No Respect & A Movie

Went and saw a midnight showing of Spiderman 2. Summary: It rocked! Better than the first one.



The bummer was the theater decided to turn off the air conditioning around 12:30ish. A theater full of geeky bodies in the heat. Use your imagination. Ok, don't if you are eating.



The real problem was *35 minutes* of commercial bullshiite. I'm not going to put up with it anymore. I'm going to demand they tell me when the movie REALLY starts so I can sit outside. Damn if I want to be a captive audience. I'm sure some marketing dweeb is thinking they have all they could want and it will only get better. They keep it up and I'll start splicing nudes into the snow white films ;)

Bluaugh!

I SLEEP NOW! (I still have my skeleton!) I'm tired. Couldn't sleep and ended up with 2.5 hours of sleep total. I wish I didn't need sleep.



Found out paint does not always dry inside of 7 days - 6 weeks! Ack! A month and a half of no wiping and no cleaning - who would have known? All the paints I had growing up were damn near impervious to indelible ink pens inside of an hour. Maybe it was just my parents were smart and encountered this same problem well before I paid attention to it.



Thinking of Dodging beer and watching Dodgeball! tonight.

Government? Cluster!

Heard on Metro: "With the government alert on domestic terror AND
upcoming events in the area.." they make it seem like a government
planned event. Huh. Maybe it is? ;)
--On the way home

Perchance to dream...

Ah, I purchased another Shadowrun Figure at the Game Parlor in Woodbridge yesterday. I promised myself I would start gaming more. I miss gaming but don't have the time.



I am hoping my fascination and purchase of the figures will remind me to stop and play. I also enjoy the figures themselves. They are well done pieces of art that remind me of fantasy gaming and past fun with friends. While at the gaming store I also realized I don't have enough dice ;)

WoW WOW

I saw more pictures of World Of Worldcraft (WoW), this time of Player vs. Player (pvp) combat. I can't wait for this thing to come out and my productivity and sleep levels to go down the tubes!



On another note, I cancelled my Final Fantasy XI account. The game just isn't all that, introductory piece is annoying an not educational about the game, and it really is designed as a controller based PS2 game. The keyboard button config tool was horrible and the navigator interface you went through before playing the game was painful too. Sigh.



--Saardek

Ack.

Well I was sick on Monday. I hate feeling tired and miserable. I went to work on Tuesday and it was so hot and sticky outside I thought I had developed another fever. Icky icky icky.



I played some FF11 last night. I still don't like the interface. The login process interface sucks - hey, I *have* a computer. I understand PS2 users need the interface to check email and board info, but the interface is not only non traditional it sucks. Example: you have messages - choose check messages. Wouldn't it be easier to automatically display them on logon? They already made gross assumptions about the interface and user interaction..it wouldn't be unexpected. They also make you go through several screens just to play the game! Bastards! I understand it may be PS2 focused for development, but you released a *Windows* version (I play games on windows and it won't run on my preferred Linux system(s)). This PS2 concept also fails to properly address keyboard and gamepad configuration. All and all I think this game was money wasted. I'll probably cancel before renewal next month.



--late while on the train to work.

Pumpin' the Cathedral

Jeeze, it is so hard not be cynical when they keep shoving crap at you. Just watching the ceremonies for Reagan and they keep panning into and out of the cathedral. It feels like a sex shot or something.



Now you can say I'm wrong for mentioning it, but it is such a farce that they want to pay respects when they are really off hoaring for ratings. Belittles the whole event if you ask me.

Pitiful Worm Baby!

Went out and enjoyed a beer with a friend last night. It was fun to BS and commiserize over a drink and watch all the people.



I still find I don't like the smoke - it is one of the things that makes going out unpleasant - but we got out early before it was too thick.



Since Friday might be a government holiday, and my offices are closed, I might go to the midnight showing of Riddick on Thursday night, er, I mean 00:01 Friday.



Was planning to go home to NC this weekend but Mom & Pop are away until Saturday night and I wanted to bring the girls to see them. Guess we'll wait another week or two. Perhaps we'll get Invader Zim DVD and watch that instead.



--I demand piggies!

XPeed-off

Well, looky here. Seems XP decided I didn't really want to look at the dial-up connection I was using. I can't see it under network connections this morning. It is still there because when I don't give it a network connection it starts the dial-up dialog but I can't see the actual network settings - nor the connection box in the taskbar.



Go figure.

It's the little things.

I had a shower and bathroom without having to leave the house this morning and it was WONDERFUL! You don't know. Really - yet another thing we take for granted.



I've tried to thing of other things we take for granted and it is an interesting mental exercise. What could you not live without?

Fingers (and legs) crossed...

Here's hoping we have a functional bathroom today. Here's planning; I'm stopping by the gym on the way home. ;)



Feeling: dehydrated and late.

That was a long weekend?!?

Where did it go?! I still don't have a bathroom (grrr...) And we found the shower valve needs to be replaced to use the new shiny handles...after the tile is in. I primed two walls for paint. I also was pissy from being tired and the weather getting sticky. I think I almost bit Anthony's head off. (Sorry A!)



On happier news, I was able to log in and download the Vendetta (www.vendetta-online.com) client and set it running on my laptop. I'm going to setup the other computers with it too..one with linux and another on Win2K.

--I'm on the train headed to work.