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You do realize he is not someone taken very seriously right? On a tangent I've been waitying to see who would be the first to blame the quake on global warning.

I've been working on a project at my job for 18 hours a day for a while. And at night working on a rewrite of my book. I am so utterly sick of THAT thing. Plus I can't seem to take my eyes off the news coverage from Japan. Unbelievable.

LOVED that video, and the one Enoch posted. Most dream jobs are anything but it seems. It's funny, I have the job I work now because my last company laid me off. I did not want this job and was just planning on using it to pay bills until something better came along. As fate would have it, I really like the job now. I've had the chance to broaden my knowledge and move more into structural and mechanical engineering (rather than RF/electronic where my education and experience came from) plus it is not all that difficult since so much of it is determine by simple physics. Plus I'm one of less than fifty guys in the US who do what I do. Hmmmm you'd think I'd make more money then. My last job was high stress and high pressure, always trying to do more with less and do it faster. Not at all unlike game design I guess. I can tell you for sure that was not for me. Personally I don't see how these guys haven't picked up a drinking habit. Can you imagin having to make a Sponge Bob game?

I finally got the rebuilt engine back in the car I've been restoring. It is a cast iron b***h doing that alone. I bought an air compressor and I'm building a tent house to do the painting myself. Time to start looking for new seats. Not long to go now!

George RR Martin has fianlly finished A Dance With Dragons it seems. It now has a firm publish date. I guess it's time to break out the other books and start remembering what the hell was going on in them. It's been a while. http://www.georgerrmartin.com/news.html

Shhhh, nonono don't give them any ideas! No more TV shows into movies! Actually Miami Vice was pretty good.

The real problem is the movie business really is out of ideas. Which I find amazing because print & electonic fiction has never been easier to produce so there should be no end of excellent novels to adapt.

Did you have headaches with this frequency before your concussion - they look weekly at the moment, and I didn't notice it before. Off and on. Every now and again just get them recurring like this and then it'll settle for a few months and then start up again. My mother and sister both come down with really stinking migraines.. While I tend to get more regular grinding headaches. I guess it's that balance.. I'm happier not having the migraine versions..but I seem to get the "lower level headaches" more often. Stress? Or injury side affect?

I'd have to agree actually. The soundtrack along with the setting and visuals actually made the story take a back seat. It had a deep sense of distopian sadness. I think that is the lightning in the bottle they will not be able to recapture without descending into parody. Hollywood can make a pretty good movie when they put their minds to it but most of the time I don't think they really get WHY a movie was good. That makes it impossible to repeat.

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Just got back from a work road trip, it was nice. I was back in Florida, went back to Palm Beach to see some friends, thought about calling the ex but decided against. After business was concluded I spent a few days watching the Rays, Twins, Red Sox, Orioles & Yankees in srping training. Just got home and found out the Astros released my nephew. He's bummed but he's going to college at Stetson in Tampa over the summer so he'll be ok. He did get two seasons and for all the rest of his life he can tell stories about how he was a professional baseball player for a time.

Probabilities of it being any good are pretty small. I remember watching one of the highlander sequels in a room full of people, they said that iconic lone "there can be only one" and someone shouted out "There should have been". it was funny. Just look at the last Indiana Jones movie for how bad a sequel can be,

Bummer that it came to that. Hopefully things will improve once you move. Good luck!

Heck Arch, why give them a choice? If you think they are so miserable just round them up and do it for them if they want it or not. Then you could even process and cook them and feed them to the pople in prision right? Solve two problems at once. After all if you are going to propose an absurd notion, why not take it all the way?

I'd have to say "The Exorcisim of Emily Rose". It wasn't scary in that you could not get to sleep afterwards, just disturbing. Especially given the facts about the actual Annalise Micheal case. One of the best movies for creating an eerie atmoshphere was The Village. But it was not scary, or even all that good really. The Blair Witch Project was like that too. Most horror flicks are dumb to the point of being comical. Usually the more serious it takes itself the dumber it is.

Just kidding.

I just found out I won the lottery!

I really don't think the US would have. The whole not negotiating with terrorists thing is taken pretty seriously by the US government. Not that I think it is always the best policy, but in this case it would have been appropriate. LOL. You gave the Russians all of our nuclear weapons ORBATs to boost your start treaty. You gave safe haven to IRA terrorists for years, stood by whilst a section of your community funded and armed them, then your judiciary put obstacles in the way of their extradition when they sought sanctuary there. Puh-leez. That's a mighty high horse you got yourself there. I was just about to point this out. Obama could not sell the Brits out fast enough. But, in typical spineless liberal fashion he's never seen a free country he likes or an enemy he does not want to kiss up too. As an American I am more than disgusted at watching him bowing and groveling bofore the worlds despots.

Completely agree. That halftime show Prince put on was the best ever. He may be old and a little weird but he knows how to put on a show.

Been sick as a dog for the past week. Self medicating with expensive bourbon and cheap OTC cold medicine. Watched Supwerbowl, great game, mediocre commercials, lousy haftime show.

So true.

Did you ever read any of Al Gores writing? I think he is arguing for a return to feudalisim. You might not be far off!

Not to speak for Joe, but I doubt there was a specific reason. My wife and I have arguments where I get so angry I end up slamming my fists down on counters. Sometimes I literally shake with rage. Now I've never really been close to hitting her, I don't think I could ever forgive myself if I did that, but I imagine very few married couples don't hit that frustration level at times. The crazy part is the actual point of the argument is rarely as important as the total breakdown of reasonable communication skills. My wife was the first person I told about being raped at age 13 by my friend's alcoholic father. She was making fun of me for it in an argument. I'm not going to repeat what she said so don't bother. Ok I must admit that really was asking for it. You don't take someones trust and use it against them like that. I'm not saying it was right but... well it is a little more understandable. My wife told her lawyer I was abusive, that was a lie. She persisted until she found out that Florida was a no fault state and it did not help her in the least even if it were true. My lawyer told me that was a standard divorce tactic and to not make it seem true by rising to that bait.

The only one who got away who I ever miss was my wife. At least how we were in the beginning. In the year or two leading up to the divorce it was just terrible. I don't know if it was a flaw in either or both of us that caused it to fail like Enoch said. We were undergoing a really hard time financially and bad times tend to bring out the worst in people. At the end we were like two scorpions in a jar, fighting to the very death, but only because we were in the jar. If I could have it back like it was in the beginning I'd take it, hell I'd give up anything for that. I think thats the reason I will not even consider marriage again and tend to break off relationships that get too close to that. No matter how compatable you think you are with someone you are only one good crisis away from hell on earth. Ok I'm rambling a bit, I think Wals was right, the ones that got away did so for a reason.

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