-Hey Kids! Battlestar Galactica and comic book scribe Mark Verheiden has a blog. Check it out! He even writes about the finale of Deadwood (the plug is the best I can do, as I am 4 episodes behind)
-And last week I did some updating to the blog scrolls on the right. Please welcome Opus P. Penguin to the rolls.
-Finally got the wife some new shoes about a couple of weeks ago, and it wasn't as painful or expensive as I thought it'd be. Fortunately, the tip to buy a men's sneakers for her worked out.
-Still walking about a couple of miles most days. Last week it was 5 out of 7. It's good to have that as a set routine, to see the same people, the same landmarks, etc. Like the 2 girls who live on Main St. who play, the truck with the Bettie Page by Olivia on the back window, the white poodle dog who barks at us, etc.
-Nothing new on the job front. Still applying. There were a couple that were close to home that I liked. Hopefully I'll get called on them.
-Mike Judge's new movie Idiocracy is only being released in 6 cities. And the premise sounded so good, too.
-I wasted some time today on my Game Boy playing old videogames I spent many a quarter on at the arcades 20 some years ago. And they're just like the old games, none of this Atari 2600 cheap jack imitation stuff. I played Rush'n Attack, Time Pilot, Gyruss, among others. And not to diss the Atari, I was just saying it didn't have the capabilities to pull off those arcade games: I spent some time playing Activision Anthology. The main problem was between the small screen and my old eyes, I couldn't see the little dot necessary (such as on the radar in Radar Tank, or the ship to shoot in Starmaster) Remember where if you could get above a certain score on some games, if you took a picture of the screen and mailed it to Activision you could get a patch? On Activision Anthology, they remember that, but they don't send you a patch, but the accomplishment is noted in the game nonetheless. It's just a checkmark on the list of games on Game Boy, but on the PS2 version I have, they have a bulletin board that has the patch they used to send for the game in question on a bulletin board.
-And part of me wants to go on a trip somewhere, anywhere, even a day trip; and part of me wants to stay home. Let me expand on that: as the wife likes to draw floor plans to apartments she imagines staying in (but is happy with me, so she keeps assuring me) I like to think about trips: where to go, where to stay, etc. I don't know if it's the routine or ennui that makes me do that, or what?
-And I know some of you are busy with work and all, but would it kill you to post a new entry in your blog? At least to let us know you're alive? Your mother and I are so worried, you never write, you never call...