Harry Potter Week and Changes

Tonight was the first night of many in Staci's "Harry Potter Week" event. It went over pretty well. Everyone had one of those licorice wands she made. Those were cool. I think I liked them the best. I ate about 4 of them. For some reason the white chocolate just mixed well with the black licorice to me.

So yeah, that was fun. I hadn't seen the first movie in some time. I didn't remember that there were so many one-liners in there. "You're a wizard, Harry". Or actually, pretty much anything Hagrid says. As well as some of the cheesy lines they forced those budding actors to say as children.

But I guess that's half the fun of watching those movies. To see the kids grow up. I remember reading a review of the fourth movie by Roger Ebert, at which point he stated that the lighthearted tones are completely gone by then. I would have to agree there. That first movie is one of those kid movie classics, while by the fourth one, they seem to be trying to achieve a "Star Wars - esque" status of series. I think they pretty well achieved it and all. I just think it's an interesting switch from enchanting and fun kid tale to dark and lengthy slamfest.

Speaking of dark and lengthy, I'm ready for George R.R. Martin's 5th book already.

Staci and I spent a lot of time cleaning up today. Justin and Grace are moving out tomorrow I think, and hope. It's not that I don't want them here. I'm just tired of always having something to clean up. No really. That sounds crappy, but it painfully true. I miss the way most of everything looked when we moved in. I'm going to do my damndest to get it back that way and better. Staci at least deserves her dream home.

No more roommates ever. Never.

And dear lord, I can' wait for my own gameroom! I'll be able to play vidyagames whenever and however. A seperate room for all my messy man-boyish stuff. Magic cards, posters, vidyagames, wires, music... ect.

I love Deer Tick. "I I I, I am the dotted line"

and Boom Blox 2. Love it.

Thems the updates.

The Fourth and After

Well, the 4th was awesome. Even though it ended up almost raining us out (we spent much of our time getting very slowly soaked while shooting off bottle rockets), we managed to make the most of it, and still successfully have a show. Tony's food was great this year. The burgers and dogs were top notch. Much better than last year's. Even though last year's wasn't bad or anything :). Can't call free food bad anyway.

So we shot off many bottle rockets. I managed to take some great photos of them. I was pretty impressed with myself, actually.



There are many that I'm pretty proud of.

And today, well, we went to a new place for pizza, Pizza Warehouse, and it was pretty good. I wish I would have been in the mood for pizza, though. It sure seemed like an awesome place to go if you are in the mood. They had an extensive arcade there, but most of which I've seen before and it was mostly boring. Arcades seem to be getting more boring. Except in Japan. Man, I bet their arcades are slammin'. They sure look slammin' in "Lost in Translation".

Later on in the day, Cody and I took off to meet up with Lance and Morgan at Lance's dad's place to shoot off the rest of our fireworks. However, the punk situation saw otherwise, as we ran out of punks after shooting about 25% of what we had left. So we hung out on the grass laughing as their dog drank my Red Bull, and then went and stared at some of the biggest damn goat testicles you've ever seen. This goat was majestic, man.

Then we went to Jonesy's. The best shaved ice station in the four-state area. Best everything.

And that's pretty much it!

We've been playing way too much of that damn farming game on Facebook lately.

Happy Fourth!

Made it to another 4th of July. I'll have a post tonight or tomorrow about it. :) Hopefully some pictures as well.

A True Saturday Night

It's 2:43am, and I probably have to get up early.

Rock Band 2 is blazing in the living room. A pretty classic Saturday night around here tonight. The smell of Justin's tacos and talk around the table outside.

I got new Bowerbirds and some Deer Tick on my Zen now.

I went running tonight, only to find that if I run a lot (which for the first time in a long time I felt I could) I get a massive tightening of the muscles in the front shin of my left leg. To the point where I can't really move my foot and I must quit running. I was really disappointed because I was getting a real workout tonight before I had to submit to walking the rest of the time.

I wish Dennou Coil had more episodes. I already miss it.

Well, I've managed to waste another three days off, and I'll probably continue to call it "wasted" until I actually go down to the school to see about financial aid and classes. Don't know what is hindering me.

I will go on my next day off for sure.

We played a lot of Magic today. We've discovered that Two-Headed Giant format is actually pretty fun, and a much better multiplayer format than free for all or rotate. The interesting thing about Two-Headed Giant is that no matter how slow your strategy is for your deck, it seems that you can get it out eventually. At least once. There are bad decks for two-headed giant, however. Like how most of my artifact cards ignore the "target" word, so I can't really cast instants and sorceries on other guys. It doesn't really help that almost every card in that deck is a creature either.

I watched more Dennou Coil today before responding to Casey's call about Hawghead Comics. So I rode with Mason over to Hawghead and bought some commons that I wanted. I'm working on a Domain deck. Should be fun.

Wish I had tomorrow off. I'd go to the waterpark. I'm sure Mike would love to go with us. Maybe next week. I am off next Saturday.

I want Boom Blox: Bash Party. I swear, the boxart for that game is the worst. You can barely tell it's a sequel to Boom Blox, or that it's even a Boom Blox game.

Hey, that BASH PATY game looks pretty cool. Oh well, it is still awesome. Seriously. It is.

Dennou Coil and My Bike

Yesterday was a pretty fun day. I spent most of it alone, and cleaning, but that's not all it was. I got to spend some time watching my current anime, Dennou Coil, and hung with Casey for a small bit.

I really like Dennou Coil. I don't think I can power-watch anime at all like Steve and Mason do to One Piece. I think doing so, or at least trying to force my way through something, really makes me lose interest. If the only forcing I do is about one or two episodes per day, then I really enjoy an anime, it seems. And I don't seem to miss any details. And I can get through an anime fairly quickly - at least compared to powerwatching seven or eight episodes and losing interest altogether.

Anyway, I had meant to write about Dennou Coil.

I believe the full title reads "Dennou Coil: A Circle of Children", and it seems fitting enough. The entire anime revolvies around many very likeable and very different characters in a very interesting city. We aren't given any hints as to what the time period is, but the technology - at least the personal technology - is very advanced. Everyone, mostly the children, it seems, has a pair of glasses that gives them access to the cyber network or server, and they can just about make anything on the server using those glasses if they have "metabugs", which seem to appear around "obsolete" or broken space. This broken or obsolete space is the name for an area which may be out-of-sync with the server, or out of date, thus when you look at it through the cyber glasses, it appears pixelated and broken. The story works off of this in the most interesting of ways, and mostly has to do with the origins of the "Illegals", which reside in said space.

Anyway, that's what I've been watching and enjoying thorougly. I might pick up One Peice next, but I don't know. Maybe in conjunction with another anime.

I'm finally getting my bicycle fixed up. Steve brought over his pump yesterday, and it seems my tires are still good. After jogging last night, we went to Wal-Mart, and I picked up some new pedals. I hope they aren't extremely cheaply made. I really wanted metal ones. I only need to replace the left pedal. But I did ride on it yesterday, and even with no pedal on the left side, everything seemed to be in working order. Now I just need a nice basket and a new seat to put on it. You know, so I can run over to the stores and stuff.

I Swear One Day We'll Get the Money Straight

After having four days off in a row last weekend, and spending them pretty well in my opnion, I've begun another three day run.

Staci's new job starts today at Ulta Beauty. I hope she likes it. I'm probably taking her to work in the morning. I might go to the college afterward to see what kind of hoops they'll make me jump through in order to attend again. I'm undecided, but I may not go back this fall if I can't get financial aid. I just don't see how we could do that again. But I don't really know yet. I would really like to go back. Maybe I'll just deal with the money stress in order to do so. I don't know. I want it real bad, though.

Last Saturday, we went to the water park over in Alma that almost nobody around here has been to or even knows about, it seems. It's both surprising and unsurprising, really. It's only got four water slides, but I think they're well worth the five bucks it costs to get in. I really did have a blast going down the toilet bowl. We immediately called it the toilet bowl, feeling all proud of our wit, and heard, pretty much right away, from the kids running past us in line up the stairs, "hey, are you guys going down the toilet bowl?" Supposedly, based on our answer, they would run past us, thinking it was okay to do so. I didn't really care. But I still thought it was hilarious when Casey sort of confronted a not-so-small boy about it.

I've been walking and jogging for the past two weeks. Last night, I jogged for the longest I've been able to do so for quite some time. I'm pretty proud of myself. It took two weeks of fairly consistent walking for almost an hour a night for me to get to this point. I still can't jog far, obviously, but if I were to attempt something like that a few weeks back, there would have been a good chance I would have ended up in the hospital. I have been feeling a lot better about myself lately, though. I think less negatively, I think.

Next up on the agenda towards being more active is to fix my bike, which is incredibly hard when every last bit of your money, and then some, is spent before you get it. It's also incredibly hard to spend money that a pending transaction at a gas station has kept tied up for almost 4 days. How the hell is that legal. And I'm asking this in all total and complete seriousness. If it isn't posted for the correct amount soon, I'm approaching somebody about it. Though I can't imagine the kind of wall I'd run into there.

Oye, I should'nt be up this late.