Saw both “Willy Wonka” and “Wedding Crashers” in packed houses down the road. Both were good. I think that I liked “Wedding Crashers” better than “Willy Wonka”; more along my humor, I think. I probably liked “Willy Wonka” about as much as I expected to, which wasn’t that much. A little weird for my tastes, but I figured that I would regret it if I didn’t see it in the theater, so I went.

Bought some Switchfoot albums at Circuit City, too. Got The Early Years: 1997-2000: The Legend Of Chin/New Way To Be Human/Learning To Breathe [Box] and The Beautiful Letdown [DUALDISC].

Also just got done watching “Last of the Mohicans”. And I watched “Mr. Deeds”, because I don’t think that I ever really watched it in its entirety.

Oh, and never live on a street called “Columns”. People never hear me say it correctly.

Robert Mitchell notified me of where I could procure some more of my hats, which arrived late last week. They make me happy. Although the $50 the hat that I lost cost me does not.

Who called me on 7/9 at 2:00am EST? I don’t have the phone number in my phone (which isn’t the biggest surprise in the world…) but it is a 469 number. If I don’t figure it out, then I might just call them back. “Hello, yes, did you call me a couple of nights ago at 1am?”

Somehow it has just not been a good day. Apparently there are some low places around here, and so there was a street that was completely being washed over this morning as I was going to work. There was a Volvo that had gone into it, and I’d guess that it had a foot or two of water all around it, as there was a new river running over the road from Dennis. I wish that I had gotten a picture of it, but I don’t have a camera. And I shouldn’t spend the money on one, but I really want to. The drive to work meant a bunch of traffic and rain. Blech. I did manage to pickup my daily McDonalds, but at the cost of not dropping off my Netflix. So, they’re still in my car and when I was going home, I found out that one of them is probably still in my DVD player, so it didn’t really matter that I was trying to get all three of them turned around quickly. Now I can only imagine that it’s going to be like DAYS before I’ll get it done, ’cause I’m retarded. Then we had meeting which seemed to eat up a bunch of the day/morning. And then I did what I was supposed to do work-wise and it took me the entire day. Which I don’t really think that it should have, so even though I did work and I did what I was supposed to do, I really don’t feel like I did anything productive. I thought that I could sleep through anything, but last night the rain beating down on my window woke me up at about 5:15am. I checked the weather online and then went back to bed. Also last night I was looking for some supper, and went to Kroger to get some cash from the ATM. I had my umbrella out and the wind caught it and flipped it inside out. I didn’t think that this would have been a big deal, but looking at the damage now, I think that it’s pretty much ruined. Or at least so wounded that I will probably just have to get another one. I haven’t had this one for very long. Something on the order of months, so there’s more money down the drain. I seemed to misplaced a screwdriver and needle-nosed pliars. This really pisses me off. I did happen to find some new hats, and they should be here sometime this week, as I had them shipped via 3-day select. I guess that’s good, but it’s still crappy that I lost the old one.

And now I’m probably going to spend $14 on a stupid Papa Johns pizza… well, it looks like I got a break and only have to pay $10 to go pickup my own pizza.

Ok. Like 30 minutes later I get back with my not-so-hot pizza. Had to take a stupid detour through Powder Springs to get to Papa Johns… crappy. Due to only what I can assume to be a lake that wasn’t there yesterday.

When did life get so hard? And when was it last simple?

I thought by now my life would be on cruise-control, yet all I seem to do is fight everything tooth and nail.

Since I can’t post comments anonymously to this guy’s blog, then I guess I’ll have to settle for just posting to my own and hope that he sees it somehow… Anyway, yeah, I agree that rythmbox probably sucks, but if I’ve ever used it, then I never used it again and have no recollection of ever having used it. I use xmms under linux and it’s ok. But my real beef is, WHY ISN’T THERE A WINAMP-CLASS MP3 PLAYER FOR LINUX!?! Nothing I have found even comes close.

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Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. Being happy means _______.

And don’t give me the cookie-cutter answer. I will mock you if you do.

I would appear that the roach crawled into the kitchen and decided to die right next to my garbage bag that I have sitting out (it’s sitting out because the trash can that I have does not allow for optimum capacity of the bag…). It would have been nicer of him had he actually climbed into the bag…

Also, who knew that with shoes on I’m actually 6’4″? Not I.

Don’t you hate that sinking feeling when you realize that, “Hey, didn’t I smash the crap out of a roach in my bathroom this morning with a shoe?”? Wait, but that roach isn’t there anymore, and one of his legs still is…

I watched “Bad Company” the other night from Netflix. Like halfway through I realized that I probably had seen the dern thing before. Which is pretty bad that I thought that I hadn’t seen it, nor that I had any recollection of what it was beforehand. I guess that I really didn’t think that it was that good the first time around. Watched some Chris Rock standup, too, from the Apollo. So, a night with Chris Rock. Also got the 4th disc of Band of Brothers. It’s a pretty good series.

I’ve been trying to code some in Python as of late. I forgot how hard it can be to learn a new programming language.

I’ve also been trying to combine clustermatic and knoppix. I’ve made some pretty decent progress (I think), but I’m running into some issues that I’m not sure exactly how to resolve… :(

I’m sorry guys that I haven’t posted too much as of late. I guess that it just seems like life’s slowing down and I’m getting settled in and used to things. Just saw War of the Worlds. It was pretty good. Even if the story was a little weak (it doesn’t help that it’s a remake of a movie that most of us have already seen), the story-telling was excellent, as was the CGI, cinematography, and the production design. Just top notch. And the music was awesome. John Williams of course does it again.

Lately I’ve really been missing being involved with Breakaway. And that’s sort of weird because of the odd relationship that I offically had with them, or really that lack of official relationship… Anyway, I really miss doing sound with really great equipment with professionals. I dunno if it’s just my ego or what, but I just loved doing sound and having an influence in all of these people’s worship experience. Plus, you can make it exactly sound how you want it to. Want less cymbal? more electric? more toms? All at your fingertips. I remember them fondly, but as I sit here and type I recall the mixed feelings that were actually there… If anybody sees Marcus Toussaint, smack him up side the head for me and ask him if he can find out if there is a Breakway-ish thing here. I know that they have similar things around Texas, but for the life of me I could not find any info on any of them on the web. So, maybe the Breakaway office knows.

Don’t have any plans for the Fourth. Well, if I want to get paid, then I have to work… so I will be doing that.

Peace.

Did somebody ask me a while ago if they could use my photoblog to post their pics, or did I just imagine that?