Big Brother 13 Live Feeds Into Monday Morning 9/05

Adam still holds the power this week

No, I haven't forgotten y'all ... there just isn't all that much new to report. Here's the latest from that Big Brother House of Fools:

• The PoV meeting hasn't gone down yet. I expect it later today.
• Doesn't matter; Adam will NOT be using the Power of Veto.
• Not only has he told Rachel and Jordan he won't (and, when the dude actually commits like that, he sticks to it), but he told US ... the live feed watchers.
• I wish Adam was more interesting when he talks to the feeds watchers. He's no Dick at Nite show.
• But, at least he DOES talk to us when he's alone.
• They continue to all get along when together, no brouhahas.
• They continue to play cards made out of tea bags.
• Except Jordan, that is. She doesn't really like (know how?) to play cards.
• Porsche is now sporting a new puke green velour sweat suit. @@
• They all seem to be dressing up in their new clothes for PoV this morning.
• Porsche is now wearing a floor-length dress with a hoodie over it. @@
• Kalia and Porsche still work on Adam whenever they're separately alone with him, often throwing each other under the reality TV bus.
• But it ain't gonna happen. He won't use it.
• It still looks like Kalia will go this week.
• Despite Kalia's extremely annoying personal habits and voice, I'd still prefer Porsche go.
• Now that Porsche is actually shown doing stuff other than sleeping on the feeds, I'm not impressed.
• Rachel continues to be normal-acting sans Brendon.
• She might want to think about that when she gets out of the house.
• That's all she wrote ...
  

Hanging out with Adam ... love the gown and hoodie, not!

Tea bag card game in action.

Big Brother 13 HoH Result and Nominations Show Blog Party 9/04

The show is about to start here on the East Coast. Shockingly, it didn't get delayed by tennis! As it airs, I'll update this entry with major events. But the real fun is in the comments and I hope you all join in!

Rachel won HoH by a wide margin!

Rachel goes to the room to find Pandora's Box -- Tori Spelling and a shopping spree! She knows Adam's Tori fixation and thinks there can't be a big twist. So she goes for it. Rachel instead got Jessie. Eww.

The house got Tori Spelling. Adam is agog. Then the house got a three-minute shopping spree. Rachel didn't get to go.

Adam, Porsche and Kalia all pleaded their cases with her. But only Jordan and Adam are safe. Kalia and Porsche are on the block.

Off Topic - That Was the Week It Was - September 4, 2011

If you're looking for the latest Big Brother 13 live feeds update, it's this post, not THIS post.

It's Sunday morning and, unlike last Sunday, it's time for my (usually) weekly look back on the week gone by in both words and photographs I've taken along the way. I didn't post last Sunday due to an extended power outage due to Hurricane Irene. My power went out late Saturday night and didn't come on again until Monday morning. During Monday, it went out twice again for much shorter periods of time. However, I had it easier than many of my friends in Manville and Bound Brook during the storm.

For only the second time since living here (ten years), my own street flooded and had to be closed down. I didn't go out for any storm photos as my power was out -- no elevator with me still getting around with a crutch after my knee setback. From my own windows which look off to the side, the storm didn't look that impressive. Yet, when I went out on Tuesday, I noticed the water marks on the front part of the building were over a foot high. Our front foyer, which is lower than ground level (steps down to it outside, then steps up to the first floor inside) must have flooded.

I'm not sure when my power went out Saturday night -- I woke up around 4 AM all sweaty because my fan went off. Since I couldn't get back to sleep, I sat in my recliner chair by the window and watched explosions of transformers and wires being brought down by falling trees light up the night sky. It was almost surreal, like lightning close to the horizon with no lightning bolts or thunder. As I watched, I feared my power might be out a long, long time.

I'm lucky. Some of my friends STILL have no power as I get this written. Plus, I have no worries about storm damage. I live on the second floor of a three story apartment building. If a tree were to fall, it would hit the top floor. If a flood were to happen, it would be the basement and first floor.

The storm made the week a bit weird. I still see some wires down on the street. Hopefully they're just cable wires at this point. All of the intersections with traffic lights still boast flare dust from when cops were there through the night, then day, then night again. I had my police scanner on through the storm and my outage listening to water rescues and the various emergency responses. The Plainfield Police and Fire Departments get my kudos for a job well done!

Let's see ... what else has been going on? Oh! I found out that the stomach bug I had is indeed something that's going around. The mother of one of my friends was actually hospitalized with it. I know since my operation, my immune system is weaker than normal, so that's probably why I caught it and why it hit me so hard.

The knee continues to improve from its setback. Unfortunately, a lot of my recent physical therapy has had to focus on the kneecap dislocation rather than the knee replacement. My PT says that he has patients coming in solely for therapy for that. Ack. I've worked myself back down from the crutch to a cane while outside the apartment. But I still feel like it's unstable and I'm taking it real slow. Inside, I'm not using anything, but I'm not dashing about for sure!

Anyway ... onto the photos. My apologies again for no storm photos!

I come from New Jersey with my cap upon my knee

Second Street, Scotch Plains.

Mushroom

Tons of fungi all over the place both before and after Irene due to the historically wet summer.

Another

A gathering of the 'shrooms

A lone 'shroom

I read where some folks have been eating the local mushrooms and have had to be hospitalized. That would never happen to me. I'm only a fan of photographing them. I don't care for eating them even when they're not poisonous.

Where the water came from?

I took this shot from in front of my building. The Green Brook runs in back of those apartments across the street from me. It's usually a small brook -- sometimes down to maybe twelve feet wide in spots, perhaps 20-25 feet at its widest in the area. Apparently it grew big enough to make my own street into a raging river during Irene.

My taped up kneecap.

My knee is swollen just because it's swollen. It's splotchy because I had ice on it at the end of PT. The scar is healing nicely, though!

Yet another mushroom

Snoopy window

East Second Street, Plainfield

Pretty in pink

Flowers brighten up a set of weathered steps on Berckman Street in Plainfield.

Silly tiny bikes

How can they ride these things? Those seats look SO uncomfortable! Scotch Plains.

Camera shy

That human will never find me!
I'll become one with the tree!
Call me a treehugger

Yet another mushroom

You NEED to put that camera down and play with me!

Okay, Vincent. Whatever you want ...

Big Brother 13 Live Feeds Into Saturday Night 9/04

Kalia crashes and burns

In the beginning of the season, I would never have predicted this final five. Of course, at the beginning, I was thinking Evel Dick would be entertaining me all summer. Instead we have Adam with his metal persona gone standing and weaving while smoking cigarettes. Oh well. Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Whine and Cheese:

• As I posted earlier, Adam won the veto.
• Now, before the veto comp went down, Adam gave his word to Jordan and Rachel that if he won the veto, he wouldn't use it.
• Of course, if he were to use the veto, it would be Jordan on the block as the replacement.
• Adam has played a sucky Enzo-like but not as entertaining as Enzo game all season.
• But, one thing about him -- when he commits to something, he does stick with it.
• When he's iffy or wants to vote another way, he never tells the person pleading to him what he'll do.
• So I think he'll remain true to his word and NOT use the veto.
• He even gave Jordan his girlfriend's necklace to hold as some sort of insurance.
• Yeah, that reeks of Shelly and her ring, but ...!
  
• The veto comp was an Otev one, this time with them retrieving pies.
• How he won, I don't know. I'm still in shock.
• Both Kalia and Porsche tried their hardest to mingle through the room.
• Adam told them he probably will not be using the veto.
• But how could he betray them like that?
• Kalia fell apart when Jordan told her she probably won't be voting for her to stay.
• She exiled herself in the bedroom crying her little heart out while mumbling that Adam and Porsche don't deserve to be in the house.
  
• But, of course, she is so much more deserving!
• Eventually she went into the Diary Room probably asking to DOR (voluntarily leave).
• I'm just not getting her. Many "deserving" people have already been voted out, most not throwing quite the dramatic fit she's throwing.
• While the Kalia drama was going on inside the house, everyone outside was getting along playing pool and hanging out in the backyard.
• I'm not sure of how things will be timed in the coming days as they will most likely have a taped eviction on Tuesday.
• At this point, it looks like Adam won't use the veto and it's Kalia going home.
  

The fortune teller comes alive for the group,
yet says nothing.

Adam has the power.
Who woulda thunk it?

Porsche now lives in a gray sweat suit.

Rachel continues to be better without Brendon.

Jordan needs to STOP PLAYING WITH HER HAIR!
Most of the girls do it and it drives me crazy while watching.

Big Brother 13 Live Feeds Update - PoV 9/03

Oh my gosh.

Adam won the Power of Veto.