few days I shall truly enjoy my day off knowing that if it wasn’t for those customers helping to support the economy by keeping the stores from closing down and other companies from downsizing; I might not be able to support my family as well. And to them I am very grateful for their business. Yes on my day off when I take my family shopping, I may very well be that customer. But with a little more respect towards my fellow venders and merchandisers.

Top Gear

I LOVE THIS SHOW!!!

Wal-Mart new Policy

Wal-Mart is trying a bold move to keep customers shopping in their stores instead of going to Target. Many of their new store policies are actually Target policies that Wal-Mart has modified. Case in point; all Targets have a cut off time of 8 AM for pallet jacks on the sales floor. Wal-Mart has taken this policy and has banned all vendors from using the pallet jacks on the sales floor. That means for all those displays of soda, chips, beer etc… that are placed throughout the huge Wal-Mart Super Centers, are been placed there using nothing more than a hand cart with multiple trips from the backroom to the sales floor.

A few weeks ago I was helping a Pepsi vendor work his store in Smithfield, NC. It took us seven (7) hours to work the store. That was filling the drink isle, building 2 pallet displays near the other end of the store, fill up 2 other pallet displays and end caps plus build 2 end cap displays. We only had one 15 minute break, no lunch and a Wal-Mart manager tour constantly hovering over all the venders like Freddy Krueger in your dreams.

In an effort to keep their stores from being littered by pallets all over the store, Wal-Mart will eventually do away with pallet displays and set up end caps similar to the Target end caps by 2010. The Clayton, NC Super Wal-Mart is undergoing a remodel of this type now. One of the main reasons for doing away with the pallet displays was an incident at one of their Wal-Mart stores in Cary, NC that cost the company $5,000.

It seems a local Fire Marshal was helping his wife with her shopping when he began to count all the Wal-Mart freight, many of the nearly 100 pallets still shrink wrapped and spread left throughout the store. He then excused himself from his wife to take a look into the backroom area. There he found pallets throughout the backroom area that one had to walk almost sideways to navigate around them. As he and his wife finished shopping he drove behind the store to see a multitude of shrink wrapped merchandise on pallets in a makeshift corral by the receiving area. Needless to say an official visit was immediately made to the store.

Needless to say the store Manager had to make a trip to the main headquarters which over time the store eventually received a new store manager. Especially after 5 truck loads of merchandise were removed from the store. Wal-Mart did take this message to heart and decided they do not want a repeat of this incident. So by adopting new policies Wal-Mart is cleaning up all their stores in a series of steps.

Those being as follows:
1. It is the Vendors fault
2. Make it harder for all the Vendors to service the stores
3. Keep non-Vendor items empty or nearly empty on the shelf.
4. Take away Vendor displays, without any notice, especially if it is selling better than the Wal-Mart brands.
5. Forget that Vendors are or were customers
6. Copy Target