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Feb 14th
Congratulations on collecting one hundred monetarily ambiguous gold coins! As your reward, you’ve been issued a very jovial looking jade green fungus. Please exercise caution when consuming undercooked happy mushrooms as feelings of invulnerability and euphoria have been known to occur. Consult your physician if these feelings last longer than 300s.
Another year has submitted to the unstoppable grindhouse that is Father Time. Two years now I’ve been in under my current employ with no major complaints to speak of. We picked up miss Pami as a first round draft pick and I am thankful for the presence of one other sane person around the proverbial water cooler. I’ve been fortunate to remain at the home base pounding keys instead of turning screws abroad. I’m sure the wife would argue differently.
I certainly don’t mean to slip into an “At the Movies” style segment here, but I will remark on a few things I’ve seen recently to possibly recruit or save you.
- Avatar – I guess if you’re going to go see this, do yourself the favor of seeing in 3D on the biggest sheet of canvas you can find. The Mrs and I, unfortunately, saw this in 2D on a very crappy screen (go to hell, Regal). The story for Avatar, in case you are not aware, is just Pocohantas in Space. It’s nothing groundbreaking and completely predictable. But the effects are supposed to be top-notch, which they very well might have been but I couldn’t tell.
- Sherlock Holmes – It’s funny. And more on-target to Doyle’s Holmes than the stereotypical Holmes you might think of. You should probably have a few beers and Redbox it.
- The Book of Eli – We were unfortunate to be the last ones into the theater on this one and got stuck in the second row of the theater. I’ve never had to actually rotate my head to pan across a movie screen before, and it’s not something I hope to do again. Luckily, there’s not a lot of reading in this movie. There is, however, a fair amount of Denzel Washington being a complete badass.
All right. The Olympics are on. I didn’t think I was going to care, but here we are. Let’s meet back here after women’s curling and we’ve replenished the spank bank.
Return to the Left Coast
Mar 27th
This fucker needs a computer
I have no particular love for Seattle, Washington. That’s not to say I hate the place, but the powers that be seem to keep drawing me there to spend most of the daylight hours locked in a basement somewhere wearing a funny little hair bonnet. These past four days I spent in Seattle went by without too many events of note. On my last day there, I did get to do a couple of hours wandering where I did venture into the EMP/SFM building (Experience Music Project / Science Fiction Museum). It was an interesting place for the $15. I got to see a working tornado of musical instruments and a complete history of guitars, as well as a collection of miscellaneous science fiction memorabilia. Included in said memorabilia was the complete written manuscript of Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle which stood several feet tall. I bring that up only because I’ve read the first volume of aforementioned series and later sat next to a gentleman on the flight back from Seattle who was reading Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon (one of my favorite reads in recent years). The coincidences just continue to stack up.
As usual, I caught the red-eye back to Columbus and am now running on about 2.5 hours of plane-sleep, which translates roughly into one hour of actual sleep. Luckily, Monster Khaos energy drinks were buy-one get-one at the gas station by the apartment so I’m ripped and ready for at least another 7 hours or so.
The wife and I have started to do a little house hunting in our free time. We said we would start doing it a little earlier this year if we had the cash saved up but we just sort of put it off until the weather was nice(r). We’ve found a couple of prospective dwellings in the last couple of weeks and got screwed out of both of them. We have this magic power that causers bidders to show up out of nowhere on houses that have been on the market for like 6 months. Assholes.
Just before leaving the state, I finished Bioshock on the PS3. The ending was a little disappointing, but I’ll go ahead and say that if you get the chance to play it, you should. I know I’m like a few years late on this game, but it’s practically a “classic” now so you should be able to get it cheap. I think I’m going to pick up Paper Mario for the Wii later this weekend.
All right. That’s all for right now. I’ve already wasted the better part of 3 hours of my “day off” answering work emails and filling out paperwork. I need to go do something wholly unproductive, like play LittleBigPlanet.
