Went to work today... Still a little stuffed up though but no longer feverish or aching.
Had dinner with Kendrix and a large group of the gang. Much conversation.
Finished Metal Gear Solid 4. Overall I would rate it a B-. Too many cutscenes and not enough sneaking. But it looked nice.
Watched Wipeout, I Survived A Japanees Gameshow, Mad Men, Burn Notice, Last Comic Standing, and the last of Death Note.
Hit Target for some cold medicine and found two of the new Crisis figures. I totally love this set.
Stoped at the Stop and got my comics.
Early bed time...
Left work early and watched Stargate Continuum. Which was fun but predictable.
Got my plane reservations for DragonCon. Apparently Froggy is going to have a team of 12 assistants. This should be interesting...
I also caught up on some tv with Middleman, Psych, Wipeout, BWE and I survived a Japanees Gameshow.
Read some more Who Can Save Us Now? I am really digging.
Early bed to see if I can get better.
Took flight from San Diego to Salt Lake City to Seattle. Got a ride from 20 'cause he da' man. Grabed food and comics and had an uneventful night.
Read a bunch of Who Can Save Us? On the plane. Also finished The Plot to Save Socrates. It was really quite interesting. Recommended if you like complex time travel stories.
Watched Doctor Who, Stargate: Atlantis, and Venture Bros.
Played some FFTA2.
Back to work tomorrow. And after work I will revamp my email system so that I am not using a catch-all since I received over 2,000 email bounce backs since Friday.
I am apparently now a part of the Dharma Institute.
I now have 5 more shirts then hangers.
Neil Gaimen on Batman.
Legion on Smallville writen by Johns.
Starfleet has a shortage of Welders.
Still reading Who Can Save Us and playing FFTA2.
Late night going to bed...
I am still a con man. Started the day in line with Drew to get in line for the Heroes panel. They showed us the first episode of the season. Which was cool.
From there Drew and I went upstairs to Room 20 so that we could see the Dollhouse and Battlestar panels. Nothing exciting in the Dollhouse panel. Just Josh and Helo from Battlestar hitting on Eliza. The Battlestar panel was cool because it was moderated by Kevin Smith who kept the conversation flowing and brought out the humor out of the cast. They also showed us the trailer for Caprica which looks interesting but not what I expected.
After that I started wandering the floor on a swag hunt. I bought for my self some really cool Ultimate Goodzilla figures.
While I was wandering I ran across the start of the Fringe scavenger hunt. I figured I had some time to kill so why not. The first clue sent me about 10 feet away. This was looking really easy. The second clue was a street corner about 6 blocks from the center. There I found a storage container filled with bottles of Ginger Ale. On the bottle was anouther address where I found a pen of cows. There I found anouther address and promptly headed in the wrong direction. I wish I could say that I quickly realized my mistake. After a cource correction I ended up at a parking garage where on the roof they had an inflatable screen for showing the pilot. I was not going to subject myself to that again so I took my t-shirt and headed back to the hotel.
After a quick recharge I headed back and watched the first three episodes of Wolverine and the X-men. I had a young man with a HUGE head and an afro in front of me so it was not the greatest viewing situation but I really thought it was pretty cool.
Still reading Who Can Save Us Now and listening to The Plot to Save Socrates. One thing that bugs me about The Plot is that they keep mentioning that everyone knows how Socrates died. Am I the only one that did not?
Still playing FFTA2. I think the battery life in my DS is shorter than it should be. I don't think I got five hours of play before the red light turned on.
Got the exclusive Lego Indy set. Totally not worth the cost but I am still glad I got. I also got a Joker and Batman Mini-fig set for playing Lego Batman that was kind of cool too.
Stood in line to get in the room for the Venture Bros Panel. Met a nice women in front of me in line. We will see if she actually calls me tomorrow or not.
I was blown away with the number of people that give a shit about Ghost Hunters. I figures that was going to be a dead spot in the schedule but it turns out it was not. We got in when over half the room cleared after the panel got out. The Xbox 360 original content looks interesting. Basically Horror directors given 10 grand to make a 10 minute comedy short.
I have a new favorite Ice Cream. Cinamon Bun from Ben and Jerry's. Oh so good.
Read some more Who Can Save Us Now? I really dug the 3rd story.
Played some more FFTA2.
Still in San Diego. Gots some swag for myself and others. Have not found anything that really interests me for me yet...
Started Who Can Save Us Now? It is a book of short stories about superheroes. The 1st story is an interesting take on the Lois Lane archetype.
Played some FFTA2 while I was waiting for the Doctor Who panel to start. I am really enjoying the game so far.
Watched Be Kind Rewind on the Plane. The most normal Gonrea movie of all time. I have no have no idea how to spell his name.
The has been really fun. It is great to hang out with Drew and Jim. If you want to see more read my twitter: www.twitter.com/sirpalindrome
Watch the Fringe pilot. It sucked
I am glad I got the replacement plan on my Jawbone because it broke today. But Best Buy made the replacement really easy so I have a new charging as I type.
No JLU figures yet. Just empty pegs taunting me. Now I will have to wait until I return.
Went to the paint store and talked about how to paint the trim. Turns out they were out of the paint I needed so I will need to go back upon my return.
Started and finished Act IV in MGS4. Spoiler warning... You finally get to take a Metal Gear against anouther Metal Gear!!
Started a audiobook today. I think it is called The Plot to rescue Scorates. It is a novel about time travel. I am still tring to figure out what exactly is going on because so far each chapter has taken place in a different time period with a time traveler interacting witht the locals but not wanting to explain the how's and the why's.
Watched The Middleman and a large chunk of Weeds. I also watched a couple of episodes of Dinosaurs on DVD while packing.
While I was at Target I noticed the the action figure isle has been reset for the new Justice League figures...
Only TV tonight was the Venture Bros.
Finished Act III in Metal Gear Soild 4.
Played the first 3 quests in FFTA2.
Read some more A Confederacy of Dunces.
Tired...
My 1st Gen iPod Nano is still chugging along but its battery is not holding a charge very well. So I made the call to replace it as my travel music machine with a 16 Gig iPod Touch. My thought is that I could also use it as my airplane movie watcher as well since the PSP is so uncofortable to watch movies with. But the PSP is still better then dragging out a portable DVD player or Laptop.
Watched Psych, Burn Notice and Last Comic Standing.
I am still reading A Confederacy of Dunces. I talked to the Microsoft Developer about the book and he said he had the same comments as me and that while it remains interesting it never gets funny. I have desided that it has three days to entertain me or it is going to be dropped. I can't remember the last book that I was unable to finish.
The day started before yesterday ended with the midnight showing of the IMAX version of The Dark Knight. I liked it a lot. I want to post spoilers but will hold back.
Got home at about 3 and desided that I would dial in and check out the upgrade that was performed in Los Angelas. This was the first time I had been in there system since I rebuilt my laptop a couple of months ago and I could not find the system description anywhere. So after a while I sent out an info request and got to bed a little after 4.
I ended up waking up at 6:30 and could not fall back to sleep. I checked my email and found the info that I needed so that I was able to checkout the upgrade and verify operation.
I then watched BWE, Doctor Who, and Stargate: Atlantis before heading out.
I participated in day one of a two day playtest at Microsoft. I can't say what I was doing there and I should not even mention this but there is a condom in involved.
After the playtest I ended up hooking up with Q for Dairy Queen, George, Dr Horrible, and Ivar's. In that order actually.
Still reading A ConfederaCY of Dunces. It is still the best sleep aid ever and still not making me laugh out loud till my belly aches and my eyes water.
Got up early to get some stuff done before I had to go to a troubleshooting trip. I rocked the trip though and solved there problem with my code nijitsu.
Played some more MGS4 started Act 3.
No reading today....
Movie starting...
They put the porch lights back up today. One more sign that the heck is almost over. I am still not sold on the new colors though.
Work was all over today. I have no idea how Scott ever had time for his motorcycle porn...
Got a haircut today. I think I need to keep looking for a hair place. This place is just a little too white trash for me to feel comfortable at.
Wrapped Q's birthday present. One advantage to never being home on recycle/trash day is the large number of boxes to choose from come wrapping time.
Watched the rest of the seasons Simpsons and an American Dad. Also watched an episode of Dinosaurs on DVD while sorting clothes.
Still reading A Confederation of Dunces. I think this book is a sleep aid for me. I tried to read a bit when I got home and ended up taking a nap. That probably means that I won't be able to sleep tonight unless aCoD does its magic.
Crap forgot to mention that I have started playing MGS4 again. Finished Act II today.
Yipee Comic Wednesday. Very small week actually under $40. All comics read in short order.
Mary Anne had surgery today for her hurt elbow. Hopefully she gets super powers with the new elbow.
Borrowed and watched Enchanted from Tom. I really like parts of it and really disliked parts of it. I am thinking slightly more bad than good.
Watched Wipeout and I Survived a Japanese Gameshow. Sad Paul :( Mary is eliminated.
Still reading A Confederation of Dunces. Need to start hustling because I want it finished before I leave on vacation...
Halfway through the 1st week of the 100 pushup challenge. The challenge is that buy the end of six weeks you should be able to do 100 pushups without stopping. Today I did 59 but that includes planned rest breaks.
Work is work. Not doing anything fun at the moment.
Tried out a Temperpedic mattress at Brookstone. I think when I replace the waterbed I will probable switch to one of these. If it was not the 6k that I have spent on the remodling I would probably make the switch after the carpet...
Cleaned the kitchen today while watching the last two Reapers. I really like the end of the season and am looking forward to the shows return in the fall. A feeling I did not have before the writers strike. I also watched the new Middleman. I am really digging this show.
Picked and watched The Bank Heist. It was a bit of a bin there and done that but the fact that this is the true story that spawned all the digging into the vault stories makes it kind of special.
Still reading A Confederation of Dunces.
Was very disapointed that Dr Horrible's debut was screwed by a lack of bandwidth. Hopefully they will solve the problem tommorow.
Spent the evening watching TV while picking up. It is the first time I have had the big screen on in almost a month. I had forgot how nice it is to watch TV on a large screen.
Jim called and told me that my Crackdown case was empty so I did an inventory and found my Halo 3 case also empty and the manual for Mass Effect also missing. My first thought is one of the contractors but why did they not take the case? Second thought is a Paulflix rental but why did they not take the case?
I ordered a new cell phone battery for my phone. Currently I have to charge it every night because if I don't it goes from 70% to 10% half way through the second day. I went with an OEM battery instead of one of the many second party ones.
Watched Venture Bros, 3 episodes of Reaper, Simpsons, and Family Guy.
Still reading A Confederation of Dunces. Actually might be getting interesting...
So someone is using my domain as a spam return address. Basically I went from getting 10 to 50 spam messages a day to over 250 a day for the last few days. Almost all of these messages are auto reject messages from the original target of the spam. This is the forth time this has happened to me and just when I make the decision to switch from a catch-all approach to selective approch it has stopped. Lets hope it is soon because it is making this update process much more time consuming.
Still reading A Confederation of Dunces.About 25 % into the book and I have really felt that it is "one of the funniest books ever written". Maybe I just can't find a common view point in a spoiled lazy adult that still lives with he mother.
Watch a ton of TV today. Doctor Who, Stargate: Atlantis, Wipeout(Twoto an Eskimo virgin makes it across the Big Balls but can not find the pole. That is Irony staring you smake dab in the face), I Survived A Japanese Gameshow, BWE, Last Comic Standing(Ester Ku hot but not funny), Middleman, and Burn Notice.
Placed my carpet order. I can't wait for this hell to be over so I can get my life back...
Hellboy 2 was awesome. I have not desided if that or Iron Man is my pick for the 2nd best movie of the summer. I am leaning toward HB2 because it is the Dark Horse canidate... Pun-o-rific tonight. Just an asside this has been a amazing summer for movies.
Going to read a couple of chapters of Confederation before I hit the air mattress.
EDIT: For some reason this post did not make it to Blogger. I just resent and it showed up, so I edited the sent time to put it in its proper place.
Comic Friday. There was a lot of crap that was not mine in my box. It really through me off.
Started taping off molding and doors to make tommorows paint go faster.
No TV today and all the reading was comics.
I just found a typo in the email address I use for these messages. I would hate to miss two in a week because of stupidity...
Thankfully today was only an 11 hour day. Limited production again but went pretty well.
Watched Superhero Movie. I found myself laughing aloud more than once and while I felt they relied on scene parady more than I like they did do a good job of general parody as well. It is hard to go wrong with Leslie Nelson
14 hour day...
I was able to bring Scott in to help so I am pretty sure development is largly done. At that is left is to get some production going...
Finished the incredible Hulk novelitation. Just like the movies it was good but not as good as Iron Man.
I am going to bed now.
Still in Spokane... Another long day.
Over the weekend I picked up a Jawbone II wireless headset. I really like my Blue Ant but I somehow broke the mic so no one could hear me very well. I learned my lesson this time and got the replacement plan at Best Buy so next time I can get a replacement on someone else. I did make a call with the device while in a noisy section of the plant and my callee could hear me quite well.
Picked up and watched the Batman Gotham Knight DVD. I must say that it was very good.
Only TV was Morning Express with "Robot" Meade. She still creeps me out...
Sill reading The Incredible Hulk novelitation...
The front desk ran out of cookies but they were able to find me some A&W Root Beer Barrels. Yumm.
Joined Twitter today. So far not that impressed seams like IM but not as good. Twitter name: sirpalindrome
I don't know what is going on. Either the women in Spokane are very desperate or I am starting to loose my fragile grip on reality. Today I had two different women that were not unpleasant to look at flirt with me. I think I need to remember that they are paid to be nice to me... And that Spokane really sucks.
Watched the Venture Bros, Wipeout and I Survived a Japanese Gameshow on the Interwebs. Quick comment to abc.com I like the ability to watch programs I missed on the internet. I have no problem watching comercials for the privilege of watching missed programs. I do have a problem with having the program come back from the comercial after skipping 5 plus minutes of the show and having no good way to get back to where I was precommertial. I was able to have more luck using IE but it was still a substandard experience.
Still reading Incredible Hulk novelitation. Been very tired at bedtime so have not had much reading time.
Took a couple of hours to try and catch up on my Google Reader-ing while I was watching some TV on the internet. I sure missed the internet durring Operation Paint.
Exchanged a brief email with Chris turns out Billings still boring.
I took a break from painting after my parents headed south to pick up some items that I needed for my trip. Although it was not needed I have been facinated be the Lamper since I saw it with Duece on Friday. It is the bastard love child of a laundry basket and a hamper. I love useful bastard love children. Where would fast food be without the spork? I am pretty sure that a corelation can be observed between the obesity problems in america and the introduction of the spork.
Watched the weeks Best Week Ever and a Reaper from May.
I also watched Sidekick on DVD. It was probably the best indy superhero flick I have ever sceen. The basic premise is that a nerd discovers that a coworker has super powers and takes on the role of the mentor of the super hero, but this being the "real" world things don't go as planned for our young nerd. Plus it has Danial Baldwin as the comic store owner.
Read some more of the Incredible Hulk. I think this is based on the Ed Norton because there is a lot of Jiber Jaber. So far not as good as the Iron Man novelitation.
The numbers:
Trips to Home Despot: 4
Trips to paint store: 1
Ceilings painted: All (white)
Walls painted: 5
Walls inprocess of being trimmed: 6
Walls untouched: 9
Chances of competing this weekend: 0
No TV. Read a little Incredible Hulk before lights out.
Bought the paint for the big weekend paintathon.
Went and saw Hancock with Duece, Jim and Quiana. I really had a fun time. I was glad it was not the Demon in the Bottle story so Iron Man 2 can still use that as its source of inspiration.
Enjoyed a long lunch with my conversation and mocking of me. Did not go to a second movie so that I could wait for someone how did not show.
Went to George's for some awesome BBQ with the gang. Left early to meet up with the 'rents.
Did some drywall sanding to prepare for tomorrow. More of that damn dust everywhere... I don't know why I keep cleaning.
Finished The Ashes of Worlds. I liked how Anderson tied it all up together, but was a little disapointed that everything was wrapped up so neatly. It is kind of like the world started out like Babylon 5, transitioned into Battlestar Galactica, but ended up like Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Started reading the Incredible Hulk novelitation. This one is also be Peter David.
It is going to be an early rise so that I can paint like the wind but the fireworks are going to make it a late night.
Bonus point to anyone that gets the referance.
Went in to the office to answer some emails and get the packages that have come in while I was away. My 360 was scheduled to arrive on Monday but as you can see was delayed by weather untill later today.
I did get my order of DVD Disksocks Pros that I ordered. I have for some time wanted some sort of storage system that kept the disks and the cover together while removing the bulk of the box. In my internet searching I found disksocks. They seam to fit the bill and after I find some free time I will see if they will meet my needs in the long term.
Spent the day with Beau and Sean doing pre work for this weekends big painting project. This mostly consisted of the orderly decreasing of the potential energy of large quantities of stuff. I also made the call to disasemble many of the Lego sets that I have had on display for some time.
Finished listening to Dexter Dreaming Darkly. The TV show is still better.
Watched the third Middleman. Still on the fence but I think I am going to fall on the positive side.
Reread the first 3 issues of Batman RIP. This is a very trippy story and Tony Danial's art kind of blows. I have a difficult time telling one character from anouther through out the issues.
Read the 1st Incredible Hecules trade. I liked it but it did not live up to the hype that has been dropped on this book the last few months.
Read some more of The Ashes of Worlds but not as much as I would like since I need to get up early to buy the weekends paint.
The condo was and still is sweltering... I really hope it cools off over night. There is also so funkey smell that I hope is the deck stain and that it goes away quickly.
I am very tired tonight hopefully that will translate into a good nights sleep.
Read some more The Ashes of Worlds plus all of this weeks comics.
Watched the rest of the season of the spectacular spider-man. I am a big fan.
Forgot to mention that on Sunday I started listening to Dexter Dreaming Darkly. If you have seen the series don't bother with this book. It is basically the same story as the first season but the tv show actually expands on the story much to its benefit.
Anouther long day not hot thankfully. I got frustrated at the local project manager. Which in turn made me flustered. I really really hate being flustered.
No tv today thanks to The Ashes of Worlds. 206 of 478 pages read. Not bad considering back to back 12 hour days... I would talk about the book but I really can't talk about what is going on without spoiling important plot twists from the first six books. Let me just say if you lake SciFi series with lots interesting characters you could do worse then "The Saga of the Seven Suns"
I must slow down with the elipses...
It has been thundering for the last couple hours. At first I was quite pleased with the sound of the rain on the windows. Now I wish it would stop so I could get some sleep...
