Had some lunch today with an old friend. We ate at the Orchid House Thai buffet. Was decent flavor. I added some hot spice to my soup and got a large concentration of it when I was drinking the juice. Wooo! Made my eyes water.
Off to Lowes to buy a miter saw and some trim and crown molding. Miter Saw is much nicer than the table saw for cutting angles. Course thats prolly like saying its easier to run in shorts.
Had chilly windy run today. Easy pace, no issues. Was nice. Going to dip down into the 20s next couple of nights. Maybe I'll get crazy and try a morning run. hah! Prolly not. I have to drive to Pcola in the still dark morning on Wednesday.
The last book i bought was in September of last year. It was the book about the cat named Oscar who lives at a nursing home ( skilled nursing facility - a snif!) and can tell when someone is about to die. I decided to finish it so I could get myself back into another scifi book. I came across a novel called The Forever War. It sounds potent ( said like none other than Papa Dragon ).
Anyway, school is back on. Time to get back on schedule.
Monday, January 2, 2012
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Goodbye 2011
Why are my neighbors shooting off fireworks? Oh yah it's New Years Eve! They must be wondering why I'm painting my dining room. Well, so I can put up curtains! Ok OK, enough of that. This New Years is just another number to me. That might seem like a negative thing, but it's really just an indicator that I've got way more things to think about. 2012...this year is going to be insane. The apocolypse and another presidential loss for the Republican party. Whaaaaa!!!
2011 has been an odd year. The beginning was an emotional rollercaoster with my mind so focused on death. Luckily no death happened. Then the middle was just this stressball of not having a house, quickly followed by stressball of having a house and working on it everyday nonstop. We've still got a ton to do, but it's less stressful now. Things have settled down a little I spose.
I finished the year with 937 miles. 60% of my runs were outside. I'm not sure what it was for 2010, but I'm guessing about double which is good. I enjoy running outside more now. I miss running in Vegas...I guess I just miss the desert and the mountains.
Anyway, Happy New Year to all of you. There are fresh baked chocolate chip cookies emanating from the kitchen. (insert Ming The Merciless laugh!!!)
2011 has been an odd year. The beginning was an emotional rollercaoster with my mind so focused on death. Luckily no death happened. Then the middle was just this stressball of not having a house, quickly followed by stressball of having a house and working on it everyday nonstop. We've still got a ton to do, but it's less stressful now. Things have settled down a little I spose.
I finished the year with 937 miles. 60% of my runs were outside. I'm not sure what it was for 2010, but I'm guessing about double which is good. I enjoy running outside more now. I miss running in Vegas...I guess I just miss the desert and the mountains.
Anyway, Happy New Year to all of you. There are fresh baked chocolate chip cookies emanating from the kitchen. (insert Ming The Merciless laugh!!!)
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Prometheous
It seems I fell off the blogging wagon. Hope everyones holidays are going well.
Watched a bunch of movies lately.
The Town - very cool!
The Adjustment Bureau - was decent. Lets face it, Emily Blunt is good reason to stand up to the Agents of Fate.
Hall Pass - WTH was I thinking. Just painful enough for me to keep watching.
Bridemaids - was ok. I thought it would be funnier for me, but I found many of the scenes just made me anxious.
The Help - Bryce Dallas Howard and Emma Stone? Double red headed amazinginity! haha Seriously though, it was good.
And..thats it!
Now, theres something thats been brewing in my head last few days and I have to spit it out.
If you read my blog, then you know I'm a fanboy for the movie Alien. Even though it's really just a slasher film, it's done so in such a stylized way that for me it steps into the Venn circle of art. So in my little movie vault in my head, it has a top shelf spot. I was showing my dad my ipad the other day ( I fixed it by dropping it on the floor!) and was looking up the new Batman movie trailer. What's this Prometheous movie about? I read the tagline, "The search for our beginning cold lead to our end" I thought WTH is that crap, bah let's watch the trailer.
As soon as I saw the space craft engines, my name this movie in one note instincts flared up. Then the letter segments came on and I knew this was Ridley Scott's Alien prequel....finally after all these years. Holy Crap!!! Turns out it's not really a prequel, but a separate movie that has elements from the Alien movie. So I watched the trailer about 20 times that day and began scouring the corners of the interent for information. Scifi forums, imdb, youtube, ..heck I even googled script leak. I found some detailed plot synopsis too. For me, there's none of this I wanna be surprised when I see BS. I read both Aliens and Alien 3 novels before I saw the movies. With Aliens I was a super nerd and after seeing it 10 times in a row, I swear I could recite the movie's entire dialogue with minimal error. With Alien 3, I threw the book down and yelled No F'in way when I finished. I thought Alien 3 was a big disappointment too.
So Prometheous is coming next summer. How exciting! Lets look at some of the details of this movie. And while I'm thinking here, if you want to have no spoilers in your head, then just bookmark this badboy for another day. I may have to mention some spoilers here and there. But watch out, Fox is already putting out disinformation, so who knows.
Who better to make this movie? I had high hope for Tron 2.0 and still kinda hope Kazinski (is that his name?) cna do justice to The Black Hole, but he really dropped the ball I thought. So instead of a new upcoming director, we have the original director himself Sir Ridely Scott coming back into the mix. Scott has made some killer movies. Heres a list of them I liked:
Alien
BladeRunner
Legend
Black Rain
Thelma & Louise
GI Jane
Blackhawk Down
Gladiator
Alien, Bladerunner,Legend, Blackhawk, and Gladiator I think all kinda set the bar in some way for their Genre. They are movies that are used as reference points. Like someone will say oh District 9 is like BlackHawk Down meets whatever. So Scott has some potent cred to his name. He's made some "not so good" movies too. And some would say, he hasn't made anything good in a while. So i think he's due for some awesomeness.
The cast seems pretty good too. Thank Gawd Russell Crowe is not in it! They all seem capable of delivering strong performances. One thing I loved about the first Alien movie is how rough they all looked. Cartwright and Weaver had like zero makeup. Harry Dean Stanton as a mechanic is the real deal. Yaphet..dude what have you been up to. But they were miners right, whereas this crew is corporate scientists? It just always rubs me when the cast looks so clean. Small nit pick perhaps.
So good director- check good cast - check, but what about writers? One writer has hardly any cred and the movie Darkest Hour which he wrote for is getting horrible reviews. Lindelof seems to have passion for the material ,but his effort for Cowboys & Aliens doesn't really inspire. So this is kind of a scary part. Thw writing could really suck for this movie. So much of what made Alien good was the dialogue. Scott seems to be really pumped about Lindelof's work though when watching the Comic Con video so that is hopeful.
Finally, the plot synopsis I have read online have seemed ..well like they could easily be stupid. But then again if one read the plot for Alien, before it was released, you might think...really? Thats it? That's stupid. Ahhh but it wasn't was it. So here's hoping some magic happens with this movie.
Watched a bunch of movies lately.
The Town - very cool!
The Adjustment Bureau - was decent. Lets face it, Emily Blunt is good reason to stand up to the Agents of Fate.
Hall Pass - WTH was I thinking. Just painful enough for me to keep watching.
Bridemaids - was ok. I thought it would be funnier for me, but I found many of the scenes just made me anxious.
The Help - Bryce Dallas Howard and Emma Stone? Double red headed amazinginity! haha Seriously though, it was good.
And..thats it!
Now, theres something thats been brewing in my head last few days and I have to spit it out.
If you read my blog, then you know I'm a fanboy for the movie Alien. Even though it's really just a slasher film, it's done so in such a stylized way that for me it steps into the Venn circle of art. So in my little movie vault in my head, it has a top shelf spot. I was showing my dad my ipad the other day ( I fixed it by dropping it on the floor!) and was looking up the new Batman movie trailer. What's this Prometheous movie about? I read the tagline, "The search for our beginning cold lead to our end" I thought WTH is that crap, bah let's watch the trailer.
As soon as I saw the space craft engines, my name this movie in one note instincts flared up. Then the letter segments came on and I knew this was Ridley Scott's Alien prequel....finally after all these years. Holy Crap!!! Turns out it's not really a prequel, but a separate movie that has elements from the Alien movie. So I watched the trailer about 20 times that day and began scouring the corners of the interent for information. Scifi forums, imdb, youtube, ..heck I even googled script leak. I found some detailed plot synopsis too. For me, there's none of this I wanna be surprised when I see BS. I read both Aliens and Alien 3 novels before I saw the movies. With Aliens I was a super nerd and after seeing it 10 times in a row, I swear I could recite the movie's entire dialogue with minimal error. With Alien 3, I threw the book down and yelled No F'in way when I finished. I thought Alien 3 was a big disappointment too.
So Prometheous is coming next summer. How exciting! Lets look at some of the details of this movie. And while I'm thinking here, if you want to have no spoilers in your head, then just bookmark this badboy for another day. I may have to mention some spoilers here and there. But watch out, Fox is already putting out disinformation, so who knows.
Who better to make this movie? I had high hope for Tron 2.0 and still kinda hope Kazinski (is that his name?) cna do justice to The Black Hole, but he really dropped the ball I thought. So instead of a new upcoming director, we have the original director himself Sir Ridely Scott coming back into the mix. Scott has made some killer movies. Heres a list of them I liked:
Alien
BladeRunner
Legend
Black Rain
Thelma & Louise
GI Jane
Blackhawk Down
Gladiator
Alien, Bladerunner,Legend, Blackhawk, and Gladiator I think all kinda set the bar in some way for their Genre. They are movies that are used as reference points. Like someone will say oh District 9 is like BlackHawk Down meets whatever. So Scott has some potent cred to his name. He's made some "not so good" movies too. And some would say, he hasn't made anything good in a while. So i think he's due for some awesomeness.
The cast seems pretty good too. Thank Gawd Russell Crowe is not in it! They all seem capable of delivering strong performances. One thing I loved about the first Alien movie is how rough they all looked. Cartwright and Weaver had like zero makeup. Harry Dean Stanton as a mechanic is the real deal. Yaphet..dude what have you been up to. But they were miners right, whereas this crew is corporate scientists? It just always rubs me when the cast looks so clean. Small nit pick perhaps.
So good director- check good cast - check, but what about writers? One writer has hardly any cred and the movie Darkest Hour which he wrote for is getting horrible reviews. Lindelof seems to have passion for the material ,but his effort for Cowboys & Aliens doesn't really inspire. So this is kind of a scary part. Thw writing could really suck for this movie. So much of what made Alien good was the dialogue. Scott seems to be really pumped about Lindelof's work though when watching the Comic Con video so that is hopeful.
Finally, the plot synopsis I have read online have seemed ..well like they could easily be stupid. But then again if one read the plot for Alien, before it was released, you might think...really? Thats it? That's stupid. Ahhh but it wasn't was it. So here's hoping some magic happens with this movie.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Mashed Borg
Went to a 6 yr old birthday party on Saturday. The cake had some blue icing that was industrial strength. It turned everything..you know..EVERYTHING blue! The party was at a Putt Putt type place and they had a bunch of older video games there. These are video games that came out at the dying end of arcade gaming. One of them was a sit in the booth 3 token game for Star Trek Voyager. A really basic 3d shooter with a pistol. All you do is shoot borg while the crew of the Voyager runs around like morons and you hear "you will be assimilated" over and over. I couldn't help but laugh at the huge picture of Jeri Ryan on the side of the game with her busty silver borg boobs placed ever so strategically to lure young males into the game. Oh Jeri..resistance is futile!
Today I tricked my daughter into eating mashed potatoes from a mixer beater. I excitedly asked her if she wanted some ice cream and in a moment of unusual food trust, she licked some off. Then I laughed and said surprise it's mashed potatoes! What do you think she did? Screamed ewwwww , yucky? Maybe spit it out and ask for a drink? Maybe demand some real ice cream? Nope, she vomitted in her hand and then proceeded to continue to vomit in the trash can. I suddenly became the "bad" daddy. Really, I just have to roll my eyes on that one.
Today I tricked my daughter into eating mashed potatoes from a mixer beater. I excitedly asked her if she wanted some ice cream and in a moment of unusual food trust, she licked some off. Then I laughed and said surprise it's mashed potatoes! What do you think she did? Screamed ewwwww , yucky? Maybe spit it out and ask for a drink? Maybe demand some real ice cream? Nope, she vomitted in her hand and then proceeded to continue to vomit in the trash can. I suddenly became the "bad" daddy. Really, I just have to roll my eyes on that one.
Friday, December 16, 2011
Make Peace with the Pantry
Sometimes my day can be consumed with inconveniences that act like they may be the end of the world. Hopefully, I don't go too long before gaining some perspective on what really matters. So my cabinet hardware is uneven....cry me a river mister.
But seriously, I am just so ocd somtimes about things being level or lining up. You can't have everything flush and centered, but you try. I had what seemed like a disaster when my pantry cabinet handles were about an 8th of an inch off, one higher than the other. It took me all day to come up with a solution and test it out on spare wood before redoing my cabinet. And when I finally went for it, it was looking bad. It was as if a football team had been making a long tedious drive downfield, but when 20 yards to goal, they throw an interception. Somehow they stopped the drive or recovered the ball and made a field goal. Bottom line my pantry cabinet handles are good, not perfect mind you, but acceptable.
Anyway, not too bore you with the tedious details of my cabinet adventures, but it just consumed my day. So much so, I didn't even get a run. Damn I needed one too.
On the way home tonight, my conversation with my daughter:
"Dad, I want to skip being married. I want to live with you and mom forever."
Ok I say.
Yayyy! You know I'll end up growing old and the dogs will die. Then we will die. Why do we die?
Well, you'll find the answer to that question someday, but as it is everything dies, it's only a matter of time.
Yahh (said in an I give up sort of way)
But seriously, I am just so ocd somtimes about things being level or lining up. You can't have everything flush and centered, but you try. I had what seemed like a disaster when my pantry cabinet handles were about an 8th of an inch off, one higher than the other. It took me all day to come up with a solution and test it out on spare wood before redoing my cabinet. And when I finally went for it, it was looking bad. It was as if a football team had been making a long tedious drive downfield, but when 20 yards to goal, they throw an interception. Somehow they stopped the drive or recovered the ball and made a field goal. Bottom line my pantry cabinet handles are good, not perfect mind you, but acceptable.
Anyway, not too bore you with the tedious details of my cabinet adventures, but it just consumed my day. So much so, I didn't even get a run. Damn I needed one too.
On the way home tonight, my conversation with my daughter:
"Dad, I want to skip being married. I want to live with you and mom forever."
Ok I say.
Yayyy! You know I'll end up growing old and the dogs will die. Then we will die. Why do we die?
Well, you'll find the answer to that question someday, but as it is everything dies, it's only a matter of time.
Yahh (said in an I give up sort of way)
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Pickles
Connie Nielsen is an actress most notably for me from Gladiator as Phoenix's sister Lucilla. The beauty of IMDB and WIKI together really. Did you know she hooked up with Metallica's drummer Lars Ulrich. According to wiki, she can speak 8 languages. Wow! She looks so amazing in Gladiator too.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Good input =
Since getting a sink and cooking appliances back in the kitchen, my eating habits have already improved. In combination with the cool weather, my runs and my body definitely feel better. (its really just those chia seeds!)
I had a stroke of luck today. Our ovens came with a trim piece that was metal and white. It was a floor model from Tampa, so I thought we just got suckered into a white piece since it needed to be black or stainless. So I spray painted it gloss black, but there was a crack in the paint. I thought, ughhh I really should have put some primer on it first. So to heck with it, I began to peel the paint off and lo and behold...it pulled the white paint off perfectly revealing a perfect stainless finish. Awesome!
Off to get my flu shot tomorrow and do some xmas shopping. Yo ho ho!
I had a stroke of luck today. Our ovens came with a trim piece that was metal and white. It was a floor model from Tampa, so I thought we just got suckered into a white piece since it needed to be black or stainless. So I spray painted it gloss black, but there was a crack in the paint. I thought, ughhh I really should have put some primer on it first. So to heck with it, I began to peel the paint off and lo and behold...it pulled the white paint off perfectly revealing a perfect stainless finish. Awesome!
Off to get my flu shot tomorrow and do some xmas shopping. Yo ho ho!
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