Ahhhhhhhh....

Air conditioning. I finally got a decent A/C unit from Wally World for $100. And it's actually doing a great job.

Finally. It great, it's cool, and it'll last a few years.... I'm happy :)

Weird Al Rules!

Oh my god, Al's new Poodle Hat album is way too funny. His parody of "Complicated" is SO worth listening to, I was laughing on the floor.

Wicked funny, and worth picking up to listen to.

I finally got it!

Woot!

I just installed a 80GB hard drive on my system. Two 40 gig partitions - plenty of space to capture movies and plenty of room for my pics, mp3's, movies and games.

I must say I thought it was going to be a huge undertaking, but I had it installed, partitioned and formatted in under an hour.

So now I'm off to install some games and try to do some cool video capture now.

Quote of the post - "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke

The Matrix... Re-something or other

Ok. I finally saw Matrix Reloaded.

What it was and what it could have been... It's not a bad movie, but I don't think it's a great movie either.

I think as a first part to the "bigger picture" picture, it stands up pretty well. But if I had never seen the original Movie, I wouldn't have liked it.

A few things about it irked me:

1) The pacing....was... a.. little bit.. offduringthe... whole... thing...
2) What was with the "Elfquest/Wolfrider-esque" rave/bonding scene? It really didn't forward the plot at all (unless you consider the fact the were celebrating life in general).
3) Way too much exposition in the movie. Almost everything had to be explained to you.
4) You really don't need to watch the movie a second time. Unlike the first movie, where you learned the plot along with Neo, things were explained to you (see No 3), so the only reason to see the movie a second time is to watch the fight scenes (and the gorgeous girl in the restaurant scene)

But on the plus side

1) Almost ever fight scene rocked.. Even the one with the multiple cloned Elrond's...err.... Mr. Smith's :)
2) The movie had a lot of quasi-religious undertones (but then again so did the first movie), that I thought was pretty cool.
3) Seeing the world through "Neo-vision" was really cool.
4) Lawrence Fishburne say "It is our destiny" - I could almost here Darth Vader's breathing in the background.
5) The 2 guys in white. nuff said

So was it good? Yes and no. Considering it's really the first part of a larger movie (like a big episode of Fox's "24"), I can't really judge it until the second movie is released.

Quote of the day - "French is the best language to swear in. It's like wiping your ass with silk.." - Merovingian from Matrix Reloaded

And Finally...

Ok My manager's back from vacation, and our 2 weeks of torture is finally over :)

I have tomorrow off, and I'm ready to just relax... after cleaning, doing laundry, doing dishes and basically recovering from the last 2 weeks.

But the plus side is a HUGE check that will let me pay off my laptop, pay my rent, my Adelipha bill, and have about 100 bucks leftover... I'm a happy clam...

Today's Quote - "The world is filled with willling people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them." - Robert Frost

Whew! Again

After 60 hours of work my week's done... Plus side - Big check. Minus side - Dog Tired.

ox Whew!

Well It took me 4 hours and a lot pushing, pounding and screwing... No NOT sex. I finally put up my entertainment center. You people have such twisted minds! I know have my Cable Box, DVD player and VCR squared away in one unit, with plenty of room left over in case I want to buy a XBOX or PS2. And finding "The Poseidon Adventure" and "The Towering Inferno" on DVd for 6 bucks a piece ain't to shabby either.

As for work... I'm about dead on my feet. Thursday is my day off, and I'm not MOVING. I'm staying home to clean and rest, before my torture begins for next week.