We don't get it.

Any of it.

"You'd be the same if you could see! So lets have another drink!"

Here it goes again.

Idle Threats are childish.

We watched Hot Rod yesterday, and I can safely say that it's just as good the third time around. The movie is a variable roller coaster of hilarity. What Napoleon Dynamite would have been if Will Ferrel had been involved in it's creation, and also, if it hadn't sucked. Move over John Heder. Andy Samberg is in town.

Life resumes tomorrow, though I'm putting my best effort forth to prolong it until Sunday afternoon. I may skip church Sunday morning, seeing as I'm not playing drums and I can't stand sitting in the pew. Does that make me a bad Christian? Because I hate pews? Some would say so. Hm.


I'm not sure what to make of Project 86 these days. A new album only months ago, and already a new EP is coming out on iTunes. Don't bands typically release EPs before they make it big? Not after they've released five or so albums successfully? Hm.

Alright, never mind, I get it. It's a companion to Rival Factions, their last album. I'll have to torrent it later, as I don't, and refuse to, use iTunes. It's an abomination.

Maybe I'll do that now.

Four games to go before I make my top 10 list for the year, and only one more movie. Wait, wait.

...

Five games. Two of them are at my house, right now, so, there ya go. I'm tempted to just type the thing now and revise it, but I won't. Safe to say Halo 3 will be in there. Wow. Imagine that.

-Prime

Today's Fantastic Link Adventure

60 pounds? Of what?

"How do your folk manage Rishathra?" "We don't."

Hot Rod came out today, and it should go without saying that I am nothing short of jovial. My family and I are sitting down to watch it later this evening. I'm stoked. I love that word. Stoked.

Two days left of my vacation, and then I depart for Florida. I still have another three before I have to return to work, and I'm grateful for that. Other than getting my living quaters straight I'm planning on taking it easy for the first couple days I'm back. I'll probably get some drum practice in, maybe sleep, or something. I don't know. I'll have to go in and check the schedule at work too, see when I need to stay up all night to get myself back on the proper sleep rotation.

Beyond that, there will of course be the normal - if one can call them such - day to day goings-on of sunny Brevard County. Not sure how I feel about that. Don't get me wrong - I want to go home, but I'd rather not have to deal with all the annoyances and responsibilities that encompass day to day life. I've had too much time to think about the things that annoy me in the time that I've been here. Ah well. There are plenty of good things. Katie, of course being the main one. Halothons. And a drum set. I've been itching to beat on some drums. It'll also be good to sit in my car again, which reminds me, I still need to have it looked at.

Being here has, on the other hand, reminded me of how cool my family is. We got to talking about some things at the dinner table the other day, and I recalled an incident somehow pertinent to the conversation in which I'd be aggravated to the near-limit during YPB practice. I was surprised at how they'd agreed with me. Moreover, I was surprised that it surprised me. I'm not used to being agreed with these days. Most people seem to need to challenge the things I say - make me justify them. Perhaps I'm imagining it, projecting the attitudes of a few people in some select situations onto the majority, but nonetheless, it was nice not having to second guess the words that had come out of my mouth. Also, free food. Free food rocks.

That aside, there's not much else to say. I plan on typing something up about Larry Niven before long, but I may want to finish another book or two first. So far I've only got Ringworld, The Ringworld Engineers and Protector under my belt. I might finish The Ringworld Throne first, and then offer further commentary. Who knows. I may forget and not do it at all, unless I somehow find a way not to be so busy upon returning to Florida.

Hm. I'll have to work on that.

-Prime

Thank you Mr. Book.

Barnes and Noble has yeilded, and I am victorious.

The Ringworld Throne, The Man Kzin Wars(I), and A World out of Time. All rare. Plus, Kzin Wars was a special edition, $3.99. I smiled, as next to it on the shelf, was a copy of the exact same book, a later edition, which was priced at $7.99. Gwaaaag.

I almost purchased a LEGO Batman set(retailed at somewhere between fifty and seventy dollars) for $9.99. Mark down. However, Marshalls used a deception tactic in placing the item in the wrong bin. My intention to resell and profit was dashed. Yar.

-Aaronus

So I was thinking-

-And I decided that I'm really, really glad I'm on vacation. I still have, like, five days before I go home, and I plan to enjoy them to the fullest. I've only been here since monday and I've already reconnected with my family, played Jet Force Gemini, made a video with Jet Force Gemini(see below) and decided that I'm not always wrong when people piss me off. A conversation at the dinner table validated that. Next time I get booted out of a song with no explanation and then get yelled at for leaving the room and am then told, "You can't just leave", my answer will be a resounding, "Yes, I can." Being a volunteer carries with it certain rights which I am hesitant - nay, unwilling - to relent. But I digress. The issue in question is long since over, and it's time to move forward. Like a boat.

I think I'm going to sign up for Gamefly when I get home. Why? Because Blockbuster online isn't doing much for me, and I'm tired of scouring the pathetic chain for my game rentals. And I'm not watching that many movies anymore. I may keep the Blockbuster online sub and then register for Gamefly in addition. I can afford it. Or I may downgrade with Blockbuster just to justify the expense. I may do neither. Either way, it shant be long before I'm playing Dynasty Warriors Gundam, Blacksite: Area 51, and Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga. I have been denied these repeatedly by Blockbuster. Enough is enough.

Avast.

-Prime

Project Log - 11/13 - 11/24

11/23 - Conceived brilliant video project born of Halo 300 trailers and nothing else to do

-tested DVD recorder. Found that N64 has copy protection chip.
-tried in vain to utilize hi-8 camcorder.
-continued to argue with DVD recorder. Failed.
-decided to attempt VHS recording followed by DVD conversion. Succeeded.
-finished VHS recording.
-attempted vhs/dvd conversion. Failed.

11/24

-reattempted vhs/dvd conversion. Failed.
-tried several disks
-cursed dvd recorder.
-bought new dvds
-tried again
-failed. again.
-cleaned dvd recorder.
-reattemped vhs/dvd conversion
-succeeded
-attempted dvd rip. succeeded.
-attempted import. failed.
-attempted conversion. succeeded.
-attempted import. succeeded.
-began editing. took four hours.
-finished editing. attempted finalization. succeeded.
-attempted upload. failed.
-rebooted system.
-reattempted upload.
-Succeeded.

Fall back men! Arm the War Platypie!

I am at a loss.


I have been employed by CVS for just barely a month and am in the middle of my forth week of work. Twice my boss has gone on a childish tirade, stating that, "work isn't being done" and that, "I will fire all of you blah blah I'm probably in menopause". Today she kicked us out of the store. Kicked us out. My lord, if I'd known this would happen, I'd have stayed at Target. Well. Maybe. I'm considering giving them a call, because I honestly don't know if I have a job right now. This isn't worth ten fifty an hour. I'm sorry, but when I work for eight hours with one twenty minute break, in the middle of the night, and the woman in charge can only rage on me for some underlying and yet-to-be-revealed reason, I begin to seriously question the worth of my situation. Nevermind that things seem to have flared up with the youth ministry team, again, though that situation is much less volatile and much more solvable. Sort of.

Oh, and my CDs. That's an atrocious boil if ever one has existed on the moral complexion. I spent a good two or so hours in the stock room last night, and knew ahead of time that I'd be doing it, so I brought a couple CDs upstairs with me to pass the time(theres a store provided CD player on one of the shelves.) I was told on my first day of work that using said CD player was acceptable. I have done so. I've forgotten CDs before and then gone back for them the next day, each time without incident. I forgot some last night and came back for them today. They were gone. June, the Cosmetics manager, informed me that my boss had put them in the office. I suppose she intended to confiscate them. The fit of rage, however, which I assume she was in at the time, hampered her innate female ability to hide things, and I quickly discovered them. I unconfiscated them. Let it be known that they are safely nestled in my front passenger seat, and shall remain until I choose otherwise. I'm looking forward to hearing about that one.

In the mean time, Blacksite comes out in a few days. Timeshift is out now, though I've yet to play it. I gave the demo a try a few weeks ago and was killed within the first ten minutes. I only tried once. Perhaps a second go-round is in order. Perhaps not.

I've actually done more reading lately than anything else. My intellectual side has been tickled silly by Luis Wu and Chmee/Speaker To Animals in The Ringworld Engineers. The book is a sandwich. Layer after layer of joyous sci-fi goodness, seasoned by the condiments of punctuation and wordplay, and sandwiched between two slices of intelligence-bread. Mm.

I suppose I should try at sleep. The other Supervisors and myself are making a call to the District tommorow, in hopes that he can sort this out. My ideal scenario? Joan is put on leave/fired, and Carol is given charge of the store ad infinitum. She's definitely qualified, and she's real cool besides. If something like that doesn't happen, or I get written up one more time, I may be in line at the unemployment office.