Happy Holidays!

12.28.2006

Welcome to the interim of holiday time between the end of '06 and the start of '07.

There's a lot going on, but none of it noteworthy enough to be of interest ot anyone besides me, so with that in mind I'll stave off any more blogging until next week/year!

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Three Hundres and Sixty

12.22.2006

Wednesday nite I had a playdate over at Matt's.

Not the type of thing you expect to hear from someone who's 37, is it?

Matt, my Monday night wrestling-watching buddy, is one of the two people I know who own an XBox Three Hundred and Sixty. Some have been amazed that I don't own one, but I put off buying a new game console until there is at least 1 wrestling game and a handful of decent driving games. Although the 360 has had some good driving games, the wrestling game, Smackdown vs Raw 2007, didn't come out until recently. Matt had downloaded the demo a couple of weeks ago, and it had become standard that we fought each other a time or two after Raw would go off on Monday nights. We had enough fun that Matt HAD to get the game. Wednesday nite I got the call that it was time to venture outside of the demo and into the full game against each other. Cans of whoop ass needed to be opened!

Once at Matt's we would pick random wrestlers along with random match types and wage battle in the squared circle. It's been a while since Matt's played a wrestling game, while I've been playing them non-stop for the past decade. The control schemes change a little over the years, but I evidently have a system regardless of the game. Although Matt had already had the game and been playing for a couple of nights, I could still kick ass at will. I guess it helps that I don't have a real life sometimes...

After playing against each other a few times, Matt and I finally teamed with each other and started fighting the computer. We selected D-X as our team (with me playing as HHH and Matt as HBK). At this point we started having waaaaay too much fun. We would take turns beating down the AI team while the other would do the D-X taunts. Being us, we vocalized the taunts while playing. A lot. I would intentionally interrupt Matt's pins against the downed opponent just so we could keep taunting.

So now there's a wrestling game and some driving game for the XBox Three Hundred and Sixty. Even though I've decided not to get one for X-mas, my birthday is just a couple of months away....

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Decatur is the home of Cat Chow! Meow Mix!

12.19.2006

I'm employed again! Mostly. Sort of.

After all the interviews, I was finally offered a temp/contracting job for a pharmaceuticals manufacturer in Decatur. It's one of those "6 months with a chance to become permanent" deals, but I'm looking more at it as "income". Probably not the best way to approach it, but that's they way I am right now.

I used to drive to Decatur 4 times per week back when I was going to school at Calhoun Community College. This drive is a little farther into Decatur, but nothing that isn't manageable. Spending the past month and a half at home, I had gotten to where I missed the tranquil drive to and from work.

But now I have a .NET job to keep me busy. Today is my first day of actually looking at code, and a part of me wonders what I've gotten myself into. This company is using the newer versions of .NET and SqlServer, so everything is just a little bit different - mainly in trying to set everything up. I'm also working on code that's been under development for 2 years as opposed to starting fresh on my own, so I'm having to go through and decipher their code to what my brain is used to (not always an easy task).

But at least I have income again!

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B13

12.13.2006

In the mood to watch something a little different? Go rent District B13. It's an action movie. It's a French action movie. It's a French action movie co-produced by Luc Besson, so there's a good chance I'm going to like it, because when his name pops up in the credits somewhere I usually go "Huh, no wonder I liked that one".

The movie doesn't have anything that hasn't been seen before. After all the decades of action movies it's hard to come up with something completely new. What this movie does present is that it does things right. The action sequences are fresh and well timed. There's a story that's been borrowed from 20 other movies, but it's not important. It's the fun ride from the beginning of the movie eventual end 80 minutes later, and all of the buildings they jump through to get there.

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Cold Side Cold

12.08.2006

It was cold last night on the way home after my weekly TV Nite (CSI &ER) at Ginas. 19°. Back in June, it was 100°

Have I got nothing better to do than keep up with the temperature?

Well, actually I've got plenty of things better to do than keep up with the temperature. It looks like none of them can keep my attention as well as the temperature can.

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