Recent Developments AKA Excuses

Yeah. I know. It's been a while since I've regularly posted something here. That's because I've been pretty busy this past week. With 6 days of straight work because of the fourth of July, I'm finally having a little time to just relax. Of course, I didn't post anything worthwhile today because I was stuck pretty much half of the day in a Mazda dealership.

My wife bought herself a Mazda 3. Which she had wanted for a long time. Her previous car (a '91 Ford Escort) needed to be replaced a couple of years ago. A non-functioning air conditioning system is just no good during this whole global warming thing that's going on lately. But, now she has a proper car, which has a pretty decent gas mileage per gallon. And a fully functioning air conditioning system. Plus, she got the car at the price we wanted. Not the price the dealer wanted to charge us. Which is a pretty big victory if you've gone through the whole car buying process.

So yeah, we've been a tad on the busy side lately. And we've been reading a lot lately. Christopher Moore is coming highly recommended by us right about now. Read "The Stupidest Angel". If you read this blog, you should like that book as well.

We're so busy lately we haven't seen "Ratatouille" and "Transformers" yet. Which are both vying for our movie dollars right now. Maybe when we get an influx of cash this weekend, we'll take a couple of hours to watch either one (or both of those) movies.

Oh, and then there's the X Box 360 game called "Dirt", which dominated my eyes and thumbs for a solid week. It's on its way back to Gamefly now, but check it out if you have the time. I got me 975 out of 1000 achievement points in that game. That's 48 out of 49. I don't want to toot my own horn, but that's not too shabby.

So, maybe this week I'll post something about something or other. Maybe. If we're not too busy.

Opening Weekend Movies - 6/29/07

Live Free or Die Hard - This movie technically opened on Wednesday. Which totally throws me off. Why do they keep doing this. You can expect that almost all of these summer blockbusters will be opening up on weird and random days. Like "Transformers" . . . which used to be set for a Wednesday release, but now is opening up on Tuesday. Whatever. So, this movie, what can you expect? Old Bruce Willis and the Mac Guy go after some bad guys that are both threatening the nation and someone in Bruce Willis' family. Yippi-ka-yay motherfuckers.

Ratatouille - My spell checker hates this movie title. But, the latest Pixar studio release looks great. Much better than "Cars" did a couple of years ago. Or was that just last year. I don't remember. I think it was so bad that it gave me selective amnesia. This one, looks like it's back on track to "Incredibles" and "Monsters, Inc" greatness. Good luck finding a theater that isn't packed with kids when you go watch this though.

Evening - And this movie wins the "Chick-flick" of the week, since no other chick flicks are coming out. You'll find yourself in this movie if a)you're a woman or b)your woman dragged your ass to this because she's tired of seeing explosions or animated characters. Just think of it as a 20 dollar nap.