In Need of a Schedule

07.05.2005

I had plans of grandeur for this past holiday weekend. Installation of light fixtures that have been sitting around for over a year. Spackling of walls in preparation for painting. Messing around with various websites, making them look less neglected than they have been. Cleaning of bathrooms, dusting of shelves, doing of laundry.

After 4 days of being off work, I had gotten the laundry done.

So now I think I need to make myself a schedule. After this weekend, it seems obvious that (a) this stuff isn't going to take care of itself, and (b) me thinking "I'll get around to it" ain't working. So I've started a schedule. A realistic schedule. Not one where I say that everything will magically get done in a weekend, but one which takes into account that I can never wire up a light right the first time, so a 30 minute job takes 2 hours. And after installing that light, I'm not going to jump in and install the next light, I'm going to sit down and take a break for a couple of hours, because I can't believe it took 2 hours to do 30 minutes of work!

I don't know if I can stick to the schedule that I'm making. That's not really the prupose. My goal from this is to make some progress. Any progress.

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The Return

06.27.2005

After a few weeks of trying to see how eventful my life actually is, I've learned that.....

I'm a pretty average, boring guy.

Trying to blog every day is definitely too much (i.e. boring), so I'll try to see if something interesting happens once or twice a week. If nothing happens that seldom, I'll be forced to start making things up to seem less pitiful.

This also brings around the 6th incarnation of the Russellmania design, the timing of which is about right since I usually remake the site around the time the domain is up for renewal. So, take a look around. Some sections are gone (alas, poor Wrestling Babe of the Day), and a couple of sections are trying to spring in anew.

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Blog Free, As Free As The Wind Blows

05.31.2005

I've a dilemma with which I've been debating the solution.

I'm not sure about that sentence structure, but I'm going to go with it for now.

I don't really blog that much, maybe 3 times a week. And when I do blog, I usually have to search for something to say. I have to face it, my life just doesn't have that many interesting or abnormal occurrences on a daily basis. So, with that glaring me in the face, I'm going to take a little break from blogging. I know, I know, how will the interweb survive. But it will, never fret.

I'm going to take a break and either decide that I do have enough interesting things to talk about on a semi-regular basis, or I'll take the time to come up with a redesign or a new theme for the site, maybe pare down some of the sections that I never update (like camtoons) or serve to up my search hits on Google and Yahoo (like the Babe of the Day).

So, have a happy June!

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Day of (Star Wars) Gaming

05.23.2005

Jerry and I got together this weekend for a little "throwback to our gaming days" fun. Due in part to the Star Wars hysteria going on everywhere, I was in a bit of a Star Wars mood, and this offered the perfect opportunity to not only play some games, but play some games that have never been freed of their shrinkwrap as they've been sitting on the shelf for the past year. Or two.

Our first game to learn was Star Wars: Epic Duels. It's pretty quick to learn, pretty quick to play. You pick a card that has a major character (Name you should know, like Darth Maul or Mace Windu) that comes with two minor characters, like clone troopers or storm troopers or ewoks. I like to call them "fodder". There are cards involved to throw in some randomness, but the game is basically "kill the 2 fodder characters, race to see who has a card to kill the main character". It actually turned out to be kind of boring. But it had lots of cool figures, especially since the game had been marked down to $7.99! These miniatures could even be used in....

Game #2 was Star Wars Miniatures, a collectible miniatures game that leaves out the random cards and in their place puts random figures. The detail in the figures, and even the maps, are great. There is a little bookkeeping since you need to keep track of hit points and number of times using the Force per character, but after the record keeping of Car Wars and Star Fleet Battles, it's simple. The game is fast paced, but it needs more than "kill all of the opposing force" rules. Fortunately, they also make mission books that come with maps, tiles, and rules for missions to play out scenarios from the various movies.

Of the two, we had a blast playing the Miniatures game. I can see where you can easily get addicted to collecting all sorts of the miniatures for this one. Luckily, I can use my Jer approved mutant power of disposable income to see what all I can acquire!

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Damn Force

05.20.2005

As most of the world knows, the latest/last installment in the Star Wars Hexology opened yesterday. I say "most" because Gina was oblivious until her son mentioned, with great excitement, the opening of the movie and his plans. I didn't see Episode 2 with the rest of the public, opting instead to wait until the sweet binary flow of home DVD. I liked the way that worked, so I just assumed that I would repeat it over again once Episode 3 comes out around Christmas.

While visiting the Athens branch of my local credit union last night, I looked across the street to the placard in front of the drive-in that sits there and say the advertisement for Episode 3, which just happened to be playing at the time. I looked over the wall of privacy surrounding the lot and saw a 3-story tall C3PO. I had a sudden vision of watching Episode 3 from the comfort of my conveyance. Since I hate theater seating, this is a big plus. It's been decades since I was at a drive-in, so I don't really remember how different it is and how much I'm romantacizing it. But it would be kind of neat, regarless.

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